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Originally Posted by Jibartik
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OK, so you played a lot of D&D, but that doesn't mean that you can pretend that the rules dont say that the original DND was 3 classes, and because they added so many classes to the game with subsequent expansions, that with 2nd edition in 1989 they streamlined the game by making it 4 base classes.
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What "original D&D" are you talking about
: Chaimail? That was a different game, which was the precursor to D&D.
Then came a few tiny print runs of the original game, and then came Advanced Dungeons and Dragons 1st Edition (followed very shortly by Basic D&D; they kinda splintered the game in the early days).
But I have both the Basic D&D book and the AD&D books out in my garage: I assure you, they both have more than 3 classes.
Basic D&D had no
races: if you wanted to be a Dwarf, Elf, or Halfling, that was considered a
class in that system. But still, there were the same four core classes (Fighter/Thief/Wizard/Cleric), plus the three racial ones ... and then AD&D added even more (like Illusionist or Paladin).