(RPG PDF Spotlight) SLA Industries for Savage Worlds: Quick Start

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SLA Industries for Savage Worlds: Quick Start

by Nightfall Games

SAVAGE SLA!

SLA Industries for Savage Worlds: Quick Start PDF is a 76-page introduction to SLA Industries FOR SAVAGE WORLDS!!

SLA Industries is set in a universe with space travel, weird magic, and esoteric horrors with an uneasy familiary. There is no internet, with television ruling the lives of the average unemployed Downtorner, and everything is entertainment. Death and conflict are pumped into the always-on TVs in every home, while the company SLA Industries fights to retain control over the known universe: The World of Progress.

This is a setting where guns can be used to solve most probles, but it's also a universe where guns are used to sweep problems under the carpet. Your role as a player, an Operative working for SLA Industries in the grey areas of morality, is to find your way in an uncertain universe while still trying to earn enough to pay your rent and get a little bit of recognition in the process.

Like everything in SLA Industries, there's a lot under the surface of being an Operative, and it's up to you how much you want to uncover. To get a quick overview though, here's what's in this book:

Introduction: Basics such as "What's a Roleplaying Game?" and "Character Overview." What you need to play (dice, a deck of cards, players, some tokens, character sheets or paper, and pencils. Snacks are nice too. Enjoy! Oh wait, getting ahead of ourselves...the introduction also provides a character overview, with their traits and edges (attributes like Agility and Smarts), as well as the basics of the Savage World rules.
Combat: Combat is good for ratings, and ratings are good for an Operative's sponsorships, so yup, rules for fighting! And this is where that previously mentioned deck of cards comes in at, as with all SAVAGE WORLD games.
Ebb Disciplines: Ebb is a power accessible by Ebon characters, and this bit of the book contains the rules for weilding it.
Hardware: Whether it's a car, suit of armour, or a weapon it counts as hardware. For the Quick Start's mission, the pre-generated characters already have all their gear chosen for them, so this section dis all about what their gears' associated stats mean.
We Care a Lot (a one-shot scenario/BPN for SLA Industries for Savage Worlds): Five Operatives take a White (investigative) BPN to look into a double murder in Downtown's Sector 33, where the Operatives get to deal with The Big Numbers gang in a tale of consumerism writ large. If this doesn't make sense to you now, don't worry, you're just readin' the copy for a PWYW Quick Start. Get it and read that, and it'll introduce you to the World of Progress and the all-new SLA Industries for Savage Worlds system, and you can be running this scenario for your players today.
Glossary: An alphabetical listing of terms specific to the SLA Industries TTRPG.
The Operatives (the player characters): The Tartan Terrors, initially, were a bunch of Frothers (drug-fueld, sword-weilding berserkers in kilts) and were off to a promising start as SLA Operatives. By the end of their first month, Frother Callum McDuff was killed and eaten by a herd of Carnivorous Pigs during a Blue BPN. Over the next eight months, all of the original Frothers died. Now it's a bunch of relatively new recruits, none of whom are Frothers. These are the five pre-generated characters players may choose from for We Care a Lot.