Savage Worlds Adventure Edition - Development Plan and Update
Ikael (our community developer) has taken this on his plate along with managing the Savage Worlds line.
Per Ikael:
Here is our plan:
- Existing SavageWorlds ruleset would be further developed to be SWADE and a new layered ruleset SWD would be created
- The new SWD ruleset would layer on top of SavageWorlds (SWADE) and would offer changes to backward-grade it to Deluxe edition.
Generally it is much easier to provide backward-graded ruleset than try to build new rules on top of previous. This allows Deluxe to get all new features that are developed for the baseline-ruleset.
And the plan about purchasable products,
- Existing DGASW3 product would provide following content:
- SavageWorlds ruleset (SWADE rules!)
- SWD ruleset (Deluxe rules)
- swdeluxe_gm module (accessible only from SWD ruleset)
- swdeluxe_pg module (accessible only from SWD ruleset)
So yes, existing customers would get SWADE ruleset for free, however...
new purchasable SWADE product would provide following content:
- SavageWorlds ruleset (SWADE rules!)
- swade_gm module (accessible from SavageWorlds ruleset)
- swade_pg module (accessible from SavageWorlds ruleset)
- The new purchasable product would provide new FG modules for $10, like what you would have to do by getting PDFs. It may include an updated ruleset theme (undecided still) as an extension.