I’ve been going with Black Lore / Necromantic Lore so far, in my settings. Maybe “Black Lore” is less confusing and easier to connect?
We usually call it just Black Lore in our group.
Black Lore it is!
That’d line up with Grey Lore out of the PC and I’m sure a White Lore will be forthcoming at some point.
Is there a list of Place Names, Deity names, etc that are not Open Content? After having skimmed page by page I think a simple find and remove/replace will be easier. Then I can proof that and be good to go.
Geography: Aurëpos, Ammas Aurë, Comean Sea, Lake Laman, Jutting Mountains, Meniri Mountains, Achaean Mountains, Drakonir Mountains, Zaqāru Mountains
Countries: Auran Empire, Tirenea, Celdorea, Corcano, Krysea, Nicea, Somirea, Kemesh, Argollë, Jutland, Rorn, Keita, Munde, Kushtu, Skysos, Syrnasos, Zahar, Thrassia, Azen Khador
Nationalities: Auran, Argollëan, Besherab, Celdorean, Corcanoan, Jutlandic, Kemshi, Kushtu, Krysean, Nicean, Opelenean, Rornish, Skysos, Somirean, Syrnasan
Cities: Aura, Alakyrum, Arganos, Cyfaraun, Kavala, Korinthos, Istakahr, Ithos, Ivorium, Pireus, Pyrgos, Telpir, Thrassia, Trikala, Zahar, Zidium
Languages: Auran, Zaharan
Races: Nobiran, Zaharan, Thrassian
Gods: Ammonar, Calefa, Ianna, Istreus, Mityara, Naurivus, Türas; Iskara, Sakkara, Dirgion, Kaleth, Bel, Galmorm, Nasga, Ravanor, Nargund, Ornaron, Lammala, Telith, Winged Sun
Characters: Audarius Tarkaun, Baal the Terrible, Azendor, Valerian Bellësareus, Marcus, Quintus, Viktir
I don’t even know how many of those show up in the rules.
Great, I’m in the process of converting it to an Ansi text file to make it a little easier to use text-file processing tools on it (and I may also use a versioning system so the community can help clean up my own mistakes) then i’ll use that master to create the web based version when thats ready. I might also hack that text file up and serve it hyperlinked on my own gopherspace, because I’m just that nerdy. So this will help. it’s been a bit slower going than I’d have expected (who knew I’d have this little time whilst job-hunting in front of a computer) but I’m about halfway through. I’ll get everything done on the core book first, then work on the companion.
Ok, so I dumped the SRD to a text file, did a grep based on the word list above and am in the process of removing the IP. When it comes to city names used in examples such as “943 EXAMPLE: Marcus is in Arganos, a city of…” what would people rather see? I could just make up names.
I’d go with ancient real-world place names… Ancient Greek, Roman, Middle-Eastern, etc. Like Arsuf, Athens, Damascus, Troy, Tyre.
+1 on Rhynn’s idea.
Using ancient real-world names for places, people and gods would remove the IP issues but should readily suggest exactly what the item in question is - i.e., most GMs would know that Zeus was a god, Athens a city, etc.
It would be fun to de-Howardize the place names (go with whatever culture originally inspired the Autarch nation, if any).
I could do that, but the examples probably wouldn’t match up to the real world city. Dunno if that matters.
Considering how thorough and consistent he is, I would be surprised if Alex couldn’t give you a list of Auran City → Real City conversions that would make the examples make sense.
Alternatively, you could just forego proper names entirely and simply describe the relevant trait. For example instead of “Marcus goes to Aura, a Class I market” you could simply say “Marcus goes to a city that is a Class I market”
I think thats exactly what I’ll do, only resorting to renaming when absolutely necessary to help the reader follow the example.
AWESOME!
Keep up the good work. I can’t wait to begin using the SRD to lure more of my games club members into giving ACKS a tryout.
I am immensely excited for this, especially since rules as .txt means more stealthily updating my PbP at work 
After a finding a few hours tonight to work on it I’ve successfully stripped the IP from the core book. Now for the time consuming task of cleaning up the formatting. Mostly its putting the tables back in order and cleaning up the weird whitespace leftover from converting to text. After that it’ll be very easy to chop it up as needed to stick on the website.
Good deal; I’m looking forward to this - something to point people to when I’m gushing over the system or answering common-sense questions using it (I’d used the construction rules recently to inform my DM in the game I play in (sadly not ACKS) how long it’d take some guys to dig a hole of a certain volume, as a simple example)
This may be more of an Autarch question, but, I think given the community here it’d be great to codify some of the resources that have been generated here and abroad into the SRD, stuff like:
The Blog roll:
http://www.autarch.co/forums/general-discussion/acks-bloggersunite
The Class roll:
http://www.autarch.co/forums/house-rules/list-custom-classes
And Kiero’s Mercenary, Liberator Tyrant (http://www.autarch.co/forums/general-discussion/should-i-be-turning-my-historical-hack-supplement) and The Dark’s Naval Warfare (http://www.autarch.co/forums/house-rules/hr-naval-rules) when they’re done (or a link while they’re in development) and I’m sure others I’ve forgotton (Barbarian Conq. King is already getting published, so :))
Putting it all into some extra chaptered section at the end.
Kind of a way to say, “Here’s ACKS, and here’s all the incredible stuff people have done with it.”
The first step was to strip away non-OGL IP which has been done, the second step (which I’m still doing) is to go through and cleanup my txt file master. From there I’m going to stick it online using Git so others can proof it and make sure I didn’t mix things up, then I’ll make both that txt master and a hyperlinked version available (The latter being hosted by autarch).
After all thats done we can start integrating the OGL parts of the Companion and third party stuff, as well as some text blocks publishers can stick in the back of their product to convert between OSR systems using Ascending/Descending AC.
It’ll be trivial to add external links to the hyperlinked version though.