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Not that early punks were actually neo-nazis - the swastika was more of a fuck you anti-authoritarian thing.   Of course many punks went left - but that was also in many cases a fuck-you anti-authoritarian thing.

Moderating a rpg forum which bans people incessantly = not punk.  (But it shouldn't be surprising they're fake punks - they're also fake leftists).

But you can hardly blame the punk movement for having such energy that half a century later a bunch of hipster wannabees want to appropriate it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-MkRuV0aCcI

Quote from: amacris;1055585Thanks very much! We offer free PDF with a hardcopy purchase so hit me up if you want the digital book.

What about prior rpg net purchases @?

Quote from: amacris;1055492I appreciate the support. If anybody on TheRPGSite wants to purchase the physical books, email me at alex@autarch.co (it's .co, not .com) and I'll offer you a 15% discounted price, free PDF with each book, and free shipping in the US.  Fight on!

That's a great deal. Thank you very much!

Quote from: amacris;1055585Thanks very much! We offer free PDF with a hardcopy purchase so hit me up if you want the digital book.

Curses, foiled again! I was so amused by the shitstorm the game had caused I went straight to DriveThru and bought the pdfs just as a fuck off to the SJWs who seem to be trying to tell me what I can and can't play. Oh well...

Quote from: Derabar;1055860Curses, foiled again! I was so amused by the shitstorm the game had caused I went straight to DriveThru and bought the pdfs just as a fuck off to the SJWs who seem to be trying to tell me what I can and can't play. Oh well...

You still did good, anyhow.

Managed to find a games shop over here that has a copy of the core book so I've ordered it, and have backed Autarch's Patreon as well.

What are folks' opinions on Heroic Fantasy?

Quote from: Derabar;1056487Managed to find a games shop over here that has a copy of the core book so I've ordered it, and have backed Autarch's Patreon as well.

What are folks' opinions on Heroic Fantasy?

Awesome, with a free side order of awesomesauce.

Quote from: Derabar;1056487Managed to find a games shop over here that has a copy of the core book so I've ordered it, and have backed Autarch's Patreon as well.

What are folks' opinions on Heroic Fantasy?

It's pretty awesome. It's a bit more dense than I'd like, but nothing is bad in it, so it's worth the eyestrain.

Actually that's not fair; if ever I were going to run a middle-earth campaign, this would be a necessity. You could do the Silmarillion justice with the contents, it's really fantastically designed. You can have Tarzan fight Glaurung. I want you to picture that, and ask yourself why you wouldn't buy that book. What could possibly be more worth your money? Unless you're buying the antidote, you chose wrong

Quote from: Derabar;1056487Managed to find a games shop over here that has a copy of the core book so I've ordered it, and have backed Autarch's Patreon as well.

What are folks' opinions on Heroic Fantasy?

I loaded up on the ACKS pdfs during a conveniently timed Drivethru electronic sale.

I am not a big fan of level / class based games but I am liking what ACKS has done with the rules. The Heroic Fantasy Handbook looks to me to be well thought out and a worthwhile addition if you like the core rules and the style of fantasy it supports. I will definitely be getting hard copies of both the core book and Heroic Fantasy in the near future.

If you haven't bought ACKS yet, do it now!

We must spite the Neo-Bolshevik fuckwads at RPG.net

Commie Punks Fuck Off!

Again, it would be stupid to buy any game just because of its politics.

NOT buying a game because of the politics of the person who designed it can have some reason to it, but if we were to buy games we have no real interest in as an act of political support, that would be stupid.

Buy ACKS if you want a good OSR game that does what ACKS does, and you can buy it with a clear conscience knowing that the designer supports Free Speech and doesn't despise you.

Quote from: RPGPundit;1056816Again, it would be stupid to buy any game just because of its politics.

NOT buying a game because of the politics of the person who designed it can have some reason to it, but if we were to buy games we have no real interest in as an act of political support, that would be stupid.

Buy ACKS if you want a good OSR game that does what ACKS does, and you can buy it with a clear conscience knowing that the designer supports Free Speech and doesn't despise you.

Yes.  This

If you want to use your money to support a political cause then make some kind of political donation.  It might actually have some tiny impact.

If you want to use it to buy a game, then buy a game.

I have nothing against ACKS and I enjoy my Rules Cyclopedia, but OSR isn't my cup of tea right now.

I would be a sucker for any Savage Worlds supplement that focused on dungeon fantasy (and was still in print. My queue for campaigns is so long now even with two weekend groups that my purchase has to come with coffee table art)

I was actually a little annoyed that GURPS doesn't bundle the PDF with the physical book purchase. I may have actually used their store if they offered that instead of letting Amazon take a cut.

I don't get how anyone who likes D&D style fantasy could like savage worlds better than OSR games.

As for RC vs ACKS, I LOVE the RC, and would usually pick that over ACKS if those were my choices to run, but if it was a game that focused a lot on managing domains, I'd go with ACKS because in that particular element of the rules it's better (and note that the RC did the best job with domain management of any official D&D ruleset).

Quote from: RPGPundit;1057162I don't get how anyone who likes D&D style fantasy could like savage worlds better than OSR games.

As for RC vs ACKS, I LOVE the RC, and would usually pick that over ACKS if those were my choices to run, but if it was a game that focused a lot on managing domains, I'd go with ACKS because in that particular element of the rules it's better (and note that the RC did the best job with domain management of any official D&D ruleset).

Hit points (and classes). I do not feel that they add anything.

Savage Worlds wound system and exploding damage die makes every trap feel really dangerous even if you are really powerful. A level 26 fighter with 100 HP does not care about a 3d6 hidden spike trap, a Legendary Savage Worlds fighter with super powers and 30 toughness could die from a 3d6 hidden spike trap (it's not likely but the could keeps players worried). For D&D, if I take damage, I am finding a way to heal it. So most traps just consume a background resource or I am too low level to afford such things.

I also much prefer managing monsters without needing to keep track of HP, it makes my job as GM much easier.

But when it comes to Dungeon Fantasy, I prefer higher power / higher competence characters. Most OSR fans seem to stick to low levels. Which I much rather be playing/GMing novice Wild Cards through a dungeon than level 1 anything.

I do not have anything against managing resources, but HP has always been such a weird abstract "resource" that I am really happy to give it up. Not having it does make "Boss fights" hard to pull off, but for that I tend to just smash a bunch of Wild Cards together, call it one monster, and move on.