ACKS is now a forbidden topic in TBP

DocJones · September 29, 2018, 11:05:14 PM

Quote from: estar;1057994Yes but it is overkill in OD&D, character don't have a lot of hit points. Having damage dice explode would dramatically increase the one shot kills.

Generally speaking Savage Worlds player characters effectively only have 20 hit points, since there are five four point stages from Shaken to 3 wounds to incapacitated.
However toughness absorbs damage which gives them more. So if you added exploding damage to OD&D, you'd have to add armor/toughness damage absorbing.

Omega · September 30, 2018, 03:06:57 AM

Quote from: Christopher Brady;1058329They sure do love their fascists, don't they the 'Ctrl-Left' as we call them here.

That is because they are the fascists. And its going about as well as it did for Poland and the rest of Europe for media. They use all the rhetoric and tactics.

Omega · September 30, 2018, 03:17:12 AM

Quote from: Chris24601;1058355I don't disagree from the SJW side, but the point that I am noticing with growing concern is the same sort of attitude coming from elements of the right.

I've seen instances where just having a female protagonist is enough to have a story labelled as "feminist propaganda" by certain right leaning individuals because, even though the female protagonist displays nothing but love and respect for all the men in her life, the protagonist solves their own problems instead of having a man do it (which is kinda the point of being the protagonist in every book on storytelling I've ever read) and had the gall to not look like an airbrushed cover girl at all times. The HATE for the SJWs has led them to see SJW plots behind every bush and accuse those who do not see it as they do of being SJW apologists.

This was sadly inevitable. The infestation of the SJW agenda into media has people so freaking sick of seeing it that even the stuff that is not comes under fire because people will suspect it as just another SJW ploy. Luckily though this does not happen too often. But this is the push back that had to eventually come.

Omega · September 30, 2018, 03:18:37 AM

Back on topic.

I hope the various hate groups freaked out at ACKS success despite their efforts.

Anon Adderlan · September 30, 2018, 03:26:43 AM

Quote from: rgalex;1058244Not that people will be surprised anymore, but TPB is back at it. Someone just got thread banned for saying that the OSR movement doesn't have a nazi problem after someone else claims it does and uses ACKS as the example.

Actually they used "The Game That Shall Not Be Discussed" as an example. Apparently only the word ACKS is forbidden.

Quote from: ponta1010;1058258To me the comment Baron Opal was objecting to was a group attack (essentially "All OSR players are Nazis").

Yes. It was.

Quote from: sureshot;1058324The sad part is none of those expressing outrage now ever gave a flying fuck about how racist etc D&D was until the last year or two most likely. Suddenly everything about their hobby was terrible, racist, misogynistic etc.

Yeah, weird that.

Quote from: Aglondir;1058336But those threads are not meant for discussion, they are meant to identify and ban posters who are "bad fits." They are purity purges that occur on almost predictable cycles.

Indeed.

Quote from: Chris24601;1058337his depiction of good vs. evil is heavily rooted in his views of pastoral commonfolk as the ideal for society vs. industrialization as a destructive force and that's something interesting to discuss.

This could easily be framed in reverse, with the pastoral commonfolk as the villains holding back progress and destroying the things they don't understand.

I know you know this, but I still think it's useful to point out that every human ethos, from Democracy and Communism, to Science and Religion, becomes inhuman at the extremes.

Quote from: KingCheops;1058378The thread where they started from the premise that Mind Flayers aren't pure evil just because eating sentient brains is their form of nourishment so isn't it wrong to kill them was the last time I bothered posting there IIRC.

Still other SJWs have written articles about how prejudice against sociopaths is ableist.

Is it any wonder their communities are full of them?

ponta1010 · September 30, 2018, 03:56:44 AM

Quote from: Anon Adderlan;1058402Is it any wonder their communities are full of them?

just for clarification sociopaths or Mind Flayers?

Omega · September 30, 2018, 04:11:03 AM

Quote from: ponta1010;1058408just for clarification sociopaths or Mind Flayers?

Why not sociopathic mindflayers?

Kiero · September 30, 2018, 06:11:54 AM

Back on topic, I really need to get myself organised and write up Mercenary, Liberator, Tyrant properly (it would be a historical conversion supplement). There's a poster on the ACKS forum called The Dark who was writing some naval rules which would make the perfect accompaniment to it.

Anon Adderlan · September 30, 2018, 09:53:05 AM

Quote from: ponta1010;1058408just for clarification sociopaths or Mind Flayers?

Yes.

amacris · September 30, 2018, 10:26:18 PM

Quote from: Kiero;1058416Back on topic, I really need to get myself organised and write up Mercenary, Liberator, Tyrant properly (it would be a historical conversion supplement). There's a poster on the ACKS forum called The Dark who was writing some naval rules which would make the perfect accompaniment to it.

He left the community for reasons but I have his draft rules and could possibly secure permission for their use.

Kiero · October 01, 2018, 04:51:35 AM

Quote from: amacris;1058477He left the community for reasons but I have his draft rules and could possibly secure permission for their use.

That's a damned shame, what he had as a WIP was close to being good enough to publish as a standalone supplement.

There's no hurry, but please do check if we have permission to use them in the future. They were quite brilliant.

ZeroSum · October 01, 2018, 04:57:12 PM

Quote from: amacris;1058477He left the community for reasons but I have his draft rules and could possibly secure permission for their use.

Glad I saved a copy before then.

RPGPundit · October 03, 2018, 06:43:36 AM

Again, why does anyone keep going to/using that site? It's not an RPG site anymore. It hasn't been for YEARS.

Imaginos · October 03, 2018, 01:10:21 PM

I primarily sell/trade games on there.

David Johansen · October 03, 2018, 01:56:35 PM

Access to the non-D&D marketplace mainly.