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The Eagle is Down

2011-01-04T22:55:00.000-08:00

The Eagle is Down is an adventure for Savage Torg. Designed for a new party of Novice characters, it sets the characters in a race against time through the Living Land to rescue the President and other passengers of the downed Air Force One.

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Savage Wheel of Time

2010-07-16T01:55:00.000-07:00

Robert Jordan's epic fantasy series is easily one of the best in the genre. I played the d20 game a while ago, but since that is no longer supported (and the concept of classes and levels rubs me the wrong way in general) I decided to try my hand at converting the Wheel of Time for Savage Worlds.

I own the rights to none of this material. It is a fan conversion only and not meant for profit.

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Character Sheets for Savage Worlds

2008-07-11T10:12:00.000-07:00

My goal in creating these sheets was to present a pleasing, complete character sheet that has everything one might need on one single side of the paper, including an area for a character picture (something I always crave). When trying to fit all that information on one page, it can be a challenge to find room enough for all the Powers, equipment, etc. one might have. Space was further limited by my decision to present all the skills instead of just leave a few blank fields to be filled in by the user. To me it just seems more formal that way.

Designing these sheets took me about six hours from start to finish, using an old Mac program called Appleworks v.6. I wanted to be as conservative with space as possible, so you'll find smaller fonts and less white space than in some other sheets. I hope the end result is pleasing.

Try eight different designs:
SAVAGE
SERENGETI
LAGOON
CAIRO
CHROME
NILE
UNDERWORLD
MAGMA
SAHARA
BLACK & WHITE

As usual, the character sheets are copyright Brian Reeves 2008. Please feel free to host them elsewhere as long as they are not altered and are given my attribution. Thanks!

Savage V-Mods

2008-02-04T01:10:00.000-08:00

"V-Mods" stands for vehicle mods, additions and adaptations that can be added to vehicles to give them new capabilities. A mod could be added to cars to make them more armored, for example, or to add the ability to leave smoke screens or have hidden storage areas. Each modifier costs a money based on the overall cost of the vehicle.

Any kind of vehicle can be added on in this way, things from cars and trucks to planes and boats. Even bicycles or skateboards could be "modded," if the choices make sense? Drop this into your Savage Worlds game to provide your players with some new stuff to spend their money on, or to give vehicle-driving villains some new, surprising goodies.

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Graduated Powers

2008-01-02T04:58:00.000-08:00

This is a work in progress, and is in need of some review.

The Powers system in Savage Worlds is great because it is very versatile, allowing characters with spells, psionics, weird science, etc. to choose from a unified list. It makes sense and there is something very orderly about it. However, the lack of an ability to improve upon those powers is something I've always wished could be implemented.

Below is a document in rough draft form that takes the basic Powers and expands them so that each Power has an effect that grows more powerful as the caster increases in Rank. Thus, depending on what Rank you are, your use of (for example) Bolt will change, getting better as you gain experience.

To do this, I've expanded out all the Powers, including ones not normally available to Novices, so that someone of any Rank can take them and use them to some degree. Here's a quick example of what I mean:

Fly
Novice: Cost 1, Range Touch, Duration 3 (1/round). Allows character to hover in place. Cannot move in any direction under own volition, but can be blown or pushed.
Seasoned: Cost 2, Range Touch, Duration 3 (1/round). Allows character to levitate up or down at Pace. Cannot move laterally, but can be blown or pushed.
Veteran: Cost 3, Range Touch, Duration 3 (1/round). Allows character to fly at Pace, or Pace x2 for double Power Point cost.
Heroic: Cost 4, Range Touch, Duration 3 (1/round). Allows character to fly at Pace x2, or Pace x4 for double Power Point cost.
Legendary: Cost 5, Range Touch, Duration 3 (1/round). Allows character to fly at Pace x4, or Pace x8 for double Power Point cost.

It does make them a little more powerful, especially at Legendary, but here are a couple other things to consider:

• With this system, it becomes much easier for gamemasters to limit magic for low-magic worlds. Just say spells can't be cast beyond Novice or Seasoned.
• A graduated system like this solves one of the problems with superpowers, namely that they don't get better as the character gains experience. Now, a superhero with the ability to create fire (Elemental Manipulation) will see his potency, and what he can do with his Power, increase as time goes on.
• It collapses a couple spells together that should be together anyway, like Healing and Greater Healing, making the list a little cleaner.
• It gives more options for those who are taking Powers.
• It makes some Powers, like Elemental Manipulation, more useful.
• It doesn't require a new mechanic, new rule, or new Edge to work.

Since this document is still being tested, I especially welcome observations about Powers being balanced or the rate of advancement for them.

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Island Rituals

2008-01-02T04:33:00.000-08:00

(Update: Savage Obeah is finally finished! It has been refined with further information and a revision of material from the earlier draft.)

As a fan of mixtures of horror, magic, and pirates (such as Tim Powers' excellent novel, On Stranger Tides, soon to be made into the sequel to the Pirates of the Caribbean movies), the one thing I felt has been missing from the Pirates of the Spanish Main Savage Setting is some sort of dark magic. It was left out of the sourcebook intentionally, as traditional spellcasting doesn't fit the setting well. I agree, though when I found Clint Black's article on Rituals in Shark Bytes #2, I realized here was a great way of introducing the supernatural.

Island Rituals takes a look at vodoun (voodoo, as it is commonly known) and obeah, a type of folk magic from the Caribbean, with a similar pedigree to voodoo and Santeria. These rules are designed specifically for Pirates of the Spanish Main, but they can work for any game that uses low-level magic focusing on curses and small effects, especially those that take place in the Caribbean or have characters from the West Indies.

More basic information on obeah can be found on Wikipedia.

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Savage Cyberware

2007-12-31T19:55:00.000-08:00

One thing the Savage Worlds system is missing is cyberware. A couple good documents exist out there to cover them, but they didn't meet my needs. The Sci-Fi Toolkit, by the prolific Wiggy, has good rules but not enough cyberware (he prefers to take the minimalist approach, covering multiple cybernetic implants under one category). William Littlefield's "Savage Cybertek" is also good, but since that system has cyberware as gear and Edges, each implant is more powerful than I'd like. My system treats each implant as one piece of gear, but a single Edge is required to install them. The rules are followed by a pretty long and comprehensive list of cyberware. It has worked well for my Savage Torg campaign.

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Savage Wuxia

2007-12-31T19:43:00.000-08:00

Wuxia (pronounced woo-shya) is the style of high-flying, epic martial arts from Chinese movies like Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon and House of Flying Daggers. It covers a type of martial arts that Clint Black's excellent Modern Martial Arts doesn't.

Updated March 2010 with a total overhaul, replacing the wonky Arcane Background-based Wuxia with an Edge-based system, getting rid of a couple techniques that were redundant or too powerful, and cleaning it up overall. Those who prefer Wuxia as an Arcane Background may still find that write-up in a past issue of Shark Bytes.

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Savage Torg

2007-12-31T19:01:00.000-08:00

Updated Dec. 2010: simplified cyberware, rituals and wuxia, expanded information about optional realms, redesigned world map, added Cyberpapacy and eliminated Tharkold, general editing.

The first document I created is for the campaign I ran during 2007. This takes the old West End Games favorite from the early 90s, Torg, and updates it to use the Savage Worlds system. As someone who loves Torg, I did this only because the game is long-dead (12 years since anything published, and counting), and the current copyright holder doesn't seem interested in releasing the new edition anytime soon. Getting people to play a dead game is hard -- much harder then getting them to try something other than d20, which itself is really hard. So I made this file. Sorry to any fellow Torg-philes out there. But the world is too good to go unplayed just because of the system.

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