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Message: <blockquote data-quote="NewJeffCT" data-source="post: 6141614" data-attributes="member: 10784">3E came out in 2000, about the time the internet started really taking off and people were starting to move beyond modems dialing into the internet.  Before that, message boards and other forums were creaky, slow and not very user-friendly.  However, I still saw huge differences in power in 2E across adventuring parties where almost everybody had the same amount of XP.  Much of that was the system, which inherently led people to min-max - why play a human wizard, when you could be an elf fighter/wizard and be way more powerful right out of the gate?  Or, a half-elf fighter/wizard/thief?  With 3E, playing a human became a more popular choice than it had been in 2E days.Plus, with staggered XP progression, you could have a level 7 fighter with 100,000 XP in 2E, but the elf fighter/wizard with the same amount of XP is a level 6 fighter and level 6 wizard.  So, not only is the elf almost as good a fighter as the human, he can also cast Fireball, Magic Missile, Scorching Ray, etc.  If they both advanced up to 120,000XP, the elf would then be level 7 wizard and level 6 fighter, with the human still at level 7.  Heck, if they were at 124,000 XP, the elf would be level 7 fighter and wizard, with the human fighter still at level 7 until he got to 125,000XP.</blockquote>