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That was a great listen. I wish I could have been in the live chat, but so it goes. On the upside, I'll be at GameHole Con. Hoping to get into one of Carl's games, and maybe Table Cat will have some Street Wolves Jump Starts handy. (Hey, I can dream.) Speaking of which, I ran a Street Wolves game at CharCon last month. It was the liveliest table I was at, as player or GM. And a couple of the players said they'd buy the game. IDK if any actually did, but I can guarantee that the setting is really enjoyable to a lot of people.

Sorry I missed it! Hope everyone had a blast!

Congrats on 200. The 'ASavageWorldsGM' bump was a real thing, the Street Wolves interview was how I found out about the Kickstarter.

Is it possible to put the Savage Worlds playlist in numerical order?

I run Deadlands where we meet in person to play. We use 3d printed sixshooter cylinders and little printed bullets. When the players shoot their gun they pull out a bullet. Players who have atypical weapons, like a LeMat, have requested custom props (easy to do if you have access to a 3d printer). There is something about having a physical prop that makes keeping track of ammo fun.

Me and my group play in the star wars setting and how we track ammo is we significantly reduce the ammo pool our weapons have ( I thing the highest is 5 boxes), but whenever a one is roll for shooting on any die your ammo goes down by one. It makes higher RoF more risk/reward and puts a bit more emphasis on increasing your shooting skill. I don’t know if this would work in all settings but it's a good way we found considering you don't really see anyone reloading in star wars.

Hi! I have a suggestion that I am about to use in my game. When you action card is a clubs, if you shoot this turn you will run out of ammo (it could be used for arrows also). You can use a bennie to avoid this effect (or to draw another action card as usual). I think this is faster and smoother to apply and also gives the player a chance to have some control of this situation. He can draw a clubs and decide not to shoot this turn, or to shoot and use a bennie to keep shooting next round, or to shoot and use a action or multi-action to reload/acquire new ammo if possible.

I love the idea of the D6 tracker, simply because depending of a critical failure could be too sudden, ammunition should build up tension

And D&D players consider the Cavalier fighter an effective tank ... 🤣 One critique: you really should either make certain you have all the pertinent information available up front, or splice it in later in editing. People who haven't yet had the chance to pick up the Fantasy Companion (like me!!!) will have a lot of trouble understanding parts of the build if info like that is missing. And it's not like I haven't *TRIED* to get my hands on the Fantasy book. Hard copies just seem damn near impossible to find. 😡 So don't shrug it off with some comment about the missing inspiration "inspiring" people to go out and buy it. 😜

I think Ammo Counter from the preview of the Sci-Fi Compendium is going to be a necessity in this when it releases. Rapid Fire with a revolver will almost fully drain the weapon in a single action. AC will give you three actions per hand between reloads. The math is similar with the Uzi or Thompson

It's a build I enjoy, too. Especially fun with high-ROF pistols.

Character building is legit so fun on this game, you can feel the effects of every edge right on the bat

Navigating licenses working on my setting and this is the most useful video I've seen yet!

This may be my favorite official setting that I'll never get to the table. Other than maybe at a con.

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Thanks for the video. My online group is dipping it's toes in different systems (our pf1 campaign through 3 years imploded on player drama) and are getting through a Burning Wheel campaign, so I kinda wanna try Savage for our next experiment.

I really liked this one! I've always been interested conceptually in a Tank/CC thing, but haven't seen it in the few years I've been playing. Good stuff!

Good stuff! Thanks for the build!

Build videos would be awesome! Going into the mechanics for sure but also I think adding some flavor to things, since SWADE is such a blank canvas

I would absolutely love to see more build videos.

A couple of corrections, Defender is a Seasoned edge, and both arcane resist and fleet footed are background so don't work with the fighter edge, doh! Threw this together at the last minute last week so hopefully it didn't come off to jumbled...😵

Awesome!!!

Would love to see a bunch more build videos, I learned or was reminded about a bunch of game mechanics I often (as a GM) overlook and forget to remind my players about. A couple of (hopefully) constructive criticisms for your next outline: 1) Don't start out listing so many caveats, instead frame the build as what it is designed for, and let players adapt it to their own needs. For example, you could frame this build as a Fantasy Campaign fighter who draws enemy attacks away from their allies, and describe in general their methodology. Though I do like your commentary that a lot of the Fantasy Companion features are portable to other campaigns. 2) up-front two or three key interactions you're designing the build around, and mention the 2 or 3 important traits (skills, edges, abilities) the build needs. THEN break it down into sections, like ability scores, edges, and gear. 3) Slow down a bit. Each part of this video is helpful and educational, and has almost-equal merit to the rest. Don't rush so much like you're trying to get through each section in a hurry. Give people time to hear and absorb what you're saying. Illustrate your bullet points (the graphical sections where you show the text from the book are *super* helpful). If someone wants to speed up the video, they can literally do that by increasing the speed of video playback, but slowing things down doesn't work so well. For some of us, it makes it a bit harder to follow along if you're speaking so quickly. In general, I really found this video more helpful than a lot of the other videos where you guys pick a single topic and circle around it randomly. A "build" or "character concept" approach like this gives you a really good outline to build a discussion around, helps players by teaching them how they can use the game mechanics to emulate the story roles they might want to emulate, and helps GMs like me see how these rules are going to interact with our Wild Cards and Extras. The more structured your video, the easier it is for me to follow along and learn from, particularly when you bring graphics and lists to the party to help reinforce your points with visuals I'll see when I'm looking things up in the game books myself.

It was the Tests video where you mentioned a tank build video ;)

Except for superheroes, SWADE is just enough for anything! Reasons? Watch the video, all my tought were mentioned! ;)

Thankyou

I don't have the most experience with SW, although i really like it, but i feel that the rulebook could focus a bit more on *How* to create mechanics for a setting, like you do in this video Like on how to create rulesets, how to adjust exsisting edges, how to create new edges, that sort of things

This is one video I was waiting for, because sometimes I feel to be one of the few who thinks that a game should be perfectly playable and enjoyable with just its core book and it's good to see that other people think it this way. Don't get me wrong, it's good to have many choices at your disposal, whether they are adventures, settings, companions, etc. Not everyone has the time to craft a campaign all by themselves and those works are (supposedly) done by professionals, hence better than the average player's. That's great, but sometimes you risk to be encumbered by all those books out there (aka over abundance of manuals at the table, it doesn't matter if their are paper or virtual ones), not to mention the cost (quality has its price after all). And sometimes it sucks when you buy a manual just for those 20 pages you are interested in. That's why I love Savage Worlds. It gives you the freedom to choose whether you want to go core manual only or head for the valley of the 100 manuals, keeping the quality of the game intact whatever choice you make. As for me, I play a fantasy and a scifi campaign. For the former I use the core book, the fantasy companion (mainly for Powers, magic items and bestiary, with setting rules a close second, but I could avoid the Powers section if I had the updated SWADE core manual) and PSW Bestiary (since I play in the Realms, those monsters look closer to their D&D equivalent, but I plan on making a serious comparison among them and the one in the FC). For the latter, I only have the SWADE core manual and the old Interface Zero 2.0 manual (pdf received for free during the pandemic, but I only used it as a reference for gear, Hindrances and Edges). I'm waiting for the Sci-Fi Companion to be available for us non backers, because I'm expecially curious about gear, spaceships and related rules (I love spaceships ^^) and of course Hindrances and Edges to add to my list. No setting manuals, as you can see, I prefer to use those of IP I like and to either tweak them to SWADE (if they already have their rpg) or to Savage them (if they don't have, at least to my knowledge, an official rpg).

A lot of great reminders and suggestions. Not that it'll stop me from buying interesting settings, of course.

You keep saying no need for a setting. Everything has a setting (even homebrew). You just don't need a setting book. 😃

I run my Fantasy game using just basic SWADE and some homebrew additions of my own (I made some free abilities the player gets at certain ranks depending on their Arcane Background, or if they don't have one). It's going quite well. There's no need for more than that, really. SW is so flexible and modular that you can easily homebrew up anything you need. I'm actually making spell scrolls and other fun consumables as rewards, for example. :P

I like to piece together a mech ruleset by using the size chart, Arcane backgrpunds and Edges, haven't done play test but it's a nice exercise!

"you don't have to buy a setting for gear"... Me running Savage Rifts... 😅 Savage Pathfinder seems to be a good setting to transition players coming from D20 space.

Best advice ever!

Hmmmm ill have to check it out

This has been worth every penny of the KS so far. Looking forward to you picking it apart when the final draft is released.

I decided maybe a month ago I want to do a sci fi SW game. Googled it and saw this was kickstarting for next year. AGH! So long! lol. Love this deep dive, this reminds me of my HS days when we took stuff from all the books to use in our games (but these rules are undoubtedly better!) Thanks for the deep dive, looking forward to the deeper dives!

Hi! A video about using Savage Worlds Adventure generators would be awesome. Thank you for your work.

Cannot wait for your deep dives into this one.

Back it early, back it often.

More options, more monsters! Always good stuff

I get a lot of Dragonlance vibes from your campaign, which is good since I want to offer Savage Worlds as one of alternatives to 5e, once I finish a campaign in that, includig for Dragonlance games.

RIP headphone users when the opening music hits.

Running combat as a new SW GM has been an awful and boring slog. This type of video helps you break out of the D&D mindset.

That was one of your better videos. Thanks. More like this. I do better with short content on topics. I'd love to play in your game someday. I thought about it and another recomendation I have is to give the Wild Cards the Nerves of Steel (an edge name I don't like) and this ignores a wound penalty so you don't have to spend bennies on soaking but still keep the villian, who often at a disadvantage due to action economy, effective in the final combat.

I have had groups of extras do group rolls in melee against the pc’s. One fighting roll and add their exact number minus one for gang up (up to four of course). They only get one damage roll however, but often get to roll it at that high of a bonus. It’s messy, but it’s quicker than rolling individually for twenty extras in a scene and then having to wake your players up to tell them when they should soak. High level play also has the same potential of time bloating that some other RPG’s do: as fun as it might be to have four actions a round by your villain doing lower spirit/fear/frenzy/taunt, just try to keep it simple.

Quick Encounter Combat is really a godsend, honestly. That and minimizing Mook rolls by having them all do the same thing so you get 1 trait roll and maybe 1-2 damage rolls.

These sound good advices, though I must admit that I've used only some of them (group rolls, quick encounters, Resilient rather than overhigh Thoughness). Coincidentally, the ones that I used take advantage of the options available in the core manual, which means that the developers did their job well. As for the one about inviting players to take a decision within a reasonable time, I've started using it back in my 5e days, because sometimes we had ridiculous situations were thinking about the next move in combat would take almost the same time as the combat round itself. I now put a time limit when deciding what to do in combat (from 30 to 60 sec, depending on the situation and including talking with the other players). The one about MAP is a new and cool one, but I think that players who like to optimize the results will always take some time, no matter how quick we try to make the game go ^^". Finally, as my personal suggestion, I can add that I've always skipped minis in favour of drawing on the map or using generic tokens. Picking up the right minis among dozens of them can consume quite a lot of them, but drawing enemies and PC on the map (we use Pathfinder Flip Mat Basic Terrain with wet markers) is far quicker and easier. Going beyond that (drawing combatants can make the drawn room confusing), we now use generic plastified tokens, where we can write what's needed and then, after wiping the writing out, they can be quickly used again. Hope this may help someone out there ^^.

Quick Encounters are quite possibly the most important tool in the GM's box for keeping the game moving. Not just combat either. They're invaluable for when the players decide to color outside the lines, for keeping a convention game from going over its time slot, and a whole bunch of other things I'm not thinking of right now.