#Savage worlds

[oxventure]

SADDLE UP, PARTNERS! Welcome back to the Weird West! 🤠

🧨 Our five ne’er-do-wells have started their new life as a band of monster hunters for hire. But when mysterious forces threaten one of their own, it sets in motion a high-stakes adventure that they may not all survive.🐴 🌵

Deadlands Season Two arrives Friday, March 21st simultaneously on YouTube and the Oxventure Podcast!💀

Thanks to Colin Craker for this gorgeous art!

[anim-ttrpgs]

I'd love to know what some of the team's favourite indie ttrpgs are (apart from Eureka, of course. Otherwise, it'd be at the top of the list, I expect.)

Yes of course Eureka: Investigative Urban Fantasy, but for non-Eureka indie and small-press games, here are a few of the team's answers

@sirobvious:

Mothership. Hands-down.

@chaospyromancy:

mork borg

@ashweather:

Ash's Picks (AKA the "get more literate in the medium" pack) (Most of these are small- or medium-press not strictly indie but ya know)

Burning Wheel Seventh Sea (1st edition) Fate of the Norns: Ragnarok Mothership Don't Rest Your Head Troika! Hillfolk (aka DramaSystem) Savage Worlds Masks

@theblackwarden:

A Dirty World PATROL: The Trench Raiders Triangle Agency Paranoia Mothership A World of Dew

[laserbobcat]

This is Handbag, he's my swamp witch's dog. She's named Ka'ren, we've played our first pirate story session yesterday 👌 We're using the savage world system and we either had critical fails or wins, almost no in-between, it was amazing.

[noszle]

One of my favorite NPC's I ever designed. Obvious inspo from Alien in here and also some GW2 Mordrem vibes. Her name is Lok'Vash. She is about 8'3

[discodyke-dogthing]

discord please I need to be autistic about my TTRPG character can you stop shitting your pants

[lebuc]

nova

* she was is a nova.

an early stage cosmic entity on two legs

dispersing light & heat throughout our galaxy that we witnessed. *

none could touch only append, appreciate  from afar

hoping our fusion or fission would amass as the urgency of her mission:  *

making meaning from the nebulous ether

to emulate, to emanate -

to illuminate the heavens as did/does she. * 3/16 - 11/24 (reblog) - lebuc - nova

[theoutcastrogue]

Rogues in fantasy TTRPGs that aren't Dungeons & Dragons

Sometimes it's called Rogue, sometimes it's called Thief. It can be a class, or a template, or a sample build for a classless system. It can be pigeonholed to a couple of roles and specialties, or wide open to interpretations and extensive customisation.

But any self-respecting fantasy game, chock-full as it may be with mighty warriors and powerful wizards, needs a disreputable little shit: the rogue, the thief, the scoundrel, the one who strays. And it's a truly universal archetype. The people in the margins are the salt of the earth, and a setting without them is just… unseasoned.

"The thief gives us a chance to play someone closer to heart, someone who's not strong or possessed of magical talents, someone who has to rely on wit and stealth to survive. Someone, we can imagine, who might very well be just like us. And in being more like us, it's clear that the thief is not just a column of percentile chances to pick locks and disarm traps; she is blessed with as many different skills and appearances as there are crimes to be committed. And that's quite a lot." [x]

So here's a sneak peek at the Thief/Rogue in:

Shadowdark (2023) - gridmark and rules-light dungeoncrawl

Tales of the Valiant (2024) - a D&D 5e variant

Rolemaster Unified (2022) - famously crunchy and customisable

GURPS 4e Dungeon Fantasy (2007) - classic classless system

Ars Magica 5th Edition (2004) - the historically grounded one (in Europe 1200 AD), very customisable

Four Against Darkness (2017) - solo dungeoncrawl

Blades in the Dark (2017) - where everyone's a rogue!

Pathfinder 2e (2024) - a million rules and it's all 3.5's fault

Lankhmar: City of Thieves (2015) - the Fafhrd and Gray Mouser setting, with the Savage Worlds system

[table-cat-games]

Street Wolves: Turbo Edition Print Run!

In super exciting news, my ttrpg setting is being printed. That means the Street Wolves Turbo Edition pre-orders will be closing soon.

Why am I shutting down the pre-order store? Once the books are in hand I'll be doing the fulfillment myself. In order to ensure it goes smoothly I'm soley focused on getting the books to everyone before I put the remainder back up for sale.

If you want to secure a copy, you can do so at the Backerkit pre-order store.

If you want to know more about Street Wolves, here's my website's page on it. I also have a post about what makes it unique.

[literalcatpod]

67 – Making a Magical Gambler in Deadlands

Ladies, Gentlemen, and Nonbinaries, we present to you, the game that won Wild West Winter the last seasonal theme poll, Deadlands by Pinnacle Entertainment Group! We’ve resisted our urge to make a gambling cat long enough, so now, we have one who gambles with magical forces! Also he’s named Tintin because they can’t come for us for doing that anymore!

Follow the show online: https://badgertrove.com/literalcatpod/

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We’ve got a Patreon now! https://www.patreon.com/BadgerTrove

Download the character sheets: https://bit.ly/literalcatpod

Join our Discord! https://badgertrove.com/discord/

Cover art, midroll theme, and Intro/Outro music made by Joel Holland

Thanks for listening! We’ll Cat-ch you later!

[punkozarts]

art for my newest player character for my buddy's Savage Worlds game based on their original setting~

Ripley is a gender fluid, psychic power havin', thrill seekin', fashionista ✨

[sara-paints]

Oh! Sorry guys, forgot to post an update about the Skyrim board!

It went super well! Here's some pics :

[oxventure]

Prepare yourself for the return of the mighty Sasquatch!😱 🔮 An old foe returns from the dead thanks to mysterious cursed items brought together by unwitting purveyors of the occult! 📆 Oxventure Deadlands returns THIS FRIDAY! 🔗 Get notified when the episode arrives!

[anim-ttrpgs]

Yo. Been really getting interested in Eureka recently, cause it looks cool as hell from what I've read, and also I ran a police procedural campaign a few years back that I'd like to bring back, but my choice of system back then for the type of game was bad (Savage Worlds). Likely gonna give Eureka a shot with it anyway, but does the game separate out the urban fantasy elements from the more realistic/mundane elements by how much? Like, do traits have seperate sections for non/fantasy and fantasy traits, or is it all just together? Is there anything else in the game that complicates running a campaign with no fantasy elements?

You can download Eureka from this link for free (we’d really appreciate it if you paid but payment is optional) and check it out for yourself, just in case you didn’t know!

But to answer your question, the urban fantasy stuff and the mundane stuff actually are quite separate in the book. You’ll find a few references to the existence of vampires and stuff in the mundane rules, but all of the rules for supernatural characters are found in the very back of the book, not mixed in with the other character creation stuff.

As for other complications, this isn’t exactly a complication with running a fully mundane no-fantasy game, but there might be a few small complications with running a police procedural game. Don’t get me wrong, I actually still think that Eureka is probably your best option for a police investigation campaign, but there will need to be a little tinkering. But that’s what I’m here for.

By default, Eureka assumes that the PCs are not cops, so it assumes that they don’t have access to all of the resources cops have when investigating crimes. Eureka assumes that the PCs don’t have the institutional power to make an arrest, to take someone in for official interrogation, to call for backup if they get into a bad situation, or to send forensic evidence back to the lab for analysis.

Now, the only one of these that I can think of actually causing any friction with the game itself is the part about sending forensic evidence back to the lab.

Making an arrest and interrogating someone would be easily handled by the rules as they are with no changes. For calling for backup, you could take a look at the “Heat” section in Chapter 7. That section is normally used for what happens if the cops get called *on* the PCs, but since it has mechanics to tell you how long it takes the cops to show up, you could just use those same rules to determine how long it takes for backup to arrive.

Sending forensic evidence back to the lab, well, we don’t have anything for that. If I had to make something up on the fly, realistically it would probably be like, the PCs bag the evidence and send it to the lab and then in 1D6 days they get the information back.

Of course if I were writing this into the rules for real, I’d probably spend hours or days on it coming up with some kind of system that determines the reliability of that evidence and how likely it is to be a false positive or false negative (because IRL forensic evidence is not nearly as reliable as cop shows make it look or as reliable as police would like you to believe), but i have Silk&Dagger to write right now.

And here's another link

[silvercompassmaps]

White Dragon Lair

"The White Dragon is an elusive predator, using whatever means it has to hunt its prey. If it cannot defeat you from the air or land, it will take you to deep waters and drown you."

Download this map for free here.

Happy New Year! Welcome to my first map of 2024, a White Dragon's lair to fit your winter campaigns.

This is a phased battlemap that depicts three different lair actions of the dragon:

the dragon brings down rocks near the players, trying to pin and crush them

it collapses a tunnel, preventing movement

the ice breaks, causing anything above it to plunge into the icy waters

There are a total of 8 phases in this map.

I have also made standalone variants of this map which are not phased, but can be adapted as other dragon lairs (Red dragon, Copper dragon, etc).

Check out my entire map collection here.

[xenadreamer]

[krinsbez]

Help Me Pick My Next TTRPG Thing To Read, 4/14/2025 Edition

OK, I am over a third of the way through Power Rangers: Adventures in Angel Grove, so I figured I might as well post the next poll.

I wanted to have a very limited number of options, but all my attempts to narrow it down were for naught, so instead we have the following:

-Old Gods and Young Guns: https://ratwavegamehouse.itch.io/old-gods-and-young-guns-setting-guide

-Savage World of Flash Gordon: https://www.drivethrurpg.com/en/product/231833/the-savage-world-of-flash-gordon?src=hottest_filtered

-Terra Primate: https://www.drivethrurpg.com/en/product/705/terra-primate

-Land of Eem: https://www.drivethrurpg.com/en/product/515500/land-of-eem-core-rulebook

-DCC Empire of the East: https://www.drivethrurpg.com/en/product/314885/dungeon-crawl-classics-empire-of-the-east

-Fading Suns: https://www.drivethrurpg.com/en/product/592/fading-suns-second-edition

-Hollow Earth Expedition: https://www.drivethrurpg.com/en/product/23437/hollow-earth-expedition-rpg

-Jack Vance's Gaean Reach: https://www.drivethrurpg.com/en/product/142189/the-gaean-reach