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<blockquote data-quote="Raven Crowking" data-source="post: 3270053" data-attributes="member: 18280">Well, AD&amp;D 1e wasn't designed with the idea that each campaign would follow the same baseline.&nbsp; As a result, DMs were given some options as to how characters were generated.&nbsp; That seems reasonable to me.&nbsp; In fact, you can use alternate methods of assigning attribute scores in every edition of D&amp;D.I, for one, am willing to grant that they must have done so for some people, simply on the basis of third-party evidence and my recollection of the Sage Advice column.&nbsp; That said, these problems seem very much to belong to certain groups/DMs.This I don't believe.&nbsp; The more front-loaded class abilities are -- and the more class abilities exist -- the more you are going to gain from taking a dip.&nbsp; Not to mention that, in 1e, taking a dip was impossible.&nbsp; If you changed classes, you couldn't go back.&nbsp; If you were multi-classed, you kept paying that XP penalty even if you could no longer gain in one of your classes.RC</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Raven Crowking, post: 3270053, member: 18280"] Well, AD&D 1e wasn't designed with the idea that each campaign would follow the same baseline. As a result, DMs were given some options as to how characters were generated. That seems reasonable to me. In fact, you can use alternate methods of assigning attribute scores in every edition of D&D. I, for one, am willing to grant that they must have done so for some people, simply on the basis of third-party evidence and my recollection of the Sage Advice column. That said, these problems seem very much to belong to certain groups/DMs. This I don't believe. The more front-loaded class abilities are -- and the more class abilities exist -- the more you are going to gain from taking a dip. Not to mention that, in 1e, [i]taking a dip was impossible[/i]. If you changed classes, you couldn't go back. If you were multi-classed, you kept paying that XP penalty even if you could no longer gain in one of your classes. RC [/QUOTE]

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