Before I forget - Adventurer Conqueror King is coming out with a second edition. The kickstarter is in the last 24 hours. Alex had been posting playtest versions of the rules and we've been using them in our bi-weekly Greyhawk game - he's created procedures for thief skills and dungeon crawling that we've found immediately useful in our Temple of Elemental Evil campaign, so I'm looking forward to reading the whole thing. ACKS takes the promise of the BECMI line - Basic Expert Companion Master Immortal - with tiers of play where players engage in domain building and conquest - and packs the main arc into a concise levels 1-14 like the original red box/blue box Basic-Expert rules. It captures those high level campaign elements in a way that no other clone game has embraced, while still being a fully realized dungeon crawler if that's the end-all be-all for your style.
The two games I'm running - Lamentations of the Flame Princess and Adventurer Conqueror King - come at old school gaming and D&D from radically different places. It's worth a discussion! I'll write about it this weekend as I'll have some time. In the meantime get over to the ACKS kickstarter before the clock runs out: ACKS 2 Kickstarter - Last 24 Hours
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