7th August 2004, 7:07 PM
... and I'm thinking of D&D. :)
Where a "+2" sword may be a sword like this: 1d8+4. Yup, +4 can be +2! How so? Because the "+" rating doesn't mean anything concrete except as a ranking for resistances. As in, certain very tough enemy types that can only be hit with magic weapons... I seem to recall one that had to be hit with +3 enchantments only. That guy was really tough because I didn't have too many of those...
Anyway, the rating doesn't translate directly to either the damage bonus or the THAC0 (D&D2) bonus, so that nice special magical swords can have damage and THAC0 bonuses above that. Like several weapons I've gotten. Which is actually a bad thing, because if that sword was a +4 and not a +2 it'd be a whole lot more useful against some monster types...
Where a "+2" sword may be a sword like this: 1d8+4. Yup, +4 can be +2! How so? Because the "+" rating doesn't mean anything concrete except as a ranking for resistances. As in, certain very tough enemy types that can only be hit with magic weapons... I seem to recall one that had to be hit with +3 enchantments only. That guy was really tough because I didn't have too many of those...
Anyway, the rating doesn't translate directly to either the damage bonus or the THAC0 (D&D2) bonus, so that nice special magical swords can have damage and THAC0 bonuses above that. Like several weapons I've gotten. Which is actually a bad thing, because if that sword was a +4 and not a +2 it'd be a whole lot more useful against some monster types...