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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Raven Crowking" data-source="post: 3268392" data-attributes="member: 18280">Yup.  Me too.Wisconsin (home of D&D), Indiana, Missouri, Lousiana, Virginia.Our mileage obviously varies.   <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f600.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":D" title="Big grin    :D"  data-smilie="8"data-shortname=":D" /> That's true; but since magic-user spells cannot be cast in armor, the poor schmoe had to choose either to be a magic-user with better hit points and weapons, or a fighter with fewer hit points.Only if you assume that the halving of XP doesn't matter.  IME, it mattered quite a bit.  We had some multi-classed characters (generally two classes; as mentioned, 3 would be suicidal), but by the time that the single-class characters were mid-level, the effects of multi-classing were certainly being felt.Simply having fewer hit points made a difference in the groups I played with.  Not to mention that the spellcasting types had fewer spells available (which is a bigger deal in 1e than in 3e).  Our fighter/magic-user could operate as a magic-user until his spells ran out, and then change into armor, but this was only a good option if you lugged a spare set of armor with you.I have to say that, although I played 1e in 5 states with hundreds of different people, powergaming was never a problem.True.  In fact, still true IMC.  That doesn't mean that the weaker characters don't die while the stronger ones carry off the loot, though.  Hanging out with the big boys was a crap shoot -- like going straight to the lowest level of the dungeon -- it could pay in spades, or you could wind up very, very dead.RCEDIT:  Of course, I grant that I might have simply been extremely lucky with the groups I ran games for, or played in the games of.</blockquote>

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