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<blockquote data-quote="Ariosto" data-source="post: 5269378" data-attributes="member: 80487">Such as?We're talking about them being &quot;supposed to&quot; be carrying and shooting with such gear as a regular thing, not about its happening once in a blue moon. About all I can think of offhand is Jaelith in the Witch World.Not that it would be to the point, anyhow. Some of the reasons things were as they were designed to be had to do with making for a good game! Messing up the class system of &quot;separate spheres&quot; is what I was harrumphing about. I said not a word against &quot;spellcasters who hoard their power, eschewing the use of magic until it is absolutely necessary.&quot;The game was not meant as a &quot;simulator&quot; of&nbsp; Tros of Samothrace or The Worm Ouroboros, of The Well of the Unicorn or The Blue Star, of Mary Poppins or Five Children and It, of The Twilight of Magic or The Magician's Nephew, or any other particular fictional world.If that's what you want, then you've got your work cut out for you. It was no secret surprise, though, no false bill of goods, at least in the OD&amp;D and 1st ed. AD&amp;D books.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Ariosto, post: 5269378, member: 80487"] Such as? We're talking about them being "supposed to" be carrying and shooting with such gear as a regular thing, not about its happening once in a blue moon. About all I can think of offhand is Jaelith in the Witch World. Not that it would be to the point, anyhow. Some of the reasons things were as they were designed to be had to do with making for a good game! Messing up the class system of "separate spheres" is what I was harrumphing about. I said not a word against "spellcasters who hoard their power, eschewing the use of magic [I]until it is absolutely necessary."[/I] The game was not meant as a "simulator" of Tros of Samothrace or The Worm Ouroboros, of The Well of the Unicorn or The Blue Star, of Mary Poppins or Five Children and It, of The Twilight of Magic or The Magician's Nephew, or any other particular fictional world. If that's what you want, then you've got your work cut out for you. It was no secret surprise, though, no false bill of goods, at least in the OD&D and 1st ed. AD&D books. [/QUOTE]

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