Savage Worlds (2018)

Overview

Savage Worlds is a tabletop roleplaying game designed by Shane Lacy Hensley and published by Pinnacle Entertainment Group. Originally released in 2003 and updated, as the Adventure Edition in 2018. Its a universal system for running games in almost any genre from weird west and high fantasy to deep space sci-fi. The game is specifically engineered to handle cinematic pulp action and massive battles without slowing down the narrative. The system it directly evolved from is
Deadlands (1996)

Description

Savage Worlds has everything you need to play narrative or miniature-based games, with quick, simple, yet comprehensive rules for everything from combat to Dramatic Tasks, Chases, and Interludes. The emphasis is on less bookkeeping for the Game Master so she can quickly and easily create worlds and adventures for any setting and focus on the players and their actions to keep the action and story rocketing along.

Key features

Step Dice Mechanic

Instead of fixed numeric modifiers, character attributes and skills are rated by die types, ranging from a four sided die (d4) to a twelve sided die (d12). To succeed at a task, a player rolls their skill die and tries to hit a standard target number, which is almost always a 4.

The Wild Die

Player characters and major non player characters get to roll an extra six sided die called the Wild Die whenever they make a trait test. They roll this alongside their standard skill die and take the higher of the two results, significantly increasing their baseline competence.

Acing (Exploding Dice)

If any die rolls its maximum possible value, such as rolling an 8 on an eight sided die, the die "aces". The player gets to roll that die again and add the new value to the total. This can chain multiple times, allowing for massive, cinematic successes against all odds.

Initiative with Playing Cards

Instead of rolling dice for turn order, combat initiative is tracked using a standard deck of playing cards with the Jokers left in. This makes tracking turn order incredibly fast and visually clear. Drawing a Joker grants that character a powerful bonus to all their rolls for that round.

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East Peoria
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Tales of the [genre] West
Players
4/8
GM
1/1
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Tales of the [genre] West

Newbie friendly
New players are welcome, and nobody expects you to know the rules beforehand.
Teens
The table is meant for teenage players, so the tone and content stay age-appropriate.
Wagon chases, shootouts, saloon brawls, and more await those who are brave enough to head out west. Join us for some wild west fun with a twist.  Over the course of the campaign the additive genre will change with input from the players.  The campaign is beginner friendly and open to all who want to join...even those who struggle to make it on time. The game will be held at Zeek's Comics and Games in Washington Illinois.  The game meets from 5:30 pm to 8 pm every other Thursday starting on July 30th 2026.

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Demon Castle Parousia
Players
3/5
GM
1/1
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Demon Castle Parousia

Adult
The table is for players who are 18 or over.
Homebrew
House rules, a custom setting, or a system the Game Master wrote themselves.
Demon Castle Parousia | Castlevania-Inspired Horror | SWADE | Bi-Weekly Saturdays, 9:30 PM CT Chicago, 1999. People are vanishing. A cult is spreading through the shelters. Three corporations are buying up the city, and no one asks what's in their trucks. You're skilled professionals, not heroes, hired through an underground network to find out what's going on. Every job pulls you deeper, until you realize the conspiracy hides something far darker and more sinister than anyone imagined. You'll be: following leads through a city on the edge, fighting your way out of jobs gone wrong, and facing monsters straight out of Castlevania legend. When: Every other Saturday, starting November 14, 9:30 PM CT (03:30 UTC Sunday). Sessions run about 3.5 hours. Seats: 4 players, 18+ Where: Foundry VTT + Discord Quick details: SWADE Core, plus homebrew and custom items flavored for 1999. Novice start, $500, no magic at the start. Full player primer available on request. DM me if you're interested

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Portland
Campaign
Red Flower
Players
0/5
GM
1/1
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Red Flower

Homebrew
House rules, a custom setting, or a system the Game Master wrote themselves.
Roleplay focused
Conversation, character and story take up most of the table time.
Laws, society, magic, none of that exists yet, or if it does you've never heard of such a thing. You are simply a nomadic hunter or a gatherer, that has just always been the only way to live. Maybe you used to travel in a herd, but for one reason or another, you are no longer with such group. You each manage to stumble upon a group of people who seemed to be content staying in one place, with permanent shelters, a system of telling each other what to do, and some kind of new concept where you can make your own food, which they call "Fameng", where you don't have to hunt or gather for anything, the food just grows out of the ground over time. As you are slowly accepted into this non-nomads, it very quickly becomes clear that their society stems from a strange bright red flower called "fa'ler". Fa'ler can bring harm to those who touch it, but they have found a way to use it to build and maintain their entire way of life. However, they haven't quite figured out where it came from, and while they've kept it burning for many days and many nights, it has started to shrink and die down. Soon it will be gone, and these people will completely lose their fundamental existence and starve. Having spent much longer as traditional nomads, you are the only ones truly fit to embark on a long journey to find the knowledge to bring back the fa'ler. You know that many days ago, a person appeared who could make the fa'ler just appear out of thin air with just a thought; they taught the people of this place what it can do and made it for them, although they didn't their methods or process, but it involved something they called "najeek". Now you have to venture out to find some way to learn about other Fa'ler or najeek and save this unconventional, but innocent people.

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Sweet Dreams are Made of These (An Eberron Story)
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5/6
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1/1
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Sweet Dreams are Made of These (An Eberron Story)

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House rules, a custom setting, or a system the Game Master wrote themselves.
Roleplay focused
Conversation, character and story take up most of the table time.
A ragtag band of locals find themselves embroiled in a strange adventure involving an unhinged warforged, a psychotic docent, and a plot seemingly involving a nefarious branch of House Cannith. One of those you've been roped in with attached the docent to himself and now hears voices, but has started displaying extra abilities. Your mentor, the unhinged warforged named Trace 7, has disappeared, but she left you with a mission to find a way into a secret facility in the underbelly of Sharn to discover the secrets of this organization. Can you find your way in and discover what House Cannith is up to? This game uses the Pathfinder for Savage Worlds Ruleset and Kristian Serrano's Eberron for Savage Worlds adaptation hosted on the Fantasy Grounds VTT, which is now free to play. All resources will be supplied upon acceptance. This is an ongoing campaign with five players currently. I'll accept up to one more. We play on the last Sunday of the month at 18:00 Eastern Time (Currently UTC-4).

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Ben
Grognard. old school. Psionics. that's me.
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I am looking to learn D&D 5e. I'm a fan of the hobby but with very limited tabletop experience, but I've played PbtA, Blades in the Dark, SWADE, & Dungeon World. Eager to learn the rules and grow as a player. I've DMed more than anything but I don't consider myself good at DMing. I am a Pokemon fan and curious if anyone would ever love to do a campaign inspired by Pokemon Mystery Dungeon. Patient table preferred.
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