Adventurer Conqueror King System: an Old School D&D Campaign
Delve into dungeons as an Adventurer to gain the power to raise an army worthy of becoming a Conqueror, and carve your place in history as a King.
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$20.00
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Weekly / Monday - 12:00 AM UTC
Session Duration / 4–5 hours
1 / 6 Seats Filled
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About the adventure
The Adventurer Conqueror King System (ACKS) offers players a chance to go from lowly adventurers to great kings, if they can survive... Based on the principles of Old School D&D, ACKS won't give you balanced level-appropriate fights you are meant to win, but will challenge you with a sandbox filled with opportunities and dangers to overcome with your wit and some luck: Negotiate with monsters... Use surprise to your advantage... Make your enemies fight each other... Explore with care to avoid traps... Use the dungeon traps to your advantage... Create traps of your own... Run away to fight another day!! Make plans and play smart. Survive and get treasure, as with gold comes power. But this won't be just a game about gritty adventurers, because in ACKS as you level up, you won't just gain bigger numbers and get to fight different colored goblins. In ACKS as you gain leves the game itself will change. You will raise and lead armies, create merchant caravans, investigate magic to create new spells, and even new species of monsters. You will go from exploring a Sandbox world to shaping it!
Game style
Dungeon Crawl
Hexcrawl / Exploration
Realm Building
Rule of Cool (RoC)
Sandbox / Open World
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Meet the Game Master
5.0
(12)
1 year on StartPlaying
54 games hosted
Highly rated for: Creativity, Storytelling, World Builder
About me
Hi! I am Lucas, I started playing ttrpgs with my father when I was 8, immediately falling in love with living adventures in imaginary lands. At 15, I started to DM for my high school friends and since then I have been a DM for approximately 20 years. During that time I learned that nothing brings me more joy than to guide a group of players into creating a shared story, while the dice bring in twists that no one could have imagined. Now I have achieved something I could have never dreamed about: I became a professional DM, and I can live of my greatest passion.
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Creating your character
We will roll and create characters on session 0.
What to expect
Preparing for the session
Reading the rules is appreciated, but not necessary. Dont come up with a character in mind as dice may have a different idea.
What Lucas Romero brings to the table
20 years of DMing Experience and 5+ years of experience with ACKS. A Sandbox filled with Dungeons built on Dungeondraft with Foundry VTT support; lots of Monsters, NPCs with goals and plots to join in or foil, an empire collapsing, and savage armies coming to end civilization.
Equipment needed to play
Internet
Computer
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Safety
How Lucas Romero creates a safe table
For player safety, we will use a consent checklist with veils and lines. The game will take on some difficult subjects, but player comfort is more important than any particular narrative, so feel free to point out any topic that may be sesible for you.
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