Barbarian Conqueror King (Dinosaurs & Sorcery ACKS)

Congratulations to you!

I’ve been following your writings and I’m looking forward to seeing the final product(s).

And great to see Autarch appreciating it’s fan base and supporting a good effort when they spot it.

Bad. Ass. I am totally jealous.

That is brilliant! Congratulations golan2072, and way to go Autarch! I am green with envy.

As said on your blog; congrats! I’m looking forward to seeing it.

Thanks to you all! Time to get to work! :slight_smile:

Holy Toledo! Congrats! Looking forward to the final product.

Hello everyone! I’m very excited to have golan2072 working on Barbarian Conqueror King.

The inspiration for his work arose out of the thread on “Upcoming Products”, in which we saw a passion among our community for the Heroic Fantasy supplement and the Auran Empire campaign supplement. Therefore we knew that this type of product would be well-received.

Both BCK and the Heroic Fantasy supplement will follow a similar format - new rules for the genre; new character classes, races, magic, monsters; and a gazetteer with light-weight campaign setting. (I may call the Heroic Fantasy supplement “Hero Conqueror King”…or we might call BCK something like ACKS: Swords and Sorcery Companion.

Perhaps it would be possible to stick to the “low middle high” naming theme, with the names changing to fit the milieu? For golan2072’s work, something like “Barbarian, Marauder, Chieftain” or “Barbarian, Champion, Warlord” might fit the theme.

Barbarian, Reaver, Warlord? Mainly for the Howard callback:

“Hither came Conan, the Cimmerian, black-haired, sullen-eyed, sword in hand, a thief, a reaver, a slayer, with gigantic melancholies and gigantic mirth, to tread the jeweled thrones of the Earth under his sandaled feet.”

A Dragon Incarnate racial template for this setting (a Dragon Incarnate class will appear in the BCK book):

http://spacecockroach.blogspot.co.il/2014/05/dragon-incarnate-racial-template.html

Great for a Barbarian leader. The class will have Dragon Incarnate 2 + Fighting 2 + HD 2 and will be a strong sword-mage with a lot of charisma.

Bug-Men racial template:

http://spacecockroach.blogspot.co.il/2014/05/acks-bug-men-racial-template.html

Golan, is BCK going to interact at all with the Heroic Fantasy rules? I’m just curious how much overlap (if any) there might be between supplements.

I’d wait for a more official reply from Alex, but BCK is somewhat more gonzo/pulp/horror sword & sorcery fantasy, while the (excellent) Heroic Fantasy rules are somewhat closer to the Tolkien and Howard baseline. Also, BCK is built with the basic assumptions of the ACKS core in mind, while Heroic Fantasy has a (great) new system of magic.

Visitor Hybrid Racial Template:

http://spacecockroach.blogspot.co.il/2014/06/acks-visitor-hybrid-racial-template.html

Any ETA for Barbarian Conqueror King pdf?

The draft is fully written and was submitted. The rest is up to the Autarchs :-)

are there any active Autarchs besides Alex at this point? I mean, he works hard enough that it wouldn't be uncalled for to refer to him in plurals, but I was under the impression all the other Autarchs are no longer active.

Alex is certainly "the Man," but, as I understand it, there are others actively involved.

Is it Tavis? There was a podcast a few months ago with Alex and a partner-in-crime. Plus, I think it was Tavis posting on rpg.net.

By the way, great things are being worked on in regard to this setting... Working on really cool stuff in collaboration of the Autarchs! It might take some time, but will DEFINITELY be worth the wait.