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[shaneplays]

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!!

#thac0 #thaco #thac0 thursday #thaco thursday #d&d #dnd #rpg #ttrpg #tsr

[youronlyoneofcl]

First canonical Openly Autistic character in Dungeons & Dragons

“Dungeons & Dragons introduces its first canonically autistic character”

‘Designer Makenzie De Armas discusses putting a little bit of herself into the game’

Asteria is “a princess turned paladine”.

‘De Armas herself is autistic, and was able to incorporate a lot of her own experiences into the character.’

#Asteria #TheBookOfManyThings #MakenzieDeArmas #DnD #DungeonsAndDragons #Autistic #OpenlyAutistic #ActuallyAutistic #Autism #AutismSpectrum #Gaming #Games #TTRPG #TableTop #RPG #THAC0

[randomtangle]

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!

#ad&d 2e #THAC0 Thursday #thac0 #randomtangle

[greenysnarl]

Art by: Nezart

(DA link below :) )

This Italian artist (Domenico Neziti) did a lot of funny drawings.

The "real" life of a role-player XD

That one is for old people like me! xD

(miss you, THAC0 💙)

#rpg #gdr #THAC0 #funny stuff #d&d #roleplay #dungeon master #dungeons and dragons

[3d34-2]

#thac0 #ad&d 2e #dungeons and dragons #d&d #advanced dungeons and dragons #ad&d 1e #d&d memes #ttrpg #ttrpg memes #old school renaissance #osr #ad&d #ttrpg community

[hiscursedness]

Dinosaur dungeon masters have a THAC0mizer

#dnd #ttrpg #adnd #advanced dungeons and dragons #ad&d 2e #d&d #ad&d #dungeons and dragons #thac0 #dinosaur #dinosaurs #puns #terrible puns #jokes #ttrpg pun

[xain-russell]

I just learned about THAC0 and I am so glad I started playing D&D after they tossed that in the garbage can. Decades of jokes about too much math in D&D suddenly make a lot more sense.

#D&D #THAC0

[eigwayne]

THAC0 For Dummies

Alrighty gentle readers, today we’re going to learn about THAC0! Because I’m still annoyed someone tried to talk about the history of D&D combat without even attempting to understand what it was. Is it an over-complicated method? Yes. Did anyone actually like it? No. But THAC0 was what we had at the time. And if you present yourself as an authority, you have to make an effort.

And I’m going to make it as low effort for YOU as I can. My qualifications? I started playing with 2e, played for some years, DMed on and off, and taught several people how to play, all in Second Edition. And I have a nice cheatsheet of reminders left from those days ^_~

What the Hack is THAC0?

“THAC0″ is short for “To Hit Armor Class Zero” and you usually say it “thacko”. It was how you calculated whether your attack hit the target in Second Edition D&D. You wanted both your Armor Class and THAC0 to be low in 2e, so AC 0 or below was the goal (yes, you could go below zero).

I found the easiest way to teach what THAC0 was is to call it “To Hack-o”, because that’s what it was usually used for: hacking at stuff.

Actually finding out your THAC0 was a chart. When you set up your character, you checked this bad boy, found your class and level, and noted the number (there was a second chart with a shorthand of the THAC0 progression and that was more confusing, so just use the one below). You calculated it during character creation but the chart wasn’t until several chapters later, so that was a pain in the butt, but the chart itself is fairly straightforward.

Some things could lower this (remember, lower is good!), and basically you calculated your base THAC0, applied any bonuses from Strength or magic weapons, etc., and there you were. You could encounter things to penalize or apply bonuses your THAC0 or opponents’ AC during play, but that’s beyond the scope of this article.

To actually hack-o, you rolled a d20, applied any bonuses if necessary, and subtracted that from your THAC0. The result was the AC you hit with that blow. If the target’s AC was equal or higher, you hit it, if it was lower, you didn’t. The DM would calculate that part, though, so players typically didn’t have to worry about it.

Examples:

example: d20 Roll is 10, no bonuses            A. THAC0 20 – 10 = hit AC 10            B. THAC0 17 – 10 = hit AC  7            C. THAC0 10 – 10 = hit AC  0            D. THAC0 5   – 10 = hit AC -5

If opponent’s AC is 8: A fails but the others succeed. If opponent’s AC is 3: C and D succeed, but A and B do not. If opponent’s AC is -3: D succeeds but A, B, and C do not.

example: THAC0 is 5           E. 5 –  2 = hit AC  3           F. 5 – 10 = hit AC -5           G. 5 – 18 = hit AC -13

If opponent’s AC is 3 or above: G, F, E all succeed. If opponent’s AC is -3: G and F both succeed, but E fails

In summary:

THAC0 = “To Hit Armor Class 0 (zero)” = To Hack-o = How Good You Hit Stuff

In Second Edition, you want LOW numbers for THAC0 and AC, and HIGH numbers for the attack roll.

To attack using THAC0:

THAC0 – d20 = lowest Armor Class you could hit, DM calculates the rest. (hit chance – attack roll = armor class hit)

If opponent’s AC is higher than above, you hit. If opponent’s AC is lower than above, you miss.

That’s it. THAC0 is not some inscrutable demonic equation. What makes it annoying and complicated is the language, and that you wanted THAC0 and AC to be low but the attack roll to be high, so you had to adjust your mental train partway through the calculation. The calculation itself? Is just subtraction.

#d&d #dnd #2e #THAC0 #(still mad about the THAC0 thing)

[patrizio-ag]

https://davventura.altervista.org/storia-di-dd-la-thac0/ Sul #ModuloB11#TheKingFestival (1989) la #Thac0 fa la sua comparsa con tanto di un #restyling completo della #schedapersonaggio, dove viene introdotta una “matrice per i tiri di combattimento“. In pratica, per avere sempre tutto sotto controllo, il giocatore poteva compilare le due righe della matrice (corpo a corpo e attacchi a distanza) con i corrispondenti valori numerici da ottenere con il #TiroperColpire da ottenere per ciascuna #ClasseArmatura. https://www.instagram.com/p/Ciz2h00okI-/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

#modulob11 #thekingfestival #thac0 #restyling #schedapersonaggio #tiropercolpire #classearmatura

[zerohitpoints]

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[shaneplays]

This THAC0 Thursday absolutely has to be dedicated to James M. Ward, whose recent passing surprised and saddened the RPG community. Among many accomplishments in the industry, James created Metamorphosis Alpha (the first published science fiction RPG) which was released from TSR in 1976. He wrote the game after urging Gary Gygax to make a sci-fi version of D&D, to which Gary replied "I don't have time, but why don't you do it?" Challenge accepted! He was also instrumental in the creation of Gamma World, which many think of as the planet-based Metamorphosis Alpha. James M. Ward: An RPG legend gone, an RPG legend remembered… on THAC0 Thursday!!

#james m ward #james ward #tsr #rpg #ttrpg #game designers #sci fi #science fiction #sci-fi #history #thac0 thursday #thaco thursday #thac0 #thaco #gamma world #metamorphosis alpha

[youronlyoneofcl]

Classic AD&D Champions of Krynn via Steam for Linux

^_^

#ADnD #ChampionsOfKrynn #Steam #Linux #YourOnlyOne #gameshogun #gaming #games #DnD #DungeonsAndDragons #THAC0

[storyteller4hire]

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[avinox]

I feel so bad for those who haven't played the original Baldur's Gate, they don't know that THE LORD OF MURDER SHALL PERISH, BUT IN HIS DOOM HE SHALL SPAWN A SCORE OF MORTAL PROGENY. CHAOS WILL BE SEWN FROM THEIR PASSAGE. SO SAYETH THE WISE ALAUNDO

#Baldur's Gate #Baldur's Gate 1 #baldur's gate 3 #bg3 #bg1 #I'm joking btw #go play it though. you won't ever know what THAC0 is but it's worth it

[eskawrites]

Raise Dead chapter 4 is out now at an AO3 page near you!

Steve sighs. “We’re actually going to do this, aren’t we?”

“I don’t…” Nancy rubs her eyes, pressing until she sees stars. “I don’t know what else to do. I think we’re setting ourselves up for disappointment, and the more we actually believe in this, the worse it’s going to hurt.”

“…there’s a but in there, isn’t there?”

“But.” She shakes her head and looks over at him again. “But if we don’t try, we’re going to wonder about it for the rest of our lives.”

#ronance #stranger things fic #raise dead #rdau #i FINALLY get to post the chapter with the dnd nonsense in it and i am LIVING #just no one ask me to explain thac0 in a fic and we'll be golden

[tempestinmysoul]

I have no real reason to believe this, but Fanboy runs a DnD game. Payback is a part of his games.

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I like to believe that Phoenix is also a part of this campaign, and that Rooster was for a while too. Bob is playing now, obvs.

(also Fanboy wasn't the DM at first, but now he's the forever DM so rip)

#top gun #top gun maverick #dungeons and dragons #top gun headcanons #top gun fanboy #top gun payback #top gun phoenix #top gun bob #top gun rooster #i love this film and the brainrot it gives me haha #fanboy is forever dm but he probs used to play smth niche like articifer #Payback is a fighter or barbarian #Phoenix-and i have no real reason for this- is a Paladin #Bob is a magic class probs wizard #Warlock obvs plays a warlock #he was the DM before Fanboy thanks #i have no idea what Rooster played maybe rogue #my sibling contributes: warlock gets cyclone to try it cyclone reveals oh he's been playing since THAC0 days #and he dms for his kids now tho #Rooster: and im a tradgic emo orphan #Hangman: isn't this supposed to be fantasy? #and thats why hangman isn't allowed to play #He's allowed after the mission tho #Hangman was a ranger but was like meh #and cr fanboys Bob and Fanboy was like hmm #what about gunslinger #so yea <3