Savage Mondays – March 8th, 2010

Written by Jeff Carlsen on 2010/03/08 – 00:00 -

It’s a Savage World out there, and Apathy Games provides the tools to survive it. First, check out our Savage Worlds Primer. Then if Portuguese is your native language, check out Retropunk.net’s translation. If you’re looking for more up to date news, here’s what’s happening now:

Pinnacle Entertainment Group

Showdown Meets Deadlands | Pinnacle Entertainment Group

The first scenario for Showdown, the Savage Worlds based wargame, is Raid on Fort 51.  Weird West War is awaiting your tabletop.

Help a Pinnacle Artist | Pinnacle Entertainment Group

Cheyenne Write is having some medical troubles, and Pinnacle is asking for help.  They’re offering two Savage Tales bundles, each including half of all their Savage Tales, for only $19.99.  The proceeds will go to helping Cheyenne.  Additionally, you can simply donate $5 to the cause.

Savage Worlds Licensees

Kristian Serrano Joins Reality Blurs | Reality Blurs

Kristain is responsible for The Dice of Life, one of our favorite gaming blogs.  It’s aimed at those of us with less time to game than we’d like.  So, we are greatly pleased to see him join one of the rising stars in the savage community.

New Runepunk PDF’s | Reality Blurs

Like pulp-style, steampunk flavored, science fiction?  RunePunk might just be for you.  The RunePunk Players Guide is now available as a PDF, and they have just released a set of paper figures for the setting.

Wellstone City Released | Silver Gryphon Games

Crime Noir is something we at Apathy can get behind.  It’s dark, gritty, and now available for Savage Worlds.

Free Hellfrost Supplement on Gem Magic | Triple Ace Games

Gems have always captivated us, with explains part of why they’re so expensive.  If you’re playing Hellfrost, they also have properties useful in hedge magic.

Savage Community

March Savage Sixth Posted | The Savage Sixth

While last month may have slipped past without a formal update, The Savage Sixth hits hard again this month with articles on building settings in a supers game, converting your favorite settings to Savage Worlds, and an article on bennies that links back to Apathy in a way that is most complementary.  They have our gratitude.

When Do You Shuffle? | PEGinc Forums

It’s not something that comes up often, but this discussion on when to shuffle your deck is interesting, and shows a few ways people go about keeping the game moving while having to shuffle.

Derelict Space Ship Adventure | PEGinc Forums

This thread goes into detail about, and has some wonderful ideas regarding running an adventure in a derelict space ship. Some of the advice could be quite useful in other contexts as well.

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Savage Mondays – December 21st, 2009

Written by Jeff Carlsen on 2009/12/21 – 08:00 -

Savage Mondays

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

  • Showdown is a conversion of Savage Worlds into a miniatures war game usable across genres. It’ll be familiar to any Savage Worlds fan, but it does have some changes for better handling large scale combat.
  • Pinnacle has a set of dice for Deadlands: Reloaded from Q-Workshop. If you like fancy dice, you have to check these out.

Savage Worlds Licensees

  • Triple Ace Games has a free Ace Tales adventure for Necropolis called The Best Things. You’re players will be evacuating the small farming community of Sumner when all hell breaks loose. They’re also teasing a very special update for next week.
  • 12 to Midnight is closing their online store come January 1st. If you want anything directly from them, do so quickly. Their products will still be available through RPGnow and Studio 2.
  • Adamant Entertainmenthas replaced their site with some new splash art advertising a new site coming in January. Not huge news, but cute.

Savage Worlds Community

  • The Pinnacle forums have a fantastic discussion about what Savage Worlds is not good for, as a method of better understanding it’s strengths, and how to do conversions.
  • For a little 8-bit era fun, user SlasherEpoch has a SW conversion of Super Mario Brothers.
  • Every game needs ninja. Newmarduk has created stats for Ninja’s of all ranks.

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