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Thanks - that's very helpful.

Wow - those threads were gold!

Still have a couple of questions, though:

1) Does strength provide a bonus to "to-hit" or to damage? I thought I read somewhere about Str-17 being added to damage.

2) Given that the AC determines "to-hit" (counter-intuitive!) and that (in BT1) the lower the AC the ...

Thanks for the replies.

I shall do as suggested and look at those other posts and return if I have questions!

Thanks again.

I'm currently developing a game that takes some inspiration from BT. It'll look and feel quite different, but the underlying mechanics will share a lot from BT and the list of monsters/items from BT is heavily influencing mine.

To that end, I'm trying to understand the mechanics of combat in term's ...