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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Geron Raveneye" data-source="post: 2832915" data-attributes="member: 2268">Well, at first we made characters that fit the archetypes presented in the rules...and even with Basic D&D we got "feats" for some classes (fighter abilities), and "prestige classes" (druid, paladin, etc), and later we got proficiencies, some of which doubled as feats as well, and weapon mastery...so there was well enough stuff to flesh out existing characters. Apart from new regional classes presented in the Gazetteer series to spice up the region. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /> Apart from the mechanistic side, we simply played the character every which way we imagined him to be, and probably gave our DMs more than enough rope to hang us with every time we brought up one of our made-up weaknesses...which promptly was turned into some kind of check or save we had to pass if the situation came up ("Hey, YOU keep mentioning your magic-user is afraid of heights, don't complain to me he has to roll a Wisdom check to cross that very narrow rope bridge across the chasm!" <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f61b.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":p" title="Stick out tongue    :p"  data-smilie="7"data-shortname=":p" /> )And if push came to shove, and the right DM, we simply bent the rules until they either broke or gave us the character we wanted out of them. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)"  data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" /> I think we wasted as much time back then arguing about HOW to rule a certain situation in the first place as we waste today arguing about WHICH rule should be applied, and if there are errata for it.  <img src="http://www.enworld.org/forum/images/smilies/laugh.png"  class="smilie" loading="lazy" alt=":lol:" title="Laughing    :lol:" data-shortname=":lol:" /></blockquote>

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