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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Stormonu" data-source="post: 6067625" data-attributes="member: 52734">I'll take a deeper stab at Savage Worlds.It's a game that lives up to it's motto of Fast, Furious and Fun.  It was born as a hybrid of the wargame Rail Wars and RPG Deadlands and it's amazingly versatile for as lite a system as it is.  Character generation takes less than thirty minutes and with Advantages and Flaws, you can ensure that pratically no two characters will look or act quite the same.  Combat is deceptively tactical, yet simple to resolve.  It's handled every genre I seen tossed at it so far, and the core rulebook is only $10.  When's the last time you've seen a COMPLETE RPG that cheap?Because PCs are only throwing two dice at most and mook NPCs are rolling one for any given action, you can do mass combats in-game without having to step back or cough up rules to cover it.  Magic/Super-powers/Weird Science/Psionics are dirt-simple to implement.  You choose your base mechanical effects (say Blast) and then color it however you want - perhaps you hurl a ball of cthonian goo at your enemies that explodes in slime-coated tentacles to tear your opponents apart or it's a fireball; you choose.  The base game covers about 90% of D&D's spell list and there is a fantasy supplement that you can get to take your magic further if that's not enough for you.If there's a drawback to Savage Worlds, it's the "death spiral" mechanic.  As you take damage, actions become harder to perform (but you've got to run out of plot protection/bennies before it's actually a problem).  Some people don't like that - personally, I do like it; I find it better than D&D's "fine-until-you-drop-dead" way of handling hit points.</blockquote>

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