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The original was posted on /r/osr by /u/SweatyGoku on 2025-06-27 18:43:56+00:00.

So I was going through B/X again and reading through as one does. I was thinking about the classes and I came to a certain thought. Does race as class truly exist? I mean, think about it. What is race as class?
I roll up a character and pick an elf or pick a dwarf? Or I can instead choose a fighter or cleric as a human? But thinking about it just a little I realized this really is no different from the original game. And that isn’t a race as class game. The races are just locked to certain classes, which is the same here. So when you play a dwarf, it’s not just a dwarf. But it’s a dwarf fighter, they are just limited to this profession. Elves are always a multiclass and such. It’s practically the same thing but worded slightly differently. I just wonder why some people get hung up on race as class when it’s virtually the same as white box when dwarves and halflings can only be fighters. How is my understanding of this? It seems like the same idea just worded ever so differently in order to speed up character creation.