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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Ahnehnois" data-source="post: 5104897" data-attributes="member: 17106">I always thought it strange (as someone who started essentially with 3.0e) that you would have a bunch of classes which were 'balanced', races which were 'balanced' and so one, but that you would then roll random ability scores, which could (and usually did) result in unbalaced characters. I think 4e has taken the 'balance' focus to new heights, and I don't think we'll see rolled ability scores as the default option any more. That said, I do like to roll for other rpgs (CoC for instance) which are less combat and balance focused, and I might even do it for my next D&D game.I think a lot of 3e's concepts were introduced as soon as they could have been. The whole monsters as characters approach just doesn't feel right in 2e for instance. For that matter, the OGL and SRD wouldn't have made much sense before widespread internet access.Oddly enough, I understand that psionics were present as 'wild talents' in very early versions of D&D. They still haven't really been 100% accepted by the game or the community (I say this as a psionics fan), so I guess that original rule was really ahead of iits time!</blockquote>