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Originally Posted by Anthony
I'm not quite sure what you mean by OD&D.
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The original release of D&D in 1973 plus its supplements; Greyhawk, Blackmoor, Eldritch Wizardry, etc.
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Originally Posted by Anthony
The infantry (fighter)/artillery (wizard mostly)/support(cleric mostly) split existed in Basic D&D back in 1977, it's just that D&D didn't have meaningful zones of control before 3e, so the infantry didn't actually have the tools to do their job (in theory party order was supposed to do that, and in games like Wizardry it did, but in actual play that never worked in anything but corridor fights).
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My point while the cleric as healer, fighter as tank, and magic user as artillery existed, the differences were not strongly defined until much later (D&D 3.0).
The superheroic noted in the OP is a product of how D&D and dungeon crawling was handled in the early 2000s. Not earlier especially OD&D in the 70s.