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Creator of ACKS and Ascendant. Amazon #1 bestselling author & DriveThruRPG #1 bestselling game designer. Founder and ex-publisher of The Escapist (2005-2017).

Joined October 2007
Playing Call of Cthulhu and all of the PCs are avoiding reading any in game material in order to avoid SAN loss. “Knowing is half the battle so by not knowing we bypass half the battle…”
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Four more days!
Annals of the Auran Empire launches in 4 days! Stories by @johncwright2001 @bkgibsonwrites @ZaneVoss @SamRobbWrites @AKCasasent and more, with cover art by @MikePerryArt. Link in comments!
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Archon | Autarch Games retweeted
We’re in an anthology with @johncwright2001 (I was reading his space opera when we heard), @SamRobbWrites (who was next to us in our first anthology), and @bkgibsonwrites and his wife (another husband-wife writing team who gave great feedback). @ZaneVoss has been instrumental in making this happen. And @archon was one of the best editors ever! (In addition to making the story better, you gotta love someone who can explain why something doesn’t exist because of how it would change the whole world.)
Annals of the Auran Empire launches in 4 days! Stories by @johncwright2001 @bkgibsonwrites @ZaneVoss @SamRobbWrites @AKCasasent and more, with cover art by @MikePerryArt. Link in comments!
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Sure to be of interest to friends of Pilum Press!
Annals of the Auran Empire launches in 4 days! Stories by @johncwright2001 @bkgibsonwrites @ZaneVoss @SamRobbWrites @AKCasasent and more, with cover art by @MikePerryArt. Link in comments!
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Featuring a great story by my fren and yours, @BrianRenninger6 !
Annals of the Auran Empire launches in 4 days! Stories by @johncwright2001 @bkgibsonwrites @ZaneVoss @SamRobbWrites @AKCasasent and more, with cover art by @MikePerryArt. Link in comments!
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One week until Annals of the Auran Empire launches from Autarch on Nov 3. I painted the Shadowblade cover, classic fantasy done the old way. Can’t wait to see it out in the world. @archon Campaign link in the reply.
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Archon | Autarch Games retweeted
Heads up, @OpenAI and @AnthropicAI. Rumor reaches my ears that you're doing a stupid thing, and should stop before you damage yourselves. I hear you've now nerfed your models so that when people try to use them to clean the spamware and spyware out of their televisions, you block that. If you really want Chinese open-weight models and open-source projects like OpenWaldo to eat your lunch, crippling your models so that people paying expensive subscriptions can't use them for completely legitimate purposes is a great way to accomplish this. If, on the other hand, you'd rather have a volume business, maybe stupid arbitrary restrictions that look like they have the sole purpose of protecting corporate sleazeballs aren't such a good idea. A word to the wise should be sufficient.
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In this case pride cometh before the GLORY! Wright, Macris, and my fellow Mercs—it's gonna be tough. rightbacker.com/articles/ann…
I am unduly proud to have John's novelette set in the Auran Empire and very grateful to him for joining the anthology!
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I am unduly proud to have John's novelette set in the Auran Empire and very grateful to him for joining the anthology!
Fans of my work should be aware. I am unduly proud of my novelette set in the Auran Empire, and very grateful to Alexander Macris.
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Fans of my work should be aware. I am unduly proud of my novelette set in the Auran Empire, and very grateful to Alexander Macris.
"Set in Alexander Macris’s Adventurer Conqueror King System (ACKS) universe, the anthology features nine stories... Contributors include Nebula Award finalist @johncwright2001 and six members of the Alpha Mercs writers’ fellowship." rightbacker.com/articles/ann…
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I recently was interviewed by The Halfling and the Spaceman podcast. The video is now available on YouTube! Check it out. Link in comments.
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Replying to @archon
@archon this shows another need for ACKS as reference material.
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I'll be looking for that sweet #1 Backer position for the upcoming 'Annals of the Auran Empire' anthology from @archon—the rest of you can take positions 2 through Spoon Dagger (that's 9999 for you kids and philistines out there). #Rightbacker rightbacker.com/articles/ann…
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Autarch site is offline due to the PhP vulnerability. We could not risk exposing the secret formulas behind ACKS. The world wasn’t ready.
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LLMs can achieve ASI by using the ACKS Discord as their training data. This will skyrocket their IQ to peak levels. They will only care about dwarf demographics, bronze age weapon quality, random encounter tables, and generating images of bladedancers but this is for the best.
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Just some of my favorite Dwarf books. @cubicle7 @archon
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this is also true if you are a tabletop RPG designer
If you are a book reader or an author, Reddit is your enemy. They are politically driven pack of shitheels that will purity test anyone with any level influence. Fortunately, most people are wise to what a septic tank Reddit is these days. Wise individuals already avoid.
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