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When did mixing editions become unusual?
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<blockquote data-quote="Celebrim" data-source="post: 7529032" data-attributes="member: 4937"><p>In practice, the repeated 20's then 21's rule never came up in play anyway.</p><p></p><p>Monsters which had AC's which were in that range were rare and pretty much never came into play at a time when the PC's would have been forced to use those rules. Conversely, even if PC's managed to get AC's that would have forced monsters into that part of the table, monsters very rarely had any bonuses to hit (much less large ones) and as such questions about whether a modified D20 roll would need to be sufficiently above 20 to hit just were irrelevant. And likewise, if they were relevant then the DM likely wasn't selecting them as relevant foes to face the PCs because it was obvious such weak creatures couldn't threaten such potent PCs.</p><p></p><p>As such, most tables could simply ignore the existence of those rules as weird edge cases that never really came up in play and they'd be playing exactly the same game as the tables that very much knew about those rules and how they worked but never used them because they were weird edge cases that never really came up in play.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Celebrim, post: 7529032, member: 4937"] In practice, the repeated 20's then 21's rule never came up in play anyway. Monsters which had AC's which were in that range were rare and pretty much never came into play at a time when the PC's would have been forced to use those rules. Conversely, even if PC's managed to get AC's that would have forced monsters into that part of the table, monsters very rarely had any bonuses to hit (much less large ones) and as such questions about whether a modified D20 roll would need to be sufficiently above 20 to hit just were irrelevant. And likewise, if they were relevant then the DM likely wasn't selecting them as relevant foes to face the PCs because it was obvious such weak creatures couldn't threaten such potent PCs. As such, most tables could simply ignore the existence of those rules as weird edge cases that never really came up in play and they'd be playing exactly the same game as the tables that very much knew about those rules and how they worked but never used them because they were weird edge cases that never really came up in play. [/QUOTE]
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