Game recommendation
I love the premise of Wolves Upon The Coast and am looking to run something very similar as a second group game, get to know more people in my area kind of thing. The problem is that I really do not like D&D style games or their mechanics and the "fruitful voids" of OSR/NSR design really grate on me as a GM. That leaves me in a bit of a quandary because new people generally ask for "D&D".
I was thinking of running GURPS Lite. throwing together some templates and random tables for character creation to make things more fun and easy on the players but it's a lot of work that I might be spending preparing a hexcrawl. It might be the only "sane" choice for me but I figured I'd ask if there was a more bespoke game which might fit the premise. Just for fun.
Now, I probably know 99% of the games that will be recommended (all the popular darlings and new hotness), including the person who's going to throw out Hillfolk, but I'm here to see if there's a 1% suggestion that might fit a gritty, diegetic, largely historical viking/northern European adventure circa 800AD in the same vein and simplicity as GURPS Lite.