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Message: <blockquote data-quote="EzekielRaiden" data-source="post: 8539324" data-attributes="member: 6790260">In my experience, it's even more than that. OSR-type D&D expects you to use more than the rules as intended; there's a whole space of non-rules expectations and policies that aren't actually mentioned anywhere in the rules text, and the progressive forgetting and/or shedding of these things played a large part in both the rise of caster power, and the fall of martial power.AIUI, if you legit played the early editions really "as intended," with all that extra tacit stuff, things were pretty balanced...in part because both the rules and the tacit policies both favored martials. But when the tacit stuff became forgotten stuff, and casters had many of their limits removed (because TBH those limits weren't particularly enjoyable to play around), problems started to crop up.</blockquote>