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Message: <blockquote data-quote="hawkeyefan" data-source="post: 9775632" data-attributes="member: 6785785">I’m sure games prior to this point used it, but not any versions of D&D. Or at least, not consistently. I do recall some products that had NPCs that were clearly designed the same as PCs… but there are numerous contrary examples. Oh, I agree with that, for sure. The most GM burnout I’ve ever experienced was after running Pathfinder consistently for years after a brief (in retrospect, sadly brief) run of D&D 4e. The burden of GMing such a game is high due to the amount of prep needed. This was one of the main reasons I actively started pursuing other games. I mean, I don’t think that 1e material was anything like as consistent as you’re describing. The broad points were probably pretty even applied (like Elven racial abilities) but the more specific ones (class and stat limits by race) were ignored or missed routinely. And as for establishing an explanation for any such deviance from standard rules, the GM could make up whatever they wanted to explain such things… so that rationale doesn’t mean a whole lot.</blockquote>