D&D General What term or rule really confused you, when you first started playing?

[Shair-afiyun]

Spell level, caster level, character level, and class level. Man I dunno why, for me, but thac0 felt easier to comprehend than the different kind of levels.

 

[Orius]

Dawizard, before I realized it was an editing error.

 

[Bolares]

Oh that's interesting. I know that WOTC is releasing the 5E rules in lots of different languages. I wonder if they'll change feet to meters or something? Or do they just change the text from english to spanish and everyone's stuck learning imperial units?

Yeah they will change back to metric... but the releases are taking A LONG TIME with 5e... Basically have the 3 main books and some adventures translated. Eberron for an example was never translated to portuguese (or at least brazillian portuguese) before.

 

[AdmundfortGeographer]

Dawizard, before I realized it was an editing error.

I remember that! It was throughout the book due to a find-replace goof. I love showing it to my friends who are editors.

 

[Cadence]

I think we originally thought we needed to roll low in B/X for saving throws. Not sure how we managed that, but I guess I was like 11.

 

[billd91]

It wasn't a question of terms that confounded me, the 6 repeated 20s on the attack tables made me go "Bwuh?"

 

[Fanaelialae]

The first time a friend of mine played a cleric, he encountered some goblins and said, "I want to turn undead."

I responded, "The goblins aren't undead."

He said, "I don't care. I want to turn undead."

To which I responded, "But there are no undead for you to turn!"

"Huh? What are you talking about. I just want to turn undead."

This went on for another minute or two before we figured out that he thought turn undead allowed the cleric to turn into an undead creature.

 

[RangerWickett]

I didn't understand how attacking and negative AC worked. I couldn't put the pieces of the puzzle together. Luckily I met a guy who knew how to play D&D.

What term or rule really confused you, when you first started playing?

I actually managed to reach negative AC in 3rd edition. Raging barbarian, 8 Dexterity, take a potion of enlarge person, and use the feat that let me apply my power attack penalty to AC instead of attack bonus, then charge. I think I got down to AC -3 at 5th level.

 

[Lakesidefantasy]

I used to pronounce chaotic like ciao.

 

[Seramus]

I used to pronounce chaotic like ciao.

Mage was "Maw-j!"