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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Celebrim" data-source="post: 7910657" data-attributes="member: 4937"><p>My impression is that the rate of fire advantage of darts was generally overlooked by inexperienced players. The potential to optimize your low level M-U by choosing to be proficient in darts was overlooked in favor of more obvious weapon choices, and the fact that coming from Basic you'd have no awareness of the dart or its advantages only made that issue more common place. By the 1e Unearthed Arcana though, the rate of fire issue was highlighted in the rules directly and indirectly, and more people were looking to optimize character builds. Thus, darts became more and more common, and magical darts likewise became more and more common (including game breaking examples like Darts of the Hornet's Nest, that could potentially end encounters on their own). By 2e, this was now known community lore, and so started to become a trope.</p></blockquote><p></p>