What's your favorite settings for Savage Worlds?

And why?

Beyond the published settings, I know that SW has LOTS of fan produced setting PDFs floating around the internet and if you have some that you would recommend, please post some links for everyone.

I like The Daring Tales of the Space Lanes its like a specific trademark space opera background, without having to deal with it being it. It also models that sort of background quite well.

Hellfrost is amazing and probably my top pick. It's vast with a huge amount of content and plot hooks while still leaving tons of room for a GM to get creative. There are major threats everywhere you turn. Two gods missing. An ever-encroaching Ice Age. Magic starting to fail. The undead threatening to rise up again. Orcs and dragons and machine-things that devour metal. And then you have the wacky stuff like lizardmen riding dinosaurs who are just trying to fight their way south to escape the winter. The game is essentially complete at this point since it's getting a second edition for the new version of Savage Worlds, which makes me happy I have all the old material already.

Also, special shout out for Saga of the Goblin Horde, which was created by Zadmar and is available for free. It's really nice, and there's a surprisingly large amount of material and adventures for it if you're at all interested in a light-hearted game where your players get to be goblins.

I have to pick just one?!  Ouch.  That's rough.

There are soooo many: Rippers, Slipstream, The Last Parsec, 50 Fathoms....

I guess if I had to pick it would be Low Life.  The art alone elevates it to the front of the pack.  Add in the part where it lets me play a sentient Twinkie and that's just the frosting in the cake.

I'll second Brand55's comments regarding Hellfrost. It's not bad anything new published of late, but with the existing f material I think one could easily run 2 to 3 different campaigns before running the risk of the setting not seeking fresh anymore.

Once the new material comes out, probably Savage Rifts, but right now my favorite is Nova Praxis.

I like more crunch for the players to play with and the setting is a great boiling pot ready to blow from just the littlest nudge.

Also one of the few playable Transhumanist Sci-fi settings that also allow for some "combat as sport" (which OSR offerings like Stars Without Number don't support that kind of combat).

Beasts & Barbarians - it's simply everything I love. Total unadulterated homage to Howard's Hyperborea without being schlocky. Really good supplements. Excellent plot-point adventures. Lots of Mythos nods in there too. Pretty much the kitchen-sink of S&S pulp fantasy.

Thrilling Tales, from Adamant Entertainment. It's less a setting than a pulp genre sourcebook, but it has a lot of really great adventures. It pairs nicely with Mars, a John Carter-esque sourcebook for adventures on the red planet.

Ravaged Earth, from Reality Blurs. More pulp, but it all takes place on an Earth where humanity triumphed over the Martians in the War of the Worlds. But now they're back for... War of the Worlds II, I guess. Reality Blurs also put out Oblivion, a spy-fi setting, and Karthador, a swords-and-ray-guns planetary romance.

East Texas University, from Pinnacle. Buffy the Vampire Slayer in college, basically, but just fantastically put together. A great setting with a ton of options, story hooks, and a campaign.

Quote from: tenbones;1091894Beasts & Barbarians - it's simply everything I love. Total unadulterated homage to Howard's Hyperborea without being schlocky. Really good supplements. Excellent plot-point adventures. Lots of Mythos nods in there too. Pretty much the kitchen-sink of S&S pulp fantasy.

Seconded.

The Savage World of Solomon Kane, swashbucklers and sorcery with a global scope. It's true to the subject matter with lots of fun episodic adventures to bedevil your players.

Rippers (And Rippers:Resurrected) for any of the same reasons plus it's embrace of hammer movie style horror.

Tom

Is there a SW cyberpunk supplement?

Quote from: Aglondir;1091965Is there a SW cyberpunk supplement?

Interface Zero

EDIT: Daring Tales of the Sprawl and (I think) Ghost Protocol.

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EDIT: Daring Tales of the Sprawl and (I think) Ghost Protocol.

DOH, I knew that (Interface Zero.)
Thanks for the DTOTS and GP references.

Quote from: Aglondir;1091972DOH, I knew that (Interface Zero.)
Thanks for the DTOTS and GP references.

No problem.

Quote from: Aglondir;1091965Is there a SW cyberpunk supplement?

There's lots of cyber in Rifts too, but it's not cyberpunk overall.