Minimal Damage by Weapons or Spells

[Bill_in_IN]

Believe me. I get it. Sometimes, the house rules accummulate. Having played Classic TFT into the late-90s when the game had been out of print for ~15 years kind of pushed many of us into the situation of having lots of house rules. However, back then, I had to pause and ask myself, "Are we still playing TFT?"

Even with volumes of additional house rules that change what is written in ITL, sometimes drastically, it is still up to the GM and their players to judge if they are still playing TFT or a game strongly based upon it. My personal litmus test is the compatibility of PCs between games ran by GMs. Can you take characters at various levels of development from one game and place them into another AS IS without modification or exceptions? The closer a GM sticks with ITL RAW and the more PC affecting house rules that another GM employs, the less compatible the PCs from each game become.

This topic may be worthy of its own House Rules thread.