Savage Mondays – January 4th, 2010

It’s a Savage World out there, and Apathy Games provides the tools to survive it. First, check out our Savage Worlds Primer. If you’re looking for more up to date news, here’s what’s happening now:

Pinnacle Entertainment Group

John Goff has been appointed to the position of Showdown brand manager. Showdown is a revision of the Savage Worlds ruleset for large scale miniature combat. It strips out some of the more RPG specific rules, streamlines magic a little more, and basically brings Fast, Furious, Fun to the world of war-gaming.
Brides of Dracula is a new Showdown scenario taking place in a graveyard. The enemy? The many rising undead brides of Dracula and their jealous husband.

Savage Worlds Licensees

Daring Entertainment has announced it’s 2010 publishing plans. Up first is a 52 week adventure series for Zombie Outbreak called The Armageddon Virus. It will be followed up by a setting book called War of the Dead. The rest of the update included information about the Daring Action Block, a new figure flat series, and the eventual release of Daring Supers.
Adamant Entertainment has released a new Thrilling Tales adventure, The Malay Coins. Your players will search for seven mysterious coins that will reveal a lost treasure. And that’s just the start of their troubles.
Plain Brown Wrapper Games has released Bedlam City: Savage Worlds Edition Bedlam City: Savage Worlds Edition. This super hero setting is the darker, grittier brother of your standard super metropolis.
White Haired Man has revised all of their Fantasy Grounds II adventures for Savage Worlds. If you’re more interested in their D&D3.5/OGL versions, they will be updated soon.
Savage Mojo has been showing off some of their upcoming Suzerain stuff over at the Pinnacle Forums. Go partake in the conversation, and perhaps check out their fancy editable character sheet

Savage Worlds Community

There are some new additions to the unofficial Hindrances and Edges over at Savagepedia.
The Chaos Grenade is a gaming blog that recently fell in love with Savage Worlds. Check out the posts Compairing Healing Surges to Bennies, Savage RIFTS, and his soulful confession of Giving into the Cult of Savage Worlds.
No community post would be complete without a trip to the Pinnacle Forums. The people there are fantastic, friendly, knowledgeable, creative, and a bunch of other great adjectives.
User Cryonic has created a editable version of the Sundered Skies character sheet. It really is very well done, and looks just like the origional.
There is a healthy debate going on as to how to make combat more dynamic than two people standing around slugging it out.
Shield and spear was the classic load-out of your Greek warrior or Roman legionnaire, but many people have problems with the rules surrounding spears and shields.
Lastly, EruditeDragon and others are working on a detailed psionics power list that’s worth a look.

As always, if we missed something, let us know in the comments. You can follow us on Twitter for more news and commentary.

http://chaosgrenade.crypticintent.com/ Rev. Lazaro

Thank you so much for the linkage to my blog posts! I've been having a blast tinkering with Savage Worlds, and I'm hoping in 2010 I get to put a lot of these ideas into play. Although I must advise my article about the Healing Surges wasn't so much a comparison as an explanation about why I morphed the 4E D&D Healing Surges into a SW-like Bennie System. But still, nothing is wrong about trying to carry the 3F! philosophy into other games right?
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http://www.apathygames.com Tyson J. Hayes

It's our honor to report great Savage Worlds ideas and news, so thanks for the great articles!

Let us know how they play out and we'll likely be posting links back to it again!
http://www.ApathyGames.com Jeff Carlsen

Nothing wrong with it at all. Honestly, my biggest problem with 4e is the number of resources you have to manage and the burden they place on the player. There are Daily powers, Encounter Powers, Hit Points, Healing Surges, Magic Item daily powers (tracked separately), Action points, and money.

while I wouldn't get rid of money, and probably not hit points, the rest really just represent how much “energy” you have to throw at things and could be merged into one resource, say Stamina, that you spend on difficult actions.
http://www.ApathyGames.com Jeff Carlsen

Nothing wrong with it at all. Honestly, my biggest problem with 4e is the number of resources you have to manage and the burden they place on the player. There are Daily powers, Encounter Powers, Hit Points, Healing Surges, Magic Item daily powers (tracked separately), Action points, and money.

while I wouldn't get rid of money, and probably not hit points, the rest really just represent how much “energy” you have to throw at things and could be merged into one resource, say Stamina, that you spend on difficult actions.