When looking at your version of the Man-to-Man table from Chainmail, why did you not decide to keep armor class consistent with either the descending or ascending system? Chainmail itself doesn't give them another armor system, so this decision seems to further complicate matters where it doesn't need to be?
Love the work you're doing though!
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thank you! and chainmail lists armor classes from 1 to 8 rather than from 9 to 2 (or from 10 to 17, which is extremely modern). descending armor class as it appears in D&D is a post-chainmail modification by gygax, seemingly because a system similar to target-20 may have been used in the game at some time prior to publication.
i thought it’d be more interesting to have the original values to encourage people to look at it as a distinct set of rules.