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<blockquote data-quote="Celebrim" data-source="post: 7187624" data-attributes="member: 4937">I'd love to see it. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile&nbsp; &nbsp; :)"&nbsp; data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />No seriously, I would.&nbsp; That's an interesting perspective, but regardless, you are still forgoing some of the most important aspects of narrative by accepting that that is what story means in the context of an RPG.&nbsp;&nbsp; I don't think I agree that the party's story is the story that matters, any more than I'd agree that in a cooperative game only an individual characters story matters.&nbsp;&nbsp; And as a practical matter, the party's story is the story of the members that have made up the party, and if no part member arises above the level being a bit player, the whole story suffers.&nbsp; My current campaign suffers IMO from all the lose threads and broken stories that have occurred as characters died.&nbsp;&nbsp; If I novelized it, there would be more continuity for the purposes of improving the story.You'd think, but I'm pretty sure that's not true.&nbsp; I'm not a powergamer myself, but I also prefer as a player not to lose my character, and as a GM for my player's characters to survive.&nbsp; For that to happen in a 'randomized system', they have to exert both system mastery and skillful play.Leaving aside whether it is even legal to do that with thief skill, and whether its tactically possible in the majority of situations, your combat got to round 4. With dual-classing, that's certainly true.&nbsp; It doesn't with demi-human multi-classing, unless I was mistaken the entire time I was playing 1e AD&amp;D.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Celebrim, post: 7187624, member: 4937"] I'd love to see it. :) No seriously, I would. That's an interesting perspective, but regardless, you are still forgoing some of the most important aspects of narrative by accepting that that is what story means in the context of an RPG. I don't think I agree that the party's story is the story that matters, any more than I'd agree that in a cooperative game only an individual characters story matters. And as a practical matter, the party's story is the story of the members that have made up the party, and if no part member arises above the level being a bit player, the whole story suffers. My current campaign suffers IMO from all the lose threads and broken stories that have occurred as characters died. If I novelized it, there would be more continuity for the purposes of improving the story. You'd think, but I'm pretty sure that's not true. I'm not a powergamer myself, but I also prefer as a player not to lose my character, and as a GM for my player's characters to survive. For that to happen in a 'randomized system', they have to exert both system mastery and skillful play. Leaving aside whether it is even legal to do that with thief skill, and whether its tactically possible in the majority of situations, your combat got to round 4. With dual-classing, that's certainly true. It doesn't with demi-human multi-classing, unless I was mistaken the entire time I was playing 1e AD&D. [/QUOTE]

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