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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Voadam" data-source="post: 9730054" data-attributes="member: 2209">With eleven classes in the PH and multiple races with various multiclass and level limits to pick from I felt 1e pre-UA had a bunch of impactful character build choices as it was even with random stat rolling and magic items and even just roleplaying and tactics being such big factors. Particularly with weird mechanical balance for being weak at low levels versus high levels or different xp charts for various races and classes.If you were playing a one shot versus a long campaign, whether it was low level or high level, those build choices mattered.I played in a level one 1e one shot pre UA and rolled up a magic user with nine intelligence as my first ever magic user.I wasn't going to get spells above fourth caster level or have a good shot at learning new acquired ones during downtime, but that did not matter, it was a level one one-shot game.A magic user regardless of int stats is a pretty poor mechanical choice at first level with their no armor, d4 HD, dagger weapon limitation, and one spell and the mechanical design balance of weak at low levels, powerful at high levels. My random offensive known spell I rolled was light. On the other hand, my THAC0 was about the same as a 15 str fighter. <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=":)" />So I tied off a headband, described my dagger as a giant Rambo knife and got through the game mostly on confidence and a lot of luck. I don't think I even cast the light spell.</blockquote>

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