[New Release] Pyramid #3/50: Dungeon Fantasy II

[Rasputin]

Originally Posted by PK

Yes it did. In the first D&D boxed set, you could be a "fighter" or a "thief" as a human -- or "elf." Being a nonhuman was treated as a character class. It wasn't until AD&D that "races" and "classes" became different things.

Nope. It wasn't until the Holmes Basic in 1977 that Basic D&D had races (what I meant, PK had the right idea) as classes. The original 1974 wooden box did not have that. A common misconception.