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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Brother MacLaren" data-source="post: 3976241" data-attributes="member: 15999">My books are in moving boxes, but it was roughly +50% damage for Skilled, +100% for Expert, +150% for Master, and +200% for Grand Master.  For example, the normal sword (longsword in 1E) went from 1d8 to 1d12 to 2d8 for the first 3 tiers.  So 1d10 (base 2-handed sword) went to about 20, I think.  Each tier gave another +2 to hit, and some special abilities.There were also a couple of buffing spells (like the clerical spell Striking and the ever-overpowered Haste) in BECMI.  Haste DOUBLED your attacks (but not spellcasting), and you could stack Haste from two different sources (such as spell and potion) for quadruple-speed.  Furthermore, there were weapon enhancements that went up to +10 (e.g. Sword +5, +10 vs. dragons) and some ways to do double damage (Potion of Growth, or the Extra Damage power for an intelligent sword).  I don't recall if this doubled base damage or total damage.  Meanwhile, there were no ways to increase spell damage.2 attacks per round at 12th level if you could hit your opponent on a 2, 3 attacks per round at 24th, 4 attacks per round at 36th.  Fighters could very often hit on a 2, especially with the Weapon Mastery bonuses.  AC had a hard cap of -10 (equivalent to 30) for PCs and for everything except for the oldest of dragons IIRC.  Fighters could also use Smash -- take a -5 to hit and add Str score to damage.  Kind of like an early version of Power Attack.  I can't recall if you could use Smash with Multiple Attacks. Anything involving a save was very unlikely to work against tough opponents in BECMI.   A 9th-level spell from an 18-Int wizard was no harder to save against than a 1st-level spell from a 9-Int wizard.  I don't recall there being any no-save insta-kills other than the Power Word spells, which have their HP caps, or Death Spell and Cloudkill, which had HD caps.</blockquote>

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