Both are built on similar B/X designs. Realms of Crawling Chaos adds Lovecraftian Horrors to your B/X Gangbusters games. Both also support the same era of play, more or less, and have similar offerings in terms of playing normal humans. In fact, adding Realms of Crawling Chaos can add an edge to your "Educated" characters they might not normally have.
Of course, at this point, you might ask why not just play Call of Cthulhu or d20 Call of Cthulhu. The answer, of course, is to be able to play this as a B/X game.
Amazing Adventures
AA is a Pulp-era game based in and on the 1930s; so about a decade later. But there is still a lot in this game that would be helpful to the Gangbusters player or Judge. Not to belabor it, but the are equipment lists here that have different items that the GB Basic book. The Amazing Adventures classes also give the GB Judge some go ideas for playing Powered Characters.
Moving further afield we have Richard LeBlanc's Basic Psionics Handbook. While psionics have a "complicated" relationship to Fantasy games, they seem to work just fine in semi-modern ones. In particular, a psionic wild talent would fit well into a GB game. Let's not forget that the 1920s was also the time of Harry Houdini and his magic shows. In real life he was a debunker of claims of the supernatural, but who knows what he was doing in YOUR world.
This along with Realms of the Crawling Chaos gives you a Lovecraftian style game that is less "Call of Cthulhu" and more "Cast a Deadly Spell".
I want to try this with a hard-boiled private eye that used to be a boxer and has seen a little too much magic. I'll have to name him Robert Howard Lovecraft.
Moving even further out from Psionics we have another one from Goblinnoid Games, Starships & Spacemen. How does this one work? Glad you asked! One of my favorite Star Trek Episodes is "A Piece of the Action" where the crew of the Enterprise beam down to Sigma Iota II to investigate the crash of the Horizon from 100 years earlier. They discover that the Iotians, a very creative and intelligent humanoid race, have recreated Chicago from the 1920s based on the book "Chicago Mobs of the Twenties", which had been published in (their version of) 1992. The Iotians recreated their entire civilization based on this book. At the end of the episode, it is revealed that Dr. McCoy misplaced his communicator. Kirk and Spock state they will analyze the technology and that by the time they come back they could be the Federation.
There was an attempt to do a sequel to this by Michael Piller for TNG and some comics. For me though, it was a throw-away section in the FASA TNG Officer's Manual that when the Federation came back to Sigma Iota II that they found a fully functional Federation style Space Station waiting for them. Frankly, I would use that in a heartbeat for my own BlackStar games. Maybe even adopt Piller's idea that this was a Federation, with the morality of the Chicago gangs.
It sounds like a lot of fun really. I'd steal more ideas from FASA Trek for this too, including the interim uniforms they were using for the Enterprise-C era. I will have to come back to this.
There is a lot more you could do with Gangbusters and the vast library of Basic-era B/X compatible material out there.
I ran a Star Trek game using modified Basic Roleplaying for the engine (Star Trekthulhu) and set in the Original Series era. One of the players was an Iotian and we joked that he wore a red pinstripe uniform and had pearl handles on his phaser.
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