Savage Worlds Adventure Edition (SWADE)

User summary:

Savage Worlds is the core ruleset for all of Pinnacle’s roleplaying games.

Savage Worlds has everything you need to play narrative or miniature-based games, with quick, simple, yet comprehensive rules for everything from combat to Dramatic Tasks, Chases, and Interludes. The emphasis is on less bookkeeping for the Game Master so she can quickly and easily create worlds and adventures for any setting and focus on the players and their actions to keep the action and story rocketing along.

As a Board Game: Savage Worlds can also be played solely as a miniatures game, and also exists in the wiki as a board game - see Savage Worlds.

Related Microbadges
Savage Worlds fan
Savage Worlds fan

The RPGGeek wiki organization - and primary releases of the core rules - includes:

2003 Savage Worlds

2004 Savage Worlds (Revised Edition)

2007 Savage Worlds Explorer's Edition

2011 Savage Worlds Deluxe (revised 2015)

2012 Savage Worlds Deluxe Explorer's Edition (revised 2015)

2018 Savage Worlds Adventure Edition

User comment:

Changes made in the 2018 Adventure Edition (compared with the 2011 Deluxe edition and 2012 Deluxe Explorer's Edition):

• The Charisma derived statistic was removed.
• The Lame and One Leg Hindrances were removed.
• The Adept, Florentine, Leader of Men, Martial Arts Master, Noble, and Quick Draw Edges were removed.
• The Climbing, Investigation, Knowledge, Lockpicking, Streetwise, Swimming, Throwing, and Tracking skills were renamed or folded into other skills.
• The Disruption rules for powers were removed and replaced with Backlash on a Critical Failure.
• Characters no longer receive Experience Points; they just gain Advances directly.