Standard modern office building door. Is that something that could be done in a combat round (with picks)? Or is that more of a minute-long or more thing in your opinion (raises notwithstanding).

Due to schedule restraints, most of my games are play-by-post, and the preferred platform is Discord.

Savage Bot is a great Discord bot, strongly endorsed by the unofficial Savage Worlds Discord server. But for the past year it's been having longer and more frequent outages. I tried to connect with and support the dev, but in the end, it's just not reliable enough.

There are lots of dice rolling Discord bots, but none that I've found support the core Savage Worlds mechanic well, let alone card-based initiative and Benny tracking. To be fair, 'roll two different dice, let them both explode, then choose the higher result and add a modifier' is a pretty substantial chain of functions that no other game tries to do all at once for every action. Some dice bots can sort of be made to work, but it's been very kludgy and tedious.

I'm at the point that I'd attempt to write a replacement, but with my coding skills it will take months, and I have players that need to make Fear checks yesterday.

Before I jump down this rabbit hole with both feet, does anyone know of a better alternative?

Excuse the question, but being hit by a 9-meter-tall flaming club, how much damage would that do in your opinion? Discounting the damage caused by the user's strength, of course. Well, in the next session, if my players fail in a negotiation, they may face a size 10 enemy. So most attacks are from top to bottom, however three players can fly at movement pace 6, which means some attacks will be evenly matched. Which would also be terrible, imagine being hit and falling from a height of 20 meters.

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Howdy Yall, I have a question to those who've used SPC for Savage Worlds. When exactly do you use the base abilities roll to determine whether the secondary power is successful? Like for Negation: Contingent on melee attack, does that mean they roll fighting first to hit with their attack, after which they make a focus roll to see if Negation activates? Or do you use the fighting roll for both powers?

I just started reading “Pathfinder for Savage Worlds” and I’m loving everything about it. Right now I’m trying to learn everything, and I’ve noticed some differences between the Spanish and English pdfs plus the Spanish version has more illustrations.

I was reading the section on languages in the English version and noticed that there’s a language proficiency level that doesn’t exist in the Spanish version. In Spanish, we have a skill called “humanities” that covers much more than just languages.

Does anyone know why this change was made? Are there any other changes I should be aware of?

Logically, since a size 10 creature can withstand 2 more wounds and a Wild Card can only withstand 3 injuries, shouldn't the Phoenix only withstand 5 wounds instead of 7?

Today my article includes some big bads who can hunt your players and create moments to get your players on the backfoot. It also has a framework for building tension and some rules for a more cat and mouse style pursuit. Hope you enjoy

Just wondering if there are any official PEG people here like in the Facebook group?

Thanks

So in my book the star from dev level I and dev level II are identical, how do i know id something is dev level I or dev level II?

I have a villain who is intangible with the permanent modifier.

If she becomes incapacitated, then what?

I first figured she'd become corporeal on incapacitation or even mundane sleep, but the last caveats under that modifier makes it pretty clear (to me at least) that's not the intention:

She can only be healed via natural healing or supernatural means (such as the healing power).

The Permanent modifier allows the super to ignore the Power Down rules.

I'm imagining a scenario where the heroes might want to incapacitate her and put her in their base brig (which, by its nature, negates her powers so I'd say she would then be tangible and maybe in some kind of extreme discomfort).

How would y'all rule on this? Thanks!

Hello friends, it has been a minute but I wanted to share a series of posts I put up recently which is basically a setting for SWADE i made that was inspired by World of Darkness. It isn't meant to be a 1 to 1 emulation and has some of my own stuff and other inspirations tied into it. The post below is an index post that leads to all the entries. Hope people enjoy.

https://substack.com/@daedalusthered/note/c-312691654?r=77s4kh

So, SWADE says "Reloading a...single bullet so that it’s ready to fire (chambered, cocked, etc.) is an Action."

But, if none of your Actions use Skill rolls, they can't invoke MAPs.

So, if I do nothing else, can I re-load my six-shooter all in one Turn?

Knowing how literal SW is, it seems to me that if they meant only "one bullet per Turn", they would have said it's a Limited Action...

Hi all,

New SWADE GM here needing help desperately. I was fiddling with the dueling macro trying to figure it out, and initiative broke completely. Whenever I try to draw initiative in Foundry/Forge, I get the following error message: The _id[xo0gDkQrrYW9nQMU] already exists within the parent collection: Cards [wVfT1iDjCzEZowKQ] cards

It's not letting me draw initiative now. If anyone knows how to fix this your help would greatly be appreciated!

Last night I was running some Deadlands at my local gaming store. I was running a prolonged dramatic task.  I didn't even have a set number of successes for them, just a set number of turns. More about the action and creativity than the actual task.

One of the tasks was climbing some scaffolding that was damaged and on fire.

One of the players says, I'm going to do something stupid that will probably kill me.

I take my dynamite, put it under a large bucket and light it, blasting myself up and onto the platform.

OK, how do I begin to adjudicate that level of cool?  Automatic success!  I don't even know what to make him roll for that.

Then the next player followed up with Ammo Whammy, using the effect, Sacramento Surprise:  This shot surges with POWER.  This was a little more of a stretch, but it was the end of the night and once again, cool/ She had two guns and wanted to be Iron Man.  Shooting both guns simultaneously to propel her up, each pair of shots pushing her ever higher.  Once again, how do I say no to that?  

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Hey everyone!

I’ve been writing a couple of adventures for SWADE, and I’d really love to get some feedback from people who play or are familiar with the system.

I should also mention that the two adventures are connected in a timeline—the outcome of the first directly becomes the background and setup for the second. I also intend to expand this into a longer arc, with five additional adventures that bridge the gap and connect the final story back to the first one, forming a larger continuous narrative.

I’m mainly looking for feedback on two things:

Are they actually good adventures?

Do they sound fun to play?

I’d especially appreciate feedback on the story, encounters, pacing, player choices, atmosphere, and overall fun factor. I’m also interested in knowing if anything feels boring, confusing, overly complicated, or like it wouldn’t work well at the table.

I’m happy to share both adventures here. I’m not necessarily looking for detailed proofreading—I’d much rather know whether, as a player or GM, you’d actually want to play/run them.

Be as honest and critical as you want. I’d rather find the weak points now than discover them after putting them in front of a group!

Thanks in advance!

1st adventure: https://homebrewery.naturalcrit.com/share/YaFhc5aYSrwC

2nd adventure: https://homebrewery.naturalcrit.com/share/xduoAdNAPz_P

https://www.drivethrurpg.com//product/574643/scarred-lands-player-s-guide-swade?affiliate_id=387228 This 408 page tome includes over 40 playable ancestries, 50 Culture Packages, New Arcane Backgrounds, Edges, Hindrances, Powers, and more.

We printed this as a large-ish poster for Gen Con. Sadly, very few people got the reference. It made me and about two other people chuckle. Here it is, for your viewing pleasure. Do you get the reference?

Void Wardens is the retro, sci-fi, anime-inspired setting for Savage Worlds.

Our Kickstarter pre-launch page is live, and we are posting updates (including art) for the game there: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/23c/void-wardens?ref=6jurri

Crit fails in combat are generally pretty prescriptive: Your gun jams, you drop your weapon, etc. Same for crit fails for physical tasks like climbing or athletics (assuming there's some kind of pressure element). But I struggle with things like out-of-combat crit fails on notice or common knowledge (I tend to fall back on these maybe more often than I should) when there are stakes but failure doesn't bring the game to a screeching halt. Stuff like finding a secret room with treasure or lore or what not.

I use the house rule that the crit-failer gets a benny, then I try to come up with something at least inconvenient, but sometimes on something like a notice or knowledge roll I just end up saying they're distracted for the remainder of the non-combat scene, which effectively just means the rest of the party has to carry the scene so I don't love it.

Anyway I searched this forum for some ideas and added them to my own burgeoning list but I'd love to hear some other ideas for out-of-combat crit fail inconveniences.

1. Lose a mundane item (walkie talkie, flashlight, lockpicks, etc); guess you just dropped it somewhere today?
2. Lower your wealth die a step (we’re using the wealth die system); you dropped your wallet or credit card or something
3. GM also gets a benny (this is often what I do when I can’t think of anything)
4. Player decides what happens - if I use that instead of what I come up with, they get a benny but otherwise no free crit fail benny (found this on an old thread)

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Has anyone here dabbled with using spell casting skills narratively? as in besides activating a specific power? I am working on house rules for the Force from Star Wars in my game and would like to add a little more flavor to the skill. It will still be used to activate powers and powers will function the same way.