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<blockquote data-quote="Mannahnin" data-source="post: 9501307" data-attributes="member: 7026594">While true, &quot;veteran&quot; clearly implies someone with experience, not someone just starting out.&nbsp; And the stats for an OD&amp;D Fighting Man or AD&amp;D Fighter are deliberately superior to a 0 level normal soldier, indicating some experience or elite competency. &quot;Mastery&quot;?&nbsp; Are you thinking of fighting styles and style specialization?&nbsp; I don't think I can agree, although continuing to sink proficiency slots into those did add a little more scaling than the anemic progression in number of attacks that AD&amp;D had.Weapon Mastery scaling with levels is a rules system from the BECMI Masters set. Single class Fighters using Weapon Mastery in BECMI do indeed scale up much better with level than they do without that sub-system.&nbsp; Of course 3E and later editions also made Fighters scale much better with levels than they did in AD&amp;D or in OD&amp;D or B/X, although they tended to get outshined by casters in 3.x because casters scaled EVEN MORE.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Mannahnin, post: 9501307, member: 7026594"] While true, "veteran" clearly implies someone with experience, not someone just starting out. And the stats for an OD&D Fighting Man or AD&D Fighter are deliberately superior to a 0 level normal soldier, indicating some experience or elite competency. "Mastery"? Are you thinking of fighting styles and style specialization? I don't think I can agree, although continuing to sink proficiency slots into those did add a little more scaling than the anemic progression in number of attacks that AD&D had. Weapon Mastery scaling with levels is a rules system from the BECMI Masters set. Single class Fighters using Weapon Mastery in BECMI do indeed scale up much better with level than they do without that sub-system. Of course 3E and later editions also made Fighters scale much better with levels than they did in AD&D or in OD&D or B/X, although they tended to get outshined by casters in 3.x because casters scaled EVEN MORE. [/QUOTE]

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