I was calling it 5.2 (both as I feel it's too little changes to call it 5.5 & it also works as shortening of 2024) with Caludron of Everything & Monsters of the Multiverse being 5.1. But , this works and just confirms we're in the 5.x era with stuff like Nimble & Tales of the Valiant being in...
Vaults of Vaarn is a Knave Based werid science-fantasy (think 1970s acid trip ) system they crowd funded their second edition a few months ago . I backed it and am looking at the playtest drafts pdfs and while there's some elements of Knave it's got a life of its own that's unique enough that if...
This sounds like you want to do what current OSE (if you buy basic &advance or the upcoming revised release) is to the b/x & 1e, in that you'd end up with more of a thing that's a 1.x more than a straight 1e clone. Which hey I'd go for if you think there's a niche for it . The specific flavor...
The funniest thing is I'm mostly reminded of the situation regarding the Rebel Moon TTRPG that was suppose to come out before the director's cuts but was cancelled.