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Off-topic and Chatter: The Jolly Boar Inn => Forum Games - The Beer Cellar! => General Chatter - The Boozer => Mafias and RPGs => Topic started by: stormwell on May 18, 2020, 11:16:38 PM
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So I'm looking to run a Savage Worlds based Play-by-Post RPG on the forums.
Savage Worlds is a simple enough system to get into and I've been playing and running games of it on another site.
There is also this website where you can create characters; https://savaged.us/ (https://savaged.us/)
Now for the options;
Deadlands - One of the system's flagship settings, originally Weird Western but has branched out into other genres; Noir, Post Apocalypse, SciFi and soon Dark Ages as well. The original Western based setting has recently had a Kickstarter for a new edition.
Mutant Chronicles - I call this '40K Lite'. Far future has seen the Earth abandoned and megacorporations spreading out across the solar system before dark forces were unleashed and pushed back.
Ravenloft - The classic Gothic Horror setting of D&D fame, has a quite nice fan conversion for Savage Worlds.
Weird Wars - Another flagship for Savage Worlds, Weird Wars combined the likes of WW2 with supernatural horror. Think Hellboy or that recent Overlord film.
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My vote is deadlands, I think. I'm not hugely a fan of modern warfare for games I play in, the others seem fine but gonzo nineteenth century bizarreness sounds the most fun.
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I'm really not into horror as a genre (and wouldn't be interested in playing a horror RPG), but I agree with Jubal, Deadlands sounds like it could be fun
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Thirded!
I really like this idea :)
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Is it Deadlands that has cowboys on dinosaurs as a Thing That Can Happen?
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Is it Deadlands that has cowboys on dinosaurs as a Thing That Can Happen?
No, the closest it has is reanimated dinosaur skeletons.
You've also got undead cowboys, magic slinging gunmen and crazy mad scientists to contend with.
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I'm all for reanimated dinosaur skeletons
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Deadlands is looking like the winner here.
I'll wait until I get hold of the new PDF, though I do have an adventure in mind to run.
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I think I have heard of Deadlands, even though its strange because the American mythical west is not my west (Judge Begbie (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matthew_Baillie_Begbie) is not Wyatt Erp, Barkerville is not Deadwood, the Royal Engineers are not buffalo soldiers, a ten-canoe party of Haida is not a Comanche raid). I never got into that genre like I got into American SF.
My jerkbrain is being particularly awful this month. I may not be too active or quick to reply.
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I think I have heard of Deadlands, even though its strange because the American mythical west is not my west (Judge Begbie (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matthew_Baillie_Begbie) is not Wyatt Erp, Barkerville is not Deadwood, the Royal Engineers are not buffalo soldiers, a ten-canoe party of Haida is not a Comanche raid). I never got into that genre like I got into American SF.
My jerkbrain is being particularly awful this month. I may not be too active or quick to reply.
That's fine, likely to be a little while before this starts.
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Mad science and undead and horses are cool.
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OK, have gotten my hands on the pre-release PDF of Deadlands: The Weird West.
I'll create a new tread with character creation instructions along with some useful links such as a site where you can create your character and a die rolling app.
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Nice, looking forward to it! :)
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So yeah, just found out the Deadlands is gonna be publicly available in the next day or so.
That's gonna make things easier.
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And here we go; https://www.drivethrurpg.com/product/319036/Deadlands-The-Weird-West?affiliate_id=25759&filters=1600_0_0_0_0&fbclid=IwAR35Wa3H18hWf5QVVYTzB82RC-pPdasZtgqUoERByhFzKaHND4JyiOzlqog
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Not forgotten about this, just had other stuff come up and waiting for errata and updates for the new Deadlands got sorted.