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<blockquote data-quote="Sacrosanct" data-source="post: 8241932" data-attributes="member: 15700"><p>Indeed. D&D was pretty stable up to that point as far as game material and rules. When the game really took off (after publication of the PHB and DMG), no other main rulebooks had come out that changed things all that much. Then UA came out and it was radical for the time. Yeah, many of those things came from previous Dragon articles, but it was common knowledge that Dragon was to be taken with a grain of salt and things in Dragon weren't "official".</p><p></p><p>Then UA came out and it was the first real major change to D&D that most ever experienced. And wow, were there issues lol. Don't get me wrong, I think we all used stuff out of it, and I even tried the OP stuff once or twice myself. But it was quickly determined that much of the stuff just wasn't good. The first time someone showed up at the table when everyone else had legacy PCs and they had their dart specialized fighter with 18s in str, dex, and con, it was pretty obvious that unless you were playing Monty Haul, it was no good.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Sacrosanct, post: 8241932, member: 15700"] Indeed. D&D was pretty stable up to that point as far as game material and rules. When the game really took off (after publication of the PHB and DMG), no other main rulebooks had come out that changed things all that much. Then UA came out and it was radical for the time. Yeah, many of those things came from previous Dragon articles, but it was common knowledge that Dragon was to be taken with a grain of salt and things in Dragon weren't "official". Then UA came out and it was the first real major change to D&D that most ever experienced. And wow, were there issues lol. Don't get me wrong, I think we all used stuff out of it, and I even tried the OP stuff once or twice myself. But it was quickly determined that much of the stuff just wasn't good. The first time someone showed up at the table when everyone else had legacy PCs and they had their dart specialized fighter with 18s in str, dex, and con, it was pretty obvious that unless you were playing Monty Haul, it was no good. [/QUOTE]
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