Archon | Autarch Games

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

[Archon | Autarch Games @archon]

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…”

[MikePerryArt @MikePerryArt]

@archon https://t.co/OXl6Y0FgmM

[MikePerryArt @MikePerryArt]

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.

[Eric S. Raymond @esrtweet]

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.

[Archon | Autarch Games @archon]

@aaronbrown99 I think you could model it with 4 in all stats and 6 to 7 in all skills.

[Archon | Autarch Games @archon]

@Andaelas No, it's different, and I'm re-working it now for the AI future. Hit me up in a few weeks if interested...

[Archon | Autarch Games @archon]

I am unduly proud to have John's novelette set in the Auran Empire and very grateful to him for joining the anthology!

[John Wright @johncwright2001]

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.

[Jamie @Pretend_Author]

In this case pride cometh before the GLORY! Wright, Macris, and my fellow Mercs—it's gonna be tough.

https://t.co/ecj71ZjWiA

[Archon | Autarch Games @archon]

@boardyai Try again if you’d like

[John Wright @johncwright2001]

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.

[Archon | Autarch Games @archon]

https://t.co/XhHF8NsNcw

[Archon | Autarch Games @archon]

I recently was interviewed by The Halfling and the Spaceman podcast. The video is now available on YouTube! Check it out. Link in comments.

[D.J. Schreffler @DJSchreffler]

@archon this shows another need for ACKS as reference material.

[Jamie @Pretend_Author]

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

https://t.co/EFRJV1KqVL

[Archon | Autarch Games @archon]

@VladTheInflator I tested this and it correctly remote viewed the location. I offer no hypothesis as to why this happened but it was so far beyond chance that it was disturbing.

[Archon | Autarch Games @archon]

Autarch site is offline due to the PhP vulnerability. We could not risk exposing the secret formulas behind ACKS. The world wasn’t ready.

[Archon | Autarch Games @archon]

@Marky_X_ Hard to gather but I shall endeavor to find the players to try it out!

[Archon | Autarch Games @archon]

@CastellanGHOST Is that a battle you ran with Domains at War?

[Archon | Autarch Games @archon]

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.

[Archon | Autarch Games @archon]

@CastellanGHOST That's really cool! Great use case.

[Archon | Autarch Games @archon]

@SandyofCthulhu Ungrateful louts. You give them pearls and they are swine.

[Archon | Autarch Games @archon]

this is also true if you are a tabletop RPG designer

[John A. Douglas @J0hnADouglas]

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.