Kind of love this idea.

I mean, in combination with some gloracular, tier-two–truthy way to get monster stats (including number appearing) if using a system that uses monster stats.

I don’t remember why I disliked the underclock and I’ve never even heard of the overloaded dice but this fusion seems like it’d work great.

Li’l known fact: you don’t have to JOESKY tax if you’ve drank beer or otherwise can’t be arsed! As per last paragraph here.

So fight on, keyboard warriors!

Adam writes:

The system is as much a tool for building the world and as any hex description.

Gurbintroll has a new B/X out, “Light Fantasy”, what are your takes?

The Rules Cyclopedia is my second favorite RPG that we never ever get to use (well, we use the occasional rule from it) because it’s too close but yet so far to our normal, slightly more 5e-tilted edition mashup. During the OGL scare, the RC was one of the games I considered (not that it’s open source either, but OSE and DD are and they’re reasonably compatible).

I was reading some OSR fanzines with a ton of custom classes and monsters today and they’d probably be usable with RC too, with maybe just the XP curve changing.

I have the kinda blurry (but works just fine) PoD reprint of the US original. This Japanese edition is especially beautiful.