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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Tarrasque Wrangler" data-source="post: 1743823" data-attributes="member: 7473">And that's as simple as 3.x how?  Now, my players say "I rolled a 23" or something, which they derived from ADDING a couple of numbers.  I look at the monster's stat block for its armor class.  If the number that the player said is the same or higher than the armor class number than I know he hit.  No subtraction necessary; part of the design philosophy of 3E was that people can execute addition equations in their head much faster than subtraction equations.  In defense of THACO: I never liked it, but it was so much more elegant than those stupid tables in 1E that I actually created a false memory in which that was how 1E had done it all along.  I'd actually excisedd those tables right out of my memory.  Then I picked up a 1E DMG a couple years ago and just started laughing...</blockquote>