Oh thank God, anon, you're finally awake! We were going to have to start the new D&D campaign without you! Huh?

Oh thank God, anon, you're finally awake! We were going to have to start the new D&D campaign without you!

Huh? 5e? Anon, apparently you hit your head pretty hard. D&D is on its 9th edition now. Is your character going to be a Fighting Man, a Magic User, a Thief, or a Cleric? Oh, you can be a Paladin if you roll good enough, sure.

Don't forget to write down your THAC0 and save versus magic!

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  1. 2 years ago
    Anonymous
  2. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    There's an awful lot of >implying in your relatively short post, OP.

  3. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    You mean they don't use race as class anymore? Frick this. Put me back in the coma.

  4. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    >friend gets knocked unconscious
    >just leave them on the floor and continue playing dnd

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      Look man, we agreed to play on a certain day at a certain time. If you want to fall comatose during that time your shouldn't have agreed to it

  5. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    >Even in the perfect world you can't get away from your friends wanting to play d&d

  6. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    >THAC0

    What nightmare dystopia did I wake up to
    Put me back into the coma

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      I don't know why, but this post reminded me that during ad&d I think you didn't had an "official sheet" and a lot of the home-made ones had this table where you put how much you needed on the dice for each ac...it was really weird

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      I went back and red the 2ed handbooks just to gawk at weird rules like that, but wound up finding it overblown. These are easily understood by 12 year olds. Am I missing something?

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        My theory is over who is doing what...nowadays the standard is the player calls, rolls and the dm makes the math and gives the result, I remember that back in the day a lot of times the player called, the dm gave the ac, the player made the math and gave the result
        So for players they went from doing math to doing nothing so it seems like there was a great improvement

        • 2 years ago
          Anonymous

          Players should do the math

          • 2 years ago
            Anonymous

            The DM must do all the math.

            Why does nobody want to DM this game??

            • 2 years ago
              Anonymous

              I think third edition sole purpose was to crush any dm aspiration so that "specialty classes" were the only way of adding something new to the game

        • 2 years ago
          Anonymous

          Asking "which number bigger" is not "doing math"

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        It is just a weird roundabout way to go about it when you can just make it a simple addition which they did in 3e finally

        • 2 years ago
          Anonymous

          Thac0 is a better mechanic, but they present it wrong.
          The objectively correct method is
          Thac0 + roll + target’s AC >= 20 hits. That’s easier because it turns out brains add and compare faster than they subtract.

          • 2 years ago
            Anonymous

            why not just change it to
            >thac0 + roll >= AC hits
            and remove a pointless step
            yknow, like every wotc edition did?

  7. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    >9th edition
    >somehow a throwback
    >not registering your bank account directly to the corpto lease access to books on a per hour basis, then logging into your $40 a month D&DOne+Prime subscription app for your digital character sheet, & then putting your you VR headset to go to the low poly virtual table you play with. Your Dm & other players are randomly selected based on your linked Facebook & Twitter account. Everyone sends $20 to the GM who then allows you to start the game..

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      It's not a throwback, it's a world where D&D followed the edition pattern of most other RPGs (and Basic/AD&D/2e), with modest changes between editions, instead of being completely deranged and deleting every rule between editions and making up something completely different.

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        So what, a world where the Blume brothers never got their paws on TSR's Market shares?

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        Yeah, 4e was a fricking disaster for the industry.

        • 2 years ago
          Anonymous

          3e and 5e did the same thing.

          • 2 years ago
            Anonymous

            I went from 3e from 2e and barely even noticed a difference. I know 4e give people crippling brain damage which probably didn't help.

            • 2 years ago
              Anonymous

              It's completely incompatible. The conversion guide was 20+ pages and often came down to "go check the new book and copy whatever the new replacement mechanic is."

              • 2 years ago
                Anonymous

                Me and my group would just use straight up 2e material with barely any changes. Why are you being a lying b***h?

              • 2 years ago
                Anonymous

                Like, what, lore?

                Skills/nonweapon proficiencies don't work the same. AC doesn't work the same. Ability score bonuses don't work the same. Monster hit dice don't work the same. Saving throws don't work the same.

                I mean, I'm happy you found it easy, but when you look at a character sheet in 2e and one in 3e, they are different in a way that a Hero System 6e and Hero System 1e character sheet are not.

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        The OP was unclear. Doesnt matter tho

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