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<blockquote data-quote="FormerlyHemlock" data-source="post: 7196508" data-attributes="member: 6787650">More and better stats than 5E gives you. If you meet an AD&amp;D troll, what time is it? Probably night, because that's when trolls come out. What is the troll doing? Probably looking for meat. Is he alone? Probably not.In AD&amp;D, you got help building the encounter, and you had to eyeball the difficulty to see if it came out right. If you want a tough fight, and 1-12 trolls seems like too great a range, you could just pick a number within that range, like 8 trolls, but you didn't have a formula to plug in to see whether 8 was the magic number. Now, a 5E DM might lament that lack at first, until that 5E DM realizes that in 5E you get zero help building the encounter and you still have to eyeball the difficulty because the 5E formulas are still basically worthless.Something + nothing (AD&amp;D) &gt; nothing + nothing (5E).And that is why AD&amp;D deserves to be called &quot;Advanced Dungeons and Dragons&quot;, and 5E does not.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="FormerlyHemlock, post: 7196508, member: 6787650"] More and better stats than 5E gives you. If you meet an AD&D troll, what time is it? Probably night, because that's when trolls come out. What is the troll doing? Probably looking for meat. Is he alone? Probably not. In AD&D, you got help building the encounter, and you had to eyeball the difficulty to see if it came out right. If you want a tough fight, and 1-12 trolls seems like too great a range, you could just pick a number within that range, like 8 trolls, but you didn't have a formula to plug in to see whether 8 was the magic number. Now, a 5E DM might lament that lack at first, until that 5E DM realizes that in 5E you get [I]zero[/I] help building the encounter and you [I]still[/I] have to eyeball the difficulty because the 5E formulas are still basically worthless. [B]Something + nothing[/B] (AD&D) [B]> nothing[/B] [B]+ nothing[/B] (5E). And that is why AD&D deserves to be called "[I]Advanced[/I] Dungeons and Dragons", and 5E does not. [/QUOTE]

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