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<blockquote data-quote="Ulrick" data-source="post: 3916628" data-attributes="member: 775">I also like that in order to be in one of these specialized classes, you had to have great abilities scores. To be a paladin, you needed a 17 in charisma. Using the standard 4d6 drop the lowest method, this made characters like this rare...as they should be. In Unearthed Arcana, the paladin became the subclass of the Cavalier, which had some potent special abilities, but was balanced with more restrictions--like refusing to wear certain types of armor and bypassing +3 chainmail for a suit of platemail. Or my favorite, in battle, the Cavalier HAS to charge the strongest looking opponent. If he can't directly get to the opponent, he HAS to cut his way through. Oh, and the Cavalier doesn't get a 10% XP bonus for having high abilities. And then you have the Barbarian in UA, who has all kinds of cool abilities. However, going up in levels will take a long time...starting at 6,000 XP to reach 2nd level! This is part of what I like about 1st Edition, you may play specialized character, but it comes with cost. Yet it add flavor to the game.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Ulrick, post: 3916628, member: 775"] I also like that in order to be in one of these specialized classes, you had to have great abilities scores. To be a paladin, you needed a 17 in charisma. Using the standard 4d6 drop the lowest method, this made characters like this rare...as they should be. In Unearthed Arcana, the paladin became the subclass of the Cavalier, which had some potent special abilities, but was balanced with more restrictions--like refusing to wear certain types of armor and bypassing +3 chainmail for a suit of platemail. Or my favorite, in battle, the Cavalier HAS to charge the strongest looking opponent. If he can't directly get to the opponent, he HAS to cut his way through. Oh, and the Cavalier doesn't get a 10% XP bonus for having high abilities. And then you have the Barbarian in UA, who has all kinds of cool abilities. However, going up in levels will take a long time...starting at 6,000 XP to reach 2nd level! This is part of what I like about 1st Edition, you may play specialized character, but it comes with cost. Yet it add flavor to the game. [/QUOTE]

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