Thanks a bunch!
So in terms of direct use ── it’s meant to not need anything else to hand (except spell lists for casting classes: I tend to use the little booklets from Lost Pages for mine). But in terms of indirect use, it’s purposefully lean because it assumes anyone buying an odnd derivative will have read (and likely played) at least one or two other versions of the same sort of system.
The only other major oversight within the booklet is that there’s no direct stats for monsters, which is somewhat intentional. I run a lot of horror games, and being a Brit I live in the long shadow of Warhammer, so around 80% of my monsters/NPCs are just Other People. Though if people wanted advice on specific monster books to go looking for, I’d recommend
Out of the Pit for Advanced Fighting Fantasy et al.
Monsters from Luke Gearing
I was reading Mosnters this morning and thinking that kind of ultra simple stat setup would work well with this. Good to know the creator agrees😄 I'll much more likely than not make all my own spells, monsters, and races/kindred/species/whatever and such for this, and add in some scifi elements. I love 0e and derived sytsem stuff, this included(infact this is already in my top 5 systems just reading this over a good few times and thinking about it), but I have very different assumptions of fantasy than most osr-ish people, even the artsy ones. I lean way, way, WAY more heavily on traditional pulp fantasy, scifantasy, weird fiction, 70's-80's animated fantasy films, heavy metal and darksynth music, Moorcock style dark fantasy, Warhammer(Fantasy and 40K), 19th-mid 20th century industrial age tech, eclectic/anachronistic tech usage, exagerrated fantasy versions of ideas I know from irl occult study, and very heavy sprinklings of furry fandom media. Worth noting others draw on these but for swtting inspo, idk, I feel I get somethimh else out of them than others do for setting ideas and emphasis.
Also how I'm interpreting the 6 in combat is that it's a brutal, critical strike, insta 0hp(ultra fragile but not dead as per rules) no matter how much hd or hp or whatever a pc or npc/monster has. If doing it Monsters& style stats, that knocks an hd off supernatural hd full stop.
