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<blockquote data-quote="pemerton" data-source="post: 7951290" data-attributes="member: 42582">This isn't true.In AD&amp;D, to hit rolls are resolved on d20. But the chance of a 1st level fighter defeating a storm giant in hand-to-hand combat are below 5%.In AD&amp;D, a 1st level human thief has an 85% chance to climb walls. This could be represented on a d20. According to the DMG (p 19), a check must be made very round - which means every 9' climbing a typical slightly slippery dungeon wall. The slight slipperiness also doubles the chance of slipping and falling, ie to 30%. If the wall the thief is trying to climb is more than 72 feet high, the chance of success is less than 5% - eg a little over 4% if the wall is no more than 81 feet high.That's another peculiarity of AD&amp;D that reduces its flexibility - some actions are resolved with a single die roll (eg opening a lock, searching for a secret door), others are resolved with multiple rolls (eg combat, climbing certain distances), others allow retries (eg forcing open ordinary doors; listening at doors) - with no apparent rhyme or reason.Whereas there are plenty of systems with unified resolution systems that also allow single roll or multiple roll resolution depending on what would suit the action, pacing etc - HeroWars/Quest, Prince Valiant, and to a significant extent Burning Wheel. Those systems are to my mind clearly more flexible.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="pemerton, post: 7951290, member: 42582"] This isn't true. In AD&D, to hit rolls are resolved on d20. But the chance of a 1st level fighter defeating a storm giant in hand-to-hand combat are below 5%. In AD&D, a 1st level human thief has an 85% chance to climb walls. This could be represented on a d20. According to the DMG (p 19), a check must be made very round - which means every 9' climbing a typical slightly slippery dungeon wall. The slight slipperiness also doubles the chance of slipping and falling, ie to 30%. If the wall the thief is trying to climb is more than 72 feet high, the chance of success is less than 5% - eg a little over 4% if the wall is no more than 81 feet high. That's another peculiarity of AD&D that reduces its flexibility - some actions are resolved with a single die roll (eg opening a lock, searching for a secret door), others are resolved with multiple rolls (eg combat, climbing certain distances), others allow retries (eg forcing open ordinary doors; listening at doors) - with no apparent rhyme or reason. Whereas there are plenty of systems with unified resolution systems that also allow single roll or multiple roll resolution depending on what would suit the action, pacing etc - HeroWars/Quest, Prince Valiant, and to a significant extent Burning Wheel. Those systems are to my mind clearly more flexible. [/QUOTE]

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