Somebody mentioned that they pronounced it THAY-co, and I was curious as to whether or not that was a regional thing.
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Somebody mentioned that they pronounced it THAY-co, and I was curious as to whether or not that was a regional thing.
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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.
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.
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.
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.
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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p.s. admit it, you were happy to be able to hold up your translucent or clear dice and say “nope, not loaded”
B. Replying to the poll itself requires submission to twitter so…. No.
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.
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.”