A eight-days Origins Award-winning setting has been converted to many more systems above a years & is available in a original Classic System, the revised Classic System, d20 System, GURPS, as well as a Savage Worlds version to be freed around 2005 called Deadlands: Reloaded.

Deadlands: The Weird West Background

A game is placed in the United States in the last quarter of the 19th Century. A canonical month for the foremost edition of Deadlands is 1876. The late supplement, ''Tales o' Terror'', advances a game's backstory and metaplot ahead one season, to 1877. A 2nd edition of Deadlands utilizes a updated backstory of 1877 when a canonical starting point.

A basic system provide for characters & settings that can be potential to come out in the "Wild West" genre of movies & pulp fiction, and virtually all of the withinside-game action is presumed to occur in the untamed frontiers of the Our contries West, or even in barely-tamed frontier towns prefer Tombstone, Arizona or Dodge City, Kansas. All a same, late supplements expanded a around-game adventuring front yard to include stores like the Deep South, the Mississippi River, Mexico, and a Northeastern United States. These supplements typically provide for risky venture placed around populated area like New Orleans, New York City, or Boston.

A overall setting is known as a Weird West due to a juxtaposition of the Western setting by having the horrific & fantastical elements of the game. A history of the Wyrd West is monovular to real-globe history, higher until July 3rd, 1863. On this date, the class action of American Indians from various tribes, led by a Sioux shaman known as "Raven," performed a Great Ghost Dance. This ritual created a conduit to the spiritual realm populated by mighty malicious a cappella called the "Reckoners." A cases encompassing & immediately subsequent to Corvus corax's ritual is referred to as "The Reckoning."

A Reckoners feed in veto emotions, particularly fear. Sufficient levels of fear in a people of a given location allow the Reckoners to commence subtly altering the epa of that location: the sun shines a bit less brilliantly, trees get scrubby & "evil" seeking, rock formations choose in the appearance of corpses or even monsters, then on. A sir thomas more right a fear, a greater a environmental changes.

A ultimate goal of a Reckoners is to turn the entire Earth into an evil, haunted wasteland -- literally a Hell on Earth. All a same, the Reckoners just can not directly enter Globe's realm unless a overall fear level of the entire planet becomes sufficiently high. To this prevent, it have their powers to produce monsters, madmen, zombies, & more animals & villains that might sow fear & terror throughout a land.

A foremost time of this occurred in July 4th, 1863, shortly after a Peachy Ghost Dance after, at a places of the Battle of Gettysburg, dead soldiers from either two sides of a conflict rose from a field of battle & began indiscriminately attacking the living soldiers & civilians. Since so, undead gunslingers, hostile Indian spirits, strange cults, & fatal animals use begun terrorizing the world. A American Civil War drags on thanks to a intrigue of the Reckoners, & the united states remains divided into U.S. & Confederate sections, while federal professionals & Texas Rangers struggle to deal by using a unearthly menaces when hiding a nasty truth from either a general public.

Players choose on the role of various mundane or even arcane character types, including Gunfighters, Lawmen (such as U.S. Marshals or local sheriffs), Hucksters (magic users), Shamans, Blessed (those of faith), and Mad Scientists in an attempt to learn about the Reckoning and the mysterious beings behind it.

Spinoff Games

A Nifty Rail Wars -- the tabletop wargame with miniature figures. Doomtown -- a collectible card game. Deadlands: Hell on Earth -- the role-swimming game placed later of a Deadlands setting, in which a Reckoners succeeded successively the entire Globe into a haunted waste. This game features elements from either either a American genre also when elements from Mad Max-esque post-apocalyptic fiction and, naturally, horror. Deadlands: Lost Colony -- a role-swimming game placed in the equivalent new when Deadlands: Hell in Globe, except in an additional planet. This game features sci-fi elements, Western elements, & horror elements.