Fantasy poll

[BuddhaRhubarb]

I was playing in 1980 and I never played by that "rule"... never played in a game (that went on long enough) where there wasn't a high level elf wizard.

Um did you own the players handbooks?  Because it is not listed as an optional rule and it is all right there.

all rules are optional. :p

I played in many games where that particular rule was ignored. never heard any complaints, gameplay was smooth.

In exchange for lifting that rule, we always allowed humans to multiclass as desired.

ya I think we did that too. we tried different things to balance the games anyways. depended on the group what rules get bent/ignored.

[Savonarola]

Yes.  And they had ridiculously low level limits there as well.

Hobbits were capped at level 8, Elves at level 10, and Dwarves at level 12.

And they all used to have names for every levels too.  The most a halfling could ever become was a sherrif (like Roscoe P. Coltrane), but an elf could become a WIZARD LORD.

Wizards has an article with all the level names:

http://www.wizards.com/default.asp?x=dnd/4alum/20090206

Illusionists had the dumbest names (I am Siegfried, The Phantasmist.)

[BuddhaRhubarb]

I loved those names... helped with in Character boasting, and talking to NPCs... I'm the Famed Swashbuckler Gargamel! Beware my +1 short sword!

[saskganesh]

youtube has a number of official 4th edition D&D cartoons that make fun of the whole gnome thing. the gnome is in three of them. pretty good. start the with tiefling and gnome interview: "I'm a monster! rrrrwl" , then the demogorgan interview, then finally the mindflayer job interview.

I think the operative phrase goes like...

"Worthless without links."

no. you are just lazy.

[Razgovory]

I loved those names... helped with in Character boasting, and talking to NPCs... I'm the Famed Swashbuckler Gargamel! Beware my +1 short sword!

I loved those as well.  Like Footpad or Lama!