Quote Originally Posted by Anonymouswizard View Post
It's swashbuckling heroes (actual swashbuckling if you take the right school), which is a genre that fits RPGs so perfectly I'm shocked D&D hasn't fully turned itself into it. I'm too young to have actually played 1e, but I understand it had the opposite issues of 2e (characters began barely competent outside of their specialty, whereas in 2e it's kind of hard to be bad at anything).

See, that's one of the reasons why I prefer 1st ed over 2nd -- you start off on the Hero's Journey and you learn as you go. 2e, I don't like it for the reason you just gave. Plus, if you have a more dominant person at the table, everyone uses their actions to support them (imo). Also, I didn't like some of the changes 2e made to Theah (though I did appreciate them adding a badass Poland equivalent). I couldn't adapt my favorite PCs to 2e and still enjoy them.