r/savageworlds

TLDR: I'm toying with the idea of playing a combat/exorcist priest for an upcoming campaign. Would allowing him to take the Hexlinger Edge to have the Ammo Whammy power be too OP?

To go into more detail: I really like this idea of a penitent priest that hunts monsters as a way to absolve his previous sins. But looking into the Blessed arcane background, the list of powers seems to heavily lean on support instead of firepower. Mechanically speaking, the power Ammo Whammy (from the Hexslinger) seems way closer to what I want, but the rest of the Huckster's arcane background heavily clashes with the concept of a priest (not to mention that I've already played a Huckster so I want something different).

Both I and my DM are fairly new to the system, so before springing this rule-breaking character on him, I would like some advice on how balanced this is. Is there a combo I should look out for? Is there an appropriate nerf for the character? Is this a perfectly fine homebrew? Or is this just too against the grain of the game?

So- to explain. I've been wanting to run SWADE for a while and recently got a group together for it. I gave them the rundown of the game. I don't think I properly explained the...

What's a good word? Not fragility. The fact that a level 1 thug could take a level 99 crime boss if he keeps rolling max on his D4. And that can happen to the players, naturally. As well, they know this a "horror" game I'll be running (that part I did explain). Don't tell them this but their very first take will be navigating down a slick cliff face that could very well end in their death if they roll badly enough!

I've received 2 character with several page long backstories. What am I gonna do if, even after the first hazard, some random enemy with a sling gets the throw of a lifetime and takes them out. I've considered an "everyone gets one" policy where I'm rolling behind a screen and sometimes that lethal hit didn't actually happen. But that also feels... Dishonest?

Who knows, maybe a character dies and they go "fuck yeah! Time for my next one."

Edit: I'm not sure where I got it in my head that being incapacitated means death. I'm glad I was wrong though and am significantly less worried. thanks for everyone's comments!

Also the FASA rules because they break character abilities into 7 levels makes it easy to convert old modules into swade.

I've been playing Street Wolves for a couple of months and I thought of a question and was wondering if anyone else has made their own way the organisation functioned besides from the three in the book.

Personally I had it as a mix of agency reborn and private sector. Street Wolves try and obfuscate as much of their existence as possible, creating multiple shell corporations that make it a bureaucratic nightmare, yet legal, to parse through. Heck the record label I made, Hound Records, for one mission was in charge of moving arms and munitions. What did you do that fleshed out your Street Wolves world?