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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Mannahnin" data-source="post: 9893922" data-attributes="member: 7026594">This is what I was doing to write, basically.Slight nitpick: Whether the BECMI Thief has a different and worse progression than the B/X Thief depends on how high level you actually play to, and which version of the E for Expert rules you're looking at.As originally printed, the (dark blue, Larry Elmore mounted fighter vs. dragon cover art) 1983 Expert set has the exact same Thief skill percentages as the (medium blue, Erol Otus wizard scrying on fighter and M-U facing dragon cover art) 1981 Expert set.  They only retroactively altered the Thief percentages to make space for higher level advancement once the Companion set was published in '84.  They also altered saving throw progressions and a couple of classes' XP/level progressions. TSR printed an errata sheet for that and started including it in Expert sets after that. It might also have been distributed in Dragon Magazine.Unfortunately the Rules Cyclopedia also carries forward the Thief nerfing.More discussion of the errata sheet here:[URL unfurl="true"]https://tomeoftreasures.com/tot_dnd/corerules/expert.htm#:~:text=There%20is%20an%20errata%20sheet,feature%20of%20all%20Expert%20Sets.[/URL][ATTACH=full]434578[/ATTACH]</blockquote>