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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Flying Toaster" data-source="post: 9891993" data-attributes="member: 7052563">I remember much of this issue.  An EGG 2E would probably feature even more overpowered classes balanced by crippling roleplay restrictions.  One thing I find remarkable about Gygaxian game design is how much of it is punitive, meant to push you towards playing the “right way” i.e. the Gygax way.  Sure he would let you play a non-human or a wizard, but he would use lots of fiddly details and restrictions to make you regret it, until you relent and play the Conan or Fafhrd type of macho warriors that got EGG excited.The centaur article was interesting, but I think you could only use them as PCs in a wilderness campaign that did not venture much into caverns or dungeons.  Otherwise the centaur PC would periodically get stuck staying outside guarding the horses.  Back then I was a bit of a “young fogey” about D&D settings and disliked many of the changes made in Dragonlance, but I particularly disdained the kender, tinker gnomes, and gully dwarves, who seemed unfit even for comic relief.  I read at least one Sheri S. Tepper novel but do not remember anything about it.  I read the first few Joel Rosenberg Guardians of the Flame novels because my friends did, but they were too gritty for my taste even then.  Portal fantasy about RPG players getting sucked into the game was very popular in that era, and of course it was the frame story for the D&D cartoon.  IRL Rosenberg became a gun rights advocate after receiving threatening letters from a neo-Nazi.</blockquote>

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