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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Umbran" data-source="post: 3260907" data-attributes="member: 177">"Jump Classes" is not a term from teh 1e rtules that I remember.  Dual classing  required notably high ability scores, and was only available to humans (and to half-elves who were understood to be heading for Bard, a very specific exception).  "Change within a class" was only available to the theif/acrobat, as I recall, and was not a general feature of the rules. Here I disagree. The hard and fast rules where there, and the basic suggestion  was that changing classes was not an option - it was specifically made difficult, and not open to everyone.  That's not organic.  That's something that looks lumpy because the DM needed to apply a crowbar to it to make it flex <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />I loved playing the game, but I don't think it has a strength here.Before I coudl say, you'll have to describe what you mean by that.  Because what you say is "organic on the meta level" I see as "lumpy and uneven general design on a meta level".  And when the general design is lumpy and uneven, it takes a whole lot more work for me to do much with it.That, you see, is a major point - the base design of 3e is much more elegant than 1e or 2e.  I guess you can say that the base design of the prior editions is more organic, as it did grow haphazardly out of the minds of Gygax, et al.  The question - why is this "organic" important?  Given that they'll (in general) be even more varied in abilities, why do you specifically care so much about their spread in levels?</blockquote>

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