It would be fun to de-Howardize the place names (go with whatever culture originally inspired the Autarch nation, if any).
I could do that, but the examples probably wouldn’t match up to the real world city. Dunno if that matters.
Considering how thorough and consistent he is, I would be surprised if Alex couldn’t give you a list of Auran City → Real City conversions that would make the examples make sense.
Alternatively, you could just forego proper names entirely and simply describe the relevant trait. For example instead of “Marcus goes to Aura, a Class I market” you could simply say “Marcus goes to a city that is a Class I market”
I think thats exactly what I’ll do, only resorting to renaming when absolutely necessary to help the reader follow the example.
AWESOME!
Keep up the good work. I can’t wait to begin using the SRD to lure more of my games club members into giving ACKS a tryout.
I am immensely excited for this, especially since rules as .txt means more stealthily updating my PbP at work 
After a finding a few hours tonight to work on it I’ve successfully stripped the IP from the core book. Now for the time consuming task of cleaning up the formatting. Mostly its putting the tables back in order and cleaning up the weird whitespace leftover from converting to text. After that it’ll be very easy to chop it up as needed to stick on the website.
Good deal; I’m looking forward to this - something to point people to when I’m gushing over the system or answering common-sense questions using it (I’d used the construction rules recently to inform my DM in the game I play in (sadly not ACKS) how long it’d take some guys to dig a hole of a certain volume, as a simple example)
This may be more of an Autarch question, but, I think given the community here it’d be great to codify some of the resources that have been generated here and abroad into the SRD, stuff like:
The Blog roll:
http://www.autarch.co/forums/general-discussion/acks-bloggersunite
The Class roll:
http://www.autarch.co/forums/house-rules/list-custom-classes
And Kiero’s Mercenary, Liberator Tyrant (http://www.autarch.co/forums/general-discussion/should-i-be-turning-my-historical-hack-supplement) and The Dark’s Naval Warfare (http://www.autarch.co/forums/house-rules/hr-naval-rules) when they’re done (or a link while they’re in development) and I’m sure others I’ve forgotton (Barbarian Conq. King is already getting published, so :))
Putting it all into some extra chaptered section at the end.
Kind of a way to say, “Here’s ACKS, and here’s all the incredible stuff people have done with it.”
The first step was to strip away non-OGL IP which has been done, the second step (which I’m still doing) is to go through and cleanup my txt file master. From there I’m going to stick it online using Git so others can proof it and make sure I didn’t mix things up, then I’ll make both that txt master and a hyperlinked version available (The latter being hosted by autarch).
After all thats done we can start integrating the OGL parts of the Companion and third party stuff, as well as some text blocks publishers can stick in the back of their product to convert between OSR systems using Ascending/Descending AC.
It’ll be trivial to add external links to the hyperlinked version though.
How are things progressing?
I’ve just got the last two chapters to cleanup for the text master which I’ll make available via git, then I can dump them into the website (When that is setup to receive it. It might be a week or two as I’ve just started a new job and I’m in the middle of training for it.
color me excited! it will be nice to be able to look things up without having to have the PDF open
I can’t promise anything, my free time is pretty erratic. But I just need to reformat a few things on chapter ten and the preliminary Txt SRD will be ready for folks to take a look at and correct as needed.
Looking forward to seeing it!
My Fate Mindjammer game rescheduled so I may be able to get to work on it tomorrow. If thats the case than I’ll stick the ruff draft on github or gitorious, and after giving the community a chance to tweak/cleanup I’ll try and get it on the site.
FInally done. It should all be there but it will still need some cleaning up and looking over. After the txt master is up to snuff we can get it up on the site.
there appear to be either some spaces or some newlines missing when I open it using notepad on windows 7. I assume there’s some difference in return characters used? what text editor should I be opening these with?
I had the same problem in Notepad, but it worked in Wordpad.
(Win7)
There do seem to be some issues with special characters (I noticed a lot of apostrophes having weird things), but I assume that’s just one of the things that you mentioned being needed to iron out.
I created it in emacs. It should render properly on notepad though. I’ll have to take a look at it in notepad when I can grab someones windows PC.