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<blockquote data-quote="dnabre" data-source="post: 2399238" data-attributes="member: 30317">You can't make a reasonable comparison. How you map between the editions is going to make or break the fighters.A 1ed fighter is extremely gear dependent, while a 3ed will have much weaker gear, it'll likely be customized. You can't compare them fighting bare handed, because that'll mainly just compare the unarmed fighting rules between editions, not the fighters in general. You can't say, no artifacts for the 1ed fighter and be fair, because most 1ed fighters of that level would have artifacts (not to mention a keep and a sizable army).THAC0/AC and BAB/AC are completely different systems. How you bridge this gap will determine a great deal of how they compare. An 18th 1ed fighter isn't going to miss, no matter his opponent's AC under THAC0/AC, while a 3rd will quite often miss, especially with his later attacks. You run into similar things with seconds per round, HP, saving throws, and ability scores. Of course, how in the world do you handle things like AoO? It wouldn't be fair to the 3ed to just not have them, and non-sensical for the 1ed to deal with them.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="dnabre, post: 2399238, member: 30317"] You can't make a reasonable comparison. How you map between the editions is going to make or break the fighters. A 1ed fighter is extremely gear dependent, while a 3ed will have much weaker gear, it'll likely be customized. You can't compare them fighting bare handed, because that'll mainly just compare the unarmed fighting rules between editions, not the fighters in general. You can't say, no artifacts for the 1ed fighter and be fair, because most 1ed fighters of that level would have artifacts (not to mention a keep and a sizable army). THAC0/AC and BAB/AC are completely different systems. How you bridge this gap will determine a great deal of how they compare. An 18th 1ed fighter isn't going to miss, no matter his opponent's AC under THAC0/AC, while a 3rd will quite often miss, especially with his later attacks. You run into similar things with seconds per round, HP, saving throws, and ability scores. Of course, how in the world do you handle things like AoO? It wouldn't be fair to the 3ed to just not have them, and non-sensical for the 1ed to deal with them. [/QUOTE]

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