User:Proton/Revised old school

Saving Throws

Your DM will ask you to make a saving throw with a specific ability.

1. Roll the Die: To make a saving throw, roll a d20, add the relevant ability's modifier, and add your race's save bonus for your level (see tables below).
2. Apply Bonuses and Penalties: If a class feature, a spell, or some other effect gives you a bonus or penalty to this saving throw, apply it to your current total.
3. Announce the Total: Tell the DM the result of your saving throw.

When you make a saving throw, the effect you attempt to resist has a DC. Powerful effects have higher DCs, while weaker ones have lower DCs.

If you fail the saving throw, you suffer the full force of the effect you attempted to resist. A spell might deal its damage to you, you might fall into a pit that opens beneath you, or a poison might sap your vitality.

If you succeed on a saving throw, you either avoid the effect or suffer a diminished version of it. You might take cover and thus suffer only partial damage from a spell. As a pit opens, you might leap to solid ground. A poison might cause you to feel ill, but you are durable enough to shrug off some of its effects.

Sample save DCs:

• 11: Death ray, poison
• 12: Magic wand
• 14: Paralysis, turn to stone
• 15: Dragon breath, rods, staves, spells

Specific save modifiers:

• Fighters have +1 on Dexterity saves.
• Magic-users have −1 on Dexterity saves and +1 on Charisma saves.
• Halflings have −1 on Dexterity saves.

Human save

Level	Bonus
0	−2
1–2	+0
3–4	+1
5–6	+2
7–8	+3
9–10	+4
11–12	+5
13–14	+6
15–17	+7
18–20	+8
21–23	+9
24–27	+10
28–31	+11
32–36	+12

Dwarf save

Level	Bonus
1	+3
2	+4
3	+5
4	+6
5–6	+7
7	+8
8	+9
9	+10
10–12	+11

Elf save

Level	Bonus
1	+0
2	+1
3	+3
4	+4
5	+5
6	+6
7	+7
8	+8
9	+10
10	+11

Halfling save

Level	Bonus
1	+3
2	+4
3	+6
4	+7
5	+8
6	+9
7–8	+10

Attack Rolls

An attack roll uses a base attack bonus determined by your class and level. You can calculate your base attack bonus as follows (fractional results round down):

• (L − 1) × ²⁄₃: fighters, demi-humans.
• (L − 1) × ¹⁄₂: clerics, thieves.
• (L − 1) × ²⁄₅: magic-users.
• R + 3: experienced demi-humans, where R is the place of the attack rank in the alphabet (A, 1; B, 2; etc.).
• −1: Commoners.
• (HD − 1): Monsters up to 10 Hit Dice (Hit Dice with bonuses round up).
• (HD − 10) × ¹⁄₂ + 9: Monsters with 11 or more Hit Dice (Hit Dice with bonuses round up).