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<blockquote data-quote="Jer" data-source="post: 8554558" data-attributes="member: 19857">Close - you get bounded accuracy on combat rolls here by the realization that you can decouple AC from level as well - I think this is where folks who think it's like AD&amp;D are getting that feeling (otherwise I agree with you that it doesn't resemble AD&amp;D at all - either 1e or 2e).&nbsp; So you have attacks that increase with &quot;level&quot; (i.e. proficiency bonus increases at roughly 1/4 level) but AC that remains uncoupled from level.AD&amp;D didn't escalate AC the way that 3e and 4e did for monsters or PCs (or I guess &quot;de-escalate&quot; technically since AC went down?).&nbsp; And in retrospect that's actually a good idea because you're already adding hit points to monsters and so if you do scale AC with level damage has to scale fairly precisely with level as well or you run into problems.&nbsp; 3e and 4e both had that math problem to work out, but 5e actually doesn't really because damage can scale only a little bit with level and since AC doesn't scale combat doesn't slog on the larger hp values.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Jer, post: 8554558, member: 19857"] Close - you get bounded accuracy on combat rolls here by the realization that you can decouple AC from level as well - I think this is where folks who think it's like AD&D are getting that feeling (otherwise I agree with you that it doesn't resemble AD&D at all - either 1e or 2e). So you have attacks that increase with "level" (i.e. proficiency bonus increases at roughly 1/4 level) but AC that remains uncoupled from level. AD&D didn't escalate AC the way that 3e and 4e did for monsters or PCs (or I guess "de-escalate" technically since AC went down?). And in retrospect that's actually a good idea because you're already adding hit points to monsters and so if you do scale AC with level damage has to scale fairly precisely with level as well or you run into problems. 3e and 4e both had that math problem to work out, but 5e actually doesn't really because damage can scale only a little bit with level and since AC doesn't scale combat doesn't slog on the larger hp values. [/QUOTE]

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