‘Rippers’ For Savage Worlds Is Now A Facebook Game
July 28, 2009 by tcgames · 2 Comments
Pinnacle Entertainment Group is extremely proud to present the Rippers Facebook game! Please come check it out and tell all your friends. We hope this is the first of many new electronic ventures, but of course that’s only the case if you help us spread the word!
Create a Ripper from one of six factions, Hunt monsters, complete Adventures, Craft new Rippertech, Build your Lodge, help your friends Take Back The Night!
Rippers is a new RPG on the Facebook social networking site. Featuring unique adventures, Rippertech crafting, a marketplace, and more than 300 items, Rippers offers a little more than traditional Facebook games. Join your friends in the “Horror War” against the evil Cabal and build your Lodge to aid you in your struggle.
Rippers was designed by Simon Lucas and programmed by Matthew Klausemeir and Christian Clough, with art by Jordan Peacock, Christophe Swal, Andrew Chason, Adji Setya Dharma, and Satya Hody, based on the original Rippers and Rippers: The Horror Wars by Shane Hensley and Chris Dolunt.
Winterweir For Savage Worlds Available For Pre-Order
April 21, 2009 by tcgames · Leave a Comment
Savage Worlds pen & paper RPG
Phipps Studios has one such product up for pre-order and it looks to be just as good as everything else that’s come out for Savage Worlds so far.
Where the clang of steel rings loudly and the blood of men flows freely.”
The land of Winterweir is a cold and unforgiving nation in the world of Teth-Ammon. A world that is constantly besieged by dark and nightmarish things from the Netherdeep and Far Chaos. A world where racial tensions run deep between the various peoples. A world where there is no obvious good and many accepted evils. It is a world desperately needing heroes, or at least people willing to kill the darkness.
Winterweir is a the first in a series of setting books for the world of Teth-Ammon. A campaign starter that provides an overview of the world and its many political conundrums. It gives all the information necessary to run a Dark Fantasy campaign in a world of horrors gone wild.
Winterweir contains:
A host of new Edges and Hindrances. New Racial Templates for characters. A guide to new magical powers and how to create them. A number of new nations to adventure in. The History of Teth-Ammon. An Antagonists section with a selection of pregenerated villains for Narrators to use. A storytelling guide for the setting. New Rules for Savage Worlds. New Equipment for Savage Worlds. A adventure generator for Savage Worlds.
- Expected approximately April 2009
Daring Tales Of Adventure #11 For Savage Worlds Available Now
April 20, 2009 by tcgames · Leave a Comment
Daring Tales of Adventure #11: The Hands of Kali
BEWARE THE HANDS OF KALI!
It’s time for stiff upper lips and daring adventure as the heroes hit India! Hired by the Boston Museum to oversee the final stages of an archaeological dig, the heroes are quickly embroiled in a headlong series of predicaments orchestrated by the feared Thuggee cult as part of their dastardly plot to destabilize the British Raj.
A young maharaja with an eye for the ladies, devious deathtraps, wild bandits, rampaging elephants, hungry tigers, and deadly Thuggee cultists guarantee a thrilling ride across the subcontinent! Can the heroes save the British Empire from a major embarrassment, or will the Hands of Kali prevail?
Find out in the 11th adventure in Triple Ace Game’s popular Daring Tales of Adventure line.
Author: Paul Wiggy Wade-Williams
Page count: 24
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A copy of Savage Worlds Explorers Edition
Zombie RPG Coming In A ‘Savage Worlds’ Licensed Product
April 10, 2009 by tcgames · Leave a Comment
I’m always looking for new Savage Worlds products on the horizon, and here’s one with zombies….how can you go wrong with zombies? There’s no artwork to look at yet, but if it’s a Savage Worlds setting (with zombies), then it’s sure to please.
Day 108: Its quiet now. I hate the quiet, makes it too easy to think about what I’ve lost. The last of our food supplies were used up last night. We have no choice but to attempt another scavenger mission. We lost 4 people the last time we did that. I keep thinking back to the beginning, back to when things were normal and life was good. None of us had a clue. The reports began sporadically, here and there on the net. We thought they were a joke or some kind of cheap advertisement for something. We were wrong. Zombies are real.
War of the Dead is Daring Entertainment’s game of zombie horror that sends the world into an apocalypse. The virus begins slowly in isolated areas but spreads quickly. Panic takes over, people go mad and nations fall. The Dead have risen and the world is in shambles. The threat of the Dead and the risk of infection are horrible, but often pale in comparison to the acts of your fellow man. Outside of the survivor “Kingdoms”, anarchy and degeneracy rule, and sometimes the “Kingdoms” are worse. Ruins are everywhere, infested with the walking dead and the dead are evolving. Then there are the rumors rumors of creatures worse than the zombies. You have to ask yourself: what will you do to survive?
War of the Dead focuses not only on surviving against zombie hordes, but surviving and thriving among your fellow man in a world gone mad. The game will reach new levels of interactivity using both PDF and online resources to immerse players in the world unlike anything before.
The War is coming in late 2009.
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‘Realms Of Cthulhu’ Coming Soon To The Savage Worlds RPG
March 5, 2009 by tcgames · Leave a Comment
UPDATE #2: Realms of Cthulhu is out and available.
UPDATE: According to a podcast over at The Game’s The Thing, Realms Of Cthulhu is supposed to be released at Gen-Con 09.
The very creative people over at Reality Blurs are almost done with one of their newest projects: Realms Of Cthulhu.
It takes the Cthulhu Mythos and uses the Savage Worlds RPG rules to create the latest in worlds settings for the successful RPG.
Here’s a little of what we are in store:
Horror comes in all flavors and shapes. Realms of Cthulhu is equipped to handle any of the myriad stylings you’re looking to play. One of the first questions we asked ourselves is whether we were going to place our setting rules in a specific time and place or be more expansive. There were challenges to both, but I finally decided to model the core campaign book after the three classic periods set forth in the Call of Cthulhu rpg, and then expand into certain spaces with follow-up support products and plot point books. Realms of Cthulhu plans to live up to its name and take you into unknown territory in a very Savage manner.
It also looks as if they are near completion of the project:
The bulk of the manuscript is complete. Art orders have begun to go out as of last week and we’re quite pleased to have made arrangements with a cover artist who is very familiar with the genre. So, to put a fine point on it, things are proceeding right on schedule. News on the actual release date hinge upon a few variables, so we can’t actually tell you when, yet. Rest assured, however, that RoC is getting all the attention it deserves and it is our utmost priority.
Realms Of Cthulhu looks like its going to be a fantastic addition to the Savage Worlds universe and I’m very much looking forward to its release.
‘Mars’ For The Savage Worlds RPG From Adamant Entertainment
I’ve been waiting for this to come out for Savage Worlds, and as I’m not a fan of d20, this is great news. Releasing March 9th, exclusively through Adamant’s website, with distribution to game stores later this year.
Welcome to Mars!
Not Mars as it is – airless, most likely lifeless, with only the faintest hints of what might have once been a damp, if not necessarily lush and living, world billions of years in the past. No, this is Mars as it should be and as it was once imagined to be – an ancient, dying, but not yet dead world, a world where a vast canal network reaches from pole to pole, bringing water and life to vast and fantastic cities.
A Mars where albino apes run a vast empire in the last surviving jungle, a world where warrior tribes of Green Martians raid the outlying cities of the canal dwellers, a world where, in places dark and quiet and forgotten beneath the surface, ancient and terrible intellects plan dark and dire deeds.
It is a Mars of sky-corsairs, of duels with blade and blaster, of vile plots, fantastic inventions, daring rescues, arena battles, and spectacular stunts. It is a Mars where ancient cities can be discovered and their lost treasures plundered, a Mars where a trek across the dry sea bottoms can yield amazing discoveries, where terrible monsters roam the rocky wastes.
It is the Mars of pulp fiction and Saturday morning serials.
It is now yours.
The Sword-and-Planet genre comes to Savage Worlds! Adamant Entertainment will be releasing our setting of action, intrigue and adventure beneath the Moons of Mars — previously only available for d20 — in a brand-new edition for Savage Worlds.
Review: Savage Worlds RPG by Pinnacle Entertainment Group
Savage Worlds Explorer’s Edition
Savage Worlds, from the very first page, is designed to be easy to run, easy to play, and easy to enjoy. It takes most of the bookkeeping out of the mix and allows the game master and his or her group to be creative without bogging them down in too much detail. However, if detail is what you like in your game, it’s in there as well. It’s very scalable.
A brief overview of Savage Worlds’ game mechanics:
Character attributes are represented by a die type. For example, strength would be a d8, so that if you needed to perform a function using your strength, you roll a d8 and check the result. Skills are also represented by a die type and are linked to an attribute.
There are no hit points to speak of; characters have wound levels so that if you are hit and take damage, that number is checked against your vigor and any modifiers that apply to see if you receive a wound. This makes combat move extremely quick and there is little or no down time for waiting players during a battle.
Along with skills, players have edges and hindrances which are physical or mental traits which balance out the character and give it a beginning personality.
Character creation is easy, with enough choices to make it interesting but not too much to make it confusing. The emphasis is on playability, pure and simple.
The explorer’s edition gives rules and stats for running a game in just about any genre imaginable. After reading through the material once, I took my son through a practice scenario with him battling a few villains with guns and swords. Our short session went really well and I was running the combats without thumbing through the book during every encounter.
Initiative is done with a deck of standard playing cards with the Jokers left in as “Wild Cards”. Starting with the Ace down to the Deuce, action is resolved in order. The Jokers act as Wild Cards, allowing that player to go whenever they want during the round. Jokers also give some bonuses to rolls as well.
Also included in the mechanics of the game are something called “Bennies”. Bennies are handed out at the beginning of a game session and can be used to re-roll an attribute or skill test, and can also be used to soak up some damage in case a character takes a hard hit during combat. Bennies are also given out to the characters during a session for creative roleplaying, overcoming major obstacles, or even just entertaining the game group with a memorable moment during play.
There are many world settings for Savage Worlds that are already commercially available and more are being created all the time.
The Savage World Of Solomon Kane:
The Savage World of Solomon Kane is a roleplaying game based upon the incredible works of Robert E. Howard, author of Conan the Barbarian®, Kull the Conqueror®, and countless other great heroes and heroines.
Inside this lavishly-illustrated 352 page book are the complete and award-winning Savage Worlds rules customized for Kane’s world, as well as all-new setting and magic rules to capture the spirit of Howard’s dark tales.
Game Masters will also find terrible creatures and merciless foes drawn from Kane’s own travels—and beyond—as well as dozens of Savage Tales and a ready-to-run Plot Point™ Campaign.
Rippers:
Jack the Ripper has the Victorian world on its knees and it’s up to you to fight back. You are the Rippers, once Jack was your ally, now he is your mortal enemy. And he’s not alone!
Rippers is a complete setting for Savage Worlds featuring a full plot point campaign that pits the heroes against the fearsome creatures of the evil Cabal.
Inside this setting you will also find rules on creating Rippers, the brave monster hunters who face the growing evil, new Edges and Hindrances, a huge bestiary of hellish adversaries, and details of the Rippers’ most controversial weapon—Rippertech!
Necessary Evil:
When all the super heroes of the world are blown to kingdom come by an army of invading aliens who will save the day? Evil… The only forces left to take on the alien menace are the crafty and self serving super villains!
Necessary Evil is a supers game for Savage Worlds. Inside this twisted Plot Point setting you will find complete rules on making four-color super powered characters, a whole slew of adventures weaving in and out of a resistance story, new Edges and Hindrances, a bestiary of out of this world critters, and more!
This 144 page full color book has everything you need to start leaping buildings and zapping your foes right away!
Deadlands Reloaded:
Pinnacle’s flagship product is Deadlands, a horrific journey into the “Weird West”. Mysterious beings called the Reckoners have given life to monsters and magic, causing history to divert from July 4th, 1863 forward. The South has won its independence, California has shattered into a labyrinth of flooded sea-canyons, and a mysterious super-fuel called “ghost rock” has spawned as much war and strife as it has “steampunk” devices.
Players are steely-eyed gunfighters, card-slinging sorcerers called hucksters, mysterious shamans, savage braves, mad scientists, and more who battle against evil and attempt to prevent the “Reckoning”.
Sundered Skies:
A shattered world. A thousand floating islands. A constant glow of madness. Sundered Skies begins where every other world ends.
The people of the Skies survive, tested by an unimaginable apocalypse, struggling daily against ravenous beasts, sky pirates, and the effects of the inescapable voidglow! But the fate of the Skies is in danger! The magic of the glow is not the only taint in this unforgiving realm. Dark forces conspire to bring the Skies to the brink of an even greater catastrophe.
Can you survive long enough to discover the secrets of Sundered Skies? Sundered Skies is a dark fantasy Plot Point™ setting for the award-winning Savage Worlds RPG™
Daring Tales of Adventure by Triple Ace Games:
Daring Tales of Adventure are Triple Ace Games’ new line of pulp adventures. Set against a pre-World War II background of two-fisted, heroic action, each issue contains a complete adventure. To begin your pulp campaign you just need to buy an adventure, download the sheets, and start rolling dice! By the time the heroes reach the end of this line, you’ll have played through over 450 pages of pulp action!
Those are just a few of what’s available on the market for Savage Worlds. There is also a huge online community of popular conversions from other systems over to the Savage Worlds system and many of them can be found at the Savage Heroes website.
I have about 30 years of roleplaying experience having started during the summer of 1978. The Savage Worlds system is just about the best roleplaying system I’ve come across in all those years. It allows everyone at the table to concentrate on the gaming experience without worrying about which chart to look at or if they remembered to bring their calculator to role up a new character.
I highly recommend Savage Worlds to anybody that wants to experience roleplaying that not only plays well, but is full of “Fast, Furious, Fun!!”
Savage Worlds Explorer’s Edition 2nd Printing
Soft Cover – 160 pages
9X7 format
$9.99 retail – as of this writing
2008 Edition – Great White Games, LLC
New Pulp Adventure For Savage Worlds From Triple Ace Games
January 27, 2009 by tcgames · Leave a Comment
From their site: Pulp is back here at Triple Ace Games as we continue are epic two-fisted adventures with Island of Terror. Written by, who else no other than Wiggy! This cool adventure for Savage Worlds takes your heroes to a lost world in which crazed savages and terrifying dinosaurs are out to get them!
Daring Tales of Adventure #09: Island of Terror
Crazed Savages & Terrifying Dinosaurs… Welcome to the Island of Terror!
When a scientific mission to a previously unexplored island off the South American coast goes missing, it is up to the brave and fearless heroes to come to the rescue! But all does not go well, for the rescuers soon become stranded on the mysterious, jungle-swathed island. Exploration brings the heroes into contact with degenerate tribesmen, ferocious beasts from a bygone age, deadly traps, and vile Nazis plague our heroes every step of the way.
Can the heroes discover what happened to the lost expedition? Will they end up as dinner for the local inhabitants? Are they capable of decoding ancient hieroglyphs in order to avoid a terrible fate? Can they thwart the Nazis’ dastardly plan?
Find out in this action-packed pulp adventure from Triple Ace Games!
This adventure is part one of a two part story. You will require Daring Tales of Adventure #10: Kingdom of the Blood Gods to run the complete adventure. Kingdom of the Blood Gods picks up the action exactly where this issue ends! Read more
Triple Ace Games’ Pulp Adventures For The Savage Worlds RPG
January 9, 2009 by tcgames · Leave a Comment
These adventures are set for the Savage Worlds gaming system found here.
Daring Tales of Adventure are Triple Ace Games’ new line of pulp adventures. Set against a pre-World War II background of two-fisted, heroic action, each issue contains a complete adventure.
You’ll find four pre-generated characters available for free here. Each hero has his or her advancements from Seasoned (20 XP) to Legendary (100 XP) already mapped out. Completing a Daring Tale of Adventure increases the Experience Points of the characters by 5 XPs, meaning you can run the adventures in the order they’re released with a guarantee of new abilities for the characters each time you start a new issue. All you need do is tick the appropriate advancement box at the start of a new Daring Tale!
The pre-gens are perfect for pick up games, demo games, and convention play as well.
To begin your pulp campaign you just need to buy an adventure, download the sheets, and start rolling dice! By the time the heroes reach the end of this line, you’ll have played through over 450 pages of pulp action!
Here are the current adventures available:
To End All Wars and Chaos on Crete (double issue)
Web of the Spider Cult
Treasure of the Templars
The Talons of Lo-Peng
Sky Pirates of the Caribbean
The Palladium Peril
The Twelfth Gate
Terror of the Z-Bomb
Here is A PDF preview of DTA #1: To End All Wars and Chaos on Crete
Visit Triple Ace Games to see their catalog of Pulp Adventures for the Savage Worlds System
Note: I am not affiliated with Triple Ace Games in any way. I am trying to spread the word about their adventures for the Savage Worlds RPG game system and Savage Worlds itself. I think that Savage Worlds is a far superior RPG system than most out there.
