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Showing posts with label Savage Worlds. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Savage Worlds. Show all posts
Monday, November 25, 2019

The Square Deal Saloon

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Started a new RPG campaign just recently. The setting is more-or-less that of Shadows of Brimstone meets HBO's Deadwood. Two of the PCs ...
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Friday, December 17, 2010

The Armchair Musketeer

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Last night I played in a superhero RPG loosely based on "Mystery Men", in that we were supposed to play incompetent superheroes. T...
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Thursday, April 29, 2010

Savagely Tricky

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Here's what the Savage Worlds rule book should have said about Tricks, but didn't: Tricks are only really worth it if your characte...
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Friday, March 19, 2010

Core Clues ported to Savage Worlds

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This started as a short tangent in my last post* (about using Gumshoe's "Core Clues" in Warhammer FRP), and grew long enough t...
Wednesday, January 20, 2010

Creeping up on sentries

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We all make mistakes while gaming. I've made plenty. There are times where craziness happens, or where one mistake leads to another. Hin...
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Monday, January 11, 2010

Savage Boomerang

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I have a player in my irregular Savage Worlds fantasy campaign whose character uses a boomerang. Just for flavor reasons, the boomerang is h...
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Saturday, December 5, 2009

Fantasy Companion Bullets

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More than a month ago, I picked up the Savage Worlds Fantasy Companion, and recently used elements from several chapters for my thanksgiving...
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Wednesday, November 18, 2009

Burning the Clocktower, Damming the Gulch

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For the majority of this year, I was running a Deadlands Reloaded game, a campaign entitled "Guns of Shallow Gulch". I ended it se...
Sunday, September 13, 2009

Why I don't like starting at Seasoned

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Thursday night I played in the second half of a really good Savage Worlds short-shot where the PCs were Seasoned-level characters. Before go...
Tuesday, August 25, 2009

Crunchometer and Savage Worlds / Deadlands Reloaded

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My current Deadlands Reloaded game is moving towards a storyline climax after which we will change systems, and possibly just do something e...
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Monday, August 17, 2009

Petrified PCs

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I killed a character this weekend. I haven't done so in a while - at least not to a character that wasn't in a one-shot. Every so of...
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Tuesday, July 7, 2009

Naked Savages

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I ran some more Savage-Worlds-in-Dungeons-&-Dragons-clothing this weekend. It was a really incredibly good session. Here's some high...
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Wednesday, June 3, 2009

Recent Thoughts On Savage Worlds

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A friend of mine recently stumbled across an old post from October where I lamented the dice mechanics of Savage Worlds and how there wasn...
Monday, May 11, 2009

The Red Right Hand (vs The Adventure Deck)

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Yesterday's Deadlands game ran long, but it was well worth it. The PCs caught up with Cobb and "possed up" with him, ostensibl...
Monday, April 27, 2009

Deputized by Adventure Cards

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Okay, that headline's neither fair nor accurate. The players in my Deadlands campaign did an astounding job of deputizing themselves ye...
Friday, March 6, 2009

GM set to overload

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That whistling sound you hear in the background is just me, not a Phaser set on self-destruct / overload. Close enough, though. Sunday: 1st ...
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Monday, March 2, 2009

Blessed Be

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Sunday afternoon was the first session of my Deadlands Reloaded campaign. A few observations: Blessed freakin' rock. I knew that they ...
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Wednesday, February 25, 2009

Relearning How To Breathe

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When I ran Continuum, I had to largely give up the notion of controlling the pacing of the game. Players were time-travellers, and could bop...
Tuesday, February 24, 2009

Cop-Out on page 173

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Savage Worlds is a great system, and Deadlands is a great setting, and both are great games. In general, they're very well written. That...
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Friday, February 20, 2009

Savagepedia

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I posted some of my house-rules for Savage Worlds to Savagepedia today. It's a Savage Worlds wiki. Everything I posted there was already...