Divinity

This is a retarded fight from those grumpy old men talking about THAC0 being "easy." Of course it is easy to you, you lived and breathed it for decades. So did I, but I remember there being a THAC0 chart in the 2e PHB because it was fucking complicated in that each class had a different THAC0 progression AND the fact that, in a game with almost universally applied rules to additive bonuses, armor and swords with positive bonuses made AC and THAC0 both go DOWN.

So when you are in combat that is getting complicated and you are a Druid that is was blessed by your cleric and using a +1 bow with +2 fire arrows attacking a half plate wearing evil fighter that is on a hill above you but the ground is muddy... the problem is that SOME of the bonuses are actually subtracted from numbers in the calculation. That is absolutely a worse system than AC going up, all bonuses being added, penalties being subtracted, and a single number to meet or beat falling out of the equation.

I think the first time I ever played d&d A2ndE was in eighth grade, and at first thaco seemed counterintuitive but it's not like it was difficult. I do think the newer third edition and beyond method for calculating armor class is superior.

I guess the first TTrpg I cut my teeth on was RIFTS back in I think sixth grade maybe, and if you want to get into complicated systems, that goddamn wonderful game held all the marbles. Mega damage versus SDC, percentile skill checks on everything, and we didn't even know what the hell we were really doing, but it was a lot of fun. I even had a D100 die that was a goddamn golf ball basically.

Ahhh, the good ole days.