What Classes Existed in Earlier Editions?

[TheOldGreyBeard]

OD&D:

Fighting Man
Magic-User
Cleric

Greyhawk:
Thief

Blackmoor:
Monk
Assassin

Eldritch Wizardry:
Druid

Strategic Review:
Ranger

The 1E Bard required levels in Fighter and Thief.

So what classes existed in editions prior to 3rd?

The ones I know off the top of my head:

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OD&D:

1. Fighting Man
2. Magic-User
3. Cleric
4. Thief
5. Monk
6. Paladin


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What am I missing? (Probably lots, and I might have messed up on some since my memory of earlier editions is broken...)

As I recall:

01. Fighting Man
02. Magic-User
03. Cleric
04. Thief
05. Paladin
06. Monk
07. Assassin
08. Druid
09. Ranger
10. Illusionist
11. Bard

 

[Particle_Man]

Wassn't there a class in the 2e game where nobles had red dust in their blood and were running kingdoms and stuff, a class that has some illusionist abilities but was also a bit like a swashbuckler/rogue?

 

[Particle_Man]

And I think there was a Faerie book that has a metric ton of creature classes for BXCMI (or maybe it was just B/X).

 

[The Little Raven]

Wassn't there a class in the 2e game where nobles had red dust in their blood and were running kingdoms and stuff, a class that has some illusionist abilities but was also a bit like a swashbuckler/rogue?

Are you talking about Birthright, the setting which had scions (humans and other PC races that are imbued with a bloodline derived from an ancient, dead god)? You could rule kingdoms, and they had an alternate class: the Magician, who was more of an illusionist than the normal wizard.

 

[Keldryn]

I could swear there was an Archer class published for OD&D in one of the early The Dragon magazines, but I couldn't say which.

There was an Archer NPC class re-published in Best of Dragon Vol. 3 (along with an Archer-Ranger variant). Don't know what issue it originally appeared in. I think there was a variant Bard class in there as well (that wasn't a 3-class combo), as well as a variant Monk.

Best of Dragon Vol. 4 re-published a number of NPC classes that I remember using in my games: Bandit, Duelist, Cloistered Cleric, Jester, Death Master, and others.

 

[Mark Hope]

Wassn't there a class in the 2e game where nobles had red dust in their blood and were running kingdoms and stuff, a class that has some illusionist abilities but was also a bit like a swashbuckler/rogue?

Isn't that red dust cinnabar from Red Steel? Sounds familiar, but can't remember...

 

[Particle_Man]

Are you talking about Birthright, the setting which had scions (humans and other PC races that are imbued with a bloodline derived from an ancient, dead god)? You could rule kingdoms, and they had an alternate class: the Magician, who was more of an illusionist than the normal wizard.

I think that is it. I might be getting the red dust from the OD&D world and confusing it in my head. But yeah, the Magician. An illusionist with a rapier, baby!

 

[Orius]

Wassn't there a class in the 2e game where nobles had red dust in their blood and were running kingdoms and stuff, a class that has some illusionist abilities but was also a bit like a swashbuckler/rogue?

Are you talking about Birthright, the setting which had scions (humans and other PC races that are imbued with a bloodline derived from an ancient, dead god)? You could rule kingdoms, and they had an alternate class: the Magician, who was more of an illusionist than the normal wizard.

Sounds like he's mixing up Birthright and Red Steel/Savage Coast actually. Bloodlines or the Red Curse are abilities that exist on top of class abilities.

 

[Mad Mac]

For 2nd Edition, Complete Barbarian introduced both a Barbarian Warrior and a Barbarian style Shaman.

There was a FR Giant supplement also in 2nd edition that had a Runecaster Class.

There was also of course a Ninja class introduced in the Complete Ninjas Handbook, although it was really just a crummy thief varient with a couple of kit options to make it halfway decent. (Fighter style ninja, Kunoichi Ninja, Magic Ninja...)

Spells and Magic had several varient spellcasters, Including an Artificer, an alchemist, and a Scroll Master whose class name escapes me.

Technically, Council of Wyrms had Dragon versions of the basic classes, including Dragon Fighter, Dragon Wizard, and Dragon Psionicist.

You had the Psionicist from the Complete Psionics handbook, of course.

And yes, I owned all of those books...

 

[Kzach]

Pfft, earlier editions had no class!

*ducks*