I have been using Google+ quite a bit more recently and I ran across David Black's Whitehack & OD&D inspired The Black Hack. Within days I also discovered Luke Gearing's blog and his Dying in a Tomb rules, which are too brutal for me to describe here. Go check them out, they're great.
I had a chance to sit down and brainstorm. I loved both of these, so I decided to work out a way to marry them in a way that fit my play-style and in a way my players would appreciate. I came up with The Rat Hack.
Most of the heavy lifting was done by David Black's rules, with liberal amounts of actual OD&D descriptions, ideas from Luke's blog, and a few key rules gleaned from Arnold K (see the carousing table - that's all him).
I like it! Some elements are along the same lines of thinking I have been considering of late. Good work, nice and clean.
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