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Message: <blockquote data-quote="ccs" data-source="post: 8279234" data-attributes="member: 6803664">My 1st character is memorable for being the harbinger of our first true house rule(s).I started off playing (as the DM) over Christmas break 1980.  Myself (the DM), my brother & our cousin.  100% 0 xp between us.  And no-one to teach us.  We played for several months.  Then we added a friend.  Shortly after this point my cousin decided to try & run an adventure.  So somewhere about Easter 1980 I finally got to make my own character. <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    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />  I made a 1/2ling & named him Uno.  He was supposed to be the Bilbo Baggins burglar of the group (we were all familiar with the Hobbit).The party consisted of Uno the 1/2ling, an Elf with no name (brother) & Blardo the fighter.  Trying to loot gems out of a dungeon.  It was a pretty crappy adventure, even by the standards of eleven year olds.  Throughout the afternoon though I kept trying to do things you'd associate with a Thief in the Basic of the time - climb walls, sneak about, burgle things....  Even though as a novice DM myself I knew I wouldn't likely succeed because rules.  But hey, my cousin might say yes, right?So I'd try something thief like, my cousin would look up the rules, and she'd say "No".  Because Uno was a 1/2ling,not a Thief.  That's fine.  Play continues.Afterwards though it did spark the groups 1st ever serious rules discussion.  How it was stupid that some "classes" were Human + job & others were just elf/dwarf/halfling.So we decided that character creation would now be Choose: Human/Elf/Dwarf/Halfling, then choose Job: Fighter/Cleric/Thief/Magic-User.  Hit Dice, Saves, to-hit rolls, & XP = jobElves were special & could have two jobs, but if they did they only got the HD already listed for Elves & had to divide their xp gained in half.I don't recall what we said about lv limits, but as Basic only went up to lv 3 & we wouldn't have access to the Expert set until Christmas '81, I don't think it was a factor.And this is how we played (most of the time) for the next year or so (some time into '82).  At wich point we came across 1e.Wich validated our basic opinion that Race = Class sometimes, but not others, was stupid. I've stated Uno up for every edition of the game I've played save for 4e.  #s vary depending if I can use his originals or have to re-roll/etc, but he's a 1/2ling (Stout if it matters), Thief (Rogue in 3x+).In 5e I'd give him the criminal background.</blockquote>

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