Here's a setting and rpg I did a couple years ago:

http://www.uncouthsavage.com/uploads/1/3/3/2/133279619/brffmt.pdf

Here's one that's really just the existing setting with the serial numbers filed off:

http://www.uncouthsavage.com/uploads/1/3/3/2/133279619/brffmt.pdf

Eurofantasy is oversaturated, trite and stale now. It's time for Afrofantasy and Sinofantasy to take over. Anyone who doesn't want that is a white supremacist who needs education. /sarcasm

It could work. I would also add two successes for every critical failure rolled. You learn as much, or more from mistakes than you do from success.

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Before y'all start shitting on #Reddit you might want to read if not participate in the actual, you know, discussion there which pushes back against this insanity. I guarantee you the lack of validation is why they deleted their post. Meanwhile they have no issue leaving responses like this up on a post in r/rapefantasies so extreme the mods removed it.

This is easily the most hypocritical example of virtue signaling I've ever encountered. It's actually awe inspiring.

Quote from: Chris24601 on April 23, 2024, 08:26:40 AMIf I could obliterate one OWoD game line so it never existed I'd nuke... Werewolf.

Too late, they already did.

Quote from: Insane Nerd Ramblings on Today at 08:01:01 AMThe only time the damn game made ANY sense was when they declared 'The Technocracy won'.

They only did that once they shifted their own ideology to authoritarianism.

Quote from: Chris24601 on Today at 09:21:58 AMMage is fundamentally Woke (Mages are even called The Awakened),

Pointing that out is what led to my permaban on #RPGNet.

And throughout it all we see the same breathtaking hypocrisy which demands such a profound level of doublethink that I'm all but terrified anyone is capable of it.

We also need new lores too. OPR doesn't have a lot.

I'd like to see more diverse human civilizations too. TSR's old Star*Drive setting has interesting ideas, like cyberpunk commies and niezchean space romans.

Quote from: oggsmash on April 26, 2024, 11:04:53 AMHow old are you?  I ask because I have managed to work to a standing press of 225x5 a below parallel squat of 480x5 and an incline press of 280x3 at age 52 (I am 225) after getting back after it for 1.75 years.  So I am not so sure there is an expiration date on getting stronger at all.  I did optimize my sleeping and protein intake this whole time but no drugs, no TRT, etc. 

  My brother who has a much less athletic youth than I did (he was a smoker for years and more on the party end for a long time) is 50 and since training with me his bench press (all lifts have gone way up) was never higher than 225x5.  He is hitting 260 for 5 sets of 5 now (and could probably hit 275 for one big set of 5 if we wanted to see red lines) and same thing, no drugs, no trt, has a fairly active/physical job.

  I think even if I were to manage something crazy like a 550x5 squat (which puts me in the 625-650 1rm range) in the next couple years the kid is STILL going to be past that before he is out of HS.  So I am not certain I can really regret that sort of thing.  I would have been impressed had he surpassed where I was as a kid (I was strong back then and a decent athlete) but this kid is going to pass me at a lifetime best before he is 19.   

You keep rocking! Your brother and your son, too.

I'm your age.

There's no local gym near me, so currently I'm not close to being strong. The nearest so so gym is a good half hour from me, sadly. I've been away from weights for several years now (since about 2019). Well, not entirely, I do have a couple kettlebells. But that's endurance lifting when I do it. With no gym I got, how do I say it? Lazier. Even weaker. I never got strong enough when I was trying to be a powerlifter. I was intermediate at best, except my bench was beginner level. I couldn't get past 3x5x190#. I switched to 531, but then the gym closed. This was 150 miles south of where I live now.

I walk/ruck/bicycle and have just begun calisthenics. My approach now is to tone up and get quicker rucking/walking. I learned that I like long walks even if I am a slow walker. I've shaved 8 minutes off my time since last month, so I am seeing slow improvement. I do a 5K when weather permits. If rucking I do about a mile right now - my shoulders/traps protest, telling me I have to build them back up. I want to do my 5K walk in 45 minutes or less.

I'm also fighting a nasty nicotine demon and it's winning, which annoys me. I seem to have a million excuses for it, but they're just excuses. I can recognize excuses - I've used so many over the years.

As a teen I was very weak. I was malnourished and at 6 feet tall I weighed 128# for graduation. I did get in better shape when in the Army for my short stint - I have bad feet. I kept at PT for a while afterwards, but then that fell off. I was never the "jock" type, and now that irks me because I love exercising. The endorphin release has helped my mood tremendously.

I don't have the money to build my own gym. I might be able to, but getting the equipment to do the basics would take me a good decade or more. Yes, I'm also broke as Hell. But I am looking to move to a small town and get myself out of the sticks where everything is at least 5.5 miles from me. I hope wherever I go has some sort of gym.

I really like the 2d20 Conan game and I like the lighter John Carter version as well.  The 2d20 system doesn't seem right to me for Star Trek when I tried it.  The Dishonored game and Home World were phoned in and Dune is an abomination.

In the same vein, I love Deadlands.  Some of the settings for SWADE are good, some meh, and some are just trash.  All just my opinion of course. 

2d20 and SWADE are two different animals for two different kinds of play.  I don't think any system will ever be my universal game and I wish that they would quit trying.  Trying to make an "any setting" game makes everything taste like gas station sandwiches. 

Good mechanics can be adapted though.  I point to Neon Blood as a really good example of the OSR type d20 being adapted well.  Those that play OSR games will be very comfortable with the rules but will definitely see how the mechanics they are familiar with have been altered to work with the game.

tenbones, I have some of the Modiphius Fallout books and I don't think that's the best way to go.  Lookn at the Nukapedia website instead.  Somewhere out there you can find a digital copy of the Vault Tech notes and the Fallout Bible.  The Modiphius books are very light on the Interplay/Black Isle/Obsidian lore and very heavy on the Bethesda take on the setting.   

I generally agree with all of you.

SW is a toolkit system for GM's that really like to be hand's on. Or for GM's that like doing fast and dirty just wanting to get into the mix with little mechanical overhead.

But defacto, SW has a history for being one of the best and easiest systems to convert to. One thing feeds the other. So if your favorite IP is out there and you wanna riff on it, or rip it whole-cloth for your table, Savage Worlds is an easy choice to do it with. With the Companion book series almost done, you literally can do very reliable games in any genre and sub-genre with just a little bit of effort - which is effectively ubiquitous to Savage Worlds GM's that enjoy the system.

Insofar that buying a licensed product for the purposes of conversion is an option, of course it depends on your disposable income (which is always a factor in this hobby of casual collectors that collect as often as they play), and of course the quality of the licensed book itself.

I'm a details guy when it comes to setting up my homebrews and conversions. So I'm always looking for something I might miss, especially when I might be a relatively casual fan of an IP - but i'm interested in diving in. Anything that's going to give me a leg up for the purposes of a conversion, providing its a good resource, is always invaluable for someone like me that is generally very busy.

Fallout is something I've played through up to Fallout 4, I still consider myself fairly knowledgeable about the setting, but I'm not a mega-deep into the lore. I could do a conversion fairly easily without the Modiphius edition, but I'm kinda interested to see what they got inside. I doubt I'd buy the book, but I'd probably be up for the PDF. I've seen enough in-depth reviews of their 2d20 system to know I'd *never* run a Modiphius game, but not gonna lie - they got a lot of licenses that I am very interested in.

Savage Worlds is hongry to devour them and convert them.