ITL Legacy: changes from original?

[Skarg]

Originally Posted by Steve Plambeck

Such an excellent summation Skarg! For as closely as I've been looking at all this and posting about these things the last few months, I couldn't possibly have pulled all that out of my hat on short notice. It's quite a formidable amount of changes when you see them all together!

Thanks. It's not all of them, either. Just the ones that came to mind that seemed might be of most interest.

Originally Posted by Steve Plambeck

This is the one that has me puzzled. I'd almost swear rolling 4 dice was hiding somewhere back in the older rules, although I haven't spotted where. My group played it as 4 dice, not -4 DX, during all the 80's and 90's. If we did that as a house rule I'd be surprised, because we put all our house rules in writing, I was the editor, I still have the manuscripts, and that just doesn't appear among them -- ergo it must have been canon.

If 4-die untalented attacks appear in original TFT rules, I think it must be in a later reprinting of original basic Melee or Wizard that I don't have. I'm pretty sure it's nowhere to be found in AM, AW, ITL, or the Steve-era printings of Melee or Wizard.