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What increases with experience in Savage Worlds is how hard you are to hit and your soak value - much less so the number of wounds you can take. I believe there is a merit to increase the number of wounds, and going from 4 wounds to 5 wounds is a large percentile increase, but the main...

So, why do we discuss railroads so much? If it is not derogatory, just a choice of game style, why does it need to be analyzed and weighted so closely? This post might be a bit impertinent, as I have only browsed the discussion here. But railroading comes up as a subject again and again, so...

Very brief explanation. You make a damage roll, which for melee is one die based on your character's Strength and the other depends on the weapon. These dice can explode, meaning you get to roll again and add the result is you roll the maximum result. You the subtract the target's Toughness...

I also feel there is Kickstarter fatigue - I know I myself have become harder to convince to invest in Kickstarter of any kind.

There is an official gamer called Savage Pathfinder. Its Pathfinder and not DnD, but Savage Worlds and d20 are so different that I'd say that in this regard, Pathfinder and DnD are the same. It does use Golarion (Pathfinder's iconic world) as its setting, but this is a kitchen sink setting and...

Personally, I like overstuffed adventures. I find its much easier to cut out than to add. But that's me, I clearly see how others might not like this.

No formal sharing. Sharing is not the norm here in our city's gaming community. One of my players tends to give me books he wants in our game. I tried making this a rule, that if you wanted to use a certain rule you had to buy the book (we play on Roll20), but this has not worked out, and I pay...

In general I support and like all your ideas here. But here comes an anecdote of the opposite. In a Vampire game where you are supposed to play elders (there was a book for this in Vampire ed 2 whose name I now forget) we played a group of vampires specifically created to fight a specific...

This. Your players are basically turtling down. The weakness of the turtle is that it is slow. If all combats are slugfests where hordes of enemies charge our heroes, these tactics will work. If the fight is about grabbing three items, set in various locations around a large room, one of which...

Wizards are likely to form guilds to exchange spells, to regulate the sale of magic items and services, and so on. If any wizard goes violently criminal, this obviously makes all wizards suspect. So any wizard guild would need to enforce order among wizards, even non-members. In the long term...

I am not debating your point, Committed Hero, I am merely musing on it. This can still involve relevant PC choice and can even make sense in the story. These are two different issues. First, choosing to take the road into the wood or over the plains might lead to the same encounter, but in...

The issue of PC continuity is actually a current issue in my Candlekeep Mysteries game. My gaming style is very much focused on the story of each character. While still a conventional GM-makes-the-story game, it is still focused on the characters and the subplots developed between me and the...

There are four Earthsea Books now - I read the three that were there when I was a youth. I'd love your views on the fourth part.

Much of what is called Illusionism can also be called participationism. When the game first starts, the GM tells the player's the premise: "We're playing this campaign called 'Tiamat XXIII' which is abut fighting dragons and their followers across royal courts and deep wilderness. Please make...

I don't really care for Dark Sun and think it would subdivide the audience, so I'd prefer if it remained dead. This is just my subjective opinion, I respect that others like the setting, plz respect that I don't.

I guess Hornblower is an acquired taste. I got some of the books in the middle of the series as present as a kid (translated to my native Swedish). Starting in the middle was probably a good thing - much later the Midshipman bored me too. Maybe they even profited from the translation, as...

I read a collection of Robert Jordan Conan stories. They were well written, but sexist in a creepy way. There was a faux action girl character in them, seemingly a heroic character but in each and every story she was reduced to a victim of various kinds of sexual assault. I find this kind of...

I really enjoyed Art of War, even if the language is archaic. I tried reading the Book of Five Rings but didn't get far - too mystical for my 20-year-ago self.

I am actually more interested in the definition of polytheism. This might be a dated view, but I understand polytheism to be very grounded in animism. The ancient Greeks used the term Nike for victory. As I understand it, this was both a goddess and an abstract term. To an ancient mind...