...and I've always been confused at the people who are "shaken locked". You aren't helpless and without actions. You just need to walk/crawl/roll back for a round to get it together. You still get actions and most of your abilities. You just don't get to punch back.

Ah well. So Spirit is now officially the dump stat. So be it.

I get the idea that some players really didn't like not having the opportunity to act, but you could use always use a bennie to simply not be shaken. Sure, you may be low on bennies, but if you are, maybe you should run away. :)  Getting beat up so bad that you can't do anything about it is one of the possible outcomes of getting into a fight and maybe you should have realized that before you started. You actually see this in MMA a lot: fighters get rocked, but while they still have enough of their wits about them to defend (no penalty to Parry while Shaken), they can't do much of anything else until they clear their head and/or get an opening.

I don't think the change makes Spirit a dump stat, since you still need to make your roll to get your full action, but it is less important than it used to be. Also, Combat Reflexes isn't as useful.

Rather than make it a global change, I'd rather see it as a Setting Rule.

You see it a LOT in like boxing. Where one guy is just getting pummelled, and all he can do is keep his guard up. Or like in the old cowboy westerns, when the good guy gets behind the bar, only the whole enemy gang opens fire, and all he can do is hug the ground while bottles explode all around him.

I've gotten stuck shaken a handful of times. Most of the time, the roll is easy to make, even if you don't get to act.

Spirit has always been only marginally useful. Almost no skills, and unless you are a wizard or face man, no reason to build it up. Now with only a 4 needed to unshake, you are rarely going to see more then a d6 in Spirit... and a LOT more d4s. Personally, I think it's a bad move on PEGs part. Ah, well.

I agree that Spirit is somewhat limited in use when rolling dice, but it is an important requirement for some Edges. Many of my characters have Elan, which is really useful. Spirit d8 is required.

Does anybody here have experience with Broken Earth?
I'm especially intrigued by the community generation/management system with narratively earned traits and edges for the community. That reminds me of the idea of treating everything as a character, from communities to vehicles, similar to the Fate Fractal.

Hello all, I have arrived! All shall bow or perish before my might!
Muhahahaha!

Ahem, or we could just chat amicably. Whichever.

So, I have discovered The Savage World of My Little Pony, and I'm curious if any if you have had the chance to play it, and if so, what are your thoughts?

Link?

Linky! I hope,
http://giftkrieg23.deviantart....th-Edition-347963248

Thanks. I don't know how I feel about the Feats of Strength and Feats of Daring, since they seem completely out of place for 2 of the lead canon characters.

So any new setting that's out or coming along that folks are excited about?

I've been pondering getting Lankhmar but as 100% of my Savage Worlds gaming is here, I'm not sure if I want to spend the $$$.

So far for physical printed books there are only the three:

• Eris Beta-V
• Scientorium
• Leviathan

Correct?



They just shipped from pre-order status so they must be on store shelves by now.

So, I wonder what this is about:
http://www.frpgames.com/cart.p...=112999#.VaKcq1QVhBc

Last Parsec Core Rulebook coming out October.

Excited to hear an official Flash Gordon RPG coming out for Savage Worlds!

Neat! Do you have a link to the company making Flash Gordon for SW? Is there an estimated date for when it is expected to be released?

Directly from Pinnacle

http://www.peginc.com/forum/vi....php?p=434807#434807

That is going to be awesome. I think Savage Worlds is the right system for Flash Gordon.

Yeah, I agree. It should be good.

Howdy folks, new to the board, and loving Savage Worlds.

In reply to Silver (msg # 36):

Howdy!
You are in good company.

Welcome! Whacha been doing with Savage Worlds that's got you so excited? We love hearing good gaming stories. :D

(That's three sentences I've started with the letter 'w' in a row. ... Weird.)

My room mate and I have been doing small adventures, together tabletop, using horror working with Urban Legends, and its been very fun, we use a mixture of some of the stuff from Ripper, Horror, and East Texas U stuff.

Awesome thing I still remember about Savage Worlds. About six years ago I was in a savage worlds game and my friend rolled 35 n a d4. It was epic yet sad because the extra successes didn't help at all.


Quick question, what are your favorite things about savage worlds as a system?

I would have to say they versatility of it, we can make just about anything, it is like Gurps, but with less need to be a mathematician.

I just went and bought All for One: Regime Diabolique. It is about Musketeers battling evil monsters in 1630's France. It looks AWESOME and I am eagerly getting a game together. This post is just bragging mostly.

I keep seeing these great settings pop up. I've got Deadlands Noir, Weird War Rome, ETU and others just collecting dust so I stopped buy stuff as I'm not playing the settings I've already got.

Savage Worlds hits a sweet spot of generality/versatility, intuitiveness (for me, at least), and ease of play that I also enjoyed from Cinematic Unisystem, BESM, and similar medium-weight games.

My single favorite sub-system from Savage Worlds is initiative, which just faster and smoother than most games.