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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Retreater" data-source="post: 9118585" data-attributes="member: 42040">I have a fairly long history with Savage Worlds, but not a lot of actual playtime. I first picked up the Savage Worlds Deluxe: Explorer's Edition around 2012. The paperback was only $9.99, so what was there to lose? It was during my first real "wandering period" of my gaming career. In previous eras, I would've been happy just playing D&D, but between tiring of Pathfinder's crunch and 4E's not capturing the feel my group wanted, D&D was no longer an option.  At that moment, we had just bounced off GURPS as a replacement. Savage Worlds seemed like a good, streamlined universal RPG system. But I decided to never run it for my group at the time - because of the Edges and Hindrances system. (I had a player in GURPS who made a pacifist, blind, sharpshooter - who he framed as a blind photographer. And he would argue that any sort of nonsense should be allowed if it was in the book. And there was the potential for a lot of nonsense in SW.) Years passed, and I was brought back into Savage Worlds with Savage Rifts. I have a friend who is a big fan of the Palladium worlds (but not so much the rules). Here was a way to read about the setting and play a game with a more modern system. So I got the first boxed set and enough copies of the Explorer's Edition to pass around the table. After all, it was only $9.99, so what was there to lose?After running a group through Tomb of Annihilation, we decided to try Savage Rifts. Even though I struggled a bit with the math (there are some big numbers involved in that setting), we all seemed to enjoy the over-the-top setting and cool characters. The group did fall apart after some changes in job schedules and another player moving, but we had fun while it lasted.Around a year later, I was running a 4E game, and the players just weren't consistent in coming - which made planning group tactics very challenging. I converted the game to a vanilla fantasy setting (using the Deluxe Fantasy Companion). It proved too swingy. The party was able to defeat a pretty major demon I pulled from Rifts (which is a major challenge), but then were TPKed by town guards. That's when we moved on from SW in that group. And I haven't tried to run a campaign since.Around this time, SWADE was released. I backed it, just because it had a lot of cool stretch goals. My wife and I went to Origins, and we signed up to play Savage Rifts. She LOVED it. She was a Glitter Boy and felt very empowered. She even got a Rifts coffee mug from the Palladium store. She currently rates Savage Rifts in her Top 3 systems (along with 4E and PF2). I was so impressed with the SWADE Kickstarter, that I backed the SWADE Rifts set - and every expansion since. And then I got the Deadlands Lost Colony, Deadlands: Weird West, Savage Pathfinder (and every expansion), and Holler.To date, I have run about 5 sessions of Deluxe Savage Rifts for my original home group; 1 session of SWADE Rifts at a one-shot for a gaming weekend; 3 sessions of generic fantasy SW; 1 session of a Savage Pathfinder one-shot when my family was snowed-in last Christmas. I have played in 2 convention games of Rifts and 1 convention game of Rippers.</blockquote>

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