The Savage World of Solomon Kane

DangerDwarf · Post by **DangerDwarf** » Fri Feb 13, 2009 2:55 pm

I'm a savage Worlds fan, so I'm already sold on the system. Anyone have this product though that can say if Pinnacle did it justice?

dachda · Post by **dachda** » Fri Feb 13, 2009 8:47 pm

I've been thinking about picking this up too, 'cause I love the character and the setting from the Howard stories. So equally interested in hearing a review on this one.
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Treebore · Post by **Treebore** » Sat Feb 14, 2009 5:10 pm

I can tell you I vaguely remember seeing comments about it and they were positive.
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cinderblock · Post by **cinderblock** » Sat Feb 14, 2009 10:25 pm

The Solomon Kane book is in my opinion the best book they have put out for SW. The artwork is fantastic the writing excellent and the "feel" they present in the book is perfect. It is self contained, meaning the SW rules are presented in the game unlike some of their other settings (Necessary Evil, Tour of Darkness) so you do get a complete game. The price is a bit steep but worth it in my opinion. I picked this one up at Gencon '07 so I got a bunch of freebies with it which was just icing on the cake. The adventure path presented in the book is very good and can be fleshed out easily. A couple of the adventures were a little unorthodox compared to the Solomon Kane stories but can be adjusted with ease. This SW book is the WIN.

Omote · Post by **Omote** » Sun Feb 15, 2009 4:26 pm

Absolutely love the REH stories and setting of Solomon Kane (and can't wait to see the movie), but I'm just not that big of a fan of the Savage Worlds system. I've paged through the SK RPG book a few times, and's it's pretty nice. The text is dense as it's a big honkin' book. I was hopping for some more artwork, but what is there is pretty d'ernd nice.

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cinderblock · Post by **cinderblock** » Sun Feb 15, 2009 7:27 pm

Sometimes I feel the need for a chunky style Savage Worlds too Omote. What my group and I do when we feel that need is to just use the original Deadlands system. The magic can be ported over to the most appropriate style from whatever version of the old system you use (Wierd West, HOE, or Lost Colony). You may have to hand-wave a few things like using the Huckster card-drawing mechanic since it doesn't have the right feel for SK and just allow a straight roll for success. But it works pretty well. When I ran Tour of Darkness for a smaller group we used the original system and kept in the damage rules from SW for use against mooks.

Eisenmann · Post by **Eisenmann** » Mon Feb 16, 2009 12:27 am

Another vote for the Savage Solomon Kane book. It is fantastic. Straight away you can run games that read like the Solomon Kane tales. It includes not only the system but also a tailored magic system specifically for the setting. It's my favorite Savage Worlds book.

Lurker · Post by **Lurker** » Tue Feb 17, 2009 12:00 am

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Absolutely love the REH stories and setting of Solomon Kane (and can't wait to see the movie

They are making a movie cooool!

I've looked at getting the PDF of SW Solomon Kane, but don't have time to learn a new system having never played and SW games) so have held off. I'd be tempted to buy it if I new it would convert to C&C fairly easily.
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dachda · Post by **dachda** » Tue Feb 17, 2009 1:09 am

Apparently the filming is done, and the movie is in post-production. No release date yet. Director hopes it will end up a trilogy.

Solomon Kane movie poster:

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cinderblock · Post by **cinderblock** » Tue Feb 17, 2009 1:22 am

Freakin-A SAWEEEEET. Please tell me its coming out tomorrow.
BTW Who's playing Solomon Kane?

serleran · Post by **serleran** » Tue Feb 17, 2009 1:25 am

James Purefoy, who it seems was Mark Antony (Rome.)
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cinderblock · Post by **cinderblock** » Tue Feb 17, 2009 1:28 am

Good pick. Rome ruled.

Lord Dynel · Post by **Lord Dynel** » Thu Feb 19, 2009 3:31 pm

I think they should have gotten Gerard Butler, but Purefoy might be a pretty good choice, too.
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Omote · Post by **Omote** » Thu Feb 19, 2009 7:09 pm

Purefoy will be perfect for the part. That movie poster has been around since before principle photography even started. There was a website around somewhere that claimed to have authentic footage of the filming process of the SK movie. It looked real enough, and if genuine will mean the movie is at least going to look very much like the REH stories.

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Lord Dynel · Post by **Lord Dynel** » Thu Feb 19, 2009 7:29 pm

Omote wrote:
Purefoy will be perfect for the part. That movie poster has been around since before principly photography even started. There was a website around somewhere that claimed to have authentic footage of the filming process of teh SK movie. It looked real enough, and if genuine will mean the movie is at least going to look very much like the REH storeis.

-O

I hope you're right, hoss. I'd hate for them to eff up this IP. I think it'll only have on chance at greatness, and that's it.
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Omote · Post by **Omote** » Thu Feb 19, 2009 7:48 pm

Unfortunately, an comparitively speaking, the Soloman Kane movie is probably on the lower budget side. Additionally, I'm worried that the film still doesn't have a release date and we haven't heard anything about it. That means the movie is probably having a hard time being sold to a distributer. Let's hope that is not the case.

I'm worried, but I am excited at the same time. The potential is there.

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dachda · Post by **dachda** » Thu Feb 19, 2009 7:54 pm

Omote wrote:
Unfortunately, an comparitively speaking, the Soloman Kane movie is probably on the lower budget side. Additionally, I'm worried that the film still doesn't have a release date and we haven't heard anything about it. That means the movie is probably having a hard time being sold to a distributer. Let's hope that is not the case.

I'm worried, but I am excited at the same time. The potential is there.

-O

I read recently, the movie had a $40 million budget. But a smaller budget, hopefully, means more time spent on character development, and less on yet another special effects movie. From what I read of the plot, it sounds like most of the money, will go to background sets, more than anything. Starts in Africa, then moves to England. Hope we get to actually find out this year.
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Omote · Post by **Omote** » Thu Feb 19, 2009 9:03 pm

Hey, if the production cost is indeed 40 mils, that is great! I can't believe for a second they are going to have a huge delay in a 40 million dollar movie... unless it's utter garb... IT WILL BE SWEET!

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Lord Dynel · Post by **Lord Dynel** » Thu Feb 19, 2009 10:01 pm

Well, I hope it sees the light of day in '09...'10 at the latest, but this year, if placed right will have less competition I think.
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Lurker · Post by **Lurker** » Fri Feb 20, 2009 4:51 am

This makes me want to dig out my old SK book and read a bit. Can't wait for the movie!

By the way how heard will it be to convert the Savage World, Solomon Kane game into C&C? Or would it be easier to use some of the 3.5 games for that time frame and convert them to C&C with SK simply as a back drop?
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Lord Dynel · Post by **Lord Dynel** » Fri Feb 20, 2009 2:07 pm

Lurker wrote:
This makes me want to dig out my old SK book and read a bit. Can't wait for the movie!

By the way how heard will it be to convert the Savage World, Solomon Kane game into C&C? Or would it be easier to use some of the 3.5 games for that time frame and convert them to C&C with SK simply as a back drop?

I don't really know, Lurker, as I don't have intimate experience with Savage Worlds. However, there is a conversion document I happened upon, that seems to convert Savage Worlds to a few different systems. It may come in handy.
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DangerDwarf · Post by **DangerDwarf** » Fri Feb 20, 2009 2:37 pm

The Savage Worlds system is different enough fro other that when I'm using other stuff for SW (or using SW stuff for other systems) I just use the concept and build my own crunch.

MacLeod · Post by **MacLeod** » Fri Feb 20, 2009 4:39 pm

Lord Dynel wrote:
I think they should have gotten Gerard Butler, but Purefoy might be a pretty good choice, too.

Gerard Butler's part in 300 was a fluke that will never happen again. He has more interest in being a part of terribly horrible movies as opposed to something fun and entertaining.
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Lord Dynel · Post by **Lord Dynel** » Sat Feb 21, 2009 12:57 am

MacLeod wrote:
Gerard Butler's part in 300 was a fluke that will never happen again. He has more interest in being a part of terribly horrible movies as opposed to something fun and entertaining.

Well, if you only know him from 300, then I guess I can see how you have a narrower viewpoint. Actually, if you see his work in RockNRolla, Phantom of the Opera, Nim's Island, and P.S. I love You, you may share my viewpoint that he's actually a very diverse and talented actor. Maybe not. But I assure you I was not basing my opinion solely on his role in 300.
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DangerDwarf · Post by **DangerDwarf** » Sat Feb 21, 2009 1:06 am

Lord Dynel wrote:
Well, if you only know him from 300, then I guess I can see how you have a narrower viewpoint. Actually, if you see his work in RockNRolla, Phantom of the Opera, Nim's Island, and P.S. I love You, you may share my viewpoint that he's actually a very diverse and talented actor. Maybe not. But I assure you I was not basing my opinion solely on his role in 300.

Bolded the parts I thought coincided.

Lord Dynel · Post by **Lord Dynel** » Sat Feb 21, 2009 1:44 am

You've seen PotO and you think he did badly? I thought he was damn good in it - best Phantom I've seen. I thought those movies - while not blockbusters in any way, shape, or form - demonstrated that he is able to do something "fun and interesting." Whether 300, or the other movies I cited, are horrible movies, are beside the point, really.
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Omote · Post by **Omote** » Tue Feb 24, 2009 7:14 pm

RockNRolla was great!

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tylermo · Post by **tylermo** » Tue Mar 10, 2009 8:11 pm

In my opionon Sav Solomon Kane is a great book. Bear in mind, I haven't read any of the Howard SK stories at this point. Sav Worlds creator, Shane Hensley is a huge Kane fan. Either way, the book is huge for the price, not to mention the self-contained rules. One very slight problem is that Kane was ahead of 2007's Savage Worlds Explorers Edition RPG(which revised the way melee damage works, and a couple of other things). The rules in Kane are from the Savage Worlds revised book. This is not a big deal considering the Explorer's Edition is a very fairly priced 10.00 softcover digest, and can be easily used with Kane. Or, you can still have a great game with the "slightly" different rules. Pinnacle didn't change the rules so much with SWEX that you can't use the campaign books that preceeded it. It's quite simple to play. Highly recommended from this fellow C&C'er.

slimykuotoan · Post by **slimykuotoan** » Thu Mar 12, 2009 11:56 pm

I wouls so love to play this game some day.
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Lucifer_Draconus · Post by **Lucifer_Draconus** » Fri Mar 13, 2009 11:13 pm

dachda wrote:
Apparently the filming is done, and the movie is in post-production. No release date yet. Director hopes it will end up a trilogy.

Solomon Kane movie poster:

Sweeeeeeeeet!! I gotta see this ... I want this poster ! I'd love to see this as a poster. I'd also like to see a faithful adaption made of Conan & Kull.
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