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<blockquote data-quote="Alzrius" data-source="post: 8109980" data-attributes="member: 8461"><p>No, actually, this isn't correct. In OD&D (1974) you did pick a race, with dwarves and halflings being limited to the fighting-man class (6th level for dwarves, 4th level for halflings), and elves picking between fighting-man and magic-user (oddly, they chose which class to be at the start of each adventure, in what's now recognizable as an early attempt at multiclassing), being limited to 4th level in the former and 8th level in the latter.</p><p></p><p>"Races as classes" began in B/X, and was kept in BECMI.</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>Maybe that's uniquely Tolkien (it seems safe to say that for the ranger, but might be a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crystal_ball#History" target="_blank">bit harder</a> for the wizard), can you say the same for how, for instance, thieves were allowed to use magic scrolls?</p><p></p><p><strong>EDIT:</strong> Looking back through the AD&D 1E DMG, I'm not seeing where it says that rangers can use crystal balls. Can anyone find a citation on that?</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Alzrius, post: 8109980, member: 8461"] No, actually, this isn't correct. In OD&D (1974) you did pick a race, with dwarves and halflings being limited to the fighting-man class (6th level for dwarves, 4th level for halflings), and elves picking between fighting-man and magic-user (oddly, they chose which class to be at the start of each adventure, in what's now recognizable as an early attempt at multiclassing), being limited to 4th level in the former and 8th level in the latter. "Races as classes" began in B/X, and was kept in BECMI. Maybe that's uniquely Tolkien (it seems safe to say that for the ranger, but might be a [URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crystal_ball#History']bit harder[/URL] for the wizard), can you say the same for how, for instance, thieves were allowed to use magic scrolls? [b]EDIT:[/b] Looking back through the AD&D 1E DMG, I'm not seeing where it says that rangers can use crystal balls. Can anyone find a citation on that? [/QUOTE]
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