Publisher: Autarch
Adventurer Conqueror King System – By This Axe: The Cyclopedia of Dwarven Civilization: A Review
Do you admire the great and proud race of dwarves, their ancient traditions, their mighty craftsmanship, and their fierce loyalty? Do you want to learn more about their secrets, their history, their culture, and their magic? Do you want to play as a dwarf character in your favorite fantasy role-playing game, or create your own dwarven domains and kingdoms? If you answered yes to any of these questions, then you might be interested in a digital product that reveals the secrets of the dwarves, compiled, codified, and curated for use in your fantasy role-playing game. The product is called Adventurer Conqueror King System – By This Axe: The Cyclopedia of Dwarven Civilization, and it is a supplement for the Adventurer Conqueror King System (ACKS) fantasy role-playing game, but it is easily adaptable to other fantasy game systems that use twenty-sided dice and share concepts like hit points and armor class. In this review, I will tell you what this product is, what it offers, and why you should get it.
What is Adventurer Conqueror King System – By This Axe: The Cyclopedia of Dwarven Civilization?
Adventurer Conqueror King System – By This Axe: The Cyclopedia of Dwarven Civilization is a digital product that consists of 273 pages of rules and content bound in a hardcover and in a PDF edition. The cover is painted in color by Michael Syrigos. The interior layout is in color with full-page and half-page illustrations. The product is designed by Alexander Macris, Tavis Allison, Greg Tito, and Ryan Hennesy, with additional design by Dan Proctor and Jeffrey Talanian. The product features artwork by Mark Allen, Michael Clarke, Ryan Hennesy, Peter Mullen, Stefan Poag, and Jim Roslof. The product is published by Autarch LLC.
What does Adventurer Conqueror King System – By This Axe: The Cyclopedia of Dwarven Civilization offer?
Adventurer Conqueror King System – By This Axe: The Cyclopedia of Dwarven Civilization offers a lot of features that make it a valuable addition to your ACKS game or any other fantasy game. Some of these features are:
- The product contains 10 chapters:
- Chapter 1, Introduction, explains the audience, purpose, and approach of this book.
- Chapter 2, Dwarven Lore, provides an overview of the ethnicity, physiology, language, and customs of the dwarves. It is narrated from the point of view of a sage in the world of the Auran Empire.
- Chapter 3, Dwarven Characters, explains how to create a dwarf character in one of the six racial classes, including the craftpriest , the delver , the earthforger , the fury , the machinist , and the vaultguard .
- Chapter 4, Dwarven Templates, provides eight pre-generated templates for each character class in this book. Using these templates, you can easily make your vaultguard a high-ranking lord, your machinist an apothecary, or your craftpriest a reliquary keeper.
- Chapter 5, Dwarven Earthforging, details a new style of magic, used by the earthforger class, whose innate talents have allowed them to channel the power within materials to reshape their form.
- Chapter 6, Dwarven Automata, presents the rules for designing, building, and repairing clockwork and steampunk machines. The section includes over 20 examples of vehicles, items, and other automata that serve as examples for the building process and/or as items to include in your game as items to encounter or use, or as designs in hidden treasures.
- Chapter 7, Dwarven Domains, explains how your dwarf characters can settle as rulers of domains and kingdoms, with rules for farming, urban settlements, vassals, garrisons, and more.
- Chapter 8, Dwarven Mines, expands the rules for domains to include mining precious metals and quarrying stone. Special rules for “digging too deep” allow your dwarves to greedily crave gold – potentially risking serious consequences.
- Chapter 9, Dwarven Mycoculture, details the secret methods of mushroom cultivation used by dwarves to feed their vaults and produce their wonderful beers and ales.
- Chapter 10, Dwarven Relics, offers a catalog of over 35 rare and powerful dwarven relics that might be guarded in sacred reliquaries, wielded by dwarven lords, or rediscovered in lost vaults and deep hidden places.
Why should you get Adventurer Conqueror King System – By This Axe: The Cyclopedia of Dwarven Civilization?
Adventurer Conqueror King System – By This Axe: The Cyclopedia of Dwarven Civilization is a product that will enrich your ACKS game or any other fantasy game with its depth and detail. Whether you want to use it as a source of information and inspiration for your dwarven characters, domains, and adventures, or as a ready-made setting for your fantasy role-playing game, this product will satisfy your needs. You will be able to learn more about the great and proud race of dwarves, their ancient traditions, their mighty craftsmanship, and their fierce loyalty.
I hope you enjoyed this review and found it useful. If you have any questions or comments, feel free to contact me.
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