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<blockquote data-quote="Lady Dragon" data-source="post: 5034242" data-attributes="member: 3453">The original question of this thread was do you think They tried to balance 1st edition not was it balanced. Of course it wasn't balanced,but that's another issue.All of the elite classes were very unbalanced, with the ordinary ones even barbarians and of course all of the oriental classes were as well ( In fact I think OA's material became the basis for most 2nd edition changes)Also OA was a late&nbsp; 1st edition book that may have been a practice book for the next edition the fact that although Gary's name appears as the author on the cover David Cook was probably the primary author of that book and he wrote 2nd edition as well. As for Drow they were consiered monsters in first edition and monsters were not allowed in the &quot;official rules&quot; so whether they were balanced is not an issue.And of course the perfect power party in 1st edition differed depending on what level your party was. Low levels needed multiclassed elves high levels needed magic-users.But again as I said earlier The whole process was new I don't think he fully understood the principles of game balance like we do 32 years later. So ultimately I think he tried to put some balance in but just didn't really know how to do it right.As for forth edition is it balanced I suppose. Is it better than all its predessors, well.....And although I understand why balance is important it's not the only thing in a game.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Lady Dragon, post: 5034242, member: 3453"] The original question of this thread was do you think They tried to balance 1st edition not was it balanced. Of course it wasn't balanced,but that's another issue. All of the elite classes were very unbalanced, with the ordinary ones even barbarians and of course all of the oriental classes were as well ( In fact I think OA's material became the basis for most 2nd edition changes) Also OA was a late 1st edition book that may have been a practice book for the next edition the fact that although Gary's name appears as the author on the cover David Cook was probably the primary author of that book and he wrote 2nd edition as well. As for Drow they were consiered monsters in first edition and monsters were not allowed in the "official rules" so whether they were balanced is not an issue. And of course the perfect power party in 1st edition differed depending on what level your party was. Low levels needed multiclassed elves high levels needed magic-users. But again as I said earlier The whole process was new I don't think he fully understood the principles of game balance like we do 32 years later. So ultimately I think he tried to put some balance in but just didn't really know how to do it right. As for forth edition is it balanced I suppose. Is it better than all its predessors, well..... And although I understand why balance is important it's not the only thing in a game. [/QUOTE]

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