Re: Coming back to DnD

"Bruce Grubb" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
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> Why would a party HAVE to start at 1st level? :-)

They don't.

> GURPS parties can start at any point total the GM want.

D&D parties can start at any level the GM wants.  What is your point?

> Even with its improvements D&D still has problems which becomes obvious
> with the NPC classes.

Why don't you explain this "obviousness" for the class.  No so without non
sequiturs, if you can.

> I mean does there really need to be 'classes' like the Adept, Aristocrat,
> Commoner, Expert, or Warrior?

Yes.  They correspond to hedgemage NPC, noble NPC, generic scrub peasant
NPC, skilled NPC, and soldier/common fighter NPC.

> Also and more importantly is you want to have a sword
> and sorcery character from elsewhere running around how
> do import them?

I don't find that important in the least.  If I bothered, I would only
expect a rough approximation, if that.  D&D does not claim to be generic and
universal.

-- 
^v^v^Malachias Invictus^v^v^

It matters not how strait the gate,
How charged with punishment the scroll,
I am the Master of my fate:
I am the Captain of my soul.

from _Invictus_, by William Ernest Henley