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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Celebrim" data-source="post: 9886176" data-attributes="member: 4937">I have a lot of thoughts on the why of the revisions and my philosophy here, which I have been withholding because I want to see whether people notice all the changes and hear what they think of them without biasing their viewpoint with mine.But coincidentally, after posting this I say an interview with Tim Kask about Gygax that I hadn't scene and I thought it just validated my thinking entirely, and so I thought I'd post a link.[URL unfurl="true"]https://x.com/DaddyWarpig/status/2038604309282300345[/URL]I bring it up as relevant because I knew that there would be a lot of highly traditional types going, "Real men play with 1st level M-U's with just one spell", and the truth is that that was just another way of Gygax saying "No".  Gygax didn't write up the M-U with the intention of them being played.  He wrote them up with the intention of discouraging anyone from ever playing them.  And honestly, whether this is my bias or not, if you have a single classed M-U that survived to high level it did so solely as a result of DM bias and nothing inherent in the class because you were trying not to punish the player for his choice and you ignored the RAW heavily and/or you deliberately avoided targeting the player with attacks because you knew the character would die.</blockquote>