Mar 31, 2025
"Is Laios a paladin?" Buddy, that's a Fighting Man if I ever saw one. The guy is on the brink of inventing the shiny new THAC0 technology every time he's not thinking about monsters.
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"Is Laios a paladin?" Buddy, that's a Fighting Man if I ever saw one. The guy is on the brink of inventing the shiny new THAC0 technology every time he's not thinking about monsters.
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In defense of descending Armor Class (AD&D and 2nd)
This is the lowest point in my apologetics, but here we are.
Thankfully, the argument is simple:
20 big number. 0 small number. 10 medium number. HENCEFORTH, naive, when you use number a lot, it is better when number smaller.
Consider:
-8; 28.
Which number is easier to count on your fingers (assuming absolute value)? That's right, fucko. -8! Checkmate ascending AC liberals.
PS: I'm not arguing that ascending or descending is better or worse, however there is a legit use-case for descending AC.
PPS: THAC0 is actually a fantastic system for determining To-Hit values once you know how to use it, and it doesn't work with Ascending AC.
PPPS: I would be willing to make a "defense of charts" apologetics as well. Chart good cause "me do math for 3 hours now head tired."
Just need to see if my mom's opinion on THAC0 is as unpopular as I think
THAC0 opinion
I know what THAC0 was, and I miss it
I know what THAC0 was, and I'm glad it no longer exists
I know what THAC0 was, and have no real opinion on it
I don't know what THAC0 was/Results
Before TSR published a Dungeons & Dragons character sheet the fan community stepped in, with the first fan-created sheet appearing in Stephen Tihor's Haven Herald fanzine in May 1975 and Alarums & Excursions publishing Jack Harness's character sheet in July. Soon after Wee Warriors released the first commercially available D&D character sheets with the Character Archaic, which was distributed but not published by TSR. In 1977, TSR finally published its first character sheets. Important record keeping… on THAC0 Thursday!!
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Designer Makenzie De Armas discusses putting a little bit of herself into the game
Asteria is “a princess turned paladine”.
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THAC0 Thursday: THAC0
Time to explain THAC0! It’s quite simple, really.
First, what does it mean? THAC0 stands for “To Hit Armor Class Zero”, and it’s exactly that. What you need to roll to hit a target with an armor class of 0.
From this, you do a little math to find out what you need to hit a target with a different armor class. The equation is simple:
THAC0 - AC = x
So, if you have a THAC0 of 20, and they have an AC of 8, you need to roll a 12. This works for negative AC as well since you just subtract a negative, which is the same as adding its inverse, so if you have a THAC0 of 15 and they have an AC of -3, you need to roll 18 to hit.
That’s it! That’s all there is to THAC0! It’s not that complicated.
Thank you for reading! Hope you enjoyed!
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Host: "Do you think if you had to right now, like, you could explain to Murph, like this is how THAC0 works?" Matt Mercer: "I could but it'll destroy his love of D&D."
THAC0 seems to be the most reviled D&D mechanic of all time. Yes, THAC0 is a little bit clunky and its replacements are a little bit better, but I think there’s a deeper reason it’s so notorious. Roughly there are two clusters of DnD fans, theater kids and science club. THAC0 is science club coded and therefore THAC0 is evil and not just a rule that was improved.