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Message: <blockquote data-quote="scourger" data-source="post: 2504969" data-attributes="member: 12328">Most of the original questions have been answered, so I will just post my (mostly) recent experience with Savage Worlds (SW).  I followed the development in Shane Hensley's design journal at the old peginc web site.  I was intirgued by his original influences and design goals.  It boils down to a game that is easy enough to plan & run while retaining enough complexity & advancement potential to make it engaging to play.  Sort of the best of miniatures wargaming crossed with roleplaying.  The motto is keeping the game fast, furious & fun (!).  I played Deadlands and Hell on Earth, which are pretty much the precursors of this game, along with The Great Rail Wars.  I incorporated chips in d20 games to reroll any d20 long ago, and it worked well.  I even tried a blackjack (21) initiative system, which was not so good.  I have yet to intorduce exploding dice (raises) to d20, but I'm considering it.Anyway, a few months ago, I was really feeling burned out by d20 due to a variety of factors.  I bought the revised SW book on sort of a whim at my FLGS.  The cover art is much better.  I read it and liked it.  I figure it's about 1/10 of the pages in the PHB, DMG & MM.  I have run many games in many genres, but I really wanted to try a war-time setting.  So, I started shopping for Tour of Darkness (ToD).I finally got it.  I started running a ToD game last week for my weekly group.  It went really well.  I think it will continue.  The base SW rules are great, and the ToD setting book is a good too.  I likely won't use the entire plot-point camapign, but there are enough tools in ToD and on the 'net that I can present just the kind of game I want.  More importantly, I can easily use the miniatures I already have on hand for the PCs, allies & foes.  The best part is that I can spend more time painting and less time planning the game.  There's just not as much paperwork for SW--both in & out of the game.    My biggest fear with SW is that it could kill d20 for me.  I'm not sure how well SW would do for standard swords & sorcery fantasy, but I might check out Evernight next.  The real test would be if I ran SW for post-apocalyptic in lieu of Omega World.  So, there's a big, personal, endorsement for Savage Worlds.  I hope it goes well for you.</blockquote>

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