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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Voadam" data-source="post: 9018177" data-attributes="member: 2209">I think you are generalizing your 3d6 in order Ravenloft experience social to be closer to a baseline AD&D social climate than high power and optimization models of AD&D and I think that is a personal experience bias.D&D was a huge variety of playstyles that varied a lot between groups and products.2e Dark Sun by the book could have starting humans with 20s in ability scores and everyone having a psionic wild talent guaranteed. Look at 1e Unearthed Arcana Human rolls stat generation method. Unearthed Arcana double specialization, cavaliers who improved their physical stats every level, underdark racial options with lots of powers and defenses. Dragon magazine classes. I know my brother and I looked through the 2e Legends and Lore and Forgotten Realms adventures specifically scanning the potentials of the different specialty priests. I didn't own Complete Elves but I heard about Bladesinging. I mostly avoided playing thieves in B/X, 1e, and 2e because of their mechanical and combat crappiness (I played a few but not many).I think there are plenty of groups who would have been into collaborating on power optimization and builds if forums had been as accessible a thing at the time.Certainly enough for a bustling community to have developed.</blockquote>