HeyJaredAnnals of the North
Adventures in the Frozen North, legends of ages past, experiments in old-school RPGs
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Socially-Constrained Items (opens the original)
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The ACKS II Treasure Tome, p. 297, notes:Restrictions limit the full or partial use of an item’s powers to characters of a given race, class, or other characteristic. Restrictions can be intentionally applied by the item’s creator or simply inherent to the item’s form. In either case, restrictions have no effect on an item’s base cost or the difficulty of creating it.A typical example of such constraints might be the classic Dwarven Hurler, which functions as a simple Warhammer +2 normally, but
On PvP in Living ACKS (opens the original)
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One fairly fundamental issue we encounter in considering a Living ACKS game is the approach it will take to resolving conflicts between players. Many thousands of words have been spilt on the topic, in the shadowy corners of isolated Discord channels, and I think it is a legitimately hard problem for a number of reasons. I do not see a clear solution that satisfies all involved. I do think the conversation around it does at times retread well-developed ground, so laying out the framework of the
On a Living ACKS Campaign (opens the original)
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The ACKS Discord uniformly agrees that a “Living ACKS” campaign after the style of Living Greyhawk and similar endeavors would be fantastic. Naturally, per the conservation of goodwill, that means that no one can agree on anything about how it should actually be implemented. Even the root purposes that such a game might be constructed to serve have yet to be agreeably pinned down!To that end, I have compiled a list of reasonable goals, not in any priority order but in the hope of clarifying the
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