RPG: Explore Unlimited Universes With ‘Savage Worlds’ – Here’s Where To Start
In Savage Worlds, you can play any adventure in any world you could imagine. But if you’re not sure where to start, start with these books.
Savage Worlds Core Rulebook
Savage Worlds is a TTPRG rules system for any game and any setting. But you’ll need to build that setting from the ground up. Just like with most TTRPGs, you’ll need to start with the core rulebook. This will help you learn to play, work through character creation, and get started on running your new adventure.
Savage Worlds Adventure Edition is a Fast! Furious! and Fun! rules system for any genre of roleplaying game. Create your own setting, convert an existing one, or pick up one of our amazing settings like Deadlands, Rippers, or 50 Fathoms. The rules give players plenty of depth to create their characters and keep bookkeeping to a minimum for the Game Master. If you’re looking for a game that’s fast and easy to set up, run, and play, Savage Worlds is for you! Savage Worlds handles pulp action, gritty noir, supers, hard scifi, space opera, horror, and anything you can imagine!
Player’s Book
Specifically for players, the Player’s Book dives more into character creation and player rules. This is a more updated version of the book than the Core Rulebook, so players may find it easier to flip through and reference.
The Savage Worlds Player’s Book opens the doors to worlds of adventure. From the Weird Wild West of Deadlands to the crime-ridden streets of Necessary Evil. From the curious campus of East Texas University to the untamed woods of the Holler. Included is everything needed to make a character for the Savage Worlds Adventure Edition, gear that covers a wide variety of settings, and the rules for how to play. After years of fine-tuning and playtesting with fellow gamers around the world, this version of the award-winning, best‑selling Savage Worlds game combines new and updated rules with the latest in narrative play and a tactical foundation you can use for whatever style of gaming fits your group! Savage Worlds is more Fast, Furious, and Fun than it’s ever been before
Fantasy Companion
Once you have the basics of character creation and playing down, it’s time to move into the specifics of your game. For a classic fantasy adventure, this is the book you’ll need. The weapons, armors, fantasy-specific settings, and monsters that you’ll encounter are all in here.
The 240-page hardcover Fantasy Companion provides all the tools you need to travel to fantasy lands or create your own phenomenal setting for Savage Worlds Adventure Edition. New layout, edges, hindrances, weapons and armor, stronghold rules, arcane backgrounds, a pantheon of domains, powers, items of power, and a massive bestiary!
Science Fiction Companion
What if you’re playing a more futuristic game? The Science Fiction Companion is the book for your game. Everything from high-tech cities, to starships, to power armor, and aliens is in the Sci-Fi book and adds countless new Savage Worlds for you to explore.
This 304 page hardcover book updates the original Science Fiction Companion to be completely compatible with the Savage Worlds Adventure Edition. Inside: New CHARACTER ancestries, options, Edges, and Hindrances for everything from star-spanning humans to most any alien creature you can imagine. Pages of new and updated GEAR to help you run the dystopian streets or exotic planets, and a MASSIVE arsenal of weapons and armor! An all-new EVENT BASED system for quickly and easily running chases, dogfights, or vehicular shootouts! New SETTING RULES for everything from netrunning to starship combat to transhumanism! And much, much more!
Horror Companion
The Horror Companion will let you drop your players into any horror setting or movie that you can imagine. Whether they’re escaping slashers, avoiding cultists, or discovering the dark secrets of their small town, you can build that setting with this book.
Savage Worlds and horror go together like chainsaws and spraying blood… The Savage Worlds Horror Companion lets you recreate everything from the classic Universal monster movies and Vault of Horror comics to Lovecraftian cosmic horror to more modern fare like The Walking Dead®, the works of Stephen King, or bleeding edge psycho thrillers… all in the award-winning Savage Worlds rules system! This 202-page hardcover book updates the original Horror Companion to be completely compatible with the Savage Worlds Adventure Edition. Here’s what you’ll find inside: new CHARACTER OPTIONS and new and updated GEAR. The creatures have been completely overhauled with new Special Abilities. Monsters from around the world offer unique perils and unexpected weaknesses to keep heroes on their toes. Monsters also come with different variants for more surprises and to help match different kinds of stories. Plus much, much more.
Super Powers Companion
Or, give your players some superpowers. They’ll be able to power up, learn to control their abilities, and maybe even take on a rampaging kaiju. With the Super Powers Companion, you’ll be able to play out your own superhero movie.
Great Power… Needs a Great Rules Set! Few mediums inspire today’s gamers like comic books, graphic novels, and the movies and television shows based on them. The Savage Worlds Super Powers Companion lets you recreate everything from classic Marvel and DC tales to modern takes like The Boys, Kick-Ass, or Invincible… all in the award-winning Savage Worlds rules system! This 200-page hardcover book updates the original Super Powers Companion to be completely compatible with Savage Worlds Adventure Edition. Here’s what you’ll find inside: new SETTING RULES emphasize the nature of super-powered combat, including new Power Stunts, using the terrain as a weapon, and suggested Setting Rules to mimic different styles of supers! Every single POWER has been evaluated, updated, and streamlined. The ROGUE’S GALLERY has been completely overhauled, both in story and powers, to better fit today’s comics. And much, much more!
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