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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Voadam" data-source="post: 9650306" data-attributes="member: 2209">The ranger started in 0e in the Strategic Review. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />You can also see race split from class with thieves in 0e Greyhawk.I would have to look up specifics for 0e undead to say whether that was a 1e innovation.Edit: Wights, Spectres, and Vampires from 0e have energy drain so it was there from the start:WIGHTS: Wights are nasty critters who drain away life energy levels when theyscore a hit in melee, one level per hit. Thus a hit removes both the hit die and thecorresponding energy to fight, i.e. a 9th-level fighter would drop to 8th level. Wightscannot be affected by normal missile fire, but silver-tipped arrows will score normaldamage, and magic arrows will score double hits upon them. Magical weaponswill score full hits upon them, and those with a special bonus add the amount of thebonus in hit points to the hits scored. Men-types killed by Wights become Wights.An opponent who is totally drained of life energy by a Wight becomes a Wight.SPECTRES: These monsters have no corporeal body which makes them totally imperviousto all normal weaponry (but can be struck by all magical weapons), includingsilver-tipped arrows. They drain two life energy levels when they score a hit.Men-types killed by Spectres become Spectres under the control of the one whomade them.VAMPIRES: These monsters are properly of the “Undead” class rather than Lycanthropes.If they are exposed to direct rays of sunlight, immersed in running water, orimpaled through the heart with a wooden stake they are killed; otherwise they canbe hit only as Spectres, but such hits do not kill them but only force them to assumegaseous form if they lose all hit points. Vampires drain two life energy levels as doSpectres when they hit an opponent in combat.</blockquote>

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