u/AlwaysBeQuestioning

I’m playing in a place where dice other than d6s are prohibitively expensive, so I want to try find more systems that only use d6s. I know plenty of trad games (Free League’s stuff, Shadowrun), narrative games (PbtA stuff, FATE) and one-pagers (Honey Heist, Lasers and Feelings) that use d6s, but I don’t know any OSR games that do.

I'm playing with players in a country where dice sets are hard to acquire. d6s are common. We like degrees of success. The majority of the players have dyscalculia, so they have a lot of trouble adding numbers together, but comparing something to a quick metric (like Call of Cthulhu's "roll and compare result to your stat") is easy.

We'd like to find RPGs that would very well suit this group for a short campaign or two.

I'm looking for RPGs where class and resulting abilities largely are centered around the use of a specific weapon or type of weapon. In Western RPGs, a class usually can use a variety of weapons, but I know that in some MMORPGs and JRPGs and some other types of RPGs, a character equipping a specific type of weapon will get their class and abilities determined by that type of weapon.

What recommendations do you all have for me?

I am a veteran of RPGs across all forms of media, and I have access to a good PC, a PS4, PS3, PS2, Nintendo Switch 1, GameCube and SNES.

I like giving my players direct access to books I use as a GM, but most books have game rules and math in them. I want to hand them books from my shelf that look like books their characters could gain access to, especially in pre-modern settings (historical, fantasy or retro-futuristic sci-fi).

Books of settings, spells, martial arts, monsters, mushrooms, food, cooking, drinks, architecture, culture, nature, etc.