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Message: <blockquote data-quote="RFisher" data-source="post: 3323963" data-attributes="member: 3608">Regarding the 2e ranger: There had been a sentiment among the gamers I knew (& as I recall, in letters to Dragon) that rangers with plate-mail & shield was encouraged by the 1e rules but didn't fit the class. Many of the changes to rangers in 2e seemed to directly address that idea by giving players good reasons for their rangers not to wear plate-mail & use a shield. I & my circle didn't know about Dritz. We didn't read many TSR novels.I can't confirm or deny any connection between Dritz & the 2e ranger, but I can say that the changes seem perfectly natural (whether we agreed with them or not) to us absent any knowledge of Dritz.An ironic thing is that 2e gave a friend of mine a name (min/maxing) for one of his favorite aspects of the hobby. It gave him the anti-min/maxing point-of-view to argue against. It encouraged him in exactly what it was trying to discourage. Then, eventually, Skills & Powers came along to give him the tools to go hog wild.It survived a dozen years. There was still demand for the 1e PHB even as the 2e PHB was being released. Not just from people who didn't know 2e was coming, but from distributors. Kenzer is selling essentially the same system today. Although admittedly there are other things in Kenzer's advantage. But if the 1e books were still in print & the extras in HM in a separate supplement, I'd think that'd get at least some of the sales that HM has.It couldn't have survived if the company tried to put all its eggs in 1e's basket, but failing that sort of idiocy, I don't see any reason it couldn't have.</blockquote>

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