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Message: <blockquote data-quote="NewJeffCT" data-source="post: 5065376" data-attributes="member: 10784">Well, we'll have to disagree on that then, as somebody who started gaming in the late 70s and saw lots of different gamers & gaming groups in the 70s, 80s and into the late 90s, the multi-classed demi-humans were inherently more powerful than humans in 1E and 2E.  You gave up a few hit points to be almost the best fighter and almost the best wizard in the group.When 3E came out in 2000, one of the selling points was that it was finally cool to play a human, from the extra skill point & feat you got, as well as being able to choose any favored class.While I found 3E/3.5 more work than fun as a DM once my just-ended campaign got past level 10 or so, I think it would have been far less balanced at level 18 if it was 1E or 2E.  I had a large group of players (eight) and nobody really took a back seat down the stretch in the campaign.</blockquote>