I don't know. This morning I saw a woman driving down the road with Ddy Mker on her car.I've been thinking about getting a custom license plate:
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5e already has THAC0. Everyone has the same value for it - it's 0 - so it's very easy to remember.
It front-loads the math. YMMV on if thatās worth the tradeoff of having the math itself being less intuitive.what would even be the benefit at this point?
Only if you use the full table with all of the "to hits" from 0 to 10 pre-calculated. Otherwise it just changes the math.It front-loads the math. YMMV on if thatās worth the tradeoff of having the math itself being less intuitive.
Huh? If you know your THAC0 and you know your targetās AC, you can just add or subtract to figure out the number you need to roll on the die.Only if you use the full table with all of the "to hits" from 0 to 10 pre-calculated. Otherwise it just changes the math.
(And you could create the full table at the bottom of the character sheet running from 10 to 20 and front-load the math that way instead.)
And if you know your to hit bonus with ascending AC you just add it to the die you rolled and see what AC you've hit. So I don't see where the math is front loaded with THAC0 in comparison.Huh? If you know your THAC0 and you know your targetās AC, you can just add or subtract to figure out the number you need to roll on the die.
Yep. IMO, I think it is easier and faster than ascending AC for this reason. All the math is pre-loaded, so when you roll to attack, there are no modifiers. You simply know immediately what AC you hit. Here's an example from the 1e character sheet. You write in what you need to hit the various ACs with each weapon. So if you normally need a 15 to hit AC 2, but have a +2 bonus with your longsword +2, you'd put 13 in at the "2" column, a 12 in the "3" column, etc.It front-loads the math. YMMV on if thatās worth the tradeoff of having the math itself being less intuitive.
Right, you do that after rolling the die and seeing the roll result.And if you know your to hit bonus with ascending AC you just add it to the die you rolled and see what AC you've hit.
You do the math first, before rolling the die.So I don't see where the math is front loaded with THAC0 in comparison.
OH - you mean "front loading" in the sense of "before the die roll instead of after". I was thinking of "front loading" meaning "before the combat happens at all" - as in during character creation.Right, you do that after rolling the die and seeing the roll result.
You do the math first, before rolling the die.
This is my experience at the time also.OH - you mean "front loading" in the sense of "before the die roll instead of after". I was thinking of "front loading" meaning "before the combat happens at all" - as in during character creation.
I guess I can kind of see that version of front loading being beneficial in that you only need to do it once if you do it that way. Except that's not how we ever used THAC0. Before we figured out how to use ascending AC (probably 10 years before 3e came out at least) we always subtracted our roll from our THAC0 to calculate what AC we hit and then told the DM (so the AC would stay secret until we figured it out by which rolls hit or missed). So we were doing the math after every roll with THAC0 anyway so no front loading there for us at least.