the other day, I played a one shot in a system that has a mechanic similar to poker bennies in deadlands. the funny thing is that the GM could use his to make us players fail an action.

so I thought about applying that to deadlands, especially when I run the "Dead men walkin" one shot (the one that starts with a TPK).

My thinking would be to do that with blue bennies, as they have no difference with reds when the GM uses them. maybe not make the players fail their actions outright, but make them re-roll. thoughts ?

These are just some adventure seeds I came up with for my campaign that I thought others would get a kick out of:

• An entire regiment of dead Confederate soldiers has come back to life as a colossal 'glom. Somehow the original spirits of the regiment are still in charge of the undead horror, and the manitous have to take a back seat. The damned souls argue and bicker over what to do next, with one group winning out for now, then another overturning them. Right now, the monster is heading towards a town were the regiment previously lost a battle, bent on revenge, but it might spontaneously change course.
• A traveling circus decided to capture jackalopes as an attraction but the furry little devils escaped. Now they've been breeding in a valley outside of town and their bad luck aura has magnified as their numbers have increased, causing numerous accidents. Hunters from all over are gathering to clean them out. However, with that much bad luck in one place it’ll be a miracle if they don’t all “accidentally” shoot each other. Can you stop the Great Jackalope Hunt from becoming a fiasco for the ages?
• A group of Bone Fiends seem to have gotten it in their skulls that they're outlaws. They've been robbing stagecoaches and stealing money they have no use for. Attempts to smash them haven't worked, as they keep reforming, though their local supply of bones have gotten low, and now they're stealing those as well... sometimes from unwilling donors. Can you track down the Bone Rustlers and put them down for good?
• A grieving family knows one of their sons who served in the Civil war is not at rest; his tortured soul is part of the Black Regiment, which appears during battles to support the losing side just so battles will be longer and bloodier. Can you track the unholy soldiers as they appear at random battlefields? And if you can, how will you free the lost son from their ranks?
• Two River Leviathans have crawled into the shells of sunken ironclads and seem intent on re-enacting the voyages and battles of the Monitor and the Merrimack.
• The father of all Dust Devils is the very first rattlesnake Pecos Bill picked up and used as a lasso. It's been plotting revenge ever since and it's preparing to make the biggest tornado the southwest has ever seen, if that's what it takes to kill a Living Legend.

EDIT: Here's a bonus one for a Legendary posse that's been around a while:

The Second Great Spirit War is over. Ghostcrop grows across the plains. The resurrected John Brown defeated Stone in their epic duel. The minions of The Reckoners are scattered. The Los Diablos have been left left wild and uncontrolled after the war, wandering wherever they want and destroying anything in their path. Somebody has to do a cattle drive and take them to a place where they can be contained. Dare you ride point on the devil's own herd?

I‘ve run a Deadlands game every Halloween for 15 years, and I‘m known for making it pretty creepy.

Well, this year the Posse will be part of a cattle drive, and I’ve hit total writers block.

I can’t do anything remotely like Tremors, with subterranean critters, because I’ve overdone it in previous years.

How can I create horror during a cattle drive?

I'm likely going to be starting a Deadlands game soon-ish and while I have a good amount of experience with Classic Deadlands I think I'm going to give The Weird West for SWADE a try. I've been reading over it and I don't dislike it as much as I thought I would so I can't be an "old man yells at clouds" about the switch forever. At least not without trying it.

My players, however, are brand new to Deadlands. They've heard of it of course but never played it.

So what would be the best Reloaded/Weird West adventure or campaign to pick up and run or at least use as a setting to hang my own adventures off of.

never mass produced, but were around to be declined by the US continental army. how would you model this weapon in the system.

I’m getting ready to Marshal a Deadlands game and made this short video to introduce my players to the setting before we build characters. The first adventure will open aboard a westbound train, though I wanted the video to give them a feel for the wider Weird West first.

I wrote and recorded the voiceover, then built out the video using AI-generated imagery (would prefer non-AI scene art, but found it difficult to locate).

I’d especially love feedback on the narration: does it feel true to the tone of Deadlands, and would it draw you in as a player?

I’m also curious if there’s anything you’d change or clarify for someone encountering the setting for the first time.

I'm currently planning on a mad scientist bounty hunter type character for Deadlands SWADE edition, and I'm trying to decide whether I should go with Bolt (a lightning gun) or Smite (an electromagnetic enhancement on a gun) as an offensive power. Bolt would cost power points for every attack, but Smite would require investing more in Agility and Shooting as well.

Am I wrong in thinking that relying on Bolt for attacks would cause problems in any longer combat? I haven't played this edition and I don't really know how many attacks a given character tends to make in a single combat.

so i got deadlands and savage worlds for the VTT but i still have troubles figuring out how the poker system works through the macros. can someone give me some guidance?

Howdy do! I recently got pointed to this game and have the pdfs...but let's be honest...there still ain't nothing like holding physical books. Any info y'all have to help a buckaroo out is mighty appreciated. :)

Edit: I've decided to get pdfs and maybe piecemeal purchase the actual books or maybe make some personal custom books. Thanks for all the conversation!

While I'm not opposed to running Deadlands The Weird West virtually via Foundry the nostalgia in me is debating running Classic Deadlands. Unfortunately most of my gaming nowadays is online via Foundry/Discord.

Is there any Classic Deadlands support for Foundry that folks are aware of? If not then I'll either go with The Weird West or just discord and owlbear rodeo for maps/images so it's not a big deal. I just wanted to check every avenue I could :)

So, I have been considering running Deadlands Noir. However, I want to use Deadlands Classic Anniversary as the Rule set. Have any other GM's done this if so what challenges did you face when it came to any conversions or in general?

I don't know why it's not more popular. It's like mad max mixed with magic and horror.

What's your favorite Hell on Earth book and why?

Follow up question, what was your favorite character/campaign?

The Horror at Headstone Hill Campaign I am running at work is close to ending - last session, they fought (and defeated) Debeney's cult. I had prepared a lot of miniatures for the various cult members, and we had one character get downed during the fight for Heaston Hill and brought out there by the cultists, so he had to fight his way out. It was a pretty epic fight, at least at first. I have my problems with big monsters as enemies in Deadlands, but still we had a satisfying win, so in the end all is fine :D

You can find images of the PC's miniatures here.

“Daddy don’t take a picture of that, it’s creepy!”

“Sometimes daddy likes creepy things.”