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Old 09-25-2018, 04:31 PM   #40
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Default Re: Does DFRPG more and more resemble a super hero game to you

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Originally Posted by Anthony View Post

but the roles were super obvious back in 1e.
I have to agree. I started xD&D with AD&D First Edition in 1979. The roles were already graven in stone at that point. I don't think classes were remotely interchangeable, and I can't think of anything more important than class balance within a party, if all you were looking at was character sheets before accounting for player personality and tactics. As well, there were baked-in assumptions about who did what that you couldn't escape in the GMing advice and adventures published at that point; e.g., there were bottlenecks in adventures where you had to have a thief use skills nobody else could learn, the ranger track because nobody else could, or the magic-user cast Read Magic.
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