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Message: <blockquote data-quote="NewJeffCT" data-source="post: 1894869" data-attributes="member: 10784">While I somewhat agree with your point of view, the DM always did more work in 1E & 2E as well.  And, I think once several more years have passed, DMs will be able to "wing" NPCs more naturally in 3E/3.5 (or 4.0, which will hopefully be evolutionary like 1E to 2E) by just thinking - "ok, bartender, a bit older, so a 2nd level expert,  let's give him 3 ranks in Bluff" ... I think part of the reason that some find 1E / 2E so easy is that they've been doing it for 15-20-25 years, so it comes naturally to them.  Now that those people are 30+, it is harder for them to do something new.  As an example, my wife grew up in a huge city overseas and didn't learn to drive until she came to America 5 1/2 years ago when she was 29.  While she is a careful driver, I doubt many would consider her a good driver just because she didn't have those teen & early 20s years to make driving come naturally to her.  It was harder for her to pick it up at a later age and get some things down-pat that we take for granted when driving.However, you're right that 3E/3.5 is easy from a player's point of view, probably easiest of 1E / 2E.</blockquote>