Monday, April 20, 2009
Savage Gamma World is a conversion of the classic TSR Gamma World role playing game to the Savage Worlds system. We used to love that game. Unfortunately, the conversion is missing the classic chart for trying out various unknown technologies.
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I took tetsubo57’s (youtube) advice and read the Savage Gamma world.I love the premise. I am just a bit confused with one aspect of Artifact Figuring (out). Am I wrong to assume that it requires a 4 to succeed in an “understanding” step? You roll whatever die is related to that skill (knowlege D6) or whatever, right? Do you add the wild die too?
So in the example, Mordank uses a D6 to figure out a laser pistol. GM raises his -4 is to -2 because of similar weapon use, but the book says he gets a success and a raise on his first roll. He isn’t adding his wild die to his D6 is he? How could he get 8 from D6-2? What am I missing? I am assuming he needs a 4 per step. Am I reading it wrong?
Other than this confusion, I am totally pumped about this.
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