An excellent take on the OSR style of play using Savage Worlds

I used this to introduce my teenage kids to Savage Worlds, to great success. Very little preparation neccessary, and yet very fun and fulfilling games. Perfect if what you're looking for are classic, old-school fighty dungeon crawls to be run on a whim. The random character generation system is also very good; we used it to make supporting NPCs. A large gridded map and eraseable markers, combined with minis and standees, was nice to have alongside it. Highly recommended.

An excellent book that delivers exactly what it sets out to do. Letting you play Savage Worlds in a dungeon crawl with zero-prep.

Because of the casual pick-up nature of this system it's is a great way to get new people to join in on the hobby. No struggling with character creation or plots to weave in. Just you and the dungeon. And though at first I thought this would result in hardly any roleplay the random connections between PC's even serve as a fantastic way to get things started. Beyond that I tell my players that whenever I'm generating a new room they can go wild and roleplay, this makes for varied games.

The system is also very easy to run and good for a first-time DM wanting an easy game. It's also great for convincing players to try out DM'ing so you can finally be a PC again. Yes, I'm talking to you!

And for veterans, the looseness of the system makes it the perfect spot to finally try out any of those weird builds abilities or combo's you've homebrewed or found in supplements that just don't fit in the settings you were playing before.

I have recently started using G&G with my players and everyone has really enjoyed it. The character generation system has been a big hit, especially for players unfamiliar with Savage Worlds. I would love to see additional "Setting" packs, with different ancestry combinations or "class" themes. And if you need enouragement to publish a big book of dungeons, I would definitely purchase something like that, all of the dungeons I've tried so far have been excellent.

This is a super fun way to get a group together and running into a dungeon in under 30 minutes, GM included. It's also a pretty solid way to introduce new players to Savage worlds because it laser focuses you in character creation. You pull some cards and boom! You're a Oglar the half-ork rouge). Also, the ability to easily dynamically generate dungeons (7 of them are included!) I highly recommend to anyone wanting to run a fun and quick OSR style dungeon crawl.

If you are looking to capture the old-school dungeon crawl feel using Savage Worlds as your ruleset, G&G is the way to go. It provides an excellent set of rules that allow the party to jump right into the action and fulfill their "murder hobo" desires. The rules have been updated to support the latest Savage Worlds Adventure Edition, and include random character creation (optional), defined races and classes, modified character advancement, defined arcane abilities, a bestiary and a random dungeon generator as well.

The best Savage Worlds book I've ever used, and my favourite OSR system. I love the random character and dungeon generator!

The new version is better than the previous. I really think G&G is one of the 3 best ways to play Fantasy with Savage Worlds, and the BETTER to play old school fantasy questing.

Gold & Glory is an Old School dungeon crawler for Savage Worlds; it’s not a setting as such, more a set of rules mods which give SW the feel of OD&D. It does this quite elegantly with three main changes:

[1] It adds an optional random character generation process; draw three cards, and these determine race, gender, edges, hindrances and ‘character class’, which is a package of skills and equipment. (I’ve used this for creating some highly entertaining NPCs in other genres, too.)

[2] It adds a random dungeon generator based on card draws (which determine the map layout and are generic) and die rolls (which determine monster encounters, tricks and traps and are different for each of the seven example dungeons provided).

[3] It modifies character advancement; in effect, characters have to buy advances using loot they have collected in dungeons, although they can only do so by spending that loot in specific ways – carousing, research or offerings to the Sun God. This is the most important change to the core rules.

There have been a few changes since the 2017 version... A few minor tweaks to reflect changes to skills, edges, hindrances, gear and powers in the core rules, nothing significant in my opinion. Half-orcs have now disappeared from the Savage Worlds core rulebook, but they are still part of G&G so now they are defined here. Clerics of Solis the Sun God, i.e. PCs with Arcane Background (Miracles), now gain a hindrance each time they gain an advance by making offerings to their god, representing their increasing adherence to their sacred vows, but to compensate, they also receive a permanent blessing with each such hindrance, so the precepts and sins in the previous edition are no longer used. As the core rules now have a Flee manoeuvre, G&G now uses that instead of the previous setting rule of the same name. When the heroes find minor treasures, they now find “loot tokens” rather than specific amounts of coinage; the idea is that they just shovel it into their backpacks, and don’t count or divide it until they have escaped the dungeon, whereupon each Loot Token turns into goodies worth 1d6 x 10 gold pieces. Previously, the book listed most monsters by stating what the base creature from the core rulebook was and what changes to make to it (“Giant Lizard: Alligator, remove Aquatic.”). Now, you get a full statblock for each one. This is probably why the new edition is about a dozen pages longer.

I love this version even more than the last one. The Path of Light is a very elegant setting rule, more in tune with the core rules; it’s also nice that the more devout a cleric is in his worship, the more sacred vows and blessings he accumulates. Full monster statblocks reduce the amount of page-flipping I need to do in play, and I hate page-flipping.

Tahis a fantastic toolbox for running old school style games. I love Savage Worlds powers/vancian magic twist for the wizard and cleric.

I bought this and played a game last night because a player couldn't make it to our regular ETU game and the session the GM planned heavily involved his character. I suggested running G&G as it was advertised as being able to be run on the fly. I had 0 prep outside of reading through the book once. The game was a massive hit! All the players loved it including the one who was skeptical of it to start.

Generating a dungeon with this system was easy to pick up during the game without even a dry run ahead of time. The book met and exceeded all my expectations.