Savage Worlds

Adventure Edition

Fast! Furious! Fun! — pulp action in any setting

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universal

CinematicFast-PacedTacticalPulp ActionCombat-HeavyHeroicMiniatures

Languages: English, French, Italian, Spanish, German, Portuguese, Russian, Chinese, Hebrew

Diced4–d12

System FamilySavage Worlds

Cost$$

LicenseSavage Worlds Adventurer's Guild

PublisherPinnacle Entertainment

Year2018

Complexity Medium

Accessibility Medium

Community Medium

Core Mechanic

Roll trait die + wild die (d6), keep the highest. Target number 4. Raises every +4.

Fast-paced pulp action across any genre. Great for large groups and mass combat.

Fast resolution, genre-flexible, handles large groups well

Exploding dice can produce extreme variance in outcomes, setting books vary in depth — some provide minimal mechanical content beyond a genre frame

Fate Core — Fiction-first gameplay driven by dramatic aspects
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Cypher System — Streamlined storytelling with a single target number
Genesys — A universal RPG powered by narrative dice that resolve success, failure, and complications in every roll
Cortex Prime — A modular toolkit RPG — assemble your own game from mix-and-match mechanics
Microscope — Build epic histories — an RPG where you create civilizations, not characters