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<blockquote data-quote="Voneth" data-source="post: 391642" data-attributes="member: 1016">Well, on these 2 points1st ed:Notice how you have 3 humans out of 7 party members, and the spell casters are optional if you get another demi-human.&nbsp; In most fantasy novels, the humans got the lion's share of the cast, not so in 1st ed. Now true, you could play humans, but players love to be &quot;da bomb&quot; in their chosen class. Now, PC demographics relfect fantasy demographics, humans are everywhere. And if you want to play an demi-human, it's done for the right reason, becasue you want to be a demi-human, not because you want to be the most effeiceint theif/generalist/etc.3rd ed:You're example points out how you misuderstood the system in two fundementaly different ways.1.) That fellow would be outclassed a party of single class characters made from the same nubmer of TOTAL levels as your MC/PrC PC. In fact, he be a good challenge rating for that party. <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&nbsp; &nbsp; :)"&nbsp; data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />2.) Say that in my game, I thought being a paladin was something you earned through roleplay and experience (as in Classic D&amp;D). Now I can make a Paladin PrC in a fashion that doesn't involve the tons of numbers that it did in 2 ed.I am not saying one system is better than the other, but I think your examples don't support your position very well.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Voneth, post: 391642, member: 1016"] Well, on these 2 points 1st ed: Notice how you have 3 humans out of 7 party members, and the spell casters are optional if you get another demi-human. In most fantasy novels, the humans got the lion's share of the cast, not so in 1st ed. Now true, you could play humans, but players love to be "da bomb" in their chosen class. Now, PC demographics relfect fantasy demographics, humans are everywhere. And if you want to play an demi-human, it's done for the right reason, becasue you want to be a demi-human, not because you want to be the most effeiceint theif/generalist/etc. 3rd ed: You're example points out how you misuderstood the system in two fundementaly different ways. 1.) That fellow would be outclassed a party of single class characters made from the same nubmer of TOTAL levels as your MC/PrC PC. In fact, he be a good challenge rating for that party. :) 2.) Say that in my game, I thought being a paladin was something you earned through roleplay and experience (as in Classic D&D). Now I can make a Paladin PrC in a fashion that doesn't involve the tons of numbers that it did in 2 ed. I am not saying one system is better than the other, but I think your examples don't support your position very well. [/QUOTE]

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