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Message: <blockquote data-quote="AbdulAlhazred" data-source="post: 7037269" data-attributes="member: 82106">Right, he has a few of these small 'passive' advantages. His ability to use certain items COULD be very useful if they come up (IE the Rod of Lordly Might, possibly the strongest non-artifact in the game). Still, he's very narrow. His items all add to his combat ability, or maybe allow some enhanced leadership, or 'general athletics'. This can provide fighters that have specific abilities that go beyond hacking stuff up, and maybe even verge on some of the things wizards do by default, but overall its a pretty narrow shtick, even thieves have more (though maybe not better) options.This is by no means a given though. There's no standard of wealth that exists in 1e. Beyond that if you play 'by the book' a HUGE, almost overwhelming, portion of a character's wealth is sucked up by training (I believe it is 1500gp x your level/level to reach the next level, multiplied by a DM determined 'quality factor'). If the DM sticks to that rule its unlikely you'll be very rich at all, unless he also gave out some outsized treasure hordes, or you got real lucky on the random treasure tables.It certainly SEEMS like a lot of 1e would need rather rich characters to engage with (hirelings, freeholds, etc) but at the same time the game mechanics seem to point to a scenario where one scratches for every penny, even at name level.And yet a thorough lack of such mechanics doesn't HELP, does it. The game basically says "your job is to break things, move heavy objects, and make sure the majority of monsters are engaged, and maybe kill them if they're not a really dire threat that warrants a spell." I agree that your character could be interesting, but so could the wizard in the same sense, and he's got a lot more 'game' to fall back on. I think we all played fighters, and nobody thinks you can't have a good time or anything, but lets not pretend you're on a par with an MU or a cleric/druid/illusionist except maybe at levels 1-5 at best.Well, I had a 1e ranger (has a few extra features, but not really much, and spell-casting that is utterly trivial) and he's a lot of fun too, do the character's history, etc. I'd just say again that such histories, quirks, etc COULD belong to any character of any class. I don't understand why people trot them out as positive aspects of the 1e fighter when they don't attach to that class in any particular way. Is it just that you have no other way to engage with that character? I mean, my 14th level 1e wizard "Questioner of All Things" is a pretty interesting character too. He also casts 7th level spells and usually runs the show if he's around. Maybe I don't always feel like doing that, so my ranger, assassin, or thief get some playing time.</blockquote>

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