Traveling through the Disputed Territories of the US and Confederacy and even into the Hunting Grounds themselves, the heroes gradually uncover Raven’s plot and hopefully put a stop to it before the Sioux Nation and other lands become destroyed. What begins with the discovery of an illegal ghost rock mining operation in the Sioux Nation’s Black Hills turns into an invasion of said nation by renegade US soldiers gathering under General Custer’s vengeance-driven battle cry.
It centers around said villain’s Order of the Raven, a group of outcast Native Americans eager to take revenge upon the white man by making pacts with evil spirits and washing all of North America in a metaphorical tidal wave of blood. The Last Sons centers around War and its chief villain is Raven. This is the Plot Point Campaign we’ll be covering for our current Let’s Read. The Flood’s theme is one of desperation: of communities driven impoverished by the cult’s stranglehold of food supplies of miners’ and prospectors’ mad rush for the miracle fuel known as ghost rock found in pockets along California’s earthquake shattered coasts and the fractured terrain of California being fought over by various political factions many of whom do not have the common folk’s interests at heart. Artwork for the French version of Deadlands, portraying the villains in all their glory The Flood is the first of such sourcebooks, set in California where the blasphemous Church of Lost Angels seeks to plunge the West Coast into a blasted hellscape of Famine and cannibalism. To use a video game analogy, it is sort of akin to a Bioware or Bethesda style RPG where main quest is overall short or medium in length, but the supplementary content really fills out the campaign. Savage Tales are locations and adventure hooks which can either be ready from the get-go, or are unlocked upon the completion of an appropriate Plot Point or another Savage Tale. A PPC has a single main questline whose adventures are known as Plot Points, while side quests and other optional content are known as Savage Tales and bulk up the skeleton of said Plot Points. A Plot Point Campaign is Savage Worlds’ equivalent to a Dungeons & Dragons/Pathfinder adventure path but usually more sandbox than linear in style. Known among fans as the Reckoner Series, these adventures are Point Point Campaigns or PPC for short. But unlike the Classic adventures the PCs would be instrumental in these endeavors.
One of the big projects for this line was the creation of 4 massive adventures, each one centered on a major villain in the setting and their subsequent fall from power.
WEIRD WEST RPG ADVENTURE HOOKS UPGRADE
This was not to everyone’s taste, and around 2006 Deadlands received an upgrade to Pinnacle Entertainment’s Savage Worlds system. However, it often had much of the worst aspects of White Wolf-style “narrative stories” where the PCs are little more than audience members watching NPCs do all the cool stuff. To this day the the writers still have an unfolding narrative playing out, and their newer releases are no exception. Like many games written in the 90s it suffered from a case of metaplot, but it had one of such length and scope that it would make even White Wolf blush.
A Wild Western Horror RPG still going strong 20 years later. Introduction posted by Libertad! Original SA post IntroductionĪaaah, good ol’ Deadlands.
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