SEHR geiles Kickstarter-Projekt für Savage Worlds:
Wild Card Creator
A character creator program for the Savage Worlds tabletop RPG which allows you to import content from ANY published PDF.
Savage Worlds is a Fast! Furious! Fun! tabletop role-playing game by
Pinnacle Entertainment Group. It's an incredibly flexible system that allows you to create characters from any genre.
Although it's pretty easy to create
Savage Worlds characters by hand, sometimes you just need a better way. Maybe you're making a bunch of characters, like for a convention game, and making them by hand takes too long. Maybe you want for an easy way to make a nice-looking character sheet that you can save and print off when you need. Or maybe you're using supplementary books and you don't want to spend time flipping through pages to find new Edges or searching the PDF to find what you're looking for.
Wild Card Creator can solve these problems. It lets you quickly and easily make
Savage Worlds characters in a fraction of the time it takes to manually make them. Afterwards, you can save your character and print it out or e-mail it to your GM or a friend. Wild Card Creator comes
preloaded with all the content from Savage Worlds Deluxe, so you can get started right away. And best of all, it's really easy to add custom content, even from supplementary settings.
Wild Card Creator will initially be released DRM-free for
Mac, Windows, and Linux. If enough money gets raised, I'll begin work on an iPad and Android tablet version (see the stretch goals below).
Any PDF, Any Setting, No Extra Cost
If you've ever bought another character creator for any system, you know the frustration. You've got a whole book of cool character options, but it's not in the character creator program. You could spend hours typing it in, or in some cases, you can fork over $5-$10 for the same content you already own.
Wild Card Creator solves the problem. If you own any published
Savage Worlds PDFs, Wild Card Creator will be able to import any new Races, Edges, Hindrances, Gear, or other character options from them
without you paying anything more! If you've got the PDF, you've got the content.
There's a lot of
Savage Worlds settings out there, but the ultimate goal of Wild Card Creator is to be able to have full support for
all published PDFs within 1 year of the initial release. Kickstarter backers will get a chance to vote for which settings and PDFs they want access to first, so all your favorites will be there.
The following companies have already given me their express permission to make Wild Card Creator work with their full line of PDFs:
- Pinnacle Entertainment Group: Deadlands, Rippers, 50 Fathoms, and all the other first party settings
- Reality Blurs: Agents of Oblivion, Runepunk, Realms of Cthulhu, Shaintar, Ravaged Earth, Iron Dynasty
- Triple Ace Games: Hellfrost, Sundered Skies, Necropolis 2350, Wonderland No More
- Gun Metal Games: Interface Zero, Totems of the Dead
- FunSizedGames: Streets of Bedlam (another Kickstarter project)
- Adamant Entertainment: Thrilling Tales, Mars
- Mystical Throne Entertainment: Faith & Demons: The Rising, Judgment Day, Mercenary Breed
- Battlefield Press: Sherwood, Gaslight Victorian, Kaiser's Gate (another Kickstarter project), Double Spiral War (another Kickstarter project)
- Daring Entertainment: War of the Dead, Hellspawn
- Arc Dream Publishing: Kerberos Club
- Silver Gryphon Games: Wellstone City
- RPG Objects: Darwin's World
- GRAmel Publishing: Beasts & Barbarians
- Mutha Oith Creations: Low Life
- StoryWeaver: HAEL
- Super Genius Games: Strike Force 7
- Atomic Overmind Games: The Day After Ragnarok
That's quite a lot of Savage Worlds settings, so Kickstarter backers will get to choose which settings will have their PDFs supported in the initial release and which ones will have their PDFs supported later in free updates. Again, all of these will be supported within 1 year of release.
Made for Savage Worlds
Wild Card Creator is made exclusively for
Savage Worlds and great effort has been taken to make sure that Wild Card Creator lets you create them as easily as possible. Everything is supported, from Arcane Backgrounds, to third-party setting rules. And as a diehard fan myself, I've made sure to include all of the little things that make the system special, like allowing Smilin' Jack to be a possible Wild Card icon.
Houserule to Your Heart's Content
Wild Card Creator is designed with modularity in mind and you'll be able to easily include your own Races, Skills, Edges, Hindrances, Gear, and other character options. You can also export them into a file that you can share with others.
Although Wild Card Creator won't be able to automatically import PDFs of Homebrew settings or fan-made Savage Conversions, you will be able to manually add the content very easily. Upon release, I will have examples for importing a few homebrew settings that I've chosen into Wild Card Creator.
Stretch Goals
The funding goal for this Kickstarter is enough to get Wild Card Creator released. However, if we raise more money, then
everybody who pledges reaps the rewards!
$4,500 — All copies include over 150 pieces of art from
Storn Cook, artist for the
Fantasy Companion,
Supers Companion, and
Necessary Evil, which you can use as character portraits.
$6,000 — You'll also be able to create armies for
Savage Worlds Showdown, Pinnacle's miniature game based on
Savage Worlds. (I'll try my best to get this feature in by November, but if it doesn't make it, it'll be in a free update).
$8,000 — Immediately after
Wild Card Creator is released, work begins on an iPad and Android tablet version of
Wild Card Creator and all backers will be able to get it for half off when it's ready.
More stretch goals if we get even higher!
CD Copies
Anyone who pledges at the Novice Wild Card level on up can optionally choose to get a CD copy of Wild Card Creator in addition to the digital download. Just add $5 to your pledge for shipping in the United States or $10 for shipping anywhere else in the world.
Kicking it Forward
I pledge that 5% of all profit from the finished product will be used to help fund other people's dreams through Kickstarter. Check out
KickingItForward.org for more information!
