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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Ahnehnois" data-source="post: 6244143" data-attributes="member: 17106">I don't really agree with that. As others have noted from time to time, early D&D fighters could look forward to a keep at high level, which seems like something to reward the player rather than a manifestation of the character's skill and ability.But if anything, I think the idea of roleplaying strictly from the perspective of the character and having mechanics strictly emulate in-world phenomena is a "new" school idea. To me, revising D&D is about chipping off all the metagame elements from the block until we are left with a beautiful, metagame-free sculpture. No meta, just the game.2e had tremendous and illogical (and metagame) divisions of character abilities designed to enforce class-based niches, which were broken to some extent with 3e's multiclassing and skills/feats, and were gradually broken down even more as classes grew in flexibility and diversity over its life. Strongly metagame abilities did pop up not in the core rules so much as in a few late supplements, but that to me would be more where 3e lost its way and abandoned its initial goals rather than an example of some "new" school thinking.</blockquote>