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<blockquote data-quote="Snarf Zagyg" data-source="post: 9122019" data-attributes="member: 7023840">Respectfully, I can't disagree more with this statement. The whole &quot;LFQW&quot; thing did not exist in when this was written in 1e. Assuming a fixed-meaning canon, we need to interpret this at the time it was written. Which is to say ... 1977 and 1978. At that time, and for a multitude of reasons, there was certainly no intent to &quot;fix&quot; a problem that no one thought existed.Moreover, that assumes a very narrow construction of the rule; this isn't about Fighter / Magic Users (and as you can see, the actual application of that use-case is very limited); instead, it's just a general rule to allow someone to change classes from any one class any other class, one time, explaining how it happens.Why does the rule exist? Absent any other information, I generally assume because at some point, the issue came up in Gygax's home campaign and he devised an overly-complicated rule to deal with it, complete with some pretty insane gatekeeping requirements.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Snarf Zagyg, post: 9122019, member: 7023840"] Respectfully, I can't disagree more with this statement. The whole "LFQW" thing did not exist in when this was written in 1e. Assuming a fixed-meaning canon, we need to interpret this at the time it was written. Which is to say ... 1977 and 1978. At that time, and for a multitude of reasons, there was certainly no intent to "fix" a problem that no one thought existed. Moreover, that assumes a very narrow construction of the rule; this isn't about Fighter / Magic Users (and as you can see, the actual application of that use-case is [I]very limited[/I]); instead, it's just a general rule to allow someone to change classes from any one class any other class, one time, explaining how it happens. Why does the rule exist? Absent any other information, I generally assume because at some point, the issue came up in Gygax's home campaign and he devised an overly-complicated rule to deal with it, complete with some pretty insane gatekeeping requirements. [/QUOTE]

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