Savage Worlds: Cool stuff I found
Mar 12, 2012 13:09:59 GMT -8
Post by rickno7 on Mar 12, 2012 13:09:59 GMT -8
My latest game is a one shot. My girlfriend's best friend is coming to Georgia for some days, she lives in Washington. They originally wanted to play some Dungeons and Dragons, but I suggested that Savage Worlds would be easier to set up, and better playing for a one evening type story.
It was about this time that I listened to the latest convention recording of the Happy Jacks crew. Their game descriptions made me want to put effort into making the game memorable.
Tokens
First thing I found of value while planning this Victorian Steampunk one off was in the miniatures department. I have a love/hate relationship with miniatures. While I love painting them and having a visual representation to use for scenes, I hate knocking them over or having to substitute for monsters I do not own a miniature of.
I found that Savage Worlds provides some paper "figure flats" that have good artwork on them. You can download them, print them out, and fold them. Instant and cheap miniatures. I still had my problem with knocking them over.
Then I found this guide:
newbiedm.com/2008/11/22/newbiedm-tutorial-counters-tokens-or-pogs/
I love it!
To summarize, he uses cheap metal washer disks as tokens. He then prints out the images he wants and uses a 1 inch hole punch to cut them perfectly to fit on the washers.
In his example, he uses the flip side to be the "bloodied" side. If you're not familiar with D&D 4th, that means the character is under 1/2 health. Instead of bloodied, I'm going to do a sort of blurred double vision image of the character. This will represent the Shaken status.
I will be looking for stuff like this for several parts of the game. Feel free to share your cool finds here if you wish. Also I am looking for cheap and cool suggestions for Bennies that fit a steampunk setting.
It was about this time that I listened to the latest convention recording of the Happy Jacks crew. Their game descriptions made me want to put effort into making the game memorable.
Tokens
First thing I found of value while planning this Victorian Steampunk one off was in the miniatures department. I have a love/hate relationship with miniatures. While I love painting them and having a visual representation to use for scenes, I hate knocking them over or having to substitute for monsters I do not own a miniature of.
I found that Savage Worlds provides some paper "figure flats" that have good artwork on them. You can download them, print them out, and fold them. Instant and cheap miniatures. I still had my problem with knocking them over.
Then I found this guide:
newbiedm.com/2008/11/22/newbiedm-tutorial-counters-tokens-or-pogs/
I love it!
To summarize, he uses cheap metal washer disks as tokens. He then prints out the images he wants and uses a 1 inch hole punch to cut them perfectly to fit on the washers.
In his example, he uses the flip side to be the "bloodied" side. If you're not familiar with D&D 4th, that means the character is under 1/2 health. Instead of bloodied, I'm going to do a sort of blurred double vision image of the character. This will represent the Shaken status.
I will be looking for stuff like this for several parts of the game. Feel free to share your cool finds here if you wish. Also I am looking for cheap and cool suggestions for Bennies that fit a steampunk setting.