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Spoken as a man pushing 50...yeah.

Well, it certainly isn't for everybody. My group is getting the hang of it, but they forget about combat maneuvers too. It's too bad; I really like them personally. They grokked Supply, and Fatigue/Strife well enough, and they don't need Gateway (although I wouldn't begrudge them if they did)...

I've run into that problem myself more than once. Had a devil of a time teaching A5e to my group at first. And I still can't get them to play OSR games (though playstyle may be an issue there).

Interesting. The only ones of these I've played are GURPS and Savage Worlds, and neither was a pulp game. I guess I've never played pulp!

The psyknight from A5e's Voidrunner's Codex would be a good comparison class. They're both trying to model the same thing essentially.

What kind if classes are you looking to convert, and what do they offer that existing A5e classes do not? I think that would be a good first step (though everyone else's advice on how to do the actual conversion if sound too).

Man, I woul Man, I would play either version of Hackmaster (I have both) if I could. Too many games, not enough players who like old school playstyles.

ACKS II is my go-to OSR game. There's little to nothing you can't do in a fantasy RPG with it.

Well it is appreciated. It also helps that we're not talking about WotC D&D (it angries up the blood)!

I usually go by genre, then by company, with the boxed sets mostly separate due to shelf height.

This is amazing! Now I have something to show my wife when she says I have more gaming books than anybody. So beautiful.

I wouldn't say no...

Ravenloft was always one of my favorite settings.

Ok, I didn't know that's how TORG works; like I said, never played it. If those are the laws of the setting, then IMO the mechanics are simulation and get a pass.

Yeah, I always thought vegepygmies were sapient creatures, so I would be tempted to veto them as a wildshape by that principle. And I have no problem houseruling that size Small creatures can't use heavy shields, just like they can't use heavy weapons in my game.

Never played TORG. That much narrative mechanical weight seems a little off-putting to me, though I'm sure others like it.

Well, no way a vegepygmie is using a heavy shield.

Pendragon is a good one, and definitely falls into my exception category for genre-appropriate play (although I appreciate all the representational mechanics it has as well).

Can you give some examples? I haven't played games like that in a while.

Are we assuming the druid is Wildshaping into a gorilla, or something else with hands? Because otherwise, how are you wielding that shield?