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Message: <blockquote data-quote="ValhallaGH" data-source="post: 5774450" data-attributes="member: 41187">This issue ties back into Pinnacle's basic design model.  You have to buy the core rules to go with your chosen setting.  But, when they update to a new edition they'll reprint the updated Core Rules.  Your setting book(s) remain unchanged.  So a setting bought in 2004 is just as valid and almost as mechanically useful as a setting bought in 2012 for players with the (nigh-ancient) Savage Worlds: Revised or the shiny-new Savage Worlds: Deluxe. The core rules have evolved but this has had minor effects on the various Savage Settings.(PEG is on their fourth or fifth edition, depending upon how you count these things; but they use the traditional literary definition of "edition" instead of the zany RPG definition.) The two exceptions are Solomon Kane and Pirates of the Spanish Main; both were licensed properties that had to be complete and independent RPGs.  So, both have the then-current version of the Savage Worlds core rules in the text, meaning that you only need those books.  Every other savage setting just gives you the rules that are new for that setting and then spends pages talking about the crazy and amazing things that make the setting worthwhile.I've become a real fan of this approach.  Much like the GURPS model, but with a higher ratio of settings instead of the (excellent) genre-books that make up the majority of any GURPS library.</blockquote>