No kickbacks, no affiliate links here.ĭISCLAIMER: The file I have is not final, and may change between this review and release. I'm not planning to sell you or unsell you on the Kickstarter, but give you information about this edition so you can decide for yourself. They requested a review, but did not require it for sending. Obviously, this document was provided to me by Pinnacle. I own the entire Classic Deadlands line and most of the Reloaded, either in digital or print. I also got to write a Deadlands adventure for Savage Tales of Horror Vol. WHERE I'M COMING FROM: If you've read my blog, you know I'm a big Savage Worlds fan. I just didn't have a cover image for this article.
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It's still incomplete - it was noted to me that it's missing a bestiary still - so rather than do a full review of the book, I'm putting it side by side with the Player's Guide and Marshal's Handbook to get an idea of just what has changed and what's staying the same in this new edition.ĭisclaimer: I'm not telling you to pledge. Always a good thing to shoehorn into almost any system if you want to encourage heroic play.This isn't a normal "Tommy's Take", because I don't have a full book in front of me, but a review copy of the new Deadlands book on Kickstarter right now.
In addition, it was also the first game I came across to use 'fate chips' - again poker chips - being awarded for good game play (good roleplaying, bravery, reducing the whole group to howls of laughter), and exchangable for such things as changing dice rolls or avoiding damage. In tandem with the usual dice (everything from 4- to 12-sided), the players and gamemaster (or Marshall) each have a pack of standard playing cards, and get to draw cards to determine certain actions (combat order, magic use, etc), making poker hands to determine the level of success. And some folk just prefer to face these outlandish critters with their two fists and their six-shooters.ĭeadlands gives an excellent background and storyline, as well as a system which includes specialised strengths and weaknesses for characters that are completely part of the setting (the whole book is written in the cod-western vernacular of western B-movies, critters and varmints and shootin' irons, and this carries over into edges and flaws in such descriptors as 'tinhorn' and 'big britches').īut the real jewel of Deadlands is the system, which is, for my money, not only one of the best fast-and-fun gaming systems ever created, but so in tune with the milieu that the game isn't the same without it (as was proved when the game was relaunched with a far inferior generic system). As well as shamans, some hucksters cast hexes with their decks of cards, priests can call on the power of god and the saints and mad scientists can imbue machinery with enslaved manitou spirits. The world of the Weird West has as much to do with horror movies as with westerns, and throws zombies and various flavours of magic into the mix. A mad scientist rides his steam-powered mech against and leads an army of zombies against some Indian shamans protecting their lands with the power of the spirit dance.ĭeadlands, as do many role-playing games, takes a familiar genre and blends it with odder fare. Cold-eyed gunslingers face each other down a dusty street as a ball of dry weed is tumbled along by the wind. Sharp dressed poker players ride on riverboats or fleece the hick locals in a piano bar as a couple of high-kicking dancers flap their petticoats. Outlaws rob banks and trains, pursued by hard-faced Lawmen who are only separated from them by a badge and a sense of honour. It is the late 19th century in the American West. A m First Edition Deadlands: The Weird West.
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