Savage Worlds Play and Character Tutorials

This is a great tutorial video for playing Savage Worlds:

And a companion one for creating a character is here:

I love how straightforward these videos are, and they are great introductions to the system. There are some concepts here about dice being atomic for skill rolls, where the dice are not added and they "ace" and add up repeatedly. One die is one roll, so your wild die is a second skill roll alongside the primary, not something that adds to your primary die.

There are also some great pointers in here about raises and combat in the play tutorial (only one raise applies for an attack roll, but you can have multiple raises for damage rolls). It is things like that which tripped us up when we tried the system, so the video does a great job of slowing down, explaining, and showing through examples at the end of the video (although the video has a couple mistakes at the end, but those are nicely noted in overlays and corrected nicely).

This is highly worth your time if you are interested in the system, and they also set you up nicely if you find yourself attending a game and want to get up to speed on this game quickly.

I love the combination of talking, writing, and examples here - it is like attending a college class in Savage Worlds 101, and I took a lot away from this video. It also in a way makes me excited to play, so seeing someone interested and working through the system gets me interested and thinking about things in the rules system.