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Apologizes to our loyal readers who follow our Savage Mondays. I had a 11 lb 5 oz “problem” by the name of Jack Hayes that came up around the end of November that’s had me rather distracted. Who has been rather demanding on our schedule.
I found this intriguing, I look over many Kickstarter projects and rarely find ones that I’m willing to shell out some cash for. This setting not only looked interesting but offered some great bonuses for chipping in. At the $25 you get a print copy of the book, a PDF, and at least two archtypes. If the project hits $8k then the first of four adventures will be released to the backers. Not a bad deal.
Streets of Bedlam: A Savage World of Crime + Corruption is equal parts neo-noir, pulp detective fiction, and a bit of the ol’ ultraviolence thrown into a cement mixer and poured on top a heap of nameless bodies no one will ever miss.
It’s a modern urban setting full of despicable people doing awful things in the name of God, money, politics, or to pay off old debts. The stories shine light on the dark places of the human heart but it’s about finding diamonds in the rough, about good people in bad situations. The heroes may have questionable means but they have good intentions.
Of course, you know what they say about good intentions.
Each week we update you regarding everything Savage Worlds, including news from Pinnacle, the licensees, and the community, as well as the Forum Top Five.
The bitter cold of winter is upon us. While Deadlands is not the best tool to keep us warm the trail guide will keep us from dying. This week Pinnacle releases the Weird White North treading into places close to home (for me). Will your players survive the long winter?
Trail Guide: Weird White North is your guide to terror in the tundra! With additional setting rules for the bitterest cold, a mini-Plot Point Campaign stretching back to the 1600s, a frozen boatload of Savage Tales, and the coldest, creepiest critters Canada can conjure, Weird White North has everything you need to take your Deadlands game farther north than ever before, well beyond where saner men would stop.
Discover what lies buried beneath the ice of ages in Alaska and British Columbia. Witness Canada’s fantastic Winterline hold the most frigid force of Mother Nature at bay. Become embroiled in a struggle as old as the cold itself.
So, how about it, hombre? You got what it takes to survive in a place where distances start at “vast” and temperatures top out at “deadly”? There’s only one way to find out-get your copy of Trail Guide: Weird White North today!
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Halloween Freebies
Halloween is the best time for free things. Candy, entertainment, and beer are some of the best things to get for free. While we unfortunately can’t deliver free beer on the Internet (though, we have research trolls on it!), we can give you some free entertainment, no costume required.
Devil’s Night is a 12-page adventure for use with Deadlands and the new Horror Companion. As the hooves of doom beat down upon your posse, it will be up to you to decide if the tale is one of bitter vengeance or just retribution, assuming you survive. After all, Devil’s Night was written by Savage Worlds creator Shane Lacy Hensley himself and one of the system’s bloodiest GMs.
The Black Coach is a papercraft model of a black stagecoach complete with horses and optional boot made by Jordan Peacock. If you’re a Figure Flat fan and plan on running Devil’s Night, this is definitely a must-have!
Bat Swarm Templates, also by Jordan Peacock, give you some more options for your Small, Medium, and Large Burst Templates just in time for Halloween. Nothing beats trapping your buddies in a big swarm of bats for the holidays, unless it’s using a big swarm of bats to deliver up to 4d6 damage with the right trappings on a well-cast Blast…
The story is simple: Fort Vanguard, a small but sturdy fortification, stands on the very border of Black Forest. The lord of the Fort, Commander Voorhess, has a beautiful daughter named Kara, who was captured by Caled raiders three nights ago while on her way to visit her father. Her retinue of three soldiers and a slave girl were also captured. The raiders took their captives back into Black Forest, beyond the Godaxe.
Being short of men, Commander Voorhess has ordered you, the Border Wolves, to pursue the raiders and rescue his daughter. You know the truth: you have been chosen because any other man in the small garrison would have refused such a dangerous mission.
Black Forest is dark and silent and, although you constantly feel you are being watched, nothing hinders your advance. After pursuing them for two days, you have now located the raiders in a small Caled village…
A Halloween Mini-Mission for Agents of Oblivion, the agents are sent to the wilds of Boise, Idaho to find out why children are disappearing in the midst of The Pumpkin Festival. Can they stop the horrors which await them?
Each week we update you regarding everything Savage Worlds, including news from Pinnacle, the licensees, and the community, as well as the Forum Top Five. This is the top story for this week:
Unfortunately we didn’t have time to contribute to this issue of Savage Insider eZine but we’re looking forward to the issue nonetheless. I’ve always been interested in teaching people how to roleplay, and the thought of using roleplaying as an Educational Tool sounds extremely interesting. Check out the free issue now.
Savage Insider Issue 2: How the Dice Roll is all about what the community does with their gaming. The pillar article, Savage Worlds as an Educational Tool, takes a look how to turn role-playing games into a tool for homeschooling.
How the Dice Roll is a cross-genre issue with content covering fantasy, sci-fi, and horror along with supporting general interest articles.
Issue 2 includes the following:
3 fleshed out adversaries
9 new weapons
A Savage Insider exclusive add-on for Beasts & Barbarians
Part 2 of the Crypt of the Crystal Lich fiction series
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Savage Licenses
RedBrick: the Newest Savage Licensee
It is always exciting to see new licensees take up the Savage mantle. RedBrick is the makers of many RPG’s games already and I’m sure that their line will add some excellent choices to the Savage line.
From Pinnacle:
RedBrick publishes game products for FASA’s Earthdawn™ and Demonworld™ fantasy games, Holistic Design’s Fading Suns™ space fantasy game, and Biohazard Games’ Blue Planet™ science fiction game, as well as RedBrick’s forthcoming Equinox™ space fantasy game.
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Unfortunately the Forums were quiet this week but we still have plenty of Savage News to deliver. With new figs, settings, and comics it’s been a busy news week.
It’s always exciting to see new settings arrive into the fold of the Savage Licenses. Looking at this setting (from description and art) it immediately reminds me of sword and sorcery in the vain of Conan which is not a bad thing. I’ll be acquiring the preview of the book for later reading.
Know, noble reader, that before you lies a savage new world of sword and sorcery like no other.
A terrible new age has dawned upon the Untamed Lands. The shining age of the ancestors is crumbling beneath a rising tide of blood and slaughter. Here lie the civilizations of the Untamed Lands, warring with their neighbors just to survive as their crops and game dwindle. The Skadians with their dragon-prowed ships, the Shenese with their wealth of silk and steel, the Maztlani with their obsidian edged blades and the Tribal Confederacies with the unbreakable strength of many arrows. Ruskar invaders stain the snow crimson while Atlantean war parties ravage the eastern shores. Meanwhile the serpent folk lie coiled to strike the warring human nations.
Hither lies a land in need of heroes.
Gird yourself for adventure and harden your heart against nameless things lurking in shadow. Explore the cliff-side ruins of the ancient Stone Shapers and seek treasures in the abandoned monuments of the Mound Raisers. Face off against vile sorcerers, simian sasquatch, the impervious Uktena serpent and ravenous wendigo or beat back elder horrors reawakened from ages long past. Live, love, slay and celebrate each victory as though it may be your last.
Each week we update you regarding everything Savage Worlds, including news from Pinnacle, the licensees, and the community, as well as the Forum Top Five.
I’m excited to see the Savage Worlds version of this game finally released! Having playtested it a while back, I can say that’s well worth the money you’ll throw down on the product. The game is fun and plays as a nice dungeon crawl. Just make sure to let the White Haired Men know what you think of it!
He waited, standing like a statue just inside the entrance of the Administration Wing. He had not moved in a thousand years, having no need of food or rest, and never suffering from fatigue. He existed to serve his master, which gave him pleasure. And every moment of those thousand years was pleasing, for his Master had bid him to wait.
Then a whisper of thought brushed his mind. His eyes regained focus and he turned his head, recognizing the pyramid of mummified Harlass Orn corpses he had carefully assembled so long ago. He sensed his Master’s voice, faint yet unmistakable. The rift had opened again, and Agurth-Plaga called to him.
Months have passed since the Harlass Orn were freed from the Veilwalker Dreamseeker in The Dreamers Awaken adventure. One of the survivors, the scholar-mage Zzhastor Brune, learns that the people of Kith’takharos have begun using the ancient Harlass Orn Teleportation Towers. These towers precipitated the Harlass Orn downfall, for the magic employed in tower teleportation opened a rift that allowed the extra-dimensional Veilwalkers to enter normal space and destroy the Harlass Orn.
Seal the Rift! is a Savage Worlds adventure for 4-6 Heroic characters, with an estimated 15 hours of playing time. Zzhastor Brune teleports the characters into Nhamah, where they will navigate the automated defenses before confronting a powerful Veilwalker construct determined to prevent the Aether Bind from being activated.
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GRAmel games has put the finishing touches on their Beasts & Barbarians Players Guide, rounding out the setting with the help of the their adventure, The Cliff Queen’s Court. This is likely to be an exciting release for GRAmel, as it marks their first players guide for any Savage World setting. They’ll be adding to the ever growing line of sword and sorcery settings.
Welcome to the dangerous Dread Sea Dominions, a place where mighty barbarians combat with hideous monsters, dark warlocks whisper terrible sorceries in forgotten temples and noble amazons duel in the sun scorched arenas of Faberterra, capital of a decadent empire!
Thirty new Edges.
Three arcane backgrounds, Lotusmastery, Sorcery, and the Path of Enlightenment
Dozens of new weapons, armors, and mounts
A simple but elegant system to develop your character between adventures and to manage the enormous riches you’ll find!
And much, much more!
Gird your lions and loins, get your broadsword ready and prepare to face the threats of Beasts and Barbarians, the new sword and sorcery open setting from GRAmel!
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It’s exciting to see Pinnacle to move into other areas in the Deadlands property, with the Dime Novels and now Miniatures. Unfortunately the pictures are a bit small but the detailing looks pretty good. Personally I love the look of Reverend Grimme with his book held high, but it may be my personal love of clerics.
Savage Worlds Deluxe PDF and Preorders Now Available
The Deluxe is here! Well, at least for pre-orders and the PDF, and that’s pretty awesome as it stands, right? If your on the fence about pre-ordering, I suggest rolling over to Choatic GM’s Savage Deluxe First Look, and for those who have already preordered, hit the forums to find the errata already popping up. For more information on what’s changed, this thread on the pinnacle forums is collecting it all.
From the Pinnacle Front Page:
Get the Savage Worlds Deluxe Preorder Bundle Saturday on the Web:If you can’t be at Origins and just can’t wait for the books to arrive, this bundle is for you. You’ll get the physical book shipped directly to you as soon as stocks are in and—more importantly—you’ll receive the PDF immediately! Oh, and you’ll get a discount, too! How can you beat a deal like that?
Get the Savage Worlds Deluxe Mega Bundle Saturday on the Web:You want more? You got it. The Savage Worlds Deluxe Mega Bundle includes everything in the Preorder Bundle, plus the Savage Worlds Action & Adventure Decks, including all the promotional cards! Like all our preorder bundles, these special deals are only available until the books are in, so act fast!
I found this intriguing, I look over many Kickstarter projects and rarely find ones that I’m willing to shell out some cash for. This setting not only looked interesting but offered some great bonuses for chipping in. At the $25 you get a print copy of the book, a PDF, and at least two archtypes. If the project hits $8k then the first of four adventures will be released to the backers. Not a bad deal.
The Black Coach is a papercraft model of a black stagecoach complete with horses and optional boot made by Jordan Peacock. If you’re a Figure Flat fan and plan on running Devil’s Night, this is definitely a must-have!
Bat Swarm Templates, also by Jordan Peacock, give you some more options for your Small, Medium, and Large Burst Templates just in time for Halloween. Nothing beats trapping your buddies in a big swarm of bats for the holidays, unless it’s using a big swarm of bats to deliver up to 4d6 damage with the right trappings on a well-cast Blast…
It is always exciting to see new licensees take up the Savage mantle. RedBrick is the makers of many RPG’s games already and I’m sure that their line will add some excellent choices to the Savage line.
The Deluxe is here! Well, at least for pre-orders and the PDF, and that’s pretty awesome as it stands, right? If your on the fence about pre-ordering, I suggest rolling over to