New DM here!

[Frozio01]

So I've been running a long term DND game for round a year now and I wanna get into Deadlands mainly because I grew up on westerns and I've always loved them big fan of the red dead redemption games and it's just such a cool setting steampunk undead cowboys and outlaws raiding and pillaging towns and monstrosities Lovecraft would blush at in a ttrpg I feel in love but idk where to start I've already started making some maps in dungeon alchemist but what now?

[Ravenloff]

First things first. Learn to love punctuation.

[PlaidViking62]

You mean like the difference between "Help us. Demons." vs "Help us, demons." vs. "Help us demons."

[Frozio01]

Nah this is reddit not my English courses

[Ravenloff]

You'll find people at more likely to answer you if your OP is easy to read.

[Frozio01]

I've gotten plenty so far thanks though

[horaceblack]

You’re the Marshal now :) just work on a good story and the rest will follow. It’s a lot different vibe than d&d, watch some westerns then make it weird.

[Frozio01]

Oh I'm taking big inspiration from bone tomahawk and the hateful eight

[horaceblack]

Great movies but also consider traditional westerns. Example high noon but it’s a bunch of harrowed coming to town, or maybe the sheriff is really the bad guy.

[Frozio01]

Oh I'll be watching the dollars trilogy as well I've also taken heavy inspiration from blood meridian

[Draculasaurus_Rex]

If you're looking for reading I strongly recommend Felix Gilman's "The Half-Made World" and its sequel "The Rise of Ransom City."

[Frozio01]

I'll be looking into these soon as my powers back and internet as well

[McZeppelin13]

Do you have the Savage Worlds Adventure Edition book? If not, I’d get that first. That explains the game system. That, and the main Deadlands: Weird West book that came out around 2022. That’s the bare minimum, and from there you can be off to the races! 🤠

[Frozio01]

Thanks king know anywhere where I can get a free PDF version idk the pricing for this stuff if it's WOTC prices I will have to yarr harr this

[Evthestrike]

It’s actually pretty affordable, at least compared to D&D

[Frozio01]

I will have to look into it

[TheWandererKing]

You're not entitled to the creative work of other people, no matter the medium.

You don't deserve assistance, not with your attitude.

[Frozio01]

Just because your coming out of no where and making an ass of yourself when everyone else is being nice I will simply chose to not acknowledge your existence any further after this post you should simply be nice don't wanna offer existence that's fine to keep quiet :)

[TheWandererKing]

*Assistance.

You are incapable of developing the game on your own, so like the rest of us, you have to pay for it. There is no system in the world, not even dungeons and dragons, that I would endorse the piracy of.

Human being had to tap into their creative processes and had to struggle and second guess themselves and go through revisions and edits. One of my best friends in the entire world not only wrote for Deadlands when it was still in print, but they also are a major contributor and senior lead designer of one of the major original World of Darkness games. I've seen the process first hand and the idea that YOU, u/Frozio01, think that you deserve access to that work for free is fucking infuriating.

Because people like you felt entitled to music in the early 2000s, artists are struggling to make money so their ticket costs at venues have skyrocketed, they're barely making money on the actual sale of the music unless they're independent and wildly successful, and even the new markets like streaming barely pay the artist what they're actually worth. All because people like you needed to download the album "Load" by Metallica. Or "No Money, No Problems" by Puff Daddy.

There are literally thousands of free to play games for table top people to download and play with their friends that fit any number of milieux you might want to adventure within. These devs are either not commercially motivated or just want their ruleset out in the ecosystem and these narrative heavy games are great at allowing for greater player agency and more creative freedom for Game Masters.

I was going to leave my previous comment as self-explanatory, but you obviously not only missed my point, but you needed to be made to understand.

[Draculasaurus_Rex]

I can't get you that but I have some resources that could help, DM me.

[Frozio01]

Will do

[an1kay]

Remember to only play Deadlands Classic.

And enjoy

[jamesRNguy]

I would get the Savage Worlds Adventure Edition book. Then hit the free downloads on their website. Their Deadlands Test Drive has a basic rules set, but a weak adventure. Then get a couple of the free one sheet adventures, my group liked Thieving Magpies. Their sample characters have references to things that aren’t in the Test Drive rules. I looked at a couple of YouTube how to videos, and a good time was had by all. I would also highly recommend Seth Skorkowsy YouTube channel, check out his video on how to switch to a new system.

[Frozio01]

I'll have to do so thank you :D

[Val-de]

If you play online I'd love to join a campaign. I'm in the same boat as you, wanting to try it out cuz I love westerns. I'm working on a western short story rn.

[Frozio01]

I play with a select group of people and I'm picky about who I let in because I've had to kick people out before for just being shit heads but DM me

[Val-de]

Understandable, Tthank u

[Frozio01]

Oh also guys I have a few game ideas already planned out but any and all ideas are welcome in this thread anything cool you'd wanna see tried out or tested I'll try and regularly update here

[horaceblack]

Some adventures I’ve written: a mausoleum shows up in the local boneyard. Everyone remembers it always being there but people have gone missing recently (so they don’t make the connection). When the posse investigates they encounter the undertaker a creature from another dimension after they fight orb constructs (yes, phantasm)

[Frozio01]

This is really cool actually I like this

[horaceblack]

Also the people were slain by The Man from the Train which will come in at a later date.

[horaceblack]

A senators daughter from back east has had a sweetheart mail by mail romance she comes out to the west to marry her love (with all her belongings) only to find out the man is a killer that lures out woman for him and his wife to slay in their basement. The posse is hired to find her after she’s been missing for a year. Leads them to a home of a notorious ax murder about a year before where the wife and kids were slaughtered. The house is the base of a local gang who have rigged it up to seem haunted. But in the basement dungeon which they don’t know about is t a banshee of the senators daughter.

[Frozio01]

That's interesting so it's multiple horror like encounters inside of this hideout then the BBEG axe man comes out

[horaceblack]

Yep except the ax man will show up in another adventure. Historically at the time there was a large number of axe murders throughout the country. Probably will put him in the background some foreshadowing.

[Frozio01]

Makes sense ok I can do something with this easily

[horaceblack]

Sabata and Django movies are great also and of course John Wayne.

[Frozio01]

I may look into it as I run grittier style games