I've never thought of Thief as a class. I've always considered thief as skills you could pick up. Dungeon explorers should be able to find traps (Ala Indiana Jones), try to disarm them, and attempt to pick locks. A fighter could learn them, a cleric could learn them, a mage could learn them, but that wouldn't make them thieves.
Very good read and a good walk through history and the design of early D&D. I’ve been listening to Conan via audiobook off and on and the parallels between his adventures and that of an early D&D Fighter/adventurer is not far off from one another.
I’d make the argument that I ought to sit and meditate on Conan more in my planning sessions for my campaigns.
This is great! I’m cooking an article that touches on a lot of these topics and will work as a rebuttal to some points but I highly doubt It’ll be half as good. I’ll publish it on The Adventurous Axolotl if a a certain magazine doesn’t pick it up first. Great read! Thank you for sharing.
I think there might be some truth to this. When Erik Mona and crew came in on 3rd edition, they name dropped a ton of S&S. Then when Paizo got going, before Pathfinder, they launched a series of S&S books.
I've never thought of Thief as a class. I've always considered thief as skills you could pick up. Dungeon explorers should be able to find traps (Ala Indiana Jones), try to disarm them, and attempt to pick locks. A fighter could learn them, a cleric could learn them, a mage could learn them, but that wouldn't make them thieves.
Very good read and a good walk through history and the design of early D&D. I’ve been listening to Conan via audiobook off and on and the parallels between his adventures and that of an early D&D Fighter/adventurer is not far off from one another.
I’d make the argument that I ought to sit and meditate on Conan more in my planning sessions for my campaigns.
This is great! I’m cooking an article that touches on a lot of these topics and will work as a rebuttal to some points but I highly doubt It’ll be half as good. I’ll publish it on The Adventurous Axolotl if a a certain magazine doesn’t pick it up first. Great read! Thank you for sharing.
I think there might be some truth to this. When Erik Mona and crew came in on 3rd edition, they name dropped a ton of S&S. Then when Paizo got going, before Pathfinder, they launched a series of S&S books.