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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Faolyn" data-source="post: 8867652" data-attributes="member: 6915329">You may want to read the <a href="https://www.enworld.org/threads/5-new-d-d-books-coming-in-2023-including-planescape.690752/post-8866138" target="_blank">root</a> of this sub-thread. The TL;DR version is: at that time, Gygax saw PCs as pawns and felt that people shouldn't care if they have to make a new one. Micah apparently doesn't "get" that people become attached to their characters that much and seems to agree. Other people, including myself, think that it was stupid to force level limits on non-humans in AD&D, because--as I said, in the linked post--why should I have to give up a character just because I'm playing an elf and hit an arbitrary level limit in my class? (Plus, it would have been better if Gygax had given humans bonuses to make them more attractive than non-humans.)This is what I was talking about: that role-playing games are role-playing games, and that tossing away a character for dumb reasons like level limits is not something most people want to do. If a game expects you to do that, that game is flawed.</blockquote>