Enter a world where empires totter on the brink of war, and terrible monsters tear at the fragile borderlands of men; where decaying cities teem with chaos and corruption, nubile maidens are sacrificed to chthonic cults and nobles live in decadent pleasure on the toil of slaves; where heroes, wizards, and rogues risk everything in pursuit of glory, fortune, and power. This is a world where adventurers can become conquerors—and conquerors can become kings.
Will you survive the perils of war and dark magic to claim a throne? Or will you meet your fate in a forgotten ruin beyond the ken of men?
The Adventurer Conqueror King System™ (ACKS) is a new fantasy role-playing game that provides the framework for epic campaigns with a sweeping scope. With the Adventurer Conqueror King System™ you can:
Play 12 different classes, including the fighter, mage, thief, cleric, assassin, bard, bladedancer, explorer, dwarven craftpriest, dwarven vaultguard, elven nightblade, and elven spellsword.
Easily customize your character using a unique, optional proficiency system. Make your fighter a berserker or your mage a necromancer!
Buy, sell, and trade common merchandise, precious silks and spices, and even monster parts and magic items in a balanced and integrated game economy.
Construct strongholds, establish kingdoms, and carve out a realm for your character.
Run a thieves' guild and send your minions to carouse, smuggle, steal, and commit other hijinks.
Establish a wizard's sanctum and explore the forbidden arts.
Crossbreed horrific monsters in an underground laboratory, enact powerful magical rituals, build golems, craft magic items, or even transform yourself and your followers into undead monsters.
Build and run a living world for adventure on a grand scale.
With game mechanics built to support emergent play, ACKS is the ultimate RPG for sandbox campaigns.
Whether you want to crawl through dungeons, trade with merchant caravans, run a merchant emporium, conquer an empire, or even raise an undead legion, ACKS supports your playstyle with simple, fast-playing game mechanics.
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This is one of the greatest things I've ever bought, and it's the first game system since Pathfinder that's made me this excited, and all for completely different reasons, which is awesome.
Yeah the zero to hero, where hero means King or Emperor is very well done in this game. It is based on ODnD so has some idiosycracies that may annoy 3E type players (like the way cleric spells are gained per level). But it is much more balanced than pure OS and has the best economy and rulership rules that I have seen in a DnD type game.
So if you fancy something different, and yes race is class but each race has 2 classes with much more in the companion, and you enjoyed Kingmaker you should really check this game out!
