GMforPowergamers
Legend
If i reemeber right it was fighter cleric magic user theif
then it was elf (fighter mage) dwarf (fighter thief) and halflin
then it was elf (fighter mage) dwarf (fighter thief) and halflin
Well, if they are to be taken at their word... all three.
This would make the old school BECMI gamers really happy but I don't think it would be well received by everyone else. What if I want my dwarf to be a wizard but I don't want to use the advanced wizard class?Exactly. What are the "basic" Fighter, Cleric, Wizard, Thief, Dwarf, Elf, and Halfling? Based upon what the Head of the Class article seemed to indicate, they are the following:
Human Fighter (damage emphasis)
Human Cleric
Human Wizard
Human Thief
Dwarf Fighter (defense emphasis)
Elf Fighter/Wizard multiclass
Halfling Thief
...as if you actually used the "Races & Classes" module to build them, but just gave all the numbers out as unchangable or unmodifiable. The basic classes have been "pre-generated" for you.
And this is how you can put these Basic ones right next to "advanced" ones (ie ones that have been created using the Races & Classes module). They are all built with the same numbers and same mechanics, and thus are all balanced against each other and all playable with each other.
And in fact... two separate players could probably play a Dwarf (basic version) and a Dwarf Fighter (advanced version) and them be perfectly balanced with each other and look virtually the same after all was said and done depending on how the advanced one was built.
This would make the old school BECMI gamers really happy but I don't think it would be well received by everyone else. What if I want my dwarf to be a wizard but I don't want to use the advanced wizard class?
I'd hate this, the assumption that one race all you can play is one thing.
This would make the old school BECMI gamers really happy but I don't think it would be well received by everyone else. What if I want my dwarf to be a wizard but I don't want to use the advanced wizard class?
Open book, play Gimli.
As a quick intro to D&D, one could do much worse.