Setting

Setting Rules

▼ Chewing the Scenery

Everything can be used as a weapon. Whether it's bashing an opponent's head on the wall, smashing a chair on his back or entangling him with a blanket. Readying an improvised weapon is a free action, even if it is hard to reach (like a bucket on the floor) or unwieldy (like a giant stuffed toy). In addition, interrupting with the intent of using an improvised weapon (already readied or not) gives a +2 to the opposed Athletics roll. An improvised weapon may also have a special ability depending on its outlook (GM's call).

• Balanced: May be thrown at double range.
• Heavy: +2 damage
• Hindering: Target is automatically Shaken with a successful attack. It doesn't cause a wound if the target is already Shaken.
• Punny: Attacker receives a +1 bonus to their Fighting, Shooting, or Athletics (throwing) roll if they manage to say a fresh pun just before rolling.
• Ridiculous: Target is Distracted after a successful attack, regardless of damage. Only works once per improvised weapon.
• Sharp: AP 3
• Unsafe: The attacker is Shaken on a roll of 1 (regardless of Wild Die), but also gains a Benny.

▼ Combat Mayhem

For more cartoonish and unconventional combat, characters that initiate Tests receive a +1 bonus, or +2 if they make a colorful description of their action (GM’s call).

▼ Creative Combat

A successful Test (Savage Worlds, page 108) works as usual, but if a Wild Card character succeeds with a raise while in combat, their foe is not automatically Shaken—they rolls on the Creative Combat table instead (Savage Worlds, page 137).

▼ Crossovers

Big Apple Sewer Samurai is a perfect setting to bring characters and concepts from other Savage Worlds settings. However, considering the power difference, existing characters should be remade from scratch using either BASS ancestries and options (Fish Out of Water is an excellent ancestry to cover them) or by creating a custom race with 10 points of positive racial abilities (plus any gained from negative ones) to represent special abilities, gear or rules coming from its original setting. Should some of them prove to be too powerful, like ultra-advanced technology or super powers, then the character is allowed to use it once during their introduction before it runs out of power, is destroyed, or otherwise rendered inoperative.

▼ Death & the Inevitable Return

Whenever a character dies, the player makes a new character as normal, but the GM also secretly draws a card from the deck (or choose the best result for his campaign), the value and the suit defining what really happened. See Big Apple Sewer Samurai, pages 26-27, to determine the result.

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Tag	Use for:	Examples
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character-name	All characters. As it appears in page name.	deck, dew, monty, arty
ancestry:ancestry	All characters.	ancestry:human, ancestry:mutant-animal
epic-powers	Characters with Epic Power Modifiers.
campaign:campaign-title	Characters connected to a given campaign.	campaign:green-grey-sponge-suit-sushi-turtles
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