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Message: <blockquote data-quote="UngeheuerLich" data-source="post: 8538305" data-attributes="member: 59057">For 3e, i guess we played it all wrong:I think originally, AC of monsters was not intended to scale as much as it effectively did. So I'd wager that originally the intend was that fighers do hit with their third and 4th attack and that above level hitting their first attack was more or less given.So a fighter leveling up beyond level 6 was actually useful. Same for skills by the way.But that was not how it was played, we all scaled AC so that fighters did not auto hit, the monk fell terribly behind and skills were either skilled fully or not at all.I guess we as players were not comfortable with auto hits (although fighters in ADnD already did...)3.5 came and splat books and somehow it was more or less codified that and it peaked in 4e when everything scaled the same.Long story short: leveling is important, if you don't scale opponents AC with levels, otherwise the fighter will never feel more powerful and if you scale skill DCs too, the rogue will never feel better at a given task.</blockquote>