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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Starfox" data-source="post: 4639831" data-attributes="member: 2303">One thing to remember about 1e and 2e is that levels did not mean the same thing back then. Give out a particular number of xp, and various classes end up at wildly different level. This mainly affects the thief after level 9; basically you got more than two levels of thief for every level of magic user.This means that when you say the sweet spot ended at level 15 for a magic user, the rogue was level 18. The bard in 2ed actually cast very close to the same amount of spells (from the same list) the wizard did if you counted by xp and not by level.The problem is that many DMs handed out a level and not a number of xp.In addition, the progression tables were very odd. In the beginning, where magic users were weak, they needed prodigious amounts of xp to rise. Then, by mid-levels when they started t gain in power, their xp requirements fell compared to the other classes, only to rise again by the end.</blockquote>