Silver-Streak
June 22nd, 2018, 02:18
Hey All,
I've been trying to learn Savage Worlds to run Deadlands Reloaded. Both my players and I were having a heck of a time finding/dealing with a lot of stuff for DLR/Savage Worlds in Fantasy Ground during character creation and learning combat.
I realized this isn't a fault of FG, as looking at the original books for DLR, they're laid out very poorly, and require you to go back and forth with the original book for a lot of rules and stuff. FG's library just reproduces the exact order they were in the book.
So while working through that, I made a few modules to make this simpler for new players, as well as myself as a GM. I thought I might as well share them, as I only came up with the ideas for them through other people's work and posts.
All of these require both sets of Deadlands Reloaded and Savage Worlds books (DM and PHB). Other requirements are listed with each.
Guts Skill - Adds a section in the library with a custom Guts skill and the original description from the edition of Savage Worlds that had it, along with instructions on how to add it to a character sheet and get the Grit stat to automatically add to rolls. For players and/or GMs. I still can't believe DLR refers to a skill in the original SW book...that isn't in the book (and is likely why the ruleset doesn't add it since it still thinks the SW one should have it). This is just the guts skill for people that want it available but don't want the below character creation reference.
Character Creation Quick Reference - Adds a library module that links together all of the things needed from both SW and DLR's books to make a character. For players and/or GM. This already includes the Guts Skill, so both modules aren't needed if you have this.
You'll see the author listed as Silver-Streak, which is my normal handle everywhere, but the hyphen is/weren't allowed way back when I registered forever ago. Many thanks to Ikael, Dr0W, Doswelk, and all the others in the Savage Worlds section of the FG discord for their helping me with my questions around the systems.
I hope these help others new to the system like me, or make it faster for any experienced GMs. Any and all feedback is greatly appreciated.
Edit 8/5/18: Updated both the Guts Skill and Character Creation Reference Module for 4.7. The Guts Skill now works properly due to the hard work of Ikael and others, and I've further modified the Character Creation Reference to make it more streamlined. It also now includes the Guts Skill as part of it.
I've been trying to learn Savage Worlds to run Deadlands Reloaded. Both my players and I were having a heck of a time finding/dealing with a lot of stuff for DLR/Savage Worlds in Fantasy Ground during character creation and learning combat.
I realized this isn't a fault of FG, as looking at the original books for DLR, they're laid out very poorly, and require you to go back and forth with the original book for a lot of rules and stuff. FG's library just reproduces the exact order they were in the book.
So while working through that, I made a few modules to make this simpler for new players, as well as myself as a GM. I thought I might as well share them, as I only came up with the ideas for them through other people's work and posts.
All of these require both sets of Deadlands Reloaded and Savage Worlds books (DM and PHB). Other requirements are listed with each.
Guts Skill - Adds a section in the library with a custom Guts skill and the original description from the edition of Savage Worlds that had it, along with instructions on how to add it to a character sheet and get the Grit stat to automatically add to rolls. For players and/or GMs. I still can't believe DLR refers to a skill in the original SW book...that isn't in the book (and is likely why the ruleset doesn't add it since it still thinks the SW one should have it). This is just the guts skill for people that want it available but don't want the below character creation reference.
Character Creation Quick Reference - Adds a library module that links together all of the things needed from both SW and DLR's books to make a character. For players and/or GM. This already includes the Guts Skill, so both modules aren't needed if you have this.
You'll see the author listed as Silver-Streak, which is my normal handle everywhere, but the hyphen is/weren't allowed way back when I registered forever ago. Many thanks to Ikael, Dr0W, Doswelk, and all the others in the Savage Worlds section of the FG discord for their helping me with my questions around the systems.
I hope these help others new to the system like me, or make it faster for any experienced GMs. Any and all feedback is greatly appreciated.
Edit 8/5/18: Updated both the Guts Skill and Character Creation Reference Module for 4.7. The Guts Skill now works properly due to the hard work of Ikael and others, and I've further modified the Character Creation Reference to make it more streamlined. It also now includes the Guts Skill as part of it.