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Message: <blockquote data-quote="bloodtide" data-source="post: 9748539" data-attributes="member: 6684958">It might be useful to have a little snap shot of The Time Before Time:There were three basic Heroes that were popular in the 70s and 80s:*The Strong Guy:  Conan, The Hulk, He-Man, fighters and the vast majority of characters played by Clint Eastwood, Arnold Schwarzenegger and the like.*The Power Guy: Tron Man, Batman, Jedi, Wizards. Characters with a sheet of abilities(with new ones added occasionally) they can use*MacGyver: The Everyman who is smart and clever and uses whatever they can find on hand to solve problems And you can see this in the popular ways to play a D&D Character:*The all combat character that simply wants to  do near endless combat. *Spellcasters with a player just playing off their character sheetAnd*Well, if a player wanted to do anything other then have a fighting character or a spellcaster with a list of things they can do......well, Old School characters really, really only a little more then just blank pieces of paper.  Maybe a couple abilities.  No skills, no feats, no archtypes, and very few rules for anything anyway.So, you can see that third type of hero....one that is not too popular today.....the "Skilled Gamer"</blockquote>