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<blockquote data-quote="Tony Vargas" data-source="post: 7843008" data-attributes="member: 996">Nod. This is just another area of 'gamist' abstraction (as in, &quot;let's not ruin the game in the name of making it a reality-simulator,&quot; not necessarily any, more nuanced/elitist/counter-intuitive, Forge sense). In the TSR era, you got a handful of weapon proficiencies and a non-proficiency penalty with everything else, which you therefore didn't use, in fact, if you had a magic weapon, you probably used it virtually all the time -&nbsp; later in the same era, fighters got specialization, which saw them consistently them using one weapon prettymuch exclusively (and hosed if they didn't find a magical version of it).&nbsp; 3e consolidated (or &quot;streamlined&quot; - see thread of that name) a lot of pointless mechanics and individual weapon proficiency was one of them, proficiency beyond the couple weapons you use just didn't have significant value compared to trading the in for specialization, so proficiency in all simple or all martial weapons became fairly normal, and classes with restricted weapon lists were just proficient with the weapons on their list.A simplification, really.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Tony Vargas, post: 7843008, member: 996"] Nod. This is just another area of 'gamist' abstraction (as in, "let's not ruin the game in the name of making it a reality-simulator," not necessarily any, more nuanced/elitist/counter-intuitive, Forge sense). In the TSR era, you got a handful of weapon proficiencies and a non-proficiency penalty with everything else, which you therefore didn't use, in fact, if you had a magic weapon, you probably used it virtually all the time - later in the same era, fighters got specialization, which saw them consistently them using one weapon prettymuch exclusively (and hosed if they didn't find a magical version of it). 3e consolidated (or "streamlined" - see thread of that name) a lot of pointless mechanics and individual weapon proficiency was one of them, proficiency beyond the couple weapons you use just didn't have significant value compared to trading the in for specialization, so proficiency in all simple or all martial weapons became fairly normal, and classes with restricted weapon lists were just proficient with the weapons on their list. A simplification, really. [/QUOTE]

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