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<blockquote data-quote="Lanefan" data-source="post: 9231964" data-attributes="member: 29398">There was a perfect logic to how it worked (though I'm not sure if this is explained in the DMG and it took me decades to realize it): you took the effect and started reading across the save matrices from left to right until you hit the appropriate save.So, a wand of death.&nbsp; Paralyzation/poison/death is to the left of rods/wands, so you'd use the PPD matrix.The far-right one was a generic spells/magic (or similar), intended as a catch-all if no other matrix was more appropriate.Yes, it does require one to pay attention to the context.&nbsp; Are you talking about AC?&nbsp; Good, that +1 makes your AC lower.&nbsp; Oh, you're talking about saving throw bonus?&nbsp; In that case, the +1 makes your save rolls 1 point higher.I live in hope that most people are able to consider context.Even to the thickest of players I've only ever had to explain descending AC maybe twice.That said, lower-is-better appears often in our games so there's already a built-in reason to keep context in mind.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Lanefan, post: 9231964, member: 29398"] There was a perfect logic to how it worked (though I'm not sure if this is explained in the DMG and it took me decades to realize it): you took the effect and started reading across the save matrices from left to right until you hit the appropriate save. So, a wand of death. Paralyzation/poison/[B]death[/B] is to the left of rods/wands, so you'd use the PPD matrix. The far-right one was a generic spells/magic (or similar), intended as a catch-all if no other matrix was more appropriate. Yes, it does require one to pay attention to the context. Are you talking about AC? Good, that +1 makes your AC lower. Oh, you're talking about saving throw bonus? In that case, the +1 makes your save rolls 1 point higher. I live in hope that most people are able to consider context. Even to the thickest of players I've only ever had to explain descending AC maybe twice. That said, lower-is-better appears often in our games so there's already a built-in reason to keep context in mind. [/QUOTE]

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