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<blockquote data-quote="Tony Vargas" data-source="post: 7625806" data-attributes="member: 996">… no, I do enough reactive edition warring as it is … it was a long time ago, I barely remember … … yeah, that's my story./Everything/ was interpreted differently in different groups back in the day. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink&nbsp; &nbsp; ;)"&nbsp; data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" />IMHO/PX, the more old-school interpretation was that anything not on your class list was proscribed.&nbsp; So not just MUs didn't know how to use armor, but /couldn't/.&nbsp; By 3e, it had gone to the other extreme, that classes just gave you proficiency, so if you got proficiency somewhere else, you were fine. Of course, there were exceptions in both cases - wizards not using swords even in 1e was just lack of proficiency, elven wizards used swords all the time; and even in 3e, wearing armor as a wizard, even when proficient, had issues, though he could work around them.But, in general, the classic game felt more like hard limits, to me.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Tony Vargas, post: 7625806, member: 996"] … no, I do enough reactive edition warring as it is … it was a long time ago, I barely remember … … yeah, that's my story. /Everything/ was interpreted differently in different groups back in the day. ;) IMHO/PX, the more old-school interpretation was that anything not on your class list was proscribed. So not just MUs didn't know how to use armor, but /couldn't/. By 3e, it had gone to the other extreme, that classes just gave you proficiency, so if you got proficiency somewhere else, you were fine. Of course, there were exceptions in both cases - wizards not using swords even in 1e was just lack of proficiency, elven wizards used swords all the time; and even in 3e, wearing armor as a wizard, even when proficient, had issues, though he could work around them. But, in general, the classic game felt more like hard limits, to me. [/QUOTE]

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