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<blockquote data-quote="Bacon Bits" data-source="post: 7612856" data-attributes="member: 6777737">I have a lot of nostalgia for 1e/2e AD&amp;D, basic D&amp;D and OD&amp;D. Out of all the rules, there's only one that keeps me from playing it ever again: Descending armor class. Everything else I can deal with. I'm never going to put up with the attack roll -- the most basic roll in the entire game -- being even slightly more complicated than it is in 3e+. I don't care if the DM is willing to completely handle the charts or run THAC0. It's not happening. It's not that I think it's difficult. It's not difficult. It's needlessly cumbersome. It's rolled sometimes upwards of a dozen times in a single combat round, and it's needlessly cumbersome! It's the single most severe design flaw of all 20th century RPGs. It touches every PC, NPC, and monster in the game. Hard pass.I'm not wasting my time recalculating all those ACs to ascending, either. The nostalgia is simply not worth the time.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Bacon Bits, post: 7612856, member: 6777737"] I have a lot of nostalgia for 1e/2e AD&D, basic D&D and OD&D. Out of all the rules, there's only one that keeps me from playing it ever again: Descending armor class. Everything else I can deal with. I'm never going to put up with the attack roll -- the most basic roll in the entire game -- being even slightly more complicated than it is in 3e+. I don't care if the DM is willing to completely handle the charts or run THAC0. It's not happening. It's not that I think it's difficult. It's not difficult. It's needlessly cumbersome. It's rolled sometimes upwards of a dozen times in a single combat round, and it's [I]needlessly cumbersome[/I]! It's the single most severe design flaw of all 20th century RPGs. It touches every PC, NPC, and monster in the game. Hard pass. I'm not wasting my time recalculating all those ACs to ascending, either. The nostalgia is simply not worth the time. [/QUOTE]

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