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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Ralif Redhammer" data-source="post: 8564954" data-attributes="member: 30438">The last 2e campaign I ran, there was a halfling fighter/thief. They did everything a little worse than the single-classed fighters and single-classed thief did. If I recall correctly, they didn't pick a kit.My take on the thief skills, like others, is that they are brutally low, and take forever to become viable. Furthermore, using them directly puts the thief in harm's way (scouting ahead, trying to find and disarm traps) that make their lifespan potentially much shorter. Kits can enable you to specialize and at least be close-to-okay at a few things early on. Using magic items to balance out the class is fine - I think most thieves back then were perpetually on the hunt for a ring of invisibility, cloak of elvenkind and/or boots of elvenkind. And magic items were a major part of the progression of every class.</blockquote>