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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Zadmar" data-source="post: 6293720" data-attributes="member: 6700109">That was one of the main reasons I moved from D&D 3.5 to Savage Worlds - I liked the tactical combat in D&D, but found it got really slow at the higher levels.  However after playing each system for a few years, I actually find Savage Worlds is more tactical, despite being rules-medium.In D&D 3.5 you can typically take one standard action and one movement action, and you have to finish one before you can start the other.  Any special actions you wish to perform are covered by Feats, without those you're limited to some very specific actions in combat - which usually means you move up to an opponent and then attempt to hit them.I find Savage Worlds far more flexible, as you can perform one or more normal actions, and freely combine them with your movement.  So for example you could move 2", perform a melee attack, move another 2", kick a stone at someone (as a narrative-defined "trick"), move another 2", drop behind cover, and taunt a third opponent.You can take Edges (which are like a combination of Feats and class abilities) to improve your chances of succeeding at certain actions, but you don't need them.  It's far more permissive of player creativity, as players can describe any reasonable action and it's usually supported by clearly-defined mechanics.  The initiative system also lends itself well to tactical combat.And of course combat is much faster to resolve, particularly with large numbers of combatants.  A big part of this is due the lack of bookkeeping (no need to write down initiative or hit points), but it's also because of the simplified stats (you don't need to balance everything exactly, and many opponents can just be made up on the fly) and the way attacks for groups of NPCs can be resolved like a dice pool system (if five soldiers with Fighting d6 attack a PC, you just roll 5d6 and can see at a glance how many hit).Some other points which are worth noting.  While Savage Worlds is good at handling large numbers of combatants, it doesn't do a good job of solo BBEGs - they tend to get trampled extremely quickly, and typically need minions to make the fight challenging.  Combat is also much less predictable, there are no "safe" fights, there is always the risk of death.  Player advancement is also much flatter, a starting character is more like a level 5-7 D&D character, and a high rank character is more like a level 12-15 D&D character.</blockquote>

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