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Wait. People have issues with ascending AC? Does not compute.

I think the first game I played with ascending AC (well, physical defense) was FASA's Earthdawn, and it was glorious.

So plus doesn't mean plus, but minus means minus! Perfectly clear!

Season 3 as I recall.

The problem was, the modifiers can get pretty impressive. Be Elf. +1 to hit with sword. +1 to hit with 17 Strength. Possible +2 to hit from Bladesong Fighting Style. +1 to hit from weapon specialization. Maybe +1 to hit from exceptional quality sword. Now add some magic. +1 sword, +3 vs...

That one I grokked. We saw this way back in the Netflix era- on the surface, Vanessa is classy and non-violent, but Wilson brings out her dark side, and once it's revealed, she revels in it. Which got her in big trouble back in the Netflix show, and now, with her being revealed as the one who...

Ok, the last thing I expected was for Matt to take a bullet for Wilson. Holy $hite.

I feel his pain.

On Thac0: something about the way my brain works constantly trips me up with descending AC. The PHB didn't do a very good job of teaching me it, and even now that I've learned the trick (subtract to-hit roll from Thac0 to get target AC) it still feels counter-intuitive. And it's not just me...

I just feel that ones you can get to rather quickly (like say, Druid spellcasting+Wild Shape) without strange, arcane readings of the rules should be the things pointed to as problems. Hearing someone say "Hulking Hurler + War Hulk +rules in a splatbook for improvised weapon damage breaks...

Wasn't calling you a hypocrite. If I was, I'd have said so, and probably gotten a well-deserved drubbing from a mod for it. In fact, I apologize for the post- you're correct, "possible" and "can be" are fine, it was just my reading of the sentence that made it sound like an absolute statement...

More to the point, the hydrogen thing was a reference to a comic strip. For amusement. My actual example was about the salinity of his world's oceans. And I didn't ridicule him for doing so- in his game world, maybe things work differently. That's fine. Except he didn't see how there would...

You forgot "in your opinion". Which is perfectly cromulent opinion to have, but not everyone feels the same.

Well there was that time they could have 18/00 Strength, does that count?

Every time the (topic I wish wouldn't be discussed) is brought up, it gives me great pain. A hypothetical exercise so ridiculous on it's face that it could never be a thing without a DM wishing it to be so, yet is upheld by many as a "weakness" in an entire rules set that such a thing could be...

Please let's not talk about that.

As I recall, the Gnome was removed because it's niche was questionable. What is a Gnome? They are short and live underground, but are not Dwarves or Halflings. They are an innately magical race with ties to nature, but are not Elves. Pushing them back to a later book allowed them to create...

In AD&D, Gnomes, which are only a little bigger than Halflings, do not have a Strength penalty. In 1e, their maximum Strength was 18/50. In 2e, it was 18/00. 1e Ogres didn't even have 18/00 Strength either Though in the Complete Book of Humanoids, a PC Ogre could have 20 Strength. Now, if...