Quote from: amacris;1047775Thank you for the kind words! That's a very apt description. We just finished up our "Heroic Fantasy" supplement that attempts to better emulate heroic fantasy fiction, and right now we have a new kickstarter going for a megadungeon called Secrets of the Nethercity. I'm offering a free sample of Area 10 for anyone who wants to try before they buy.

I'm glad this silliness occurred, because I didn't know about the KS. Just pledged and looking forward to it!

Any chance of you guys doing an off set printing of the core book?

A domain system that supports, not replaces, the system it's inside is what I'm looking for. I'm not actually overly interested in traditional OSR, but if ACKS has a solid domain system, I might just pick it up and take a look.

Quote from: Broken Twin;1047803A domain system that supports, not replaces, the system it's inside is what I'm looking for. I'm not actually overly interested in traditional OSR, but if ACKS has a solid domain system, I might just pick it up and take a look.

I've ran two relatively long campaigns with it so far; you're playing a very solid version of BECMI even when you're managing your empire. My players never stopped dungeon plundering, even when they had to sneak out and leave their crowns in the hands of scheming regents

My interest in ACKS was purely for the Domain rules.

Quote from: Warboss Squee;1047811My interest in ACKS was purely for the Domain rules.

Ditto.

Quote from: Azraele;1047795You know I picked it up with that exact same idea?

One day I was between campaigns and was just like "You know, let's roll up characters for a lark!"

It turns out that this act is like picking up the original Legend of Zelda for the NES: I always start playing like "Oh I've got a few minutes to kill" and then bang it's the next day and I'm balls-deep in Gannon's castle, fighting a flying eyeball so I can get the blue suit

I loath the system it's based on so this won't happen.

Quote from: Lurtch;1047802Any chance of you guys doing an off set printing of the core book?

Lurtch, there is such a book available me. It's hardcover, offset printing, stitched (not glued) binding, matte cover - it was our Second Printing / bestseller edition. I have inventory on hand - email me at orders@autarch.co.

ACKS has been on my short list for some time now.  I've avoided getting it so far, because I really didn't have time to incorporate domains into my 5E campaigns.  However, it's been slowly building, as that is where the players interest seems to have drifted.  This latest little TBP fiasco has moved ACKS up the list.  I think it will be on my Christmas list this year.

Quote from: HorusArisen;1047745I had the temerity to suggest they ban talk of politics not games in the gaming forum, a point I made in their TT thread, and a mod jumped on me like a member of some secret police force.

Up until recently, Boardgamegeek had a policy of punting all political discussion on game forums to the political forum. Worked well to keep BGG a reasonably healthy place focused on gaming.

Something changed in the last year or so, because the mods have pretty much abandoned that policy. The SJWs who want to stir up culture warz have been whining incessantly that not being able to 'discuss problematic issues' in the gaming forums is an endorsement of the toxic patriarchal culture of tabletop games. So the mods started allowing ideological crusades to stay in game forums. Now, they've gone further and essentially declared some POVs in these political debates as invalid and unwelcome.

In nutshell, bringing social justice culture wars to boardgame discussions is now not only welcome, but there's only one valid point of view in those discussions. It's so dismaying to see the takeover happening in real time. And as I noted in the other thread, BGG is a way, way more popular forum than RPGnet.

Quote from: kreegan;1047800I'm glad this silliness occurred, because I didn't know about the KS. Just pledged and looking forward to it!

That's awesome, thank you!

Quote from: Steven Mitchell;1047825ACKS has been on my short list for some time now.  I've avoided getting it so far, because I really didn't have time to incorporate domains into my 5E campaigns.  However, it's been slowly building, as that is where the players interest seems to have drifted.  This latest little TBP fiasco has moved ACKS up the list.  I think it will be on my Christmas list this year.

I hope you dig it when you do. Cheers!

Quote from: ShannonAI have at this point twice received emails from Alexander Macris, the designer of ACKS and the owner of Autarch, that I personally took as legal threats because of his status as a lawyer and the language he used, which included words like "defamation" and "reputational harm". The posts that Macris was responding to were made by RPGnet volunteers who were acting in their personal capacity as regular posters to this board; they offered their personal opinions on Macris' political allegiances primarily based on his association with Milo Yiannopoulos and used that to suggest that gamers shouldn't support Macris' roleplaying concerns.

First he's very careful not to call it a legal threat outright, only that he felt it was. Then he claims RPG.NET volunteers (ie, mods) do not represent RPG.NET. Well nobody can argue with the first, but the ship has definitely sailed on the latter, especially with the off site monitoring, and RPG.NET mods do represent RPG.NET in a legally actionable way. And if they don't, then nobody can claim that anyone is responsible for the actions of their followers either, which would also be a win.

Quote from: ShannonASo, what type of words are you allowed to use to discuss someone who took a professional position where he actively enabled someone who engages in that sort of behavior? Can you say that he shares in those same attitudes or not? What is fact, what is reasonable opinion, and what might actually meet the very, very high standard required for "defamation"?

Calling someone a Neo-Nazi in an attempt to cause financial harm.

Quote from: ShannonASo I'm asking the admins to add both ACKS and Autarch (and by extension Macris) to the forbidden topics list on this site...

Which is unnecessary as there's already a rule against attacking designers. The only reason it's being done is to cause financial harm.

Quote from: ShannonA...alongside the Westborough Church and whatever else is on there right now.

Which is an unnecessary addendum.

Quote from: amacris;1047740I stated the facts and asked for post to be removed.

Was it?

Also, would you be willing to share the emails you sent Shannon, or ask him to publicly share your discussion?

Quote from: Haffrung;1047828Up until recently, Boardgamegeek had a policy of punting all political discussion on game forums to the political forum. Worked well to keep BGG a reasonably healthy place focused on gaming.

Something changed in the last year or so, because the mods have pretty much abandoned that policy. The SJWs who want to stir up culture warz have been whining incessantly that not being able to 'discuss problematic issues' in the gaming forums is an endorsement of the toxic patriarchal culture of tabletop games. So the mods started allowing ideological crusades to stay in game forums. Now, they've gone further and essentially declared some POVs in these political debates as invalid and unwelcome.

This is the exact same process the SJWs used to take over EN World, and RPGnet before that. They do it every time. Once you give them an inch they will take everything and turn your website, magazine, corporation, charity etc into a cesspool.

Quote from: HorusArisen;1047817I loath the system it's based on so this won't happen.

I can respect that. Mostly because it's also how I felt before playing it XD

But seriously, there's a lot to love. Even taken alone, the domain management is great.