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The rules of the game have evolved to push things that direction. If you buy the reprints of 1st edition and play them you’ll find that for the first several le
by ticviking 4y ago
The rules of the game have evolved to push things that direction. If you buy the reprints of 1st edition and play them you’ll find that for the first several levels characters are basically normal people, or a bit stronger fighting against overwhelming odds to seek glory and treasure.
The power fantasy comes as a reward for those early phases of the game where characters build their careers up in those editions.
- jpmoral 4y agoSure, that's fine if you want to tell a (nearly)zero-to-(overpowered)hero story. Which I did for some time (played a bit of 1e, 2e, and DMed a lot of 5e). But, genre aside, for any other kind of story you're better off finding something else. e.g. trying to do https://bullypulpitgames.com/games/grey-ranks/ https://bullypulpitgames.com/games/grey-ranks/ in any edition of D&D won't work well.