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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Guest&nbsp; 85555" data-source="post: 9448300">A few things pop out in my mind. One is culture of play. Min-Maxing (which is what we used to call optimization) was somewhat poorly regarded through much of the TSR era of D&D. You could play that way, and people did, but there was a sense that you weren't always just supposed to take the most mechanically advantageous option. The other is TSR era D&D, at least in my experience, doesn't get as wildly imbalanced as WOTC D&D could (at least during 3E, I am less familiar with how optimization impacts 4E and 5E). It did have spikes, but they were a lot easier to manage. Also in actual play many things that looked like an advantage weren't. For example an elf Mage Thief in Ravenloft was going to have a very hard time. Also, very importantly there were racial level limits in 2E, and these were in the DMG. Why not be a mage thief? Maybe you want to eventually be a 20th level mage. Plus you are progressing slower and multi classing was a huge pain in the ass in the 1E/2E era:[ATTACH=full]378418[/ATTACH]</blockquote>