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The recent 20th Anniversary Kickstarter would have been good for your group, I think. While it funded a special edition of the core book to celebrate 20 years it also funded new, thinner player books. It also funded brand new ‘player boxes’ which are designed to hold a player’s archetype (if...

Savage Worlds hit all those points in my experience.

I’ve heard reference to this sort of thing before, but having all the points laid out together is very useful, thanks. And more broadly useful than just D&D, to be sure!

That link is wrong (it points to the previous item). The working link is: Rocket Age Savaged Some context for people not familiar with Pinnacle’s third-party approach: ‘Jumpstart’ books are promoted as low cost entries into a setting before they get a fuller treatment.

Not every Amberite uses ‘magic’ though.

If the question is about systems where every player could be a magic wielder there are many. If the questions is about games where every PC is expected to be a mage then here are a couple more options. Unknown Armies is a game of modern occult. Sorcerously Advanced is a game where everyone has...

Quoting you here, Retreater so as to not detail the Level Up thread… Come on over to the Savage Worlds side - it has a very different feel to d20 yet keeps great option for fantasy and other genres :devilish:

Or they work with good writers. “Technical author” is another legit skill.

We generally have the players create two PCs each, one more thinking focussed and one more doing focussed. This has a few benefits in our experience. First, you can mix up the PCs in the group to more align to a specific adventure (perhaps one player has a Greek scholar while another has a...

You can do huge amounts with just the core book, and making stuff is very easy once you get a bit of familiarity with the rules. It is fantastically broad and deep in that one book.

Savage Rifts is on my list of games to run in the future, however I think the group would want to be comfortable with more ’regular’ Savage Worlds first. Rifts strikes me as being like drinking from a fire hose! Lost Colony is a cool setting, and I am currently prepping the plot point campaign...

I ran a Last Parsec campaign, which is Savage Worlds, and we had great fun. It was specifically the Eris Beta V campaign we played. It was written for Deluxe, but converting to SWADE is trivial. You would also want the ‘old’ sci-fi companion but that is just a few dollars in PDF and is, again...

I host about half the time, and we have another couple of regular locations that are within a 20 min radius by car.

Always-online DRM is the pits…

Savage Worlds has been a very incremental game system. Just looking at the publication info on Wikipedia, Explorer Edition was released 16 years ago! The system has been refined since then in my opinion and experience, and the current rules are a really sweet system. Flash Gordon is an...

The second published RPG - Tunnels & Trolls - has simultaneous combat resolution.

We are about 10 sessions into a fantasy campaign, primarily using the Savage Pathfinder rules since these came out first, but also cherry picking from the Fantasy Companion. It’s been a great game so far. We were playing a campaign set in the Forgotten Realms using 5E, but we’ve fallen out of...

The fifth cover for the new Savage Worlds players book has been revealed: Draco lich!

If people have been thinking about getting in to Savage Worlds, the Kickstarter is pretty cool. The main rule book includes all the updates, the player’s book has just the content from that book which a player needs - very helpful for character creation and getting everyone at the table up to...

You need the core rule book to run Savage RIFTS. As it happens there is a Kickstarter currently running for a new soft-back players book for SWADE, along with options for the full rulebook, boxes of handy counters and other bits and pieces.