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Wanting something hard coded is fair enough, however I feel this is a well-solved problem in RPGs. In a skill based, points based system if a character has invested points in survival skills they don’t have those points available to spend on savoir faire. Similarly, if they have spent lots of...

Fun fact! Fate was created specifically to run the Dresden files. Fred Hicks is a friend of Jim Butcher. Spirit of the Century was a ‘test bed’ of the system before they went for the primary objective of DFRPG.

One of my friends has a half-brained idea of starting a retirement home specifically for gamers. It could have rooms with dedicated war game tables, others with dedicated tables for RPGs. Encourage gamers to come live there and the gaming community will keep itself going!

One of the comments made in my group at the time was that playing Fate was like playing a word game. If you could describe what you wanted, you could get it. It’s not quite that straight forward, and the need for Fate points act as a limit anyway, but still it didn’t work for us.

We played a couple of Fate campaigns back when it came out. I like how aspects can attach significance to anything. We were playing a Firefly style game, and when there was a bar fight scene, we added that as an aspect which suddenly opened up opportunities for all the things you would see in a...

I’m talking about how you need to parse damage dice for 1 / 2-5 / 6 results to work out killing damage, on top of summing the dice for regular damage. If you are rolling 14 dice for damage like one of the characters did, that takes time. And it didn’t add to the play experience for us.

We don’t play a huge amount of supers games, but we have played a few down the years. I had the original DC RPG back when it first came out, though I don’t think we did anything with it other than trying out a few characters. We played quite a bit of supers using the 3e GURPS book, which was OK...

It’s fab - my favourite system. We’ve been discussing it quite a bit here recently.

My personal opinion is that there are some properties that are now so well documented in other media or fan wikis that the need for an official RPG is much reduced. I would put Star Wars, Star Trek and even Warhammer (of both flavours) in that category. Star Wars is pulp action at its heart so...

I’ll just leave this here… (I’m not affiliated with this) - DriveThru link

How times have changed :D

My current group includes one I have gamed with 40 years, two for 35 years, two for 23 years and ‘the new guy’ who has only been gaming with us for about eight years. Lifelong friends to be sure!

Timely - Empire is running next weekend…

The lead for the Odysseys and Overlords was on Savage World’s Savage Universe stream, if people want to know more. For some reason the video won’t embed, so here is a link!

As with all such powers, it depends on how you want them to feel, and then how well the rules deliver this. Psionics is itself a pseudo-science trapping for magic. One of my favourite book series are the Julian May linked series of the Pliocene Exile and Galactic Milieu. Psionic powers are a...

I love Savage Worlds. It’s my system-of-choice personally. At its heart it is a pulp action game, and then you can layer on top different flavours of pulp action - sci-fi, fantasy, horror, supers and so on. Pulp action is the type of game I want to run and play, almost exclusively, so that is...

You’re going to start thinking I’m on the Pinnacle payroll… (I’m not :D) This is one of my big issues with pretty much all varieties of D&D. The attrition model does not fit with how we play our games. It assume 5-6 speed bump combat encounters to chip away at party resources before you get to...

Another campaign finishing in this window is Odysseys & Overlords. This is a campaign to convert an existing OSR fantasy campaign world to Savage Worlds. It’s a modest ask for what looks to be a pretty cool product, based on the backer info shared so far. The longer term aim is to publish...

I agree. I think one of the advantages that Savage Worlds has over a system like 5e is that the system is a bit more intuitive in terms of what you might do, and what that might mean. For example, in 5e ganging up on enemies (or having them gang up on you) has little effect unless characters...