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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Luce" data-source="post: 6127973" data-attributes="member: 29760">I bring that example up because I feel that feel that some people forget that difference exist. A lot of crunch carried over between those two subsequent editions, but the numerical statistics does not mean the same things.Even starting with Char-gen, 3d6 and 4d6 drop lowest may both result in 3-18 range but the latter results in higher average. So the old 14 is the new 16. Or spells, for instance Fireball may no longer explode to fill available space, but does the same damage progression. However, doing 35 points at 10th level is one thing when the enemy has 80 HP (2e average Old blue dragon  (18HD)) and different impact vs 182 hp enemy (3e young adult blue dragon CR 10).In 2e the spell casters power is limited by lower number of spells available combined with the ease of disruption- any hit (or even the act of dodging according to one Dragon article) means that the spell is lost. [drg 173:  “[...] foes can  disrupt spellcasting by throwing almost anything at the caster: small  sacks or pouches with flour in them, light (nondamaging) pebbles, even  mud pies. The act of dodging a blow, which occurs if a spell-caster  wants to apply his armor class bonus from dexterity to prevent his being  struck, negates his spell-casting.”]. In other words, while the two editions share a lot in terms of the theme, mood and fluff the way the game handles at the table (even just using the core 3) is not exact one-to-one map. Finally, I disagree that the given situation is a speed bump especially since the lich is more likely to have the jump on the party then the other way around and that he had 30 mummies and two score of skeletons plus a high level anti-paladin to act as his protective wall. Winnable?- defiantly. Easy? not so much.</blockquote>

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