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24 Jun, 4 tweets, 1 min read
Just saw a couple of posts reviling thac0 in old versions of D&D and I'm still saying "get over it"...
Originally in D&D you rolled a dice and looked at a chart to see if you hit. Fiddly. Then you rolled a dice and subtracted it from a number you had written down...
..then they changed it. From 3rd ed onwards you rolled a dice and added it to a number. Shock horror. Suddenly new gamers found the old system impenetrably complex...
...old gamers found the new system complex. Truth is they're mechanically identical. Get. Over. It.

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I was hoping to get away without posting a Covid stats update today. Well that isn't going to happen. Here's the overall picture (1)
I mean what can you say, as predicted deaths are now rising faster, such is the nature of exponential growth. And, likewise cases. Although todays cases are off the chart, way up (2)
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