Tweet of the Day, My Self-Serving THAC0 Poll edition.

Somebody mentioned that they pronounced it THAY-co, and I was curious as to whether or not that was a regional thing.

8 thoughts on “Tweet of the Day, My Self-Serving THAC0 Poll edition.”

  1. I’m not sure I ever actually pronounced it. Most of my in-person D&D playing was 1st edition before that concept was invented, IIRC. I played some 2nd and 3rd edition, but those were online and in text, so it never came up.

    1. The first time I saw it was in the Dragonlance adventure modules. Those were published (over the course of a couple of years) at the tail end of first edition. But if you never read them, then you probably didn’t see it until the new edition was released.

  2. I grew up on 1st-ed, and it wasn’t until after I stopped playing AD&D that I ended up with later editions that included the term. Whenever I heard it pronounced, it was either “THAK-oh” or “Thwack-oh”, depending on how well the dice were rolling.

  3. I played before THAC0 was a thing. There was this table in the DM’s Guide with the attacker’s level on the x axis and the defender’s AC on the y axis, and you had to use that to figure out if the roll was good enough to hit and cause damage. Or maybe it was the other way around. That was a long time ago.

    1. Same here.
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      Worked well enough, programming a random number generator and table read into Apple ][ was possible .. but then, instead of arguing over loaded dice, we argued over tweaked random seeds.
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      Mew
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      p.s. admit it, you were happy to be able to hold up your translucent or clear dice and say “nope, not loaded”

    1. I deleted my account almost two years, and two mobile devices ago.
      So I was surprised to see that it had been resurrected, and that Google automatically signed me in.
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      Which I guess is one way to pad your “users” stats.

      1. Hmmm….
        My earworm is choosing to mishear lyrics.
        I’m alternating between Beck “I’m a user, baby. So why don’t you kill me?” And The Beatles “I’m a user, and I’m not what I appear to be.”

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