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<blockquote data-quote="RainOfSteel" data-source="post: 3266682" data-attributes="member: 24460">My Version:Level limits were one of the most irritating rules of 1st Ed. AD&amp;D.&nbsp; I house-ruled them out of existence almost immediately.Why were they irritating to me?<ul>
<li data-xf-list-type="ul">There was no logical reason for them to exist.&nbsp; (If elves will live for 2000 years, then guess what, they really are going to accumulate massive levels.&nbsp; Just like the elves in Tolkein's world did (and they were immortal and whiled away large portions of their time).&nbsp; If correctly represented in 3.x, I can't even imagine what sort of skill ranks Feanor would have had in Craft: Gems.&nbsp; 75?&nbsp; 100?&nbsp; More?&nbsp; And probably a half-dozen craft-related feats, just for gems.&nbsp; You should see his stats in I.C.E.'s Lords of Middle Earth Vol.1.&nbsp; &lt;eek!/&gt;&nbsp; Come to think of it, you should see Fingolfin's stats and gear.)</li>
<li data-xf-list-type="ul">Because there was no logical reason for them to exist, they felt arbitrary.</li>
<li data-xf-list-type="ul">They made sure that heroes of every race but humanity were inferior to human heroes.</li>
<li data-xf-list-type="ul">They felt prejudicial.</li>
<li data-xf-list-type="ul">They prevented players from playing the characters they wanted to play.</li>
<li data-xf-list-type="ul">They set into carved canon a rule that many people were not going to play with from the get-go, thus disinheriting those games and all the resulting characters from canon legitimacy.</li>
</ul>----------------------------------------Class limits were equally irritating.&nbsp; I don't know why I didn't house-rule them out of existence, but it may have been that I had stopped playing those rules (I had many, many issues with them) and was buying products only to read updates to the game worlds.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="RainOfSteel, post: 3266682, member: 24460"] My Version: Level limits were one of the most irritating rules of 1st Ed. AD&D. I house-ruled them out of existence almost immediately. Why were they irritating to me? [list] [*]There was no logical reason for them to exist. (If elves will live for 2000 years, then guess what, they really are going to accumulate massive levels. Just like the elves in Tolkein's world did (and they were immortal and whiled away large portions of their time). If correctly represented in 3.x, I can't even imagine what sort of skill ranks Feanor would have had in Craft: Gems. 75? 100? More? And probably a half-dozen craft-related feats, just for gems. You should see his stats in I.C.E.'s Lords of Middle Earth Vol.1. <eek!/> Come to think of it, you should see Fingolfin's stats and gear.) [*]Because there was no logical reason for them to exist, they felt arbitrary. [*]They made sure that heroes of every race but humanity were inferior to human heroes. [*]They felt prejudicial. [*]They prevented players from playing the characters they wanted to play. [*]They set into carved canon a rule that many people were not going to play with from the get-go, thus disinheriting those games and all the resulting characters from canon legitimacy. [/list] ---------------------------------------- Class limits were equally irritating. I don't know why I didn't house-rule them out of existence, but it may have been that I had stopped playing those rules (I had many, many issues with them) and was buying products only to read updates to the game worlds. [/QUOTE]

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