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maybe, but i'm sure you can see the simplicity of the attack bonus system...just beacuse people learned to use sliderules doesn't make them the best way to do things

Not sure about the whole "attack bonus system" as I haven't played in forever but I agree with you on the whole sliderule deal.

oph sorry...attack bonus...you wear armour and your dex bonus accrue to a positiv armour class, starting at a base of ten....say you had a +2 dex bonus and were wearing leather armour, granting another+2 for AC 14....all warriors get +1/level to hit, so he rolls a d20, ADDS his +1 and any other modifiers to try and hit HIGHER than the AC of 14

just all adding instead of going negative, etc.

oops gotta double-post...the thread is up in the RP board so...go there and stuff...

http://forums.eyesonff.com/showthrea...00#post2058500

wow, this thread went down fast.

That's because we've all moved to the making a game thread.

But don't let this one die--it's too good to be forgotten. It's neccessary for good ol' discussion of D&D and talking about things. If people need help understanding a rule, if they want an opinion for the story they're writing, if they're having trouble with other players--they can come here. It should be allowed to live. Don't ignore this thread, please.

i won't ignore it!

I probably will ignore it.

Hmmmm, I'll start a topic to liven the thread........

ah ha! What's one of the funniest things that's happend during a D&D session?

Well, being a lvl 1 rogue, and having the o so wise idea of speaking to a chain demon. And subsequently going out in the back, getting down to 1 hp, having my monk friend start getting creamed, and me just hiding. Then chain demon went on a spree to find me, while my monk friend went to the guards.

Bad thing was, the guards were inept. (checking a 12 foot book that had topics on 6 diffrent species before doing anything) And once they finally got to moving (and arriving 12 turns later) my monk friend tried speeding them up.

Which also led to slowing them down, as he hijacked a horse, and traveling so fast a horseshoe flew off and knocked out a guard.

How did we beat this horrible monstrosity? Well, he had walked into a quiet (and striking beautiful girl) that our wizrd frined (lvl 7) tried to immediately woo while we were getting killed. In the end, the lady morphed into a giant dragonlike harpy and killed the damn thing, while destroying the in where the fight was.

When me and my friends were playing real-life D&D, we decided it would be really cool if we took out sticks and started clobbering each other with them. Since I had a +5 strength bonus, I smashed my weapon right across my friends stomach and he fell on the lawn. I was prancing around telling him he owed me 5 dollars and he got up and punched me and then we started shoving each other down a hill and I lost too much HP and died.

half elf, fighter, great axe, power attack , Cleave , GreatCleave, WIN

Great Cleave and Whirlwind attack are generally regarded as suboptimal since if you can take down the mooks that easily, they're not really going to damage you anyway.

XD that's a good one N_R.

I've got one here. You all remember that twinked elf ranger I told you about? Well him and the ninja were fighting (again). This happened in a town in the Underdark, as we were talking to the head cleric (hot elf chick, so described by the DM) about the strange happenings going on in the town. (turns out everyone was controlled by puppeteers.) Anyway, the cleric tried to get the two to stop fighting but they wouldn't listen to her. So she wades into the fray, knocking the ninja to the ground and cast Command on the ranger. She then looked right into the rangers eyes and said: "Deficate." And right there, in the middle of the town, the uber I'm-sucha-badass-i-can-kill-anything-i-don't-need-any-help ranger wet his pants. To hide the fact that he did so, he jumped into the fountain. So now, he's throughly soaked. And he waddled away with what dignity he had left. (not much. We all laughed for about 10 minutes before we returned to the game.)