House Rules for Exceptions to The Rule of Fives

[Bill_in_IN]

Thus far, I have found only one exception to the Rule of Fives. Do any of you know of other exceptions or House Ruled in some exceptions?

Explosive Gems (ITL, page 27) are exempt from this rule. I haven't found anything else called out as exempt.

In our Classic TFT days, since we played it over a decade after it went out of print, we used this exception on items that were declared to be magical artifacts. That is, they were usually very old or ancient and created via magic/spells that were not known in Cidri, long forgotten, or made by beings much more powerful than normal PCs would ever be. I know that artifacts can take in a wider definition than that but an example would be a sword that flames 2d+2 extra damage as opposed to 1d+1 and is truly the only one known in existence. Such an item could be exempt from the Rule of Fives of if the GM designed and stated it as such. We played long enough to where there were a very small number of these kinds of items existed in the game. However, these items could also have had their own level of consciousness in that they could assert some control over the character wielding it. Of course, it had its own background story.