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<blockquote data-quote="Lanefan" data-source="post: 7617242" data-attributes="member: 29398">Is isn't.But I still never used THAC0, for two reasons - one philosophical and one practical.Philosophical reason: both as player and DM I want the combat matrix (or later, BAB) to be DM-side info rather than player-side.Practical reason: for me as DM it puts in an extra unnecessary step in figuring out whether an attack hits or not; that step in fact being that I have to start the calculation an entirely different way.&nbsp; The way I do it now the player gives me their roll after adjustments, I add the target's AC* and any other unknown-to-players factors* and if the result is 21+ it's a hit.&nbsp; If instead a player were to just tell me &quot;I hit AC 4&quot; I'd have to reverse-engineer how that number was arrived at (knowing that the player in theory doesn't know the combat matrix) and then do the same steps I already do.* - can be + or - numbers, or 0.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Lanefan, post: 7617242, member: 29398"] Is isn't. But I still never used THAC0, for two reasons - one philosophical and one practical. Philosophical reason: both as player and DM I want the combat matrix (or later, BAB) to be DM-side info rather than player-side. Practical reason: for me as DM it puts in an extra unnecessary step in figuring out whether an attack hits or not; that step in fact being that I have to start the calculation an entirely different way. The way I do it now the player gives me their roll after adjustments, I add the target's AC* and any other unknown-to-players factors* and if the result is 21+ it's a hit. If instead a player were to just tell me "I hit AC 4" I'd have to reverse-engineer how that number was arrived at (knowing that the player in theory doesn't know the combat matrix) and then do the same steps I already do. * - can be + or - numbers, or 0. [/QUOTE]

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