All adventures should start like this:

[Sound of Azure]

All adventures should start off with the PCs being a group of annoying teens on an amusement park ride?

Extra points if the players are annoying teens on an amusent park ride!

 

[bolen]

Question - Had the Cavalier and Acrobat classes been published. I think they were first published in Unearthed Arcania (ok they were 1st in dragon) But the question remains

 

[WD40]

Question - Had the Cavalier and Acrobat classes been published. I think they were first published in Unearthed Arcania (ok they were 1st in dragon) But the question remains

Pretty much every adjective you can think of was a class at one point or another in AD&D!

 

[The_Gneech]

Question - Had the Cavalier and Acrobat classes been published. I think they were first published in Unearthed Arcania (ok they were 1st in dragon) But the question remains

My memory of the time is that yes, Cavalier and Thief-Acrobat were published in Unearthed Arcana and that Cavalier is particular was largely seen as "the new, better version of the Paladin" ... which led one to wonder why the Blonde Strong Jawed Hero of the group was made a ranger while the obnoxious guy nobody likes was made the cavalier.

-The Gneech

 

[bolen]

My memory of the time is that yes, Cavalier and Thief-Acrobat were published in Unearthed Arcana and that Cavalier is particular was largely seen as "the new, better version of the Paladin" ... which led one to wonder why the Blonde Strong Jawed Hero of the group was made a ranger while the obnoxious guy nobody likes was made the cavalier.

-The Gneech

So Unearthed Arcana had been published when the cartoon was made?

 

[Agamon]

My memory of the time is that yes, Cavalier and Thief-Acrobat were published in Unearthed Arcana and that Cavalier is particular was largely seen as "the new, better version of the Paladin" ... which led one to wonder why the Blonde Strong Jawed Hero of the group was made a ranger while the obnoxious guy nobody likes was made the cavalier.

Irony. The coward was the cavalier. The smallest one was the barbarian. The wholesome one was the thief. The screw-up was the wizard. The only ones that didn't go against type was the ranger (rangers make good leaders, just ask Aragorn) and the acrobat was a gymnast...a clumsy oaf as the acrobat would have not worked very well.

Funny that a cartoon in the era of 1E had protagonists that went against the stereotype.

 

[Agamon]

So Unearthed Arcana had been published when the cartoon was made?

Yup, I remember it that way, too.

 

[T. Foster]

So Unearthed Arcana had been published when the cartoon was made?

No. The barbarian class originally appeared in Dragon #63 (July 1982), the acrobat in Dragon #69 (January 1983), and the cavalier in Dragon #72 (April 1983). The D&D cartoon began airing in September 1983. Unearthed Arcana was published in the summer of 1985, by which time the D&D cartoon had been on-air for two seasons. As someone who had watched the cartoon but hadn't seen the Dragon issues (the first issue of Dragon I bought was #84) I absolutely remember thinking upon first seeing those classes in UA "so that's what those kids in the cartoon were supposed to have been!" and feeling the puzzle-pieces finally clicking together.

 

[WD40]

Irony. The coward was the cavalier. The smallest one was the barbarian. The wholesome one was the thief. The screw-up was the wizard. The only ones that didn't go against type was the ranger (rangers make good leaders, just ask Aragorn) and the acrobat was a gymnast...a clumsy oaf as the acrobat would have not worked very well.

Funny that a cartoon in the era of 1E had protagonists that went against the stereotype.

I always saw their D&D world powers as reflecting their personlities:

Hank the ranger and the acrobat-lass speak for themselves...

The cowardly Cavalier wanted to be kept from trouble and danger all the time, so had the powers of protection...

The shortstuff kid had immense inner energy... most of which was channeled into getting himself noticed.

I never got the impression that the Thief was 'Wholesome'. The phrase 'Shrinking Vilolet' springs to mind... She wants the be ignored... ergo: Invisibility.

Science wiz becomes magic wiz.

Of course... I'm prolly reading far too much into it!

 

[Gentlegamer]

All adventures should end this way, as well: