Pen’s Tip at Sword’s Edge

A kung-fu fightin’, counter-terrorist monk–doesn’t that sound like an awesome character for any modern RPG campaign? It’s like someone took the Monk class from D&D (well, pre-4e D&D, ’cause the 4 don’t have the Monk) and just jammed it into a modern European setting. “Where you going to find monks? The Vatican of course! My [...]

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Hey All
So, here’s the deal. I finally got Savage Worlds, and it’s pretty much all Luke at Fear The Boot’s fault. I got the Explorer Edition because, you know, Luke’s a real doctor and all but our tastes may differ in regards to games.
Now, I usually play d20 or a version thereof (if it’s fantasy, [...]

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My understanding of d20 Modern is that it is supposed to replicate cinematic action. Perhaps, to a degree, but one thing that always seemed odd to me (and one thing I tried to address in Covert Forces Redux with the re-introduction of the segment/round division) was how slow action progressed. I don’t mean in the [...]

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