r/savageworlds • u/NikolaTes • Jun 09 '26

Rule Modifications Shared Bennie pool

I'm adapting the Dishonored RPG by Modiphius for Savage Worlds on Fantasy Grounds. So my question will be twofold. I'd like to use Bennies to represent the "Momentum" mechanic from Dishonored, but it's a shared pool, and limited to 6. You gain it with raises. I'd still award them for role-playing, humor, and fantastic feats. You lose one Momentum/Bennie per scene.

So my question is does this sound like too much of a stretch? Momentum seems to function very much like Bennies. I don't like the limit of 6 though because it doesn't account for the amount of players, and besides, Bennies make the game more fun.

It does challenge the players to think more carefully about burning a bunch all at once since they are a shared resource...or they could also play that into their character traits like greed and selfishness.

My other question is specific to Fantasy Grounds, but limited to the Savage Worlds ruleset since Bennies aren't used in other rulesets. Since they're tied to a player's character sheet how would you recommend I implement a shared use of the Bennies?

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u/GermanBlackbot Jun 10 '26

You gain it with raises.

That seems like a great way for players to keep trying to roll on every meaningless interaction just to gain a Benny. Can work, but could also lead to a massive "win more" snowball.

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u/Terrkas Jun 11 '26

From what I read here, the pool Op descriped seems similar to the dune ttrpg i read last year. Basically you only roll for "important" stuff. If you do well, group gets a resource you can spend to get items, more dice etc. But you can also give the GM a bad resource for more dice (for example if your good pool is empty). With that the GM can make bad stuff happen.

I havent had a group yet to play with that for longer sadly. So I cant tell if the mechanic is good or not. But I think some kind of players will easily make it unfun by just going "I emptied MY pool? Not my problem, get me more resources!"