For those that don't know, THAC0 means, "To-Hit Armor Class 0". I think everybody has figured out that back in the day, AC 10 was buck naked with no dexterity, AC -10 was use a Wish to hit it.
So for 5e, to-hit AC 0 would be roll anything but a crit fail, (1) and you hit it =)
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"Sooner or later, your Players are going to smash your railroad into a sandbox."
-Vedexent
"real life is a super high CR."
-OboeLauren
"............anybody got any potatoes? We could drop a potato in each hole an' see which ones get viciously mauled by horrible monsters?"
For those that don't know, THAC0 means, "To-Hit Armor Class 0". I think everybody has figured out that back in the day, AC 10 was buck naked with no dexterity, AC -10 was use a Wish to hit it.
So for 5e, to-hit AC 0 would be roll anything but a crit fail, (1) and you hit it =)
If I was running a game and something had an AC of 0 I wouldn't require a to hit roll, but thats me being me.
For those that don't know, THAC0 means, "To-Hit Armor Class 0". I think everybody has figured out that back in the day, AC 10 was buck naked with no dexterity, AC -10 was use a Wish to hit it.
So for 5e, to-hit AC 0 would be roll anything but a crit fail, (1) and you hit it =)
If I was running a game and something had an AC of 0 I wouldn't require a to hit roll, but thats me being me.
Back then, Armor Class was better (i.e. harder to hit) when it was lower. Which, actually, makes more sense, linguistically. "First Class" is always better than "Third Class", right? Hence, having an Armor of Class 1 (i.e. 1st class) is better than an Armor of Class 3 (i.e. 3rd class). Then again, "class 0" doesn't fit into that, nevermind negative class numbers.
Anyway, AC 0 wasn't "trivially easy to hit", as it would be in 5th Edition D&D. That would've been AC 10, which is what you had if you were naked and had average Dexterity (I can't remember whether low Dexterity gave penalties to AC). AC 0 was actually decent, roughly equivalent to AC 20 in 5th Edition (as in, "10 points better than no armor").
shhhhh...he might hear about the Wizards with crossbows...and combat effective cantrips =)
Or paladins that aren't lawful good.
Or multiclassed Ranger/Druids, which were mentioned as an option, but were literally impossible to build, due to Rangers needing to be Good-aligned, and Druids needing to be True Neutral. :D
For those that don't know, THAC0 means, "To-Hit Armor Class 0". I think everybody has figured out that back in the day, AC 10 was buck naked with no dexterity, AC -10 was use a Wish to hit it.
So for 5e, to-hit AC 0 would be roll anything but a crit fail, (1) and you hit it =)
"Sooner or later, your Players are going to smash your railroad into a sandbox."
-Vedexent
"real life is a super high CR."
-OboeLauren
"............anybody got any potatoes? We could drop a potato in each hole an' see which ones get viciously mauled by horrible monsters?"
-Ilyara Thundertale
If I was running a game and something had an AC of 0 I wouldn't require a to hit roll, but thats me being me.
You may want to sit down for this one...
Clerics can use swords now too.
"Not all those who wander are lost"
shhhhh...he might hear about the Wizards with crossbows...and combat effective cantrips =)
"Sooner or later, your Players are going to smash your railroad into a sandbox."
-Vedexent
"real life is a super high CR."
-OboeLauren
"............anybody got any potatoes? We could drop a potato in each hole an' see which ones get viciously mauled by horrible monsters?"
-Ilyara Thundertale
Back then, Armor Class was better (i.e. harder to hit) when it was lower. Which, actually, makes more sense, linguistically. "First Class" is always better than "Third Class", right? Hence, having an Armor of Class 1 (i.e. 1st class) is better than an Armor of Class 3 (i.e. 3rd class). Then again, "class 0" doesn't fit into that, nevermind negative class numbers.
Anyway, AC 0 wasn't "trivially easy to hit", as it would be in 5th Edition D&D. That would've been AC 10, which is what you had if you were naked and had average Dexterity (I can't remember whether low Dexterity gave penalties to AC). AC 0 was actually decent, roughly equivalent to AC 20 in 5th Edition (as in, "10 points better than no armor").
Or paladins that aren't lawful good.
Or multiclassed Ranger/Druids, which were mentioned as an option, but were literally impossible to build, due to Rangers needing to be Good-aligned, and Druids needing to be True Neutral. :D
The good news is that it's a damn sight easier to become a bard nowadays.
"Not all those who wander are lost"
back in 2nd edition which started coining THAC0 bard was a class but yes 1st edition bard was hard.