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 Posted: Tue Feb 07, 2012 9:54 am Post subject: Books That Would Make Great SW Games |
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I know most of these can be done with the currently available toolkits and modified SW setting books. But I just want to rattle off a few, not so common, books and hear some of the ones you think would be good to do.
Hiero's Journey - The year is 7476. Long after a nuclear war. NOT your usual Gamma World type game.
The Micronauts - World is short of food for the masses. New cloning tech makes micro people to attempt to survive in the more food abundant miniature world. The insect world can be a dangerous place.
The Time Patrol - What could be more grand than being a Patrol Person that protects time from being manipulated?
Edited in - Mythago Wood - 2 square miles of primeval forest land... in which you can lose yourself forever.
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Snow Crash - Nuff said.
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When I saw Micronauts, i was thinking the Marvel Comics Micronauts, which was also great, and could be easliy be Savaged!!!
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The City and The Stars
I would actually set the RPG as taking place AFTER the events of the book.
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ditto
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Star Wars! It's a neat little sci-fi action adventure by some guy named George Lucas. 
But seriously folks...
At the Earth's Core series
Pellucidar would be an awesome Savage Setting... cavemen, ape men, dinosaurs and other prehistoric beasts, and steampunk! How cool is that?)
Lord of the Rings series
Middle-earth would be another great Savage Setting. The generally low-scale magic of Savage Worlds is a perfect fit. With the trappings rules, you could easily recreate just about every spell Gandalf ever cast.
Golden Compass series
Soooo many trappings both magical and mundane can be explained with each character's personal daemon.
Chronicles of Narnia series
A wonderful exercise in the race creation rules! The best time period for this setting would be immediately before or after the events of Prince Caspian and the Voyage of the Dawn Treader. Those eras are most like a traditional fantasy setting.
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| Posted: Wed Feb 08, 2012 7:12 pm Post subject: |
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I really like his Monster Hunter International series.
| Quote: | | At the Earth's Core series |
I like all his stuff. Grew up on it. I've been thinking about running a SW Thrilling Tales game and, when things kinda got dull, have the characters go to Pellucidar. Basically evolving the campaign into a Lost World game.
| Quote: | | Lord of the Rings series |
I've always found that when I run a campaign that is THAT background rich I have a player that knows more about the setting and tries to question any changes I make. Same with Star Wars & Star Trek.
| Quote: | | Chronicles of Narnia series |
Like the series enough to make a couple of Hordes of the Things armies.
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Retribution Falls, Black Lung Captain & The Iron Jackal by Chris Wooding.
When I was reading (funnily enough Black Lung Captain was the first book in the series I read) it I immediately thought that "yes, this have to be Savaged.
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| SavageGamerGirl wrote: | At the Earth's Core series
Pellucidar would be an awesome Savage Setting... cavemen, ape men, dinosaurs and other prehistoric beasts, and steampunk! How cool is that?) |
I seem to recall someone once posted a session report where he used Pellucidar for the setting. The only incident I remember clearly is the pterodactyl bombing run.
| Quote: | Chronicles of Narnia series
A wonderful exercise in the race creation rules! The best time period for this setting would be immediately before or after the events of Prince Caspian and the Voyage of the Dawn Treader. Those eras are most like a traditional fantasy setting. |
The period between The Magician's Nephew and The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe also has possibilities.
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| Posted: Thu Feb 09, 2012 8:52 am Post subject: |
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| Quote: | | The only incident I remember clearly is the pterodactyl bombing run. |
For some reason this got a good laugh out of me!
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I once ran a game for a friend that was set in the world of Piers Anthony's Incarnations of Immortality, in which he played one of Fate's servitors, a minor immortal office called a Coinspinner (a term I ripped from another series of books by Fred Saberhagen).
Though, any game like that almost demands to be a one on one game...
I can't remember any of the actual titles, but Margaret Weiss and Tracy Hickman wrote the first Dragonlance novels, and also wrote the Darksword trilogy... that trilogy would make an interesting campaign setting.
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Fortunately I saved the above mentioned session report, which I'll repost for your enjoyment.
| Oswald Rabbit wrote: | The PCs (all explorers from the surface world) have been sailing the seas of Pellucidar in their Chinese junk, the Sea Dragon, which is armed with a 5-inch deck cannon, picking off the galleons of savage pirate raiders called Korsars who have been giving their friend David Innes, the Emperor of Pellucidar, a bunch of trouble. Moored near the island of Amiocap, where they have befriended the local native primitives, they discover that The Cid, the leader of the Korsars, has sent an armada of 20 galleons to get rid of these bothersome pests once and for all. The PCs sail out to do battle. Since the Sea Dragon's deck cannon has about three times the range of the cannons on the Korsar galleons, they suspect their little 85-foot junk can probably decimate the whole Korsar armada without too much trouble.
Ahead of them they see the Korsar armada. One of the galleons has been converted into a primitive version of an aircraft carrier, and launches a flock of forty thipdars (pterodactyls) ridden by sagoths (gorilla-men) carrying kegs of gunpowder, who plan to bomb the Sea Dragon and sink it, or at least damage it badly enough so the Korsar galleons can finish it off. First, however, they have to run the gauntlet created by the Sea Dragon's two .50 machine guns, along with rifle-wielding PCs.
It takes the sagoths 10 rounds from the time they get within range of the machine guns to the time they are close enough to drop their kegs of gunpowder on the Sea Dragon. During that time, the PCs manage to reduce the number of attackers from 40 to 5. Of the five sagoths who actually manage to get close enough to drop their kegs, only one scores a hit, but what a hit! He drops his keg right next to the Sea Dragon's deck cannon, and rolls 22 damage on 3d6 (two of the d6s aced). That's enough to destroy the deck cannon (which only has a Toughness of 16) and inflict two wounds on the Sea Dragon (which has a Toughness of 13). So the awesome weapon they intended to use to wipe out the Korsar fleet is now toast.
But wait, it gets better! Two wounds on a vehicle means two critical hits, so I roll them. One is a 6, which is nothing special. The other is a 12, which means the Sea Dragon is now wrecked and sinking! Talk about a sudden reversal of fortune! One gorilla-man with a keg of gunpowder has just turned the whole game around, and the PCs have gone from ruling the waves to scrambling for their lives!
The PCs abandon ship in a lifeboat and haul ass for shore, the Korsar galleons in hot pursuit, as the Sea Dragon goes to Davey Jones's locker. Once ashore, they see the galleons launching longboats. Each galleon has two longboats that can each hold 20 men, so they've got 800 Korsars coming ashore to say hello. They run back to the native village and the chief immediately mobilizes his warriors to repel the Korsar invasion, so now we've got a mass battle in the works. Unfortunately the natives can only field about 200 warriors, so they're outnumbered 4:1, or 10 tokens to 3, giving the Korsars a +7 to their Battle Roll!
But the natives have the PCs on their side! Everyone does their thing, and the PCs manage to get a +5 to their side's Battle Roll, which puts a serious dent in the Korsars' numerical advantage (the Korsars get an additional -1 penalty for terrain, since they're fighting on the natives' home turf which the natives know well). The Battle Rolls are made and the Korsars lose 2 tokens to the natives 1. Morale checks are made, and the Korsar leader loses heart and withdraws his men back to their ships after encountering much stiffer resistance and suffering greater losses than he was expecting. |
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| Posted: Fri Feb 10, 2012 11:31 am Post subject: |
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Now that is just AWESOME, Sitting Duck!!!
The best laid plans of mice & men...
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As far as I know, nobody has Savaged Mistborn yet...
(to be fair, it does have its very own RPG, which I haven't played). |
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you could add in other bits of ERB to Pellucidar one book was titled "Tarzan in Pellucidar" and there might be other cross overs
I want to do a spoof the land of peculiar
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The Destroyer series.
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| Posted: Fri Feb 10, 2012 9:45 pm Post subject: |
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While THESE may not be REAL books, I still am willing to bet they would be a BLAST!.
Click on the spines to see the book cover.
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