Cursed idea (?): Complete D&D rules as man pages.

@malin Player rules -> 1, DM stuff -> 2, monsters -> 4.

But seriously, if one were to actually do that, I'd opt for a custom section.

@vidak I'll look into it when I get around to do my telnet VTT...

@malin If it's not an OSR SRD, I can use man page features from the 80s ;)

@mhd The troff -man macro package is really good for screen rendering. Getting your edition of choice into it is a Small Matter of Editing. Many retroclones are available in RTF already, these days more often people choose markdown, both easy to search/replace.

@malin I meant non-numeric sections becoming common.

@malin I assume that's when it started, as SysV had "1m" for admin commands.

These days, you get a lot of overlap in section 3, as it's not just C functions in there, and you can have a lot of overlap. So you get "3tcl", "3pm" etc.

@mdhughes man fireball has a certain appeal.

Now I do wonder what's the correct RPG for Amiga Guide...

@mhd Actually, now I think about it, there were a few hypertext AD&D manuals back in the day.

https://archive.org/details/hypercard_hypermacdm
and SSI's thing:
https://archive.org/details/trex_Dungeon_Master_Assistant#

But the DOS one I used under OS/2, I can't find offhand. It had all the text of PHB, DMG, MM, MM2 copied, and a big database you could search. All I was using it for was MM, in my hacked Palladium/OD&D games.