NOW LIVE! Today's the day you meet your new best friend. You don’t have to leave Wolfy behind... In 'Pets & Sidekicks' your companions level up with you!

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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Voadam" data-source="post: 8751566" data-attributes="member: 2209">That would have been so great!  <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /> If only things like paladins and rangers had been fighter options instead of full class/subclasses. If only healing had not been tied to a specific class, then a non caster party might be viable. If only thieves had been dex based fighters. I don't think that is accurate. I believe they were developed to emulate specific characters and to do some specific mechanical effects, not improvised on the spot. The cleric was originally to play a Doctor Van Helsing vampire hunter using a cross to counter a powerful vampire in the campaign. I have never heard it was a character encountering the vampire and improv turning the vampire.For the thief it was the desire to emulate characters like the Gray Mouser (who first meets Fafhrd while backstabbing someone, and who is a former wizard's apprentice who occasionally casts spells from scrolls with mishap chances like high level OD&D and AD&D thieves can) using a magic user mechanical chasis but switching out spells for always useable skills with a failure chance, and some abilities. Their abilities are weaker than MU's magic, but they can also use leather armor and some more weapons than MUs. Apparently the original class was a slightly different thief skill model and Gygax turned it into the percentiles, but I have never heard that the class was developed in response to a character improv going for a pickpocket attempt.</blockquote>

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