bb@lanl-a.UUCP (11/09/83)
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I'm afraid I am in favor of letting players have as wide a choice of
classes/races as possible, no matter what the authors of NPC classes
say in those articles. Some NPC classes do not lend themselves well
as character classes, the Death Master class described a couple of
months ago in the Dragon is one I would not allow a character to be.
I believe its up to the DM to decide what would be fun for his/her
group and if the DM wants to have a couple of duelists in a group
then that's the way it should be. People always bring the up the
issue of balance and that NPC classes are more powerful in general
than PC classes. Balance isn't nearly so important as having fun,
and if everyone has fun, what does it matter if the gnome fighter is
weaker than the acrobat-thief. I change the rules and specs of AD&D
whenever I think we will have more fun doing something differently
and while that approach isn't for everybody, I have had years of sucessful
play doing just that.
b2 ...ucbvax!lbl-csam!lanl-a!bb Bryan Bingham