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How far do you want to go? Reduce the weapons chart. Doesn’t matter what a weapon actually is it fits one of the categories: light hand weapons - d6 Regular hand weapon - d8 Heavy hand weapons - d10, require 2 hands Reach weapon - d8, reach 1, 2 hands Bows - d6 Crossbow - d8

Did we have fun? Were the Players engaged? Was the GM on his game? Did we accomplish something meaningful content wise?

Eliminate the hit roll. Just roll damage(or apply static damage). Static DCs. Trivial, Easy, medium, hard, impossible.

That’s progress.

I also found some stuff in Tyrandor. They have a setting rule that eliminates the golden hour for Healing checks. It also limits magical healing to new wounds suffered since the last time you were healed magically. Tyrandor also has an interesting way to deal with light sources (not sure if...

55 Kickstarters backed. Only 1 failed to deliver completely. Interface Zero 3.0 for Savage Worlds. The author has delivered the Player and GM books digitally, and I think there were PoD coupons at one point. The remaining books have not been delivered. I think we'll get the MalMart Catalog...

Feel mostly, and some sense of procedural play. I think I could get close to what I’m looking for with SW G&G, especially staking something like Hard Choices and Gritty Damage setting rules with it.

Shrink my physical rpg library. Focus on one or two game systems for the year. Probably GURPS and SWADE but possibly Shadowdark (see the next bullet). Run something OSR adjacent. Right now I’m debating what that means to me, and what system to use. Contenders are a SWADE hack (using Gold and...

Typically run Foundry though I’ve used Roll20 in the past and Fantasy Grounds. I’m considering giving Owlbear Rodea a try this year. I’m looking for something light weight for just maps, images, and tokens. Bonus if I can draw on it like a white board.

Decent combat cheat sheet: I print those two pages and put them in sheet protectors double sided and hand one to each player. Simplest explanation of the rules around: https://www.uptofourplayers.com/ready-to-roll/savage-worlds-rules/

Invasion from Arion Games. I’ve never looked at it but it’s out there. It’s fully SWADE I believe.

If anything I’d add an escalation damage dice similar to 13th age. Round 1 straight damage. Round 2 an extra d4, round 3 d6, round 4 d8 and so on. I don’t know if I’d allow the escalation die to Ace or not. I probably would. On a joker hand out Bennie’s and increase the die.

I’m dipping my toes into the OSR this coming year. Looking at doing something with either OSE or Shadowdark. Both have things going for them. Conceptually what I like about it is moving away from character sheets as answer sheets, a more DIY aesthetic, and getting putting the literal dungeons...

Savage Pathfinder Rise of the Runelords Cleared Thistletop palisade.

Also I thought of it earlier but forgot to mention. It’s easy to forget AP so don’t do it.

I'm pretty poor at giving out bennies for RP, so I handle it mechanistically, and give them all a bennie after every scene.

Did you remember that a raise on a to roll grants an additional d6 damage? Bennies can be used to reroll damage. You can always reduce Toughness. Start by knocking it down to an 8. At Toughness 7 on 2d6 they are netting a Shaken on most damage rolls. Bad guys want to go home at night too...

Re: SWADE Masks of Nyarlathotep It went great. I ran it more pulpy style. The 7e edition has sidebars everywhere with pulp style suggestions so that helped. I used Realms of Cthulhu, Achtung! Cthulhu (dual stat CoC 6th/Savage Worlds version) the SW Deluxe Horror Companion and some stuff from...

I used elements from it when I ran Masks of Nyarlathotep in SWADE. I think i pulled the sanity, tomes, and a couple other things from it. That was pre Horror Companion but I think if I were to revisit that campaign I’d still use Realms as a resource. It’s a great resource. Same publisher...

Looking Back Finally some of extended time with GURPS on the table. It scratched an itch but I’m not sure I’ll be going back to it. Backed too many kickstarters. Think I’ve finally gotten a handle on what my gaming might look like, in terms of system, might look like going forward. could not...