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I doubt their strategy is to encourage people to use old books, if only because they won’t be keeping those in print. So anything key to...

As a DM/GM I think to some extent you are always improvising. I've run games with zero prep but you're always reacting to what the PCs...

Going back to the core premise- you have just minutes to prep a game. Another great thing about Savage Worlds support is that their...

I read them in PDF, only open them when it’s time to run them 🙂

SWADE has a lot of support materials available. I have the equivalent of about 5 Kallax cubes of first-party stuff covering a full...

Verisimilitude tends to be the word people use. Do the rules plausibly support what is happening in the fiction? That can be both in...

While the Hero system is a big beastie overall, I did think Combat Skill Levels were a cool and simple flourish. For people unfamiliar...

I half suspect that the Backgrounds aren't tied to Dragonmarks, but to the Houses. Like a House Jorasco background that gives...

Many, many, RPGs do this. Arguably only D&D and its close relatives use the ‘roll versus AC’ model. GURPS has this as mentioned. Savage...

They run the mafia in Eberron…

I dunno - the ‘Mother’ monster in Age of Umbra had a big sweep attack that kept hitting multiple PCs per strike. Given that homebrew...

As written, are they mostly closer to 4e elites?

The big problem with solos are that are mis-named. If they were called "bosses" they wouldn't feel so much like failed design (because...

The environments rules seem to be a good tool for those kinds of ideas

The results of the panic roll are not “the game freezes.” The result of a wave of panic rippling through the PCs is not “the game...