Originally Posted by
Elyssian
I have no real reference to compare the attack mods. for third edition since i haven't played it in about ten years, but i do love 2E and thats the only system most of the people I play with know. (Plus our DM has been running an epic campaign thats taken us a few years to get to the halfway point, and he created this one pre 3E.) But back to THAC0 depending on the situation there is quite a few mods to consider, for starters depending on the weapon type you might use your DEX mod instead of STR, e.g. a bow or other missile attack would call for a Dex mod and almost all melee use Str as the mod. Plus as Max mentioned any individual weapon bonus has to be counted for. And you can't forget 2E has weapon proficiencies so you had a bonus to THAC0 if you could specialize and depending on your class your THAC0 got worse if you tried a weapon you didn't spend a proficiency slot on(Warriors had the smallest penalty). But like any system the longer you use it the the easier it gets to use, but as i said its been so long since i even looked at 3E that my memory of the mods and such are hazy at best...