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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Remathilis" data-source="post: 5952975" data-attributes="member: 7635">Lots of people did. Kits were the redheaded stepchild of an already redheaded stepchild to most (2e). It didn't help that most kits had NO real design scheme, and they fluxed from outright useless to ungodly broken. There was no balance between a kit like Acrobat (which gave slight adjustment to your thief skills, something you could do already) and witch (which handed out FREE magic items!). When they later redid kits during the Player's Option line (giving them basically benefits in line with 5e's perks or traits) the damage had already been done and kits had a bad name. Which is too bad; the concepts were sound and many were quite flavorful (the bard kits in the Bard's Handbook win as brilliant design, basically re-writing the bard class 10 different ways rather than just stacking on bonuses). Around the 3e marker, lots of people had hoped kits were a thing of the past and didn't lament their passing. Its kinda funny how they've become retro-good ideas again as 2e begins to slide and merge in the memory hole of the games of christmas past. FWIW: I used kits, and wrote (and re-wrote) several of my own. As long as people were having fun, I didn't mind. I knew lots of DMs who refused flat out to allow them though, and that seemed to be more common than not.</blockquote>