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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Argyle King" data-source="post: 5615687" data-attributes="member: 58416">I'll have to dig through some of the old articles (if they're even still up,) but I remember there being an interview with one of the designers about why some of the skills were taken out of the game, and he said something along the lines of "How man times have you actually used ____ in game?  If you have, you're probably not playing the way the game is intended to be played anyway."There were also several articles which completely blasted 3rd Edition.  I would never suggest 3rd didn't have problems, but some of those problems were exaggerated a great deal during the build up to 4th Edition.  The funny thing is that some of the problems and issues which were cited as being terrible have started to squeak back into 4th Edition; some of the Essentials classes seem to superficially resemble 3E.</blockquote>