Quote from: amacris;1047938Your assessment of the situation mirrors my own. That said, the post was removed, yes, and further discussion blocked, so at this point I do not want to re-open the situation. Magnanimity and all that.

Well, except the further discussion where yesterday afternoon a mod said "The moral of the story is not to carry water for white supremacists and then repeatedly threaten to sue the board."

So, you know, discussion is banned except for mods and admins who get to keep pounding on the drum.

Quote from: rgalex;1047950Well, except the further discussion where yesterday afternoon a mod said "The moral of the story is not to carry water for white supremacists and then repeatedly threaten to sue the board."

So, you know, discussion is banned except for mods and admins who get to keep pounding on the drum.

I reported that post. As with other reports I've sent, it was neither addressed nor resolved

Hey Alex, any chance you could get an ACKS bundle going on Rpgnow?  I've been kicking myself for missing the bundle of holding a year ago, but would like to go "all in" on the system.

I actually have very little experience with B/X. I played a handful of games a million years ago, but the vast majority was AD&D / 2E.

Is the magic system in still a vancian style, x# of spells per day kind of thing?


I realize S&S was an influence on D&D, but standard D&D has a much greater amount of magic / funky critters than found in the typical S&S literature. The magic system with fireball throwing mages is typically where I find D&D most notably drifts from classic S&S.

Quote from: rgalex;1047950Well, except the further discussion where yesterday afternoon a mod said "The moral of the story is not to carry water for white supremacists and then repeatedly threaten to sue the board."

So, you know, discussion is banned except for mods and admins who get to keep pounding on the drum.

Typical of the mods there. That is the only site I've dealt with where mods are allowed to make snarky comments when moderating a post.

Quote from: Toadmaster;1047955I actually have very little experience with B/X. I played a handful of games a million years ago, but the vast majority was AD&D / 2E.

Is the magic system in still a vancian style, x# of spells per day kind of thing?

ACKS is bascially 90% B/X with the Domain system from Companion and some of the economic stuff (and skills) from the Gazetteers. The magic system uses spell slots, but not strictly Vancian since they don't need to be memorized, just known (for magic-users) or any from the list (clerics and such).

Quote from: Toadmaster;1047955I actually have very little experience with B/X. I played a handful of games a million years ago, but the vast majority was AD&D / 2E.

Is the magic system in still a vancian style, x# of spells per day kind of thing?


I realize S&S was an influence on D&D, but standard D&D has a much greater amount of magic / funky critters than found in the typical S&S literature. The magic system with fireball throwing mages is typically where I find D&D most notably drifts from classic S&S.

Toadmaster, that is *exactly* why I designed Heroic Fantasy Handbook. It has an entirely new system of magic (eldritch) with a method of casting spells (ceremonies) that is all inspired by swords & sorcery. You can use Heroic Fantasy Handbook with Labyrinth Lord, Swords & Wizardry, etc. fairly easily so you could just grab that book if that's your main interest.

Quote from: JeremyR;1047962ACKS is bascially 90% B/X with the Domain system from Companion and some of the economic stuff (and skills) from the Gazetteers. The magic system uses spell slots, but not strictly Vancian since they don't need to be memorized, just known (for magic-users) or any from the list (clerics and such).

I would say that was true of ACKS Core, but now that we've released Player's Companion, Domains at War, Lairs & Encounters, Axioms, and Heroic Fantasy Handbook it's grown into its own thing almost entirely.

Quote from: Dave;1047953Hey Alex, any chance you could get an ACKS bundle going on Rpgnow?  I've been kicking myself for missing the bundle of holding a year ago, but would like to go "all in" on the system.

I hadn't thought of doing so, but I will. Great idea. Thank you!

Quote from: amacris;1047968Toadmaster, that is *exactly* why I designed Heroic Fantasy Handbook. It has an entirely new system of magic (eldritch) with a method of casting spells (ceremonies) that is all inspired by swords & sorcery. You can use Heroic Fantasy Handbook with Labyrinth Lord, Swords & Wizardry, etc. fairly easily so you could just grab that book if that's your main interest.

Ok, I'll definitely be taking a look. Although not a huge fan of level / class I'm liking everything I'm hearing from you and others, and I do get into level / class moods at times. Sounds like a lot of systemless stuff to borrow for other games as well.

Quote from: Larsdangly;1047596But I am surprised to hear ACKS was written by someone who worked for Milo whats-his-face. What the hell is that all about? No wonder a slice of the roleplaying game community thinks the OSR is full of alt-right fuck wits. It only takes one or two prominent people like that to catch your attention.

And an ANTIFA/BLM leader was recently convicted of statutory rape, and has a juvenile history of sex crimes. Will TBP now ban anyone associated with them? Will all the lefty storygamers be banned? Of course not. Alt-right bad, ctrl-left good.

The problem is, as always, all the political and religious stuff - left, right, moderate or lunatic is irrelevant - being discussed at all. It's rare for anyone to call someone a cunt over rpgs, and if they do it's soon forgotten. The political and religious stuff poisons the discussion, or at least it does if Americans are involved (which they always are on english-speaking forums), it's horribly polarised and nasty. The moderating of it will always be partial - on TBP it's lefty, on bodybuilding.com (where I'm a minor mod) it's righty. Alt-right good, ctrl-left bad. On another strength training forum it was too small for much politics to happen, but they still had to make the off-topic subforum invisible to the public (like Tangency) and require a signin because so much of what was said was defamatory to the individuals discussed, and all so nasty. Off-Topic subforums poison forums as a whole and turn everyone stupid.

Quote from: rgalex;1047950Well, except the further discussion where yesterday afternoon a mod said "The moral of the story is not to carry water for white supremacists and then repeatedly threaten to sue the board."

So, you know, discussion is banned except for mods and admins who get to keep pounding on the drum.

I stupidly followed your link. Reminded why I banned myself and it looks like the boot licking has only grown, seems their banning any question of the mods has been effective.

I was :rolleyes:fond:rolleyes: of their "are we too biased and thus driving away existing and prospective users" thread a few years ago, where all the ideological hardliner regulars filed in to say their equivalents of "no" and "other ideological/people are [insert ideological term for the damnable]". After which the thread served as proof that they arent damagingly biased, and things proceeded as they had prior.

They've steadily been circle jerking themselves into clown world, as has been the case for their particular variety of ideology

I received my second perma-ban a few days ago. I feel cleansed.

Quote from: HorusArisen;1047919I'll agree to disagree on this, wasted way too much airtime on the system already.

You can do that, but you'll just be obviously uninformed of what you're talking about.  B/X is not a D20 system by any stretch of the imagination.