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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Sadrik" data-source="post: 5027562" data-attributes="member: 14506">I bolded the important word there. 1e and 2e did have a lot of mechanical restrictions in the area of character creation. Think about pretty much the only choices you had- race and character class. Your class was limited by your race, how many levels you can have in your class was limited by your race, you were limited in multi-classing to non-human and the dual classing rules were very ill-thought out. You really could not create every character type that you thought of but many for sure. You could make a Class X, Race X.So when I said that 3e blew the doors off on character customization, I meant you now had feat options, skill options, multi-classing options, prestige classing options, etc. All mechanical reasons to individualize your character mechanically. 1e in particular, you had an open slate for character personality for sure. But mechanically, an 11th level fighter only looked different if it was an elf or a dwarf, how lucky you were on your stat rolls, and any key equipment you might have.The bottom line is that D&D the largest rpg in the world does not have to be in a single form. This talk on ted pretty much sums up how I feel D&D should be developed.<a href="http://www.ted.com/talks/lang/eng/malcolm_gladwell_on_spaghetti_sauce.html" target="_blank">Malcolm Gladwell on spaghetti sauce | Video on TED.com</a></blockquote>