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ACKS project press

January 9th, 2012Posted by Bret Woods

I was delighted to read the following New York Times article this morning, in which Wizards of the Coast is in the planning stages of their envisioned reboot of the Dungeons & Dragons franchise. You can read the article here. I can safely say I am not the least bit surprised that 4e tanked like [...]

TEDxFSU event was a success

November 6th, 2011Posted by Bret Woods

There were technical difficulties throughout, and my time was cut short rather curtly, but overall I thought the event was great. Congratulations to the coordinators.

Kora Music

October 27th, 2011Posted by Bret Woods

ACKS Kickstarter promising project

August 2nd, 2011Posted by Bret Woods

For a while now I have been backing a kickstarter project for a RPG system called ACKS–Adventurer Conquerer King System. It is the first OD&D-type rules system I have seen in a while that offers a lot more than the average restructuring of old school references. Similar to Labyrinth Lord, the system mechanics are being [...]

A priori

March 31st, 2011Posted by Bret Woods

March came and went, and now I find myself defending my dissertation in four days. It’s been a long road, since first coming here in 2004, and a lot of crazy shit has happened, but I’m finally graduating, finally finishing this educational path. It certainly has solidified this ethno-type of work as something I greatly [...]