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Help me decide: ACKS or DCC

Started by Anglachel, August 01, 2012, 08:31:46 AM

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Silverlion

#15
August 01, 2012, 07:58:21 PM
I saw the DCC book in the store today. IT WAS HUGE. ALmost Talislanta 4E huge, but not quite 5E Fred Hero Huge.

Still, looks pretty for a black and white game.

I'd probably go with ACKS, but that's because it needs no extra weird dice.
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August 01, 2012, 08:14:58 PM
Goodman games should sort out a deal so you can buy all the weird dice needed for DCC alongside the book either on there site or in stores coz it's gonna be a pain finding those dice for alot of people(i found a site that sells dice but even that place only has a few of the dice DCC uses beyond the regulars).

ACKS i cant cmment on as ive yet to see a copy in a UK store so it pretty much doesnt exist at this point as far as i can see.

Go for either imo as both seem to deal with parts of the fantasy genre differnt enough from one another in unique ways....or just buy AD&D since WOTC just reprinted the books :)

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August 02, 2012, 04:45:13 PM
The main thing to note in this kind of decision is that ACKS is basically D&D, whereas DCC most definitely it not D&D; its something very closely related to D&D, but I think its sufficiently apart from the standards of D&D (to the extent that it doesn't even use the same Ability Scores), that this could make a big difference to the potential customer... in one direction or the other, depending if what he wants is a good D&D ruleset, or something that ISN'T actually a D&D ruleset but that a D&D player could expect to like.

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August 03, 2012, 08:23:18 AM
Quote from: Broken-Serenity;567412Goodman games should sort out a deal so you can buy all the weird dice needed for DCC alongside the book either on there site or in stores coz it's gonna be a pain finding those dice for alot of people(i found a site that sells dice but even that place only has a few of the dice DCC uses beyond the regulars).
I've talked to Joseph about this, and even have pushed for a boxed set version of DCC RPG. At this point it's not the direction he wants to go, but I'm hopeful that eventually we'll get something done.

Keep in mind that most of the dice can be easily simulated with regular polyhedral dice if you use a "control" die. We playtested DCC for weeks before I found any special dice and it played fine.
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