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Showing posts with label Deadlands. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Deadlands. Show all posts
Friday, May 29, 2020

Deals With Devils

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The theme of my RPG GMing in recent weeks has been "deals with the devil". In my Savage Worlds / DramaSystem / Deadlands / Brimsto...
Monday, November 25, 2019

The Square Deal Saloon

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Started a new RPG campaign just recently. The setting is more-or-less that of Shadows of Brimstone meets HBO's Deadwood. Two of the PCs ...
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Wednesday, November 18, 2009

Burning the Clocktower, Damming the Gulch

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For the majority of this year, I was running a Deadlands Reloaded game, a campaign entitled "Guns of Shallow Gulch". I ended it se...
Tuesday, August 25, 2009

Crunchometer and Savage Worlds / Deadlands Reloaded

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My current Deadlands Reloaded game is moving towards a storyline climax after which we will change systems, and possibly just do something e...
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Monday, July 27, 2009

Absent Friends

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I had no RPG this weekend. My usual Deadlands game was canceled on account of one of the players moving. At first we canceled because we tho...
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Wednesday, June 3, 2009

Recent Thoughts On Savage Worlds

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A friend of mine recently stumbled across an old post from October where I lamented the dice mechanics of Savage Worlds and how there wasn...
Tuesday, May 12, 2009

Familiar Territory

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Yet another post about my current Deadlands campaign . Given my druthers, I'd have been happy to have the answer to "Where is Shall...
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Monday, May 11, 2009

Albuquirky Resonances

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In my Deadlands game, the PCs are currently in Albuquerque, where they met a feller named Jean Luc Martell who works for another feller name...
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Monday, April 27, 2009

Deputized by Adventure Cards

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Okay, that headline's neither fair nor accurate. The players in my Deadlands campaign did an astounding job of deputizing themselves ye...
Monday, March 30, 2009

Power to the Players

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In my Deadlands campaign, the PCs have a lot of power. 3 of them started out with the Veteran O' The Weird West edge. We're using th...
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Git along, little undead doggies!

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I was very pleased with Sunday's session of Deadlands. We're settling in pretty good, and the mechanics were less of a burden this t...
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Monday, March 9, 2009

Two small hurdles with Deadlands

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The second actual session (not counting character creation) of my Deadlands: Reloaded campaign is scheduled for this weekend. There's tw...
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Friday, March 6, 2009

GM set to overload

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That whistling sound you hear in the background is just me, not a Phaser set on self-destruct / overload. Close enough, though. Sunday: 1st ...
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Monday, March 2, 2009

Blessed Be

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Sunday afternoon was the first session of my Deadlands Reloaded campaign. A few observations: Blessed freakin' rock. I knew that they ...
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Wednesday, February 25, 2009

Meet the Posse

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Shallow Gulch has been destroyed by Finnegan Cobb and his damned gun. Only a handful of folks survived. From left to right: Jebediah Hunt, s...

Relearning How To Breathe

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When I ran Continuum, I had to largely give up the notion of controlling the pacing of the game. Players were time-travellers, and could bop...
Tuesday, February 24, 2009

Cop-Out on page 173

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Savage Worlds is a great system, and Deadlands is a great setting, and both are great games. In general, they're very well written. That...
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Friday, February 20, 2009

1 hit = 1 wound, except for duels and drops

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I want my Deadlands Reloaded campaign to feel cinematic, with PCs only dying at dramatically appropriate moments, not random first round of ...

Card-Based Character Creation in Deadlands

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Classic Deadlands had this cool, though admittedly sometimes frustrating, character creation system. You drew a handful of playing cards, an...
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Thursday, February 19, 2009

The Gun

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Here's the framework of my Deadlands campaign: The Gun. The PCs backstory is fairly open, but they must have settled in a particular tow...
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