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<blockquote data-quote="Lanefan" data-source="post: 7372002" data-attributes="member: 29398">Yes, in the experience point tables - and that's the only place it appears in any of the early stuff.&nbsp; It's not in any of the Monster Manuals, it's not in Unearthed Arcana, nor the PH, nor any modules (other than the UK series - see below) that I can think of.I think the UK series might have been unusual - or even unique - in this regard.&nbsp; I don't remember seeing THAC0 as a regular published thing until 2e.I'm starting to wonder if maybe THAC0 is a thing that (other than the one place in the DMG) originated as a common practice in the UK and only later worked its way over here.&nbsp; You're in the UK by the look of it and have used THAC0 all along; the UK-series modules used it but really nothing else did before 2e; and nobody I know ever used it here until 2e days (and I've never used it at all when DMing as I find it just gets in the way of the arithmetic I have to do anyway).Lan-&quot;and it seems there's hope for Mearls yet&quot;-efan</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Lanefan, post: 7372002, member: 29398"] Yes, in the experience point tables - and that's the only place it appears in any of the early stuff. It's not in any of the Monster Manuals, it's not in Unearthed Arcana, nor the PH, nor any modules (other than the UK series - see below) that I can think of. I think the UK series might have been unusual - or even unique - in this regard. I don't remember seeing THAC0 as a regular published thing until 2e. I'm starting to wonder if maybe THAC0 is a thing that (other than the one place in the DMG) originated as a common practice in the UK and only later worked its way over here. You're in the UK by the look of it and have used THAC0 all along; the UK-series modules used it but really nothing else did before 2e; and nobody I know ever used it here until 2e days (and I've never used it at all when DMing as I find it just gets in the way of the arithmetic I have to do anyway). Lan-"and it seems there's hope for Mearls yet"-efan [/QUOTE]

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