THAC0, twenty different charts, attributes being split into two different categories, percentile rolls. I love the system on some level, but you can apply rule zero to anything to claim it’s simple.
Yeah, that’s why the OSR exists, I think. I have a copy of Old School Essentials, which is basically just a rewritten 2E, but one of the first things they did was convert THAC0 to the system 5E uses, for everything.
Hey, I love the system for what it is. I think it’s better for fine-tuning a character sheet than 3.5, plus some settings in that era had post-nuclear devastation and canonically bisexual elves.
But I’m just calling it out on thinking grammar was the most mindracking thing.
THAC0, twenty different charts, attributes being split into two different categories, percentile rolls. I love the system on some level, but you can apply rule zero to anything to claim it’s simple.
Yeah, that’s why the OSR exists, I think. I have a copy of Old School Essentials, which is basically just a rewritten 2E, but one of the first things they did was convert THAC0 to the system 5E uses, for everything.
I agree that THAC0 and all the charts were awful but role-playing was still evolving out of wargaming, where that sort of thing is much more common.
Hey, I love the system for what it is. I think it’s better for fine-tuning a character sheet than 3.5, plus some settings in that era had post-nuclear devastation and canonically bisexual elves.
But I’m just calling it out on thinking grammar was the most mindracking thing.