Would ACKS be a good fit to capture the BECMI-feel?

[J.Quondam]

For me, Jason Bulmahn (Paizo) sums up my feelings with:


Pretty much how I feel about all my hobbies. If you're as passionate about what I'm passionate about, then anything else about you is secondary. And it just so happens, from personal experience, this is also the best way to change other's beliefs to match your own.

I don't know what Buhlman is referring to in that quote, but imo, "gatekeeping TTRPGs" is slap-fighting about storygames and sandboxes; ascending and descending AC; or d20s and 2d6s and d10 pools.

That's not what this is. The people in question aim to gatekeep society itself.

While we are all being passionate about a mutual hobby, they support deleting real people for having the wrong citizenship or wrong religion, for loving the wrong people, reading the wrong books, wearing the wrong clothes, acknowledging the wrong history, studying the wrong topics, aspiring to the wrong dreams. And they are not just one or two misguided individuals whose minds might be changed with a little friendly engagement. No, sorry, but it's far beyond that now; they are an entire movement making massive wins all over the world at a perilous time in history. At this very moment they are disappearing people without due process, suing to force people to stop loving each other, banning books from libraries, wrecking social and governing institutions, disenfranchising entire populations, destabilizing businesses and the economy, and erasing rights of countless minorities, women, and marginalized groups.

This isn't "white room theory-crafting" about elf-games. It is real, it is now, and it is serious. So the absolute LEAST I can do is draw a red line through my precious hobby and say, "I will not do fun things with terrible people who are corrupting civilization." That's just a no-brainer, imo, especially in this hobby where there are so many other options by a huge diversity of legit good people.

 

[SteveC]

There are dozens of alternatives in terms of the BE part of BECMI, but I was thinking about it, and I'm not aware of options for the CMI parts. Pretty much the entire OSR movement is based around replacing the B/X editions of the game, but higher level stuff for domain play or master level play ... I honestly can't think of anything.

There is an obvious solution, though: get the real Rules Cyclopedia. You can get it both as a PDF and in print form.

I would find it interesting to hear if someone had a good alternative for the high end of play in BECMI rules.

 

[cbwjm]

I would find it interesting to hear if someone had a good alternative for the high end of play in BECMI rules.

I'd be interested if there is one, I'm not sure anything really exists out there for that bit, though there are other alternatives from other editions, none go into the detail of domain play like the RC or ACKS. I think ACKS might be a little too detail oriented for my tastes, moreso than the RC since they expanded on it.