![]() Enemy Civil War: The majority of successes the world has had against the Reckoners is due to the fact they hate each other as well as themselves.Double Agent: The Texas Rangers served as this during the Civil War, undermining the Confederacy.The United States has reabsorbed the South as well as California but several large Native American nations exist as well as an independent Utah that refuses to join the Union. Divided States of America: Now a Downplayed trope versus the Ur-Example.Cosmic Retcon: In the Savage Worlds: Adventure Edition version, Morgana le Fay's resurrection has thrown time out of wack, creating a relatively new setting.While not an actual servant of the Devil, as far as anyone can tell, he is a much more conventional ruthless businessman who exploits workers and carrying on the environmentally unfriendly policies of his predecessor. Corrupt Corporate Executive: While Darius Hellstrom used to occupy this position, he's since been replaced in his own company by Mr.City of Adventure: There are literally dozens of these detailed in the core book ranging from the City of Gloom (Salt Lake City) to Lost Angeles (guess) to Doge City and Tombstone.The protagonists herd a thousand steers across the Weird West. Cattle Drive: The basis for the Blood Drive trilogy of adventures.Coot Jenkins a.k.a the Prospector is one of the few living heroes other than the PCs and serves as The Mentor to many.The Twilight Legion is a secret society existing since Camelot and which helped the Union defeat the Confederacy for good.With one of the setting's major villains slain and the others lying low, there's now a much bigger focus on smaller scale villains. Big Bad: Actually Downplayed from what it used to be.The Artifact: The game still refers to evil spirits as Manitou but mentions this is just a crude misunderstanding of real-life religion by racists.Arc Words: "A return to small town horror.".Somewhat justified in that it is the equivalent of Amazon back then. Haruman has the evil scheme to have Hellstrom Industries dominate the mail-order catalog market. While not conclusively defeated, the timeline is now far closer to the original one where their servitors were destroyed. Ironically, this means it is the third timeline since the previously listed one was the result of the Reckoners altering time as well. Alternate Timeline: Is now one of these from the one that led to the events of Hell on Earth and Lost Colony.Adventure Towns: The game has a much bigger focus on these than previous editions, highlighting that smaller scale personal threats that PCs can handle are more to the edition's themes than the big international world-spanning conspiracies of before.This series contains the following tropes: This massively changes the sociopolitical status quo of the setting while leaving others utterly unchanged. Unable to separate slavery or white supremacy from the Confederacy, developers believed it was better just to get rid of it retroactively. ![]() Oh and there's one other small change:ĭeadlands: The Weird West (2021) is noted for the fact that it retconned away the "draw" of the Civil War in the previous books that resulted in a Divided States of America. ![]() Brother Grimme (Famine) has been killed along with most of his cannibal cult, one of the two Stones (Death) is permanently dead, Darius Hellstromme (Plague) has turned his back on his masters, and Raven (War) is currently in hiding. ![]() The Reckoners ( The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse) have been defeated, or at least severely set back from their previous triumphs. It radically altered the setting from the original and also updated the rules to reflect the changes. Deadlands: The Weird West (2021) for Savage Worlds Adventure Edition is the latest version of the classic Deadlands Weird West roleplaying game.
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