The Old School Renaissance Handbook profiles 16 old-school tabletop RPG systems, including their basic mechanics, character attributes, and advice for DMs and players. There's even a handy one-page table comparing all these systems on price and complexity.
Plus, the book stats out the same five first-level characters in all 16 systems. Compare systems easily, and quickly jump into a game with these pregens.
This book covers:
Adventurer Conqueror King System,
BareBones RPG,
Dungeon Crawl Classics,
Dungeon Raiders,
Dungeon Squad!,
Dungeon World,
Labyrinth Lord,
Lamentations of the Flame Princess,
Mazes & Minotaurs,
Microlite74,
Old School Hack,
OSRIC,
Searchers of the Unknown,
Stars Without Number,
Swords and Wizardry, and
Warrior, Rogue & Mage
This print version also includes interviews with Kirin Robinson of Old School Hack, Jason Morningstar of Dungeon Squad!, James Raggi III of Lamentations of the Flame Princess, and Michael Wolf of Warrior, Rogue & Mage.