Dio, Magic Swords, and Savage Worlds

I found a great article on heavy metal swords on Jeff's Gameblog:

http://jrients.blogspot.com/2013/08/heavy-metal-swords.html

I'm a fan of Ronnie James Dio, so I've taken some of his songs and Savaged them.

Master of Insanity

- Scimitar

- Cast Confusion, Arcane d10, 20 Power Points

- If you roll a 1 on the Arcane die, you are Shaken.

Country Girl

- Scimitar

- The pommel of this scimitar is plain and unadorned. The blade is highly polished.

- Taunt die is increased one step when the sword is drawn and in your hand.

- 1d10 on a Raise.

- If you roll a 1 on your Fighting die, you are Shaken

Scream

- two-handed sword

- Intimidate die is raised one step

- mass Intimidate check: Place a Medium Burst Template adjacent to your character. Make an Intimidate roll. All creatures within that template, enemies and allies, make an opposed Spirit check against your roll.

- If you roll a 1 on your Fighting die, you are Shaken. In addition, you gain the Hard of Hearing Hindrance (Minor) for 2-5 days.

Time to Burn

- Long Sword

- Cast Quickness, d10 Arcane, 10 Power Points.

- If you roll a 1 on the Arcane die, you are Shaken.

Turn to Stone

- Short Sword

- Any creature Incapacitated by the sword is turned to stone instead.

One Foot in the Grave

- Rapier

- The blade is rusted and pitted, and appears to be of no use. However, the blade is quite sharp, durable, and usable.

- Any creature hit by the rapier with a Raise must make a Vigor roll or suffer a level of Fatigue.

Straight through the Heart

- Long Sword

- The pommel of the sword contains a heart-shaped ruby. "Straight through the Heart" is inscribed in Latin on one side of the blade.

- AP 3

- If you roll a 1 on your Fighting die, you are Shaken.

Rainbow in the Dark

- Long Sword

- The blade is forged of some unknown metal and sparkles with the many colors of the rainbow.

- +2 vs. Fear checks

- Permanent Light spell when the sword is drawn.

- If the lighting conditions are Dim or Pitch Dark, the blade can Cast Prismatic Spray (Stun), d10 Arcane, 20 Power Points. If you roll a 1 on the Arcane die, you are affected by the Stun spell.

- If you roll a 1 on your Fighting die, you are Shaken.

Heaven and Hell

- Two-handed sword. One side of the blade has images of angels and devils cavorting together. The other side is inscribed with the words, "You Have to Bleed for the Dancer"

- Cast Dispel Magic, d10 Arcane, 10 Power Points. If you roll a 1 on the Arcane Die, you are Blinded for 2-5 rounds.

- If an ally adjacent to you takes damage, you automatically take the damage instead.

- You deal an extra d12 damage to anyone who has ever lied to you.


Tim