Converting TFT to Fudge:
What is Fudge? Read the copyright holder’s Fudge Home Page for details on this open, freeware RPG.

As mentioned, the Backworlds campaign last ran under a house variant of the TFT rules and is now being switched to run under Fudge. Looking over the various flavours of Fudge out there, Five Point Fudge seems closest to TFT, so my plan is to translate existing characters to 5PF and start new ones in my adapted style of Fudge. Alternatively new PCs, especially for pickup games, may be created using Fudge On The Fly.

Capturing the flavour of TFT magic under Fudge has proven a bit trickier. 5PF’s magics draw on a Mana pool calculated from ST + Will and require the Mage gift to activate. Clerical magic has been replaced in the Backworlds campaign by Orb magic which, like any magical artifact, requires one mana point to activate.