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Jahydin replied to the thread RPG-style Board Games.I have an entire closet full of them. I've been fascinated/obsessed with them since I received my first copy of Heroquest as a kid. My... -
Boardgames are one of the secondary activities of my gaming group. We aim to meet weekly, and the #1 plan is to play an RPG. If the GM...
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Jahydin reacted to SableWyvern's post in the thread Would ACKS be a good fit to capture the BECMI-feel? with
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1. The default game setting is the periphery of a crumbling pseudo-Roman Empire, but anything you can do in B/X you can do in ACKS, plus... -
Jahydin reacted to Micah Sweet's post in the thread Would ACKS be a good fit to capture the BECMI-feel? with Like.
Eye of the beholder. IMO ACKS is one the best games out there that does what it does.
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Jahydin replied to the thread Would ACKS be a good fit to capture the BECMI-feel?.It absolutely can and has lots of optional rules you can use to make that happen. For instance, there are separate treasure tables for...
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Jahydin reacted to cbwjm's post in the thread Would ACKS be a good fit to capture the BECMI-feel? with Like.
Some of the things I like about ACKS, which can easily be imported into other games: Warriors gain a scaling damage bonus starting at...
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Jahydin reacted to SteveC's post in the thread Would ACKS be a good fit to capture the BECMI-feel? with Like.
I picked up the second edition due to some strong recommendations from friends who are very BECMI influenced, so I guess I'd agree. It...
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Jahydin reacted to TwoSix's post in the thread Would ACKS be a good fit to capture the BECMI-feel? with Like.
1) Yes, but not by default. The game does encourage hacking and has pretty detailed rules to do so, but it would take some work to...
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Jahydin replied to the thread Gary Gygax's The Hermit kickstarter is almost over!.From the bottom of my heart, I love the Trolls, but they absolutely are the worst when it comes to editing. I thought they were going...
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Jahydin reacted to DarkCrisis's post in the thread Gary Gygax's The Hermit kickstarter is almost over! with
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Shadowdark version is out. It's actually a fully printable book. Not just Conversion Notes for use with the core book. One of the... -
Jahydin reacted to darjr's post in the thread Gary Gygax's The Hermit kickstarter is almost over! with Like.
Troll Lord Games added a stretch goal to support Shadowdark for “The Hermit”, Gary Gygaxs last adventure...
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Yep. Early 50s here and lots of things are catching up. Eye glasses, sleep woes, and so on. I worry about cognitive decline both for...
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Interesting, in that by the time 2e came out we'd long since made many of these changes as houserules. We dropped xp-for-treasure (the...
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Makes sense. As Max and Sacrosanct illustrated, a fair number of DMs ruled more harshly, which strikes me as pretty brutal given how...
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Jahydin replied to the thread TSR Why would anyone want to play 1e?.One of the reasons I like OSR combat more. It's not really roll to "hit" as much as it's roll to "kill". Makes encounters a lot more...
