Saving Throes # 45 - Pages Through the Ages: 50 Years of Player's Handbook Classes

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This week is an examination at how each of edition of D&D has presented their base classes. While the iconic classes have largely been there from the start, the way they were presented is quite different from what we see today. While not an in-depth mechanical examination of these classes (I'll do something like that for each class in future episodes), this is an overview of how things have changed and progressed overall, and how it  has landed us where we are today with 5e. Every edition has had it's highs and lows, but you can see how they have each learned and been informed by what came before, and how in some cases they were impacted by the social climate of the time (the Satanic panic for instance!). Tune in this week to go down memory lane if it has been a while for you, or hear about how things used to be if you haven't had experience with the older editions before. 

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