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<blockquote data-quote="Storm Raven" data-source="post: 1193994" data-attributes="member: 307">You have also said that you played in groups where multiclassing and dual-classing were rare. Which means that your PCs did you a huge favor by not exploiting one of the most overpowered loopholes in the game.I'd say either you got (a) very lucky, or (b) are remembering your experiences with rose colored glasses. How many TPKs did you have by accident? How many did you have to stave off by secretly fudging the rolls? How often did one PCs start to outshine everyone else to an annoying extent?Not that you know of, or remember. Which, as I said before, makes you either incredibly lucky, or the victim of a selective memory.And yet, I have never had this problem. Of course, that is because I realized early on that you don't challenge the brick by giving him monsters with bigger hit points and higher ACs and attack bonuses. You challenge the brick by giving him combat situations that he has to solve by maneuver, combat tactics, and other things more than &quot;I swing at the monster&quot; stuff.Of course, the main problem with 1e/2e was that the hugely unbalancing rules were written directly into the core rules, and hence, most DMs simply assumed they were fine and went with them. Never realizing that they were hideously broken.In 1e (and 2e to some extent) it was trivially easy to make a non-combat oriented character who dominated other characters both in and out of combat. Did you ever see the 1e bard in action? He would overwhelm every other character in just about every way.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Storm Raven, post: 1193994, member: 307"] You have also said that you played in groups where multiclassing and dual-classing were rare. Which means that your PCs did you a huge favor by not exploiting one of the most overpowered loopholes in the game. I'd say either you got (a) very lucky, or (b) are remembering your experiences with rose colored glasses. How many TPKs did you have by accident? How many did you have to stave off by secretly fudging the rolls? How often did one PCs start to outshine everyone else to an annoying extent? Not that you know of, or remember. Which, as I said before, makes you either incredibly lucky, or the victim of a selective memory. And yet, I have never had this problem. Of course, that is because I realized early on that you don't challenge the brick by giving him monsters with bigger hit points and higher ACs and attack bonuses. You challenge the brick by giving him combat situations that he has to solve by maneuver, combat tactics, and other things more than "I swing at the monster" stuff. Of course, the main problem with 1e/2e was that the hugely unbalancing rules were [i]written directly into the core rules[/i], and hence, most DMs simply assumed they were fine and went with them. Never realizing that they were hideously broken. [b][/b] In 1e (and 2e to some extent) it was trivially easy to make a non-combat oriented character who dominated other characters both in and out of combat. Did you ever see the 1e bard in action? He would overwhelm every other character in just about every way. [/QUOTE]

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