D&D 5E 5E Survivor - 5th Edition Survives! [+]

[CleverNickName]

It's been nearly 120 posts since our last elimination, and AD&D 2E has really rallied! It's currently in the #1 slot with 30 points, and AD&D 1E is on the ropes with only 8 points remaining. My prediction of a "long and protracted battle over the next 200 posts" is still holding true, but it looks like 1E and 2E have swapped positions. I didn't expect that.

Sure, it's still too early to call...but interesting nonetheless.

 

[Argyle King]

4th Edition should use second wind.

 

[CleverNickName]

4th Edition should use second wind.

5th Edition still can!

 

[GreyLord]

Advanced Dungeons and Dragons, 1st Edition 9
BECMI Dungeons and Dragons 29
Advanced Dungeons and Dragons, 2nd Edition 30
Dungeons & Dragons, Rules Cyclopedia Edition 27
Dungeons & Dragons, 5th Edition 16

 

[MockingBird]

Advanced Dungeons and Dragons, 1st Edition 9 - 2 = 7
BECMI Dungeons and Dragons 29
Advanced Dungeons and Dragons, 2nd Edition 30
Dungeons & Dragons, Rules Cyclopedia Edition 27
Dungeons & Dragons, 5th Edition 16 + 1 = 17

 

[Charlaquin]

Advanced Dungeons and Dragons, 1st Edition 7
BECMI Dungeons and Dragons 29
Advanced Dungeons and Dragons, 2nd Edition 30 -2 = 28
Dungeons & Dragons, Rules Cyclopedia Edition 27
Dungeons & Dragons, 5th Edition 17 +1 = 18

Nice thing about 2e: as much flak as THAC0 gets, I actually think it was a brilliant innovation. Descending AC may be unintuitive for those of us who are used to WotC-era D&D, but THAC0 did a truly admirable job of taking the math behind the old AC tables and condensing them into a simple formula, that really isn’t difficult to use once you learn how.

 

[el-remmen]

Nice thing about 2e: as much flak as THAC0 gets, I actually think it was a brilliant innovation. Descending AC may be unintuitive for those of us who are used to WotC-era D&D, but THAC0 did a truly admirable job of taking the math behind the old AC tables and condensing them into a simple formula, that really isn’t difficult to use once you learn how.

At the risk of being called a THAC0 apologist, for those of us who found the attack matrixes of D&D and AD&D very clunky and slow and hard to for our eyes to follow, it was a godsend. I was glad 2E adopted it, but it was actually introduced in one of the late UK modules for 1E, explaining the math for it - so I was a REALLY early adopter of it.

Of course, ascending AC is even easier, but at the time THAC0 was a fix for a system that appeared unchangeable (for reasons I am no longer sure of except that habit has a habit of inventing reasons for itself).

 

[Geoff Thirlwell]

Advanced Dungeons and Dragons, 1st Edition 8
BECMI Dungeons and Dragons 29
Advanced Dungeons and Dragons, 2nd Edition 28
Dungeons & Dragons, Rules Cyclopedia Edition 27
Dungeons & Dragons, 5th Edition 16

 

[jasper]

Advanced Dungeons and Dragons, 1st Edition 8 - 2= 6 Don't know what happen but I cut the weakest.
BECMI Dungeons and Dragons 29
Advanced Dungeons and Dragons, 2nd Edition 28
Dungeons & Dragons, Rules Cyclopedia Edition 27
Dungeons & Dragons, 5th Edition 16 +1 = 17

 

[Henadic Theologian]

Advanced Dungeons and Dragons, 1st Edition 4 -2
BECMI Dungeons and Dragons 29
Advanced Dungeons and Dragons, 2nd Edition 30 +2
Dungeons & Dragons, Rules Cyclopedia Edition 27
Dungeons & Dragons, 5th Edition 17