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<blockquote data-quote="Voadam" data-source="post: 9277103" data-attributes="member: 2209">That is a design goal in 3e, 4e, and 5e for PC classes.Even in 3e there were NPC classes not balanced against PC classes for combat.Starting with 0e, particularly with supplement I Greyhawk and the introduction of thieves, and through AD&amp;D and BECMI/RC Basic D&amp;D PC class balance was at most a rough approximation goal. There were weak magic users at low levels who got really powerful at later levels, demihumans being level capped for humanocentrism, different xp rates that did not match up to class combat potential, combat superior class options gated behind imbalance enhancing stat requirements or noncombat restrictions, and other concerns trumping class combat balance as a goal in a lot of D&amp;D.And there is a long history of AD&amp;D noncombatant NPC classes in Dragon Magazine (I have one with Greenwood's Smith class) and sourcebooks like the 2e Sages one.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Voadam, post: 9277103, member: 2209"] That is a design goal in 3e, 4e, and 5e for PC classes. Even in 3e there were NPC classes not balanced against PC classes for combat. Starting with 0e, particularly with supplement I Greyhawk and the introduction of thieves, and through AD&D and BECMI/RC Basic D&D PC class balance was at most a rough approximation goal. There were weak magic users at low levels who got really powerful at later levels, demihumans being level capped for humanocentrism, different xp rates that did not match up to class combat potential, combat superior class options gated behind imbalance enhancing stat requirements or noncombat restrictions, and other concerns trumping class combat balance as a goal in a lot of D&D. And there is a long history of AD&D noncombatant NPC classes in Dragon Magazine (I have one with Greenwood's Smith class) and sourcebooks like the 2e Sages one. [/QUOTE]

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