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>>3851512
>3E's Fighter is pure shit
Actually, I found it much more difficult to balance the 3e 2-handed Power Attack than I ever did balancing Weapon Mastery and had to dogpile fighters much more heinously to offer party challenge

>>3852545
There's very little difference mathematically between THAC0 and hit bonuses it's just like I said flipped to where high-is-good both on AC numbers and to-hit rolls plus the bell curve for AC got flattened which is what you've noticed. It became easier for any melee character to achieve ACs of 20+ while it was only defensive-oriented characters who ever got sub-zero ACs in 2e. The THAC0 system had already flattened the curve from the to-hit tables found in 1e which combined with armor-type hit modifiers truly was too complicated.