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Anonymous Tue 27 Oct 2015 03:05:27 No.43309321 View Reply Report Delete

Lets have a Savage Worlds General.

So I just found out that Savage Worlds owns RIFTs now and is working on a book.

Finally all that amazing RIFTs Fluff without the crippling shit rules system.

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Anonymous Tue 27 Oct 2015 03:31:05 No.43309521 Report Delete

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>>43309321
It doesn't own RIFTs it has a license. But yes, rejoice, at the simplified rules.

First book: conversion book for the RIFTs conversion book that updated the old conversion book. Surely that will go well.

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 27 Oct 2015 03:33:10 No.43309535 Report Delete

Quoted By: >>43309549 >>43310522 >>43312089

What exactly is Rifts? Is it like Rift, the MMORPG?

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Anonymous Tue 27 Oct 2015 03:34:55 No.43309549 Report Delete

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>>43309535
Yes, Exactly that.

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 27 Oct 2015 06:22:55 No.43310522 Report Delete

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>>43309535
An old rpg with awful rules. The setting was pretty cool but in a kitchen sink post-apocalypse sort of way.

It would be interesting to see how this translates into savage worlds considering that at radically different design philosophy.

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 27 Oct 2015 08:23:08 No.43311300 Report Delete

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>>43309521
>First book: conversion book for the RIFTs conversion book that updated the old conversion book. Surely that will go well.
Is that based on some new info? I can just picture Siembieda saying that "a conversion book will sell like hotcakes!"

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Anonymous Tue 27 Oct 2015 09:29:46 No.43311928 Report Delete

Quoted By: >>43312075 >>43317555

>>43310522

Geeze not this shit again. The rules are no worse then other RPGs from 1985. They just haven't been refined over the years but rather had more rules piled on top making the whole system unwieldy.

My real gipe is that the layout, binding and editing hasn't changed in 20 years.

People decry Palladium all the time but they are still in business where almost all of their peers are gone.

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Anonymous Tue 27 Oct 2015 09:31:09 No.43311949 Report Delete

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>>43311300

IT'S EPIC!

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Anonymous Tue 27 Oct 2015 09:44:09 No.43312075 Report Delete

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>>43311928
>rules are no worse than other RPGs from 1985
>what is Mekton and Interlock

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Anonymous Tue 27 Oct 2015 09:45:36 No.43312089 Report Delete

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Rifts being the first tabletop I ever played and having fond memories of it as a kid, I'm hyped. I just got into Savage Worlds months ago when I heard the news and I love the system. Been reading a lot of Hellfrost, Beasts & Barbarians and Interface Zero. The system has a lot of really great official, third party and fan conversion settings and Rifts is a great addition to that. I'm hoping they get to a lot of the world books with future installments. Vampire Kingdoms, New West, Coalition War Campaign, Triax, Lone Star, Canada and Japan being my favorites.

Pretty neat interview with the writer behind the Savage Rifts project:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3aMqRaBNcjU

Warning, the audio is terrible.

>>43309535
Rifts is a future post post apocalypse set on Earth that combines just about every RPG genre and trope into one setting. You have power armored mech suits battling alongside spellcasting sorcerers and cybernetic enhanced adventurers. In a not shell, a lot of cyberpunk and a lot of fantasy. Very high tech, low life kind of stuff with magical lay lines that intersect across the globe and open portals (Rifts) from other dimensions, spilling out all kinds of life alien, mythological and demonic beings.

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Anonymous Tue 27 Oct 2015 11:00:18 No.43312805 Report Delete

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Does Savage Worlds not have much of a following on /tg/?

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 27 Oct 2015 11:16:29 No.43312995 Report Delete

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>>43312805
It's popular and generally agreed to be a good game, it's just not discussed much because like any universal system there's not much to say. No fluff to argue over and it's not complex enough to debate builds or ask for advice like you would for GURPS so there's never really any threads dedicated to it.

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Anonymous Tue 27 Oct 2015 11:59:08 No.43313526 Report Delete

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Ugh, please just watch Orguss and make your own campaign from that, rather than Siembieda's plagiarized version. Given how generally fucked Rifts power levels are, you're far better off reinterpreting the various powers/spells/equipment anyway.

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Anonymous Tue 27 Oct 2015 12:02:57 No.43313584 Report Delete

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>>43311949

>TFW you realize there's both Nightmare Before Christmas figures, and a Pikachu on his desk.

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Anonymous Tue 27 Oct 2015 12:19:40 No.43313797 Report Delete

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>>43312995
>no fluff
What about the settings for it? Also, with Savage Rifts is that shit gonna be compatible with the Sci-Fi companion/Interface Zero?
Because if it is I'm going to be all the fuck over it for stuff to yoink

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Anonymous Tue 27 Oct 2015 14:33:41 No.43315616 Report Delete

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>>43309321
>people are still playing this piece of shit

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Anonymous Tue 27 Oct 2015 16:15:35 No.43317253 Report Delete

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>>43315616

We agree the Rift rules were some insanely bad shit.

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Anonymous Tue 27 Oct 2015 16:36:50 No.43317555 Report Delete

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>>43311928
>>43312075
I think any system that hasn't refined its rules over 30 years is bad.

Besides not all books from the 80s work were giant cluster Fucks, West End games and Chaosnium were wonderfully straightforward

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 27 Oct 2015 19:26:12 No.43320517 Report Delete

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>>43313797
Interface Zero is so freaking good. Wish it got more discussion here, or anywhere. My favorite cyberpunk setting right now. Rifts + IZ is going to be great. Can't wait to see those Juicer edges/hindrances and them glitter boy stats. Say what you want about the Palladium system, you're beating a dead horse; the Rifts setting, however, is probably one of the most fantastic settings in all of tabletop, and its exciting we'll finally get to play it (officially) in a system that not only isn't broken, but a system that rocks.

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Anonymous Tue 27 Oct 2015 19:40:03 No.43320822 Report Delete

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Hopefully PB lasts long enough for this to happen. Several Robotech RPG Tactics backers are starting a Class Action Lawlsuit against PB and Uncle Kevvy. They are up to eight months without anything new about Wave 2.

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Anonymous Tue 27 Oct 2015 19:50:14 No.43321035 Report Delete

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>>43320517
>Interface Zero

I was thinking of doing a day Deus Ex game using savage worlds, how does interface zero compare?

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Anonymous Tue 27 Oct 2015 19:55:38 No.43321153 Report Delete

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>>43321035
Pretty god damn well, its Basically shadowrun without the magic. Shits awesome.

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Anonymous Tue 27 Oct 2015 19:56:35 No.43321171 Report Delete

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>>43321035
I really can't offer details because I've never played Deus Ex. But Interface Zero is pretty much your standard cyberpunk setting, but it doesn't feel generic at all. The Interface Zero 2.0 book is freaking huge and has a lot of really neat setting/world information. Tons of hacking, cybernetics and angst towards corporate governments. If you're looking to do cyberpunk in Savage Worlds, I would consider IZ 2.0 absolutely essential, at the very least, it would make your game a lot easier and give you plenty of ideas even if you don't use the IZ setting.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MKWif8TXgTM

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Anonymous Tue 27 Oct 2015 19:59:19 No.43321226 Report Delete

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>>43313797
>What about the settings for it?
There's enough settings that the player base of Savage Worlds is probably too fractured to be able to hold much of a discussion an any given one.

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Anonymous Tue 27 Oct 2015 20:35:23 No.43321943 Report Delete

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>>43321171
>>43321153
Well that has me sold.

The Deus Ex is great you should play it.

I can't think of much in way of describing the setting but it's usual cyberpunk stuff but with a greater emphasis on government conspiracies and transhumanism then cyber gangsters.

The first game is 15 years old now and looked shit at the time but it's GOAT. 13 second one is pretty good too despite the severe consolistics

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