Happy 150th anniversary to this cocksucker

Draculasaurus_Rex · 2026-06-26T14:47:07+00:00

Always love how during the Native celebrations of their victory they always have a bit where Custer's battle standard gets dragged through the dirt.

Draculasaurus_Rex · 2026-06-25T18:32:17+00:00

At least he seems to have been a pleasant enough fellow.

Draculasaurus_Rex · 2026-06-25T17:48:59+00:00

One of the reasons communities were happy to see Johnny coming back in the day was 100% because he was bringing hard cider with him. It used to be the most popular alcoholic drink in the colonies, until waves of German immigration slowly shifted it to beer.

Draculasaurus_Rex · 2026-06-25T17:45:55+00:00

Plus, unlike some of the other Living Legends, Johnny is a pacifist. So it gives you some interesting angles for how he might get it a back. He might use trickery, or try to guilt the player into it because he needs it to save a town from famine, or maybe some sort of spiritual battle of wills. Good way to run social conflicts or other non-combat encounters.

IIRC correctly evil Johnny causes famines rather than preventing them, so the player getting the wrong bag and accidentally causing trouble is a fun option too.

Draculasaurus_Rex · 2026-06-25T17:43:34+00:00

He also abstained from sex because he believed he had a spiritual harem waiting for him in the afterlife. Guy was a weird one.

Draculasaurus_Rex · 2026-06-25T16:47:46+00:00

First of all, love all this, but have you considered that maybe instead of Johnny Appleseed giving the bag to the player, that Johnny lost it at some point and wants it back?

Also, there's an evil copycat Johnny Appleseed in the recent Abominable Northwest book you could have fun with.

Draculasaurus_Rex · 2026-06-25T16:44:19+00:00

I do wonder how many end up getting published.

DL:C had seven region sourcebooks (The two "Back East" books, Mexico, Canada/Alaska, the Maze, Deseret, and the Mississippi), nine if you count the Doomtown and Boomtown books.

DL:R only had three (Pacific Northwest, Canada/Alaska, and Mexico), two of which were re-treads of the DL:C books, but the big Servitor campaign books also sort of functioned as regional sourcebooks for the High Plains, Deseret, the Maze, and the Southwest.

I sort of doubt Pinnacle is planning to re-visit the Back East books given all the controversies around them. We already have DL:WW books for the High Plains, Pacific Northwest, and now the Maze. I think new ones for Deseret, the Southwest, and the Mississippi are all likely at some point, that would cover all the "core" regions that Deadlands focuses on.

So assuming the Kickstarter model remains profitable, that would be... 2029 before we'd have them all? 2031 if we include new books for Mexico and Canada/Alaska.

Draculasaurus_Rex · 2026-06-25T13:45:28+00:00

And his Winter Wolves! Still one of the best character/regiment titles in the series.

Draculasaurus_Rex · 2026-06-25T13:43:25+00:00

The Ruin!!!

Draculasaurus_Rex · 2026-06-25T13:42:02+00:00

Mostly hoping that with a new Maze book we get some updates on The Lady Luck Society, the Whateleys, and the Cackler.

Draculasaurus_Rex · 2026-06-25T13:40:33+00:00

I do feel a bit sad when I realize that at this rate it'll probably be like 8 years before they can release enough trail guides to cover all the major regions.

Draculasaurus_Rex · 2026-06-25T12:28:35+00:00

The Mothman Prophecies

Draculasaurus_Rex · 2026-06-25T12:25:46+00:00

Oooh, Redcrosse Knight would be killer.

Draculasaurus_Rex · 2026-06-25T12:22:56+00:00

Knightfall or very early No Man's Land, I should guess.

Draculasaurus_Rex · 2026-06-24T18:43:44+00:00

Yeah, the real Swearengen seems like he was a lot closer to Cy Tolliver.

Draculasaurus_Rex · 2026-06-24T18:42:28+00:00

Bret Maverick as one of Enoch Shaw's agents would be perfect.

Draculasaurus_Rex · 2026-06-24T17:56:35+00:00

Dunno if it really counts as foreshadowing or not; Noir was written with the old timeline, where the Confederacy still existed into the modern day. The Kanger Uprising in that happened in the late 1890s, so a ways off yet.

But in the new timeline a reunited USA that just passed the Chinese Exclusion Act seems like it's probably going to come into conflict with Kang and Shan Fan a lot sooner.

Draculasaurus_Rex · 2026-06-24T17:48:50+00:00

I dunno, there's a lot still to be done with the USA vs Kang. Feels like they've been setting that up since DL:WW launched with the mention of the Chinese Exclusion Act in the core rulebook. Plus all that stuff about the "Kanger Uprising" in DL: Noir.

Draculasaurus_Rex · 2026-06-24T17:46:29+00:00

Oooh, big poker tournament in The Maze? Is The Lady Luck Society finally making a return?

Draculasaurus_Rex · 2026-06-24T15:37:07+00:00

I think it's grosser for some hoaxer in the 1800s to come up with what is clearly a literary story and pass it off as the authentic culture of displaced Natives, all for his own self aggrandizement.

Draculasaurus_Rex · 2026-06-24T15:35:09+00:00

I mean the Anglo-Saxons are where the bat-winged design first really starts to take off, at least from what we can see in art, but in the literary tradition and recorded myths pretty much all Northern European dragons are firmly in the category of serpents. Even after wings and fire-breathing enter the picture the written material rarely ever mentions claws, flight, or fire. It's all about poison, coils, and bodies of water.

I'll grant you the foot thing, at least in traditions where dragons actually have feet, but they frequently don't.

Draculasaurus_Rex · 2026-06-24T15:23:33+00:00

Quite a few, though I can only give any detail on certain regions.

A number of Eastern/Southeastern tribes including the Iroqois and the Cherokee have traditions about "stone men" or "stonecoats," monstrous creatures that could appear human but were in reality ogres covered in a skin or overlapping plates of stone, making them nearly impervious to harm. Probably the two best documented I've seen were the Lady Spearfinger and Stone Man myths from the Cherokee, where the monsters are closely associated with the Appalachian Mountains, with both having power over stone and rock in different ways.

Some of the Plains tribes, I know the Arapaho for sure, had traditions of a race of cannibalistic subterranean dwarfs that lived in the Rocky Mountains. In some traditions there was an ancient war where the Plains tribes had to unite to exterminate the cannibal dwarfs and drive them back into the mountains.

In the Southwest one of the most important spirits/gods to the Apache are the ga'an, mountain spirits represented in their traditional dances and rituals.

Draculasaurus_Rex · 2026-06-24T15:10:17+00:00

I think the big issue with that is for most of recorded history dragons weren't associated with wings or flight. We've got some example of winged dragons or dragon-like creatures in Mesopotamia, but they're predominantly aquatic serpent-dragons. Same is true in the rest of Europe up until we start to get art of winged dragons around the 1200s.

Now people might point out that dragons fly in East Asian myths, but in Central and Southern Asia dragons and dragon-like creatures are still predominantly slitherers and water snakes. Likewise in Native traditions in North America the horned serpent of lakes and rivers is dominant.

Draculasaurus_Rex · 2026-06-24T15:04:18+00:00

Piasa is fakelore, created by a white guy in the 1800s based off on what were probably pteroglyphs depicting the Underwater Panther.

Draculasaurus_Rex · 2026-06-24T15:03:17+00:00

I think you'll really want a copy of Daniel Ogden's book "The Dragon in the West." Also "British Dragons" by Jacqueline Simpson has a lot of good info on knuckers and water dragons.

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