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<blockquote data-quote="Celebrim" data-source="post: 9355092" data-attributes="member: 4937">Both problems could be overcome but it required some upfront work.&nbsp; 1) Realizing that it would slow down combat, I made PC specific to hit tables factoring in their weapon, strength, specialization and so forth.&nbsp; Armed with that, it actually sped up combat, since half of a players turn tends to be them adding their modifiers repeatedly to their dice roll.&nbsp; 2) This was the hard one, because it required you figuring out the effective dexterity of every monster in the game.&nbsp; Sometimes the effective dexterity was given in the description.&nbsp; Sometimes the effective armor type was given in the description.&nbsp; Once you decided what part of the monster AC was &quot;dodge-y&quot; and what part was &quot;armor-y&quot; you could annotate that monster.&nbsp; That was a one-time cost per monster but it IMO made monsters more fun.&nbsp; Some monsters were easier to hit with short shorts and others with military picks.&nbsp; Incidentally, this concept shows up in 3e as &quot;touch AC&quot; and &quot;flat-footed AC&quot;.&nbsp; I think the biggest problem I actually ran into using the tables is that they made two-handed swords just two good.&nbsp; But they certainly made the one-handed weapons more interesting, as without the table &quot;longsword&quot; is just the king of weapons.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Celebrim, post: 9355092, member: 4937"] Both problems could be overcome but it required some upfront work. 1) Realizing that it would slow down combat, I made PC specific to hit tables factoring in their weapon, strength, specialization and so forth. Armed with that, it actually sped up combat, since half of a players turn tends to be them adding their modifiers repeatedly to their dice roll. 2) This was the hard one, because it required you figuring out the effective dexterity of every monster in the game. Sometimes the effective dexterity was given in the description. Sometimes the effective armor type was given in the description. Once you decided what part of the monster AC was "dodge-y" and what part was "armor-y" you could annotate that monster. That was a one-time cost per monster but it IMO made monsters more fun. Some monsters were easier to hit with short shorts and others with military picks. Incidentally, this concept shows up in 3e as "touch AC" and "flat-footed AC". I think the biggest problem I actually ran into using the tables is that they made two-handed swords just two good. But they certainly made the one-handed weapons more interesting, as without the table "longsword" is just the king of weapons. [/QUOTE]

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