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Message: <blockquote data-quote="tetrasodium" data-source="post: 9488933" data-attributes="member: 93670">This comes up s lot when speaking of the ills of thac0 but it's kind of a misrepresentation of how it worked in play. I think that it's critical to remember that at the table THAC0 was a two part thing  with one of those parts existing on the sheet.[ATTACH=full]383635[/ATTACH]<a href="https://live.staticflickr.com/6220/6270163399_cc697a8d56_b.jpg" target="_blank">-full sheet from google search.</a>While the math may be different in irrelevant ways, everything on that sheet side component is still on the sheet except that it's all over and needs to be assembled then calculated after each die roll.   I have trouble even imagining how a case could be made to support the idea of "I rolled xx so [<img class="smilie smilie--emoji" alt="👆" src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f446.png" title="Backhand index pointing up    :point_up_2:" data-shortname=":point_up_2:" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" />at xx and read the number yy above/below], does yy hit?" Is capable of being more "unwieldy" than "I rolled xx plus N from my weapon plus y from proficiency plus x from my attribute, does yy hit?".Both methods do similar math except one does it during the downtime of leveling up or whenever and already has the results ready to <img class="smilie smilie--emoji" alt="👆" src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f446.png" title="Backhand index pointing up    :point_up_2:" data-shortname=":point_up_2:" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" />after glancing at any die roll while the other saves a minute or two at level up and adds the time to assemble then calculate the relevant bits after every roll</blockquote>

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