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In Classic Traveller, the closest service to a "fighter" is Army or Marine. The closest to a "thief" is Other. On the Service Skills...

Equally it's a modified version of 4e. Bounded accuracy; the lack of scaling spells; classes with "sub-classes"; its action economy...

Sure, but that's because 3e (regardless of version) made SoS/SoD spells stupidly OP.

That all makes sense, because certainly the OP has made a number of comments in this thread suggesting they have an almost reverential...

As best I can infer from the OP's various posts about the RPG they are writing (or have written), it seems to use magic-wielding classes...

I would expect that being stabbed in the back by a knight, or really anyone who is handy with a blade, to be a pretty unhappy...

Again, what about either the first post in this thread or where the thread is located makes you think this is about D&D specifically...

And the same is true between a starving farmer who resorts to picking pockets, a member of the Thieves' Guild, and a master burglar who...

... The firearms are already designed to not be better, Lanefan. They are just different from regular weapons. They aren't better. A...

I don't think this is especially true. And I don't think the rules for swimming do anything to support balance. They're just clunky and...

Yes. They aren't casting 1st level Magic missiles or Mage Armor anymore. They could, but the lowest slot they might have is, say, 3rd...

Okay, but that is then strictly a change for Fireball, Cone of Cold and Ice Storm are correctly represented. Yeah, that was not the...

But if there are 4th, 5th and 6th level spells that serve a similar purpose to Fireball (AoE/Damage), you end up with literally "more...

The AD&D DMG (p 55, in the section on "Waterborne Adventures") has rules for this; I don't think they're especially good: Swimming will...

Well, the problem is that the class originally called "Thief" has changed in both name and function over time in D&D multiple times, and...