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<blockquote data-quote="Andvari" data-source="post: 8887233" data-attributes="member: 7036523">The confirmation roll reduced the chance of critical hits compared to 5E. Death rules are similar to AD&amp;D 1E, as in you don't die until -10 HP.However, critical hits do not exist in AD&amp;D 1E. So in 1E, at low levels, even though HP counts are lower than in 3E, it's really unlikely you'll be reduced from positive HP to -10 in one hit.In 3E, particularly with weapons that dead x3 damage on a crit, that can happen fairly easily. As others have mentioned, creatures like the basic 1/2 CR orc with its great axe could potentially instagib any low-level character in one hit. I personally just switched out their weapons. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile&nbsp; &nbsp; :)"&nbsp; data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />In BECMI and 2E, you die at 0 HP, so those systems are quite deadly by RAW.So I'd say 3E is deadlier than 1E, but less deadly than BECMI and 2E.That being said, I don't recall actually playing BECMI without house-ruling in the -10 HP rules from AD&amp;D 1E.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Andvari, post: 8887233, member: 7036523"] The confirmation roll reduced the chance of critical hits compared to 5E. Death rules are similar to AD&D 1E, as in you don't die until -10 HP. However, critical hits do not exist in AD&D 1E. So in 1E, at low levels, even though HP counts are lower than in 3E, it's really unlikely you'll be reduced from positive HP to -10 in one hit. In 3E, particularly with weapons that dead x3 damage on a crit, that can happen fairly easily. As others have mentioned, creatures like the basic 1/2 CR orc with its great axe could potentially instagib any low-level character in one hit. I personally just switched out their weapons. :) In BECMI and 2E, you die at 0 HP, so those systems are quite deadly by RAW. So I'd say 3E is deadlier than 1E, but less deadly than BECMI and 2E. That being said, I don't recall actually playing BECMI without house-ruling in the -10 HP rules from AD&D 1E. [/QUOTE]

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