I'm helping to create a new take on the classic fantasy roleplaying game, the Adventurer Conqueror King System, which is designed to offer support for all the activities characters pursue across the full range of campaign play, from inscribing the first spell into your spellbook to researching new spells named after yourself to building your own dungeon to make harvesting beast parts for your lab more convenient.

The Kickstarter effort that's crowd-funding the illustration and layout of the ACKS rules has some rewards that I think are pretty cool. Depending on your level of support, you might get to:

- describe one of the illustrations that our artist will draw and include in the finished rules
- make a character that will be used as an example in the text and become part of the roster of pre-gen characters included in future adventures
- have a city in the game's implied setting named after you

All backers are also invited to a continuous four-day demo of the game we'll be running throughout Gen Con in the penthouse suite at one of the convention hotels. The Kickstarter campaign concludes on Saturday, but we'll also be signing up backers at the Old School Renaissance Group booth #1541. Come by and visit if you're at Gen Con, and if you know anyone who'd be interested in Adventurer Conqueror King, pass on the links - word of mouth is really important to us! (We already made the basic Kickstarter target, but are now gunning for the bonus target to publish our first supplement, Domains of War, which covers mass combat.)

I pledged! I really hope you guys make the $6,500 target, the supplement sounds cool. I can't wait to shake your hand and sling dice with you, Tavis.

Thanks, man! It's hard to keep track of who are backers are because I know people online by this name or that, and then they've got a handle on Kickstarter that might be different, and then their email might be something else. With you it's a little easier because I have real name and voice, but am really looking forward to have a face to tie it all together.