Black Sword Hack

[Heresiologist]

"BLACK SWORD HACK is a dark fantasy roleplaying game inspired by books such as Michael Moorcock's Stormbringer or Karl Edward Wagner's Kane series. It is a stand-alone game that uses the Black Hack 2nd edition as a foundation and adds a few tweaks."

Note that the Black Hack started out as a very stripped down version of early D&D, emphasizing simplicity and ease of play.

[Rothgo]

There are quite a lot of these "stripped down" systems about these days. Its quite interesting that after the "bugger rules - i just want a group story" vogue, we've come back round to "just give me a limited few options to choose from 90% of the time". Fashion eh? Which leads me to conclude that there isn't a "better" style of game: fashions just come and go and come back again. Doesn't stop there being better/worse implementations though!

[Heresiologist]

Whether you want a story game RPG, a more trad RPG, or some combination of both, there is certainly an embarrassment of RPG riches out there right now.