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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Remathilis" data-source="post: 4769347" data-attributes="member: 7635">I think Doug meant "since the class's introduction in Greyhawk". which was one year later. Since then, its been the only class consistently added to the original three in every edition of D&D (at least in its classically recognizable form; paladin and druid have shown up in some form or another in them all as well). However, since most players cut their teeth on the Basic Sets (in their various incarnations) or some version of AD&D, thief has always been there. So unless you got one of those box sets in 1974 (or are Dialgo) D&D "has always had thieves" is as close to the truth as you can come. Now, the question is, has D&D thieves always been fighters in gimp costumes?</blockquote>