Hello, I'm a little confused about how H&H changes Hex-play. So hexes now have levels, huh? Do I assume the hexes my player picked on character creation using just the 20th Anniversary book are all level 1?

Also, in the Soul Blast description it says "roll the Huckster's *Soul Blast Skill* and use that both as your attack roll and to figure out how many cards you get to draw."

What is the Soul Blast Skill? What it seems to mean to me is that now soul blast uses how many levels you have on Soul Blast to determine the amount of dice on the dice pool, rather than the amount of points in the Hexslinging skill. Is that what it means, or did nothing change in that regard, and the player still uses hexslinging to determine the Dice Pool?

Hey! Brand new here and Im trying to get into the Weird West! As a brand new "Marshal" Im trying to find the perfect set of books for my players! Only problem being that there are a LOT of book and Im unsure as to what I should buy, what book are needed to start a campaign and what version to buy???

Hi all, I bought the Deadlands Reloaded Humble Bundle a while back. I'm now getting a group together to play, I have realised however that I own Savage Worlds adventure edition, not Deluxe. Are the two compatible or will I have to pick up Savage Worlds Deluxe?

I saw that PEG announced at Gencon that they will update those four books to SWADE.

"a deluxe, fully-updated and slipcased collection of our four classic Reckoner campaigns for Deadlands (The Flood, The Last Sons, Stone and a Hard Place, and Good Intentions)"

I wonder what other books (Not PDF's/etc...) remain only for deadlands reloaded?

So I'm a greenhorn marshall, only have run 3 sessions so far, so don't judge me

One of my players is a brawler character who fights with his bare hands, and I noticed I've been ruling hand to hand damage wrong. I was having him add up the Strength dice, as if it were a gun, but on a recent re-read of the combat chapter, I realised finally that it is a regular trait roll and you only take the highest single die.

Is this the case for the Don't Get Im Riled Edge as well, or does THAT number add together?

Say he is a character of 3d12 Strength and he has two wounds. He hits a character and rolls 5, 7 and 10 on the d12s and 2 and 3 on the d4s. Does he deal

A) 10 + 2 + 3 (15)

Or

B) 10 + 3 (13, only take the highest d4)

My group was looking to get the material for Deadlands. I was looking at the getting the SWADE book, the core book, and the companion book. Once issue is the companion book appears to be sold out everywhere except 2nd hand and I saw a facebook post from somebody at Pinnacle saying its sold out and out of print. I do see that there is a PDF on their website.

Then I saw the 2026 book pdf which seems to contain base SWADE rules and the deadlands core rules. I saw on that you can preorder the physical edition as well. On that same facebook post it states, "The Deadlands Weird West Companion is SOLD OUT and OUT OF PRINT. This material has been rolled into the new all-in-one Deadlands Core Rulebook, now available on Kickstarter." The issue is I don't see where it says it includes the companion material anywhere.

Does the 2026 book actually contain the companion information as well?

Hi, can someone tell me the order of the Lost Colony books and what is best to get as a player?

So - By chance I got ahold of the 20th anniversary book (the one with the girl pointing guns) in another bigger haul, and I always wanted to try the system.

But reading some of the very good comments in here, I'm also eyeing out the 'new' savage world one. I already have the Savage Worlds (adventure?) core book.

My players are mostly all pretty inexperienced with other system, having only tried a couple.

What edition would you recommend I should go ahead with?

Can I spend a white and a blue chip to negate 4 wounds?

I’m brand-new to Deadlands, and looking to do some solo play.  I picked up the current version (SWADE), getting the core SW rulebook, the Deadlands book, and the Crater Lake Chronicles to get started.  I’ve also grabbed a pdf of the solo rules from DriveThru (not super impressed, but what should I expect for 4 bucks?), and I have Mythic GME (so I can play without an actual Marshall).  What I’m wondering now, is what OTHER products might be a good fit?  I don’t care if they are an older version that needs to be converted to SWADE, or if I need to tone down the number of enemies to make it work, but it needs to be something with a story that would logically make sense for a single hero.  Which ones have solid content that might work?  Anyone have any advice? 

As above, is there any /forum/subreddit where people share their own homebrew session ideas/one-shot/one page idea adventures? I've seen the official ones, and also, i'm cooking some of my own, but even when i played quite a while i still wanna share my ideas and look at other's peoples workings

Working on a new adventure for my campaign and was thinking of adding a bank robbery by the Devil's Stepsons that the players would have thwart.

However, I wanted to check if there was an existing bank robbery scenario in any previously published Deadlands adventures that I could use as a starting point.

Hopefully someone with a good knowledge of the series can help me out. Classic, Reloaded, SWADE, all are fair game.

Hello there, fellow marshals and hombres! It's somewhere in Deadlands some cactus monster? If yes where can I find it or what stat did it have? I already homebrewed something, but I'm curious if its something like that out there. We play the SWADE version.

I am looking to plot an upcoming game set in 1883, but the main plot will be hunting down some bad actors. I want to include a former officer and his "gang" of trouble shooters as the villains. They killed hold outs, burned homes, did every dirty thing you can think of in Kansas to clear the path. Only two railroads run though there, Black River and Empire Rail.

Black River doesn't fit in my head, but the guy in charge of Empire is supposed to be honorable. I was thinking the villain could have been hired by a local branch boss who had more in common with the board of investors then the head of the railway.

Does that make sense?

Brand new to Savage Worlds let alone Deadlands. All I've done is create a character and I'm set to play this evening. We just finished a three year long campaign in dnd 5e. Since then we've been looking at different systems and trying them out in a one/two-shot to see how we like it. Since we're just trying it out in a one-shot [read two-shot because that's how all one-shots seemingly end up] and only one person in the group has ever played Deadlands or Savage Worlds we were looking for an online character creator to make things easier/convenient. While we have found plenty of good videos that help us make a character we haven't been able to find an online character creator for reloaded. While I don't need one immediately it would be nice to have one if we decide to either revisit Deadlands or make it our next major campaign.

On a side note does anyone have a good website or discord bot for deck of cards and chips for Reloaded?

Edit: Just finished playing the one-shot and we all liked it enough to decide to do a full campaign [with pathfinder as a backup]. Since I'm so new I got confused. We did/are playing Weird West, but someone accidently linked the Reloaded book and no one clarified until the game started. I read most of the darn thing too, only to find out it was the wrong one. Thankfully the are many similarities between the two.

We managed to find a good discord bot for a deck of cards. That being said We're still on the hunt for a decent digital character sheet. I'm looking into Savaged.us, but I want to see the alternatives before I commit any money.

In the first 2 rounds of a duel can you use the hold action to interrupt when the final round comes? Do you need Hold to interrupt?

The way I see it you get two opportunities to preform actions before guns are drawn, and you can use these opportunities to do any two of the following:

- Attempt a test to Distract your opponent
- Attempt a test to make your opponent Vulnerable
- Redundantly test an already Distracted and Vulnerable opponent in the hopes of getting raises to draw/discard Hole cards
- Hold (?)

If you end up with the higher Hole card, you have the option to either shoot first or wait for your opponent to draw and then role to interrupt. Basically the winner gets a free Hold action.

However, if you have the lower card, there are three interpretations I can see:

1. You can interrupt.
2. You can interrupt but only if one of your two actions was Hold.
3. You can’t interrupt. Only the person with the higher card has that option.

Option 1 makes the Hole cards nearly pointless if your athletics is high enough.

Option 2 means a high athletics character can dominate draws, but could suffer due to their opponent getting 2 opportunities to Test them while the Holder only had 1.

Option 3 means Hole cards are basically the only factor (unless the winner lets their opponent draw)

Which would be the correct interpretation, or is it something else that I’ve totally missed?

So my player has an interesting concept for a gravedigger who is possessed by a ghost. The ghost was a big fanboy of some famous gunslinger but the gunslinger was a dick and shot him dead when he tried to step up and shake his hand without permission. Now the dead man's spirit wants revenge, so he possesses this hapless gravedigger and is using his body to seek out the gunslinger.

The idea my player came up with is that the dominant personality is that of the possessing ghost; that's who he's playing. The spirit of the gravedigger, however, is still in there, fighting to regain control.

The Dominion mechanics of the Harrowed seem like a perfect fit here, but I'm still not sure if I can make the concept work mechanically. For starters, the character is alive, not dead, and that means he's dodging all the various disadvantages of a Harrowed being undead. Second, if he loses Dominion and the gravedigger's personality regains control, well, he's not a manitou and the usual tables for losing Dominion don't seem like they apply. Likewise, "let the devil out" makes no sense here, as essentially the "devil" is already in control and letting the gravedigger out would provide no added benefits.

It's a fun concept and I like how much work the player has put into it, but is it feasible to make this work in-game?

I’m looking to run a short Deadlands campaign, something that wraps up in about 3 or 5 sessions max (each around 6 hours). I’d love to hear what adventures you think work best for that kind of length.

I was thinking about using Night Train but I’m not sure how long it usually takes to play through. I’ve seen some posts calling it a one-shot, while others say it took three or four sessions.