I don't know if I could pitch that to my players (they;d find it too restrictive I think) but some combo of 1e, Osric and some of the Adventures dark and Deep Material would be a lot of fun.
As with my LL/S&W hybrid I'll use a background system instead of skills and my boon system when its done.
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Pitch it as OSRIC...they probably won't even notice unless they've read up on the subject.
ReplyDeleteHmm, good idea.
ReplyDeleteSlightly houseruled AD&D is pretty close to 2e minus proficiencies anyway. They might go for that.