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As a resident Savage Worlds fan girl, I would say it's fun, but not very tactical. The combat is over extremely quickly and, since the system is based on exploding dice, can have wildly inconsistent results with weak mooks outperforming their bosses based on their lower die type having a higher chance of rolling max and exploding. The Dramatic Tasks system is great for non-combat challenges, and that sort of dynamic non-combat gameplay is what keeps drawing me in, but if you're trying to run a very tactical, realistic game it's not quite the right system, even though it has a lot of the pieces for a good urban fantasy setting (I honestly think it handles modern/urban fantasy very very well, even relative to games that are specifically for that).

As for the magic system, the flavor is entirely up to personal preference, with many powers being determined by player-chosen trappings rather than a hard set of rules on how magic works, leaving most of that footwork up to the GM if you're trying to flavor the magic of a setting. I've really enjoyed how the game does powers because of the freedom it allows with writing villains and such, but it can be hard to keep track of sometimes. There's more of that sort of stuff in the Fantasy Companion, but it's more complex to adapt to a modern setting, since it's expecting something closer to a heroic medieval fantasy flavor with D&D-esque classes.

I've found myself quite drawn to the aesthetic of modern military urban fantasy shenanigans like you see in Tactical Breach Wizards, where plate carriers have runic protections and wizard staves are built into rifle frames, and I'm looking for an RPG that lends itself well to tactical military gameplay with a hard-flavored magic system.

At the moment I'm looking at cooking something up with Savage Worlds, but do you have a better idea?

I'm not sure if it's a better idea, but if you're feeling particularly old school, the exact intersection of sword-and-sorcery fantasy and military science fiction is squarely the comfort zone of GURPS.

(Indeed, much of GURPS' putative universality stems from the fact that a great many things people want to do with tabletop RPGs can be approximated as a reskin of sword-and-sorcery fantasy meets military science fiction. Not nearly all, but enough!)

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every time i see someone call kirk and spock the oldest ship, i'm filled with the urge to go "hmm actually the holmes and watson girlies have been here for a hundred years now", and i refrain because i know the natural conclusion of this game is gilgamesh and enkidu

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“average person eats 3 spiders a year” factoid actualy just statistical error. average person eats 0 spiders per year. Spiders Georg, who lives in cave & eats over 10,000 each day, is an outlier adn should not have been counted

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I will blame third-party voters

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god I would be UNSTOPPABLE if I was capable of consistently initiating tasks. just you wait. you'll be waiting a while but just you wait

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it’s been long enough i’m making an executive decision that we all need to go reread the tgi fridays infinite mozzarella sticks article

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happy sleepy bitch saturday

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We'll stand together. 💕

Scary and stressful couple of days... it might be really difficult for awhile, but I know we're going to get through it ❤️

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I just got described as an "ad hating commie" by someone because I said a minute of youtube ads is unpleasant. fully spent 5 minutes arguing and defending youtube ads. insane stuff

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This too shall pass but like holy fuck

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laurie 😔

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my favourite thing in english subtitles for asian dramas is when the translation is constantly talking about chess when we can see with our own eyeballs that the actual game being played is go

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sorry that i ended two consecutive messages with "lmao." i don't know why i did that. it looks really dumb doesn't it. i'll edit one to get rid of it. you can end my stupid pathetic life if you want

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i cannot wait to financially afford who i really am

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The funny thing to me about those "the combat drugs we give to the mech pilots make you grow boobs" hornyposts is that this legitimately is a known side effect of a wide range of drugs and medications. Just about any non-trivial chemical imbalance can potentially make you grow boobs. Breast growth is a known symptom of alcoholism. Some male bodybuilders experience female-typical breast development as a side effect of steroid use. Even kidney problems can induce breast growth. The human body is evidently just itching to grow boobs!

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as a phrase, “she [x] on my [x] til’ i [x]” only is funny if on either side of a spectrum. either the phrase ends so specific to a sexual action it’s a smart joke (for example, “she strogan me off til i beef” uses the word “beef stroganoff’ but also makes a “stroking off” joke, making it clever wordplay.) or it makes so little sense that it ends up funny from the absurdity of deciphering what type of sexual action could even be taking place. (example: when my roomate the other night asked to hand them a sanpelligrino and then said “she san on my pelli til’ i grino” which begs the question of what ‘sanning’ is, what a ‘pelli’ repersents in terms of human genitalia and what ‘grinoing’ could possibly be.)