yeah i know in 3rd eddition it is, in older version wasn't always that way. Thief was next to impossible to lvl. So i m good a sneaking around, everyone else just runs up makes a ton of noise and blow and chance at my backstab.
this is what I like 3 and 3.5 rules SO MUCH BETTER. and I didn;t have to buy 20 books to play it
