Where did you first see THAC0?

[Staffan]

What's with the thread necromancy?

 

[Hypersmurf]

1ed DMG for me, too - we preferred it to the to-hit charts. To this day, I have trouble taking anyone who describes THAC0 as "complicated" seriously. Compared to all those to-hit tables, or monsters who had AC by location with no system for hitting a particular location, or the original psionics appendix in the PH, or any of a dozen other weird rules quirks in 1ed... THAC0 was a model of simplicity.

My favourite 1E rules - even beating out Grappling and Pummeling - are the initiative rules.

Especially determining whether a spell or a weapon goes first.

-Hyp.