Against the Giants: campaign using ACKS

Sounds like a series of really exciting sessions!

They’ve been tense, epic, and the players seem to have really enjoyed them.

Last Monday’s session: http://www.theskyfullofdust.co.uk/2013/04/against-the-giants-session-fifty-four/

Session 55: http://www.theskyfullofdust.co.uk/2013/04/against-the-giants-session-fifty-five/

The cleave mechanic is brutal when a dwarf under a Growth potion hacks away at low HD monsters with a magic sword that has the added benefit of a Striking spell.

Session 56: http://www.theskyfullofdust.co.uk/2013/05/against-the-giants-session-fifty-six/

The party escaped the giant’s Steading, managing to slay even more giants as they fought their way out.

First fight against a juvenile dragon: http://www.theskyfullofdust.co.uk/2013/05/against-the-giants-session-fifty-seven/

More session reports: http://www.theskyfullofdust.co.uk/tag/against-the-giants/

In the latest few sessions the party have slaughtered giants in an ambush, entered a dimensionally shifting tower for the elves, and are next planning on liberating some of the occupied towns of Geoff on their own, because they can.

Last Monday’s game notes: http://www.theskyfullofdust.co.uk/2013/07/against-the-giants-session-sixty-five/

They are now in the thick of killing giants, having wiped out two supply caravans, ‘liberated’ a village, and are currently fighting off an ambush. They are levels 6 to 8 now, and proving more than capable of dealing with anything I am throwing at them, giants, dragons, all slaughtered!

Been a while since my last update: http://www.theskyfullofdust.co.uk/against-the-giants-session-seventy-seven/

Now on our 77th session, and the party are now fighting dark elves, and are at levels 6-8.

I’m surprised things turned out as well for them as it did!

They’ve been lucky. Almost killed three off a couple of sessions ago, and if they didn’t have access to Restore Life & Limb spells, they’d have some seriously crippled PCs (as it is, one has both night-terrors and constantly mumbles himself, another is now turned as a Wight; only the cleric has avoided any side-effects).

My Against the Giants campaign is currently at 91 sessions and counting, with the PCs currently between levels 6 and 8, giants slain, dragons slain, and a whole load of other monsters slaughtered. They keep a ‘kill list’ of what each person has killed, are competitive enough to kill steal at times, and prefer fighting giants than dark elves.

Two PCs retired and have been replaced by new PCs, but none have actually outright died yet: plenty of scars and maims though.

Latest session notes: http://www.theskyfullofdust.co.uk/against-the-giant-session-ninety-one/

After 91 sessions I can say that I like the ACKS rules. They are simple, cover everything we need, and I have all I need to run and play the game with the core book and the companion; used the Domains of War to work out how a battle behind the scenes went too. It all works rather well.

I’ve really enjoyed keeping up with your campaign, very entertaining.

Thanks :slight_smile: I’m waiting for them to get to NAME-level so we can see how Domain play works.

100 sessions!
http://www.theskyfullofdust.co.uk/acks100/

http://www.theskyfullofdust.co.uk/acks100/

Short review after 100 sessions of my Against the Giants campaign.

My on-going Against the Giants is still going strong

http://www.theskyfullofdust.co.uk/category/acks/

Now up to session 151.

Heroes are now levels 8-10 with one having established a domain.

My campaign is still going strong, now up to 190 sessions!

https://atgiants.obsidianportal.com/adventure-log

Heroes are levels 9 to 10 now, some have domains (well, had, lost them at the moment) and have fought demons, battled Mirror Duplicates, brought the Duke of Geoff back to life, and are now somewhere else entirely...

holy crap, 190 sessions. surely you're meeting more than once a week?

Actually, I would've sworn by the rate of posting that it's less than that. The campaign's been around a while, and was one of the things that originally twigged me on to ACKS. Still love reading it.