So....not being familiar with the Savage Worlds really at all (I've heard the name...knew nothing else about it0.

I saw Savage Worlds Explorers Edition at my FLGS. Looking thrugh it I liked what I saw. Now fully reading it, it's pretty much awesome.

It's a complete game, with everything a homebrew game hacker like myself would need tor run for ever. Theres a very good little GM section.

Comparing it tio the big rulebook in the store I saw it was only missing world components, like races (it has the rules for building your own in explorer edition, but no samples) and period stuff (laserguns, and such).

is book is more than enough to run your own savage worlds game, and is all you need for the ruleset if you're buying deadlands or whatever.


Gushing with happiness aside, I hope other publishers learn a few thigs from this release:

$10 for a complete rpg...count me in!

Even if it is a limited (but far from Lite) version, it really only takes some rules and flavor text to get me going.

Games do not need to be "industry standard"! I do not need a full color (although Explorers edition is full color), 360 Page evocative artwork laden book with 22 pages didicated to fiction.

Drop the deluxe...and get me some games!

OH so fucking TRUE.....


 The best thing about that book ?
The very friendly price point.

 If MORE game companies figured out a way to do entry point basic RPG books like that for under $15.00 - I'd be one very happy game store worker.

More gamebooks being bought, means more gamers, means game stores stay in business  more often - you get the idea....


- Ed C.

Pinnacle are doing a great job with SW at the moment. At one end of the buy-in scale you have the cheap and cheerfully comprehensive Explorers edition. At the other you have the gorgeous, luxuriant tome that is Solomon Kane. It's one of those books that screams "OWN ME NOW!" when you see it. I can't wait for the official release so I can finally snag a copy.

I'm psyched for you.  I'm going to be running a con game about a suburban family trapped in a cruise ship that is being taken over by Dionysian cultists using SW.  That's next weekend.  The thing about Savage Worlds, it's just begging to be played.