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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Dessert Nomad" data-source="post: 7529188" data-attributes="member: 6976536">They're going to encounter monsters with AC1 or better or worse quite frequently!  This is not correct. The 1st level character needs a 20 to hit AC0 OR AC1 by the tables. If you take their THAC0 as 20 and use that in the calculation, you'll get that you need a 19 to hit AC1, 18 for AC2, and so on, even though the correct values are 20 to hit AC1, 19 for AC2, and so on. You hit the '6 20s' rule no matter what you do, because it affects AC0, which is the base of THAC0 calculations.That means you have to take the '6 20s' part of the table into account to get the right result, which means it does come up in play, and the the statement of yours that I disagreed with is that the '6 20s' part of the table doesn't come up in play. The easiest way is to treat it as though the character's THAC0 is 21 and calculate from there. It's not actually difficult to do at all, but you can't ignore the multiple 20s in the table and get the correct results.</blockquote>