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[DarkPumpkin]

Originally Posted by JLV

I think the British RPG Dragon Warriors (published originally about the same time as TFT, and subsequently republished a few years ago by the original authors) did something of the same -- both armor and weapons stopped/inflicted variable amounts of damage...

Actually, Dragon Warriors didn't do that...you may be thinking of another game. In Dragon Warriors each weapon had fixed damage, and a die type to roll against armor type. For example, a sword did 4 points damage and rolled a d8 to "bypass armor", with armor ranging from 1 for leather up to 5 for plate. Rather odd but it worked well enough.