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Message: <blockquote data-quote="pemerton" data-source="post: 6286024" data-attributes="member: 42582">I refer you both to post 101 upthread: in 1st ed AD&D the only character who can perform a disarm, at least per the rulebooks, are a fighter (or sub-class), assassin or monk (using a ranseur or spetum) or (per Appendix R of Unearthed Arcana) a fighter or cavalier or sub-class thereof (wielding a sword or mace).The weapon-by-class table also meant that only fighters, assassins and monks could get access to dismounting manoeuvres (via polearms), and only those three classes plus druids could get access to set-vs-charge (via spears).In classic D&D thieves have a lot of flavour: they are the only PCs who, as written in the rulebooks, can engage the game via stealth and skulduggery. (Although at low levels their success chances are a little weak.) All thief campaigns have a very distinctive flavour, at least in those earlier editions.</blockquote>