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* ''TabletopGame/{{Pathfinder}}''
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* ''Webcomic/CrystalHeart'' - based on the webcomic of the same name, with changeable superpowers in a SchizoTech fantasy setting

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* ''Webcomic/CrystalHeart'' - -- based on the webcomic of the same name, with changeable superpowers in a SchizoTech fantasy setting



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* ''Time Zero'' -- Time Police [[TimePolice police the timeline.timeline]].

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* ''TabletopGame/AchtungCthulhu''
* ''Webcomic/CrystalHeart'' - based on the webcomic of the same name, with changeable superpowers in a SchizoTech fantasy setting



* ''ComicBook/TheGoon'' -- "Gangland Horror" or [[TheGreatDepression depression-era]] FantasyKitchenSink



* ''Heroes of Terra'' -- Creator/{{Nintendo}} game inspired pulp sword-and-sorcery



* ''TabletopGame/MutantChronicles'': Released by Creator/ModiphiusEntertainment alongside their own 2-D-20 system.

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* ''TabletopGame/MutantChronicles'': Released by Creator/ModiphiusEntertainment alongside their own 2-D-20 2d20 system.



* ''TabletopGame/{{Rifts}}'' -- ''Everything''



* ''ComicBook/TheSixthGun'' -- Weird West setting of a different flavor than Deadlands, based on the comic series.



* ''Time Zero'' -- Time Police police the timeline.
* ''Titan Effect'' -- ''VideoGame/MetalGearSolid''-inspired setting with themes of espionage and biological augmentation



* ''TabletopGame/{{Rifts}}'' -- ''Everything''
* ''ComicBook/TheSixthGun'' -- Weird West setting of a different flavor than Deadlands, based on the comic series.
* ''Time Zero'' -- Time Police police the timeline.
* ''ComicBook/TheGoon'' -- "Gangland Horror" or [[TheGreatDepression depression-era]] FantasyKitchenSink
* ''Titan Effect'' -- Tactical Espionage Action
* ''Heroes of Terra'' -- Creator/{{Nintendo}} game inspired pulp sword-and-sorcery
* ''TabletopGame/AchtungCthulhu''
* ''Webcomic/CrystalHeart'' - based on the webcomic of the same name, with changeable superpowers in a SchizoTech fantasy setting
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* ''Webcomic/CrystalHeart'' - based on the webcomic of the same name, with changeable superpowers in a SchizoTech fantasy setting
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Although Savage Worlds is a generic rules system, Pinnacle has released "Savage Settings" -- campaign settings or modules designed specifically for the Savage Worlds rules. These have included ''Evernight'', ''50 Fathoms'', ''Necessary Evil'', Rippers, and Low Life. Pinnacle has also published setting books based on the company's earlier lines, including ''[[TabletopGame/{{Deadlands}} Deadlands: Reloaded]]'', ''TabletopGame/DeadlandsTheWeirdWest Deadlands: The Weird West]]'' as well as the ''Tour of Darkness'' and ''Necropolis'' settings based on the ''Weird Wars'' line.

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Although Savage Worlds is a generic rules system, Pinnacle has released "Savage Settings" -- campaign settings or modules designed specifically for the Savage Worlds rules. These have included ''Evernight'', ''50 Fathoms'', ''Necessary Evil'', Rippers, and Low Life. Pinnacle has also published setting books based on the company's earlier lines, including ''[[TabletopGame/{{Deadlands}} Deadlands: Reloaded]]'', ''TabletopGame/DeadlandsTheWeirdWest Deadlands: The Weird West]]'' ''TabletopGame/DeadlandsTheWeirdWest'' as well as the ''Tour of Darkness'' and ''Necropolis'' settings based on the ''Weird Wars'' line.



** ''[[TabletopGame/DeadlandsTheWeirdWest Deadlands: The Weird West]]'' - Updated with an entirely altered setting.

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** ''[[TabletopGame/DeadlandsTheWeirdWest Deadlands: The Weird West]]'' ''TabletopGame/DeadlandsTheWeirdWest'' - Updated with an entirely altered setting.
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* StockSuperPowers: The "Super Powers Companion" includes many of these. The general power level of a Savage game is somewhere in the more powerful side of "street" level (read: Spider-Man).
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* ''Iron Dynasty''

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* ''Iron Dynasty''Dynasty'' -- Oriental Adventures in a Fantasy Far East.



* ''Runepunk''
* ''Shaintar''

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* ''Runepunk''
''Runepunk'' -- Dark steampunk fantasy
* ''Shaintar''''Shaintar'' -- Epic high fantasy



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* ''ComicBook/TheSixthGun''''ComicBook/TheSixthGun'' -- Weird West setting of a different flavor than Deadlands, based on the comic series.
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* TokenAquaticRace: The game has many playable races and an explanation of how to best generate your own races for play, but only comes with one aquatic race: Atlantean. In sci-fi games, Atlanteans are generally seen as coming from water-dominated planets.
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** ''[[TabletopGame/DeadlandsTheWeirdWest Deadlands: The Weird West]]''

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** ''[[TabletopGame/DeadlandsTheWeirdWest Deadlands: The Weird West]]'' - Updated with an entirely altered setting.

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Although Savage Worlds is a generic rules system, Pinnacle has released "Savage Settings" -- campaign settings or modules designed specifically for the Savage Worlds rules. These have included ''Evernight'', ''50 Fathoms'', ''Necessary Evil'', Rippers, and Low Life. Pinnacle has also published setting books based on the company's earlier lines, including ''[[TabletopGame/{{Deadlands}} Deadlands: Reloaded]]'' as well as the ''Tour of Darkness'' and ''Necropolis'' settings based on the ''Weird Wars'' line.

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Although Savage Worlds is a generic rules system, Pinnacle has released "Savage Settings" -- campaign settings or modules designed specifically for the Savage Worlds rules. These have included ''Evernight'', ''50 Fathoms'', ''Necessary Evil'', Rippers, and Low Life. Pinnacle has also published setting books based on the company's earlier lines, including ''[[TabletopGame/{{Deadlands}} Deadlands: Reloaded]]'' Reloaded]]'', ''TabletopGame/DeadlandsTheWeirdWest Deadlands: The Weird West]]'' as well as the ''Tour of Darkness'' and ''Necropolis'' settings based on the ''Weird Wars'' line.


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* GlacialApocalypse: ''Hellfrost'' is set in a standard swords-and-sorcery land that is facing an incoming ice age, with the titular mega-glacier growing bigger and bigger and sweeping over the land at a slow, relentless pace.
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* ''Lankhmar'' -- Low fantasy underworld

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* ''Lankhmar'' ''[[Literature/FafhrdAndTheGrayMouser Lankhmar]]'' -- Low fantasy underworld
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* LittlestCancerPatient: Art in the book depicts the players of the iconic characters as children in a cancer ward and the GM as an adult volunteering to GM for them.

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* ''TabletopGame/MutantChronicles'': Released by Modiphius Entertainment alongside their own 2-D-20 system.

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* ''TabletopGame/MutantChronicles'': Released by Modiphius Entertainment Creator/ModiphiusEntertainment alongside their own 2-D-20 system.
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* ''TabletopGame/{{Deadlands}}'' -- Horror Western
* ''East Texas University'' -- Supernatural horror at a rural college
** ''12 To Midnight'' -- Same setting, but takes place in the town proper
* ''Evernight'' -- Fantasy with a twist.



* ''Evernight'' -- Fantasy with a twist.

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* ''Evernight'' ''Lankhmar'' -- Fantasy with a twist.Low fantasy underworld
* ''Necessary Evil'' -- Supervillains in charge of saving the Earth from aliens.
* ''Pirates of The Spanish Main'' -- ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin



* ''TabletopGame/{{Slipstream}}'' -- {{Zeerust}} Sci-Fi Fantasy
* ''TabletopGame/{{Deadlands}}'' -- Horror Western
* ''[[Literature/SolomonKan The Savage World of Solomon Kane]]'' -- Pulp-Action Puritans
* ''Pirates of The Spanish Main'' -- ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin

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* ''TabletopGame/{{Slipstream}}'' ''Slipstream'' -- {{Zeerust}} Sci-Fi Fantasy
* ''TabletopGame/{{Deadlands}}'' -- Horror Western
* ''[[Literature/SolomonKan
''[[Literature/SolomonKane The Savage World of Solomon Kane]]'' -- Pulp-Action Puritans
* ''Pirates of The Spanish Main'' -- ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin
Puritans



* ''TableTopGame/NecessaryEvil'' -- Supervillains in charge of saving the Earth from aliens.

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* ''TableTopGame/NecessaryEvil'' ''The Last Parsec'' -- Supervillains in charge of saving the Earth from aliens.Sci-fi space exploration


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* ''ComicBook/FearAgent'' -- AfterTheEnd pulp science fiction


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* ''ComicBook/TheSixthGun''
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* ''ComicBook/NinjaHighSchool'': TheRoleplayingGame, co-written and with art by series creator Ben Dunn.
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* WeirdHistoricalWar: No less than three official settings explore this Trope, and one even has this trope by name!
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* ''TabletopGame/MutantChronicles'': Released by Modiphius Entertainment alongside their own 2-D-20 system.
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* ''Hellfrost'' -- the titular threat being a continent-sized glacier that is becoming larger as an approaching Ice Age is coming closer.

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* ''Hellfrost'' -- the titular threat being a continent-sized glacier that is becoming larger as an approaching Ice Age is coming comes ever closer.

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* ''The Savage World of ''Franchise/FlashGordon'''' -- borrowing liberally from the 80-plus years the franchise has existed, including the newspaper comics, the film and the serials.




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* ''Weird Wars'' -- a series of games that make a WeirdHistoricalWar out of various conflicts. So far the line covers UsefulNotes/WorldWarII ("Weird War II"), UsefulNotes/WorldWarI ("Weird War I"), UsefulNotes/TheVietnamWar ("Tour Of Darkness") and the conquering campaigns of the Roman Empire ("Weird Wars Rome").



* ''Hellfrost''

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* ''Hellfrost''''Hellfrost'' -- the titular threat being a continent-sized glacier that is becoming larger as an approaching Ice Age is coming closer.



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%%* {{Mook}}: Extra rules facilitate this.

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* {{Magitek}}: Multiple settings make use of it, such as "Weird Wars". For the most part, the way the system is made, a gadget can be purely magic, purely technological, or in between, and the only true difference would be details like what it takes to disrupt its functionality.
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{{Mook}}: Extra rules facilitate this.this. For the most part, a powerful enough PlayerCharacter is expected to be able to sweep through regular mooks with ease, have some more trouble with BossInMooksClothing "Wild Cards" and really have to play smart with Named Characters (such as the BigBad NPC).



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* {{Sourcebook}}: A pretty hefty amount of them, covering everything from UsefulNotes/TheVietnamWar to ''Franchise/FlashGordon''.
* {{Splat}}: For the most part a template to show how to place various skills and feats, but also has a unique ability or two.
* StockSuperPowers: The "Super Powers Companion" includes many of these. The general power level of a Savage game is somewhere in the more powerful side of "street" level (read: Spider-Man).

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''Savage Worlds'' is a universal, award-winning role-playing game and miniatures wargame, written by Shane Lacy Hensley, and published by Great White Games doing business as Pinnacle Entertainment Group. The game emphasizes speed of play and reduced preparation over realism or detail.

Although Savage Worlds is a generic rules system, Pinnacle has released "Savage Settings" - campaign settings or modules designed specifically for the Savage Worlds rules. These have included ''Evernight'', ''50 Fathoms'', ''Necessary Evil'', Rippers, and Low Life. Pinnacle has also published setting books based on the company's earlier lines, including ''TabletopGame/{{Deadlands}}: Reloaded'' as well as the ''Tour of Darkness'' and ''Necropolis'' settings based on the Weird Wars line.

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''Savage Worlds'' is a universal, award-winning an award-winning, {{universal|System}} [[TabletopRPG role-playing game game]] and [[WarGaming miniatures wargame, wargame]], written by Shane Lacy Hensley, and published by Great White Games doing business as Pinnacle Entertainment Group. The game emphasizes speed of play and reduced preparation over realism or detail.

Although Savage Worlds is a generic rules system, Pinnacle has released "Savage Settings" - -- campaign settings or modules designed specifically for the Savage Worlds rules. These have included ''Evernight'', ''50 Fathoms'', ''Necessary Evil'', Rippers, and Low Life. Pinnacle has also published setting books based on the company's earlier lines, including ''TabletopGame/{{Deadlands}}: Reloaded'' ''[[TabletopGame/{{Deadlands}} Deadlands: Reloaded]]'' as well as the ''Tour of Darkness'' and ''Necropolis'' settings based on the Weird Wars ''Weird Wars'' line.



Official Savage Worlds settings include:

* TabletopGame/FiftyFathoms - Swashbuckling Fantasy Pirates
* Evernight - Fantasy with a twist.
* TabletopGame/{{Rippers}} - Victorian Horror with a ''ComicBook/TheLeagueOfExtraordinaryGentlemen'' vibe
* TabletopGame/{{Slipstream}} - {{Zeerust}} Sci-Fi Fantasy
* TabletopGame/{{Deadlands}} - Horror Western
* The Savage World of Literature/SolomonKane - Pulp-Action Puritans
* PiratesOfTheSpanishMain - ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin
* TabletopGame/{{Space 1889}} - Steampunk SpaceOpera
* TableTopGame/NecessaryEvil - Supervillains in charge of saving the Earth from aliens.

Licensed Savage Worlds settings include:

* TabletopGame/TheDayAfterRagnarok: [[{{Pun}} Pulp]]-[[AfterTheEnd Apocalypse]] setting where ThoseWackyNazis [[{{Ghostapo}} summoned]] [[Myth/NorseMythology the Midgard Serpent]].
* Hellfrost
* Interface Zero - CyberPunk
* Iron Dynasty
* TabletopGame/LowLife - Very weird
* TabletopGame/RedEarth - after UsefulNotes/RedOctober, supernatural powers emerge and the following events go horribly wrong.
* TabletopGame/{{Runepunk}}
* TabletopGame/{{Shaintar}}
* SunderedSkies - [[AfterTheEnd Post-Apocalyptic]] Fantasy
* TabletopGame/{{Totems of the Dead}}
* TabletopGame/{{Winterweir}}
* TabletopGame/{{Rifts}} - ''Everything''
* TabletopGame/{{TimeZero}} - Time Police police the timeline.
* ComicBook/TheGoon - 'Gangland Horror' (Depression-era FantasyKitchenSink)


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Official '''[[AC:Official Savage Worlds settings include:

include:]]'''
* TabletopGame/FiftyFathoms - ''TabletopGame/FiftyFathoms'' -- Swashbuckling Fantasy Pirates
* Evernight - ''Evernight'' -- Fantasy with a twist.
* TabletopGame/{{Rippers}} - ''TabletopGame/{{Rippers}}'' -- Victorian Horror with a ''ComicBook/TheLeagueOfExtraordinaryGentlemen'' vibe
* TabletopGame/{{Slipstream}} - ''TabletopGame/{{Slipstream}}'' -- {{Zeerust}} Sci-Fi Fantasy
* TabletopGame/{{Deadlands}} - ''TabletopGame/{{Deadlands}}'' -- Horror Western
* ''[[Literature/SolomonKan The Savage World of Literature/SolomonKane - Solomon Kane]]'' -- Pulp-Action Puritans
* PiratesOfTheSpanishMain - ''Pirates of The Spanish Main'' -- ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin
* TabletopGame/{{Space 1889}} - ''TabletopGame/{{Space 1889}}'' -- Steampunk SpaceOpera
* TableTopGame/NecessaryEvil - ''TableTopGame/NecessaryEvil'' -- Supervillains in charge of saving the Earth from aliens.

Licensed '''[[AC:Licensed Savage Worlds settings include:

include:]]'''
* TabletopGame/TheDayAfterRagnarok: ''The Day After Ragnarok'' -- [[{{Pun}} Pulp]]-[[AfterTheEnd Apocalypse]] setting where ThoseWackyNazis [[{{Ghostapo}} summoned]] [[Myth/NorseMythology the Midgard Serpent]].
* Hellfrost
''Hellfrost''
* Interface Zero - ''Interface Zero'' -- CyberPunk
* Iron Dynasty
''Iron Dynasty''
* TabletopGame/LowLife - Very weird
''TabletopGame/LowLife''
* TabletopGame/RedEarth - ''TabletopGame/RedEarth'' -- after UsefulNotes/RedOctober, supernatural powers emerge and the following events go horribly wrong.
* TabletopGame/{{Runepunk}}
''Runepunk''
* TabletopGame/{{Shaintar}}
''Shaintar''
* SunderedSkies - ''Sundered Skies'' -- [[AfterTheEnd Post-Apocalyptic]] Fantasy
* TabletopGame/{{Totems ''TabletopGame/{{Totems of the Dead}}
Dead}}''
* TabletopGame/{{Winterweir}}
''TabletopGame/{{Winterweir}}''
* TabletopGame/{{Rifts}} - ''TabletopGame/{{Rifts}}'' -- ''Everything''
* TabletopGame/{{TimeZero}} - ''Time Zero'' -- Time Police police the timeline.
* ComicBook/TheGoon - 'Gangland Horror' (Depression-era FantasyKitchenSink)

''ComicBook/TheGoon'' -- "Gangland Horror" or [[TheGreatDepression depression-era]] FantasyKitchenSink




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* {{Fanservice}}: The Powers section's picture of a sorceress gives her a [[BreastPlate halter]] that's just a hair's breadth away from showing something indecent.



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%%* * PulpMagazine: A major influence on the style of play.play and mood.
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* SunderedSkies - [[AfterTheEnd Post Apocalyptic]] Fantasy

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* SunderedSkies - [[AfterTheEnd Post Apocalyptic]] Post-Apocalyptic]] Fantasy





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* {{Evernight}} - Fantasy with a twist.

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* {{Evernight}} Evernight - Fantasy with a twist.
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Removed per TRS.


* {{Badass}}: All player characters are this by comparison to other types of characters, as well as Wild Cards (important [=NPC=]s).

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