Savage Kingdoms is a brand-new dark fantasy/sword-and-sorcery RPG, now entering the Beta phase of playtesting. And, yes, that's Savage Kingdoms, NOT Savage Worlds. As excellent as the latter is, SK promises a more focused setting and comprehensive rules to coincide with bringing an immersion-style of fantasy roleplaying to life. Think the Hyborian Age of Conan meets A Game of Thrones. Sprinkle a small measure of LoTR, and you have a pretty good idea of the atmosphere and flavor. Designed by Mike Yow, a professional actor and improviser, Savage Kingdoms is geared to appeal more to those wanting a deeper quality of roleplaying, especially in a fairly gritty setting where magic and sorcery are fairly rare (but powerful when skillfully harnessed) and the edge of barbarism is ever so close to the fringes of so-called civilization. A couple of folks have shown some interest fairly recently, on these here boards, and I apologize that my computer went a bit haywire and I lost those contacts. I was also running some Pathfinder then, in the SK setting, so you might've gotten in touch with me via those means. But apologies again, and if you're still interested, please reply here and I'll try my darnedest not to have a 'puter meltdown this time around. Need one or two folks. Will be glad to send you a Word doc or PDF of the SK 2.1 rules, but need your confirmed interest here first. Anyway, let me know. and then we'll be off on a grim and merry quest. Two steady players already. Monday nights usually starting around 8:00 PM EST and running till 1:00 AM or so.
