Savage Worlds: Adventure, Fast & Furious (A Review)
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 27 พ.ค. 2023
- Savage Worlds is a fast, genre-neutral, system which has a good amount of depth with medium crunch. If you like exploding dice, simple resolution mechanics, and tactical combat this is a game you want to check out!
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00:55 Book Design
03:37 Layout and Design
11:13 Building a Character
15:18 Ability Rolls
17:35 Combat
22:17 About Powers
24:11 Conclusion - เกม
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SWADE is my go to system. It really is easy to learn, has enough crunch, and can do almost any setting. Thanks for spending time on reading it, making a superb review on the layout, and a good review on rules.
Thanks! I’m looking forward to playing it at some point soon.
Thanks for the kind review. I did the graphic design of the book. I also geek out on font choices :)
Oh wow! That’s awesome! I’d love to chat with you about your work!
@@DMTalesTTRPG sure...any time :)
Would you mind sending me the best way to contact you through my website form? I’m taking a breather in July but would love to connect!
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@@KarlKeesler watching this review, he is a really bag fan of yours! 😂 This has some heavy graphic design review, and you did do an amazing job!! Great review also!
Ribbons are coming with the 5th Printing (in pre-order now)!
That’s awesome!
Great video! Much more polished and "professional" than mine. I really liked your analysis of the layout as well.
Your videos are pretty amazing, sir. Don’t you forget it.
Great review. I love how you did not just focus on the rules but also the layout, the typeface, the physical book itself, etc.
Thank you! Things like layout and book construction fascinate me so I am ALWAYS happy when folks appreciate that. For more more recent reviews I’ve move those sections more toward the end, but it’s still a big part of my reviews for me!
Savage Worlds is one of those systems I've always wanted to try but never got the chance. Along with about 1000 other systems.
soooooo many games.
Savage Worlds is a great system if you want to only learn one system but play a ton of games in different worlds. I played it exclusively back in its older "Explorer's Edition" for about 2 years, and it was great. As I've become a pdf rulebook hoarder, it's now usually at the bottom of my list as there is always a new shiny that I want to play with.
As much as my inner geek loves differents kinds of Rpgs with work, house, kids I simply don't have time and energy to "check out" and play every new Rpg anymore. That is why I love Savage. Read it /Teach it **once** then play...anything. It's the last Rpg you'll buy.
New setting? Everyone at the table being familiar speeds things up soooo much. You can then concentrate on the important things.
Clever Roleplay is rewarded with Bennies.(not just joker)
So if you want excel in combat, (like in: not die) 😂 you have to put in some effort in your RP.
The three genre-less systems I’ve reviewed all have that going for it. I’m becoming a fan.
I'm in complete agreement. SW does just about anything you can imagine for RPG settings. It's Fast, Fun and Furious. My favourite thing is that it is so easy to create your opponents, being quite clear that your NPCs don't need the prerequisites for Edges that your PCs do. I doubt that I'll ever need another set of rules and I've been using SW for 10+ years.
Funny, for me it's not an issue of no longer having the energy to check out new games. It's having the time to actually play a game, let alone a campaign, of a new game. So I collect and read and put stuff on the shelf and wipe away a little tear.
Good review! I got the SWADE core rules at the beginning of the year and have been looking forward to getting it to the table. I too love systems that can handle different genres; it's appropriate that you're looking at ICRPG now as well. I cut my GM teeth on ICRPG and I think Hankerin absolutely nailed the balance between simplicity and mechanics. It feels to me like SWADE takes the simple, fast and intuitive spirit of ICRPG and provides a library of options to add mechanical crunch and flavor to suit their concepts/settings. "Options" being the key concept here - SWADE is a comprehensive toolbox for GMs to run whatever kind of game they like!
That’s an interesting insight. Thanks!
And thanks for watching!
I like Savage Worlds and most generic systems because I can then be creative and build what I want to play.
Yah, I’ve now reviewed three genre-less systems and am just getting started with ICRPG. It opens up possibilities to do genre-jumping adventures without changing mechanics, and I LIKE that idea.
Good Overall, I think the explanation on how damage was done as graceful as you can. I feel that it is a great system but it's difficult to explain with out examples. Good job covering it. Again if you want to do a live stream one shot let me know.
Yah, let’s work that out.
Good overview. One correction; drawing a joker explicitly only award player characters bennies as per p. 89.
I stand corrected. Thanks!
Oh, also, Jokers signal that you reshuffle the deck. It's super interesting, because unlike rolling a die where you can get any number every time, there are only so many 8s and Aces. And if the high cards are used, the low cards ARE coming. Except that the deck does occasionally shuffle and reset, and when that happens is a random 2 out of 54. In practice, it's not super significant. But it's mathematically quirky.
@taejaskudva2543 quirky is good! I need to run this system.
@DMTalesTTRPG It’s a pretty darned good system. Probably the easiest system I've found to customize and homebrew into damned near anything. I've used it for 1920's Era pulp adventure, sci-fi, Old West, modern crime drama, superheroes, cyberpunk, modern military, modern horror, and a high fantasy airship campaign. It did all without a whole lot of issues. It may not have been the best system for each genre, and it can get mechanically repetitive if you play enough, but it transitions between genres so easily and it's so easy to learn that it's at least worth playing a couple campaigns with.
@@Jimalcoatl it is, by far, the most loved system people play whenever I’ve held an event. The combination of dead simple mechanics, cool role play opportunities, and fast tactile action is a winner!
SWADE is my favorite system. It is really fun and versitile. The superheroes is not ideal but I still like it. Otherwise, I really love this system.
Nice! It is definitely on my "to run” list.
I love Savage Worlds!
I want to run this soon!
Weirdly, I got my copy of SWAdE at an FLGS, and it does have ribbon book marks, same as my friend's fancy leatherette special edition. But mine's just the regular book, other than the ribbons. Don't know how that happened....
They came out with a new printing a couple of months after I got my copy, and it had ribbons. I was so bummed!
But my Fantasy companion has THREE.
Looks interesting, but it might be too savage for me.
You kings and your claims to “civilization.”
@@DMTalesTTRPG lol.
What settings do you think would be a a good fit for Savage Worlds?
Pretty much anything. They’ve got pretty much all the typical settings as books now!
One of the best is western fantasy for me! But it’s so fluid
I have never played a weird west game….hmmmm
@@DMTalesTTRPG - Their Deadlands setting is pretty cool and has been around for awhile so the latest Adventure Edition version has been long refined. I still have various Savage World settings from the previous edition of SW which require very little conversion too. Some of my favorites being cyberpunk (Interface Zero, with new AE version also sometime soon), fantasy (Hellfrost), and Solomon Kane to name just a few of the many.
@@NefariousKoel awesome! I’m working on my review of the SWADE Fantasy Companion right now.