Deadlands Conversion.pdf

Deadlands: The Savage West

Conversion Guide for Deadlands ™ Classic to Savage Worlds ™

by Shane Lacy Hensley

Cover by Chris Appel

Interior Art by Ron Spencer and the Doomtown CCG Gang

Deadlands created by Shane Lacy Hensley

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Great Rail Wars, Lost Colony, the Deadlands

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Player’s Guide

Howdy, partners! As you may know, you can

play Deadlands in three completely different

rules sets. There’s classic Deadlands, with all

the chips, cards, dice, and six-gun zaniness

you grew up on. There’s also that new-fangled

D20 version with classes, hit points, and

levels. Steve Jackson Games® even makes

GURPS® Deadlands, for perhaps the most

realistic version of the three!

But now Pinnacle has this new “Fast!

Furious! Fun!” set of rules called Savage

Worlds, and some of you have a hankerin’ to

try it out on the Weird West. It’s only natural

that you do, since Savage Worlds is based off

the Deadlands miniatures game, The Great

Rail Wars.

We’ve always been pretty proud of that

game—it’s won every major award out there

and still has a huge following despite our not

being able to support it the way we originally

set out to.

Now we’ve come full circle, and a lot of

folks want to play both Deadlands and The

Great Rail Wars with Savage Worlds, which has

some nifty new tweaks from the experience

of five years and thousands of players. In this

book you’ll find rules for playing the

Deadlands roleplaying game with Savage

Worlds. Look for The Great Rail Wars

conversion, as well as Hell on Earth and Lost

Colony as well!

What This Is & What It Ain’t

a complete conversion of every single

character, critter, spell, and device we’ve ever

created. That would fill more saddlebags than

even los diablos could carry.

Making Characters

Let’s start with this most important piece

of advice—don’t convert player characters! The

Savage Worlds system is very carefully

designed to make heroes of certain power

levels. Any conversion we do would upset this

balance. If you take a maxxed-out classic

Deadlands Harrowed gunslinger, for example,

he’d easily be Heroic or even Legendary in

Savage Worlds.

Instead, the Marshal of your new game

needs to tell everyone what rank he wants

them to be—whether Novice, Seasoned,

Veteran, Heroic, or Legendary. Start your

character from scratch and advance him

through the Savage Worlds experience system

as usual. Mimic your hero’s special abilities,

skills, Edges & Hindrances as much as

possible, but don’t look for a literal translation

of every single ability because there isn’t one.

It’s a little easier for GM’s to convert

characters because he doesn’t have to worry

about balance so much. Guidelines for that

are included on page 22.

Starting Funds

Characters in Deadlands start out with $250

and the clothes on their back. That’s no

different here. See the equipment and weapon

list in the Deadlands Player’s Guide (available

for FREE at RPGNOW.COM) to purchase your

gear. Add another $50 to your starting funds

for every levelling opportunity if you’re

making an experienced hero.

Inside this book you’ll find rules for

converting Deadlands characters into Savage

Worlds, as well as brand new Edges &

Hindrances, weapons, spell and gizmo

conversions, and more! What you won’t find is

New Hindrances

Only Wild Cards have this Hindrance.

The good news is your hombre adds +1 to

every single damage roll he ever makes,

whether it’s from Fighting, Shooting,

Spellcasting, or even Throwing things at

people in a most inhospitable manner.

The downside is that your hero winds up in

the hoosegow or on the run a lot. But there’s

more than that, amigo. Any Shooting or

Throwing attack roll that comes up snake

eyes automatically hits the nearest friendly

character in sight. Player characters are

always first choice, but an allied NPC will do

in a pinch.

Even hand-to-hand attacks hit allies when

snake eyes come up. This may require a little

imagination, but either the weapon flies out

of the hero’s hand and strikes his friend, or

the hero must move adjacent to his ex-

comrade and “accidentally” whack him.

And yes, your bonus to damage counts

when hurting your amigos as well!

Heavy Sleeper (Minor)

A thunderstorm from Hell itself won’t wake

this Dozing Doolie.

Your hero subtracts 4 from Notice rolls

made to wake up, or Vigor rolls made to stay

awake when on guard duty.

Illiterate (Minor)

If you were truly illiterate, you wouldn’t be

reading this paragraph now, would you? But

since we’re talking about your character and

not you, you can read this—your hero can’t

read!

He can probably “make his mark” to sign

his name, but that’s about it. He doesn’t know

numbers either, so it’s always fun to cut him

out of his fair share of any loot his party

manages to come by.

Illiterates can’t read or write in any

language, by the way, no matter how many

they actually speak.

Lyin’Eyes (Minor)

The following Hindrances aren’t in Savage

Worlds, so here’s the rules for them in the

Savage West.

Ailin’ (Major)

Namby-pamby types have the Anemic

Hindrance. This one is reserved for those

ailment-ridden hombres with a cold grave in

their near-future.

Like Doc Holiday, your hero has a

reservation with the undertaker. It’s just not

been confirmed yet. The cause of his future

demise is something like consumption

(tuberculosis), diabetes, or cancer.

Your hombre always subtracts 2 from

Fatigue rolls made to resist physical exertion

(but not Agility rolls from things like bumps

and bruises).

At the beginning of every game session,

before chips are drawn, the lunger must make

a Vigor roll. If failed, he moves into the final

stages of his disease and subtracts 4 from

Fatigue rolls. The next time he fails this roll,

he perishes by the end of the session, but

only after the climax of that night’s adventure.

Big Mouth (Minor)

Loose lips sink ships, the saying goes. Yours

could dunk an armada.

Your hombre is always flapping his gums at

the worst time, revealing plans and giving

away secrets best kept among friends.

Hucksters in the party had best beware of

these loose-talking nitwits—they out their

hexslinging friends faster than crap through a

goose.

Grim Servant o’ Death (Major)

“And I looked, and behold a pale horse: and

his name that sat on him was Death, and Hell

followed with him.”

—Revelations 6:8

Lies just don’t come naturally to this

hombre. That sounds good, but often causes

problems when dealing with more nefarious

types.

Subtract 4 from any Persuasion rolls where

lies—even little white ones—must be told.

Night Terrors (Major)

Your hombre doesn’t sleep well. In fact, the

Land of Nod is a constant nightmare for him.

He tosses and turns like a demon on a rack,

and likely keeps everyone within a dozen

yards of him awake with his nightly torment.

Your hero’s a killer. His family’s probably

pushing daisies, his enemies are worm food,

and even a few of his friends have holes in

them that are suspiciously the same size as

his very own shootin’ iron.

Deadlands

The constant drain on your hero’s psyche

causes him to draw one less benny per game

session.

One-Armed Bandit (Major)

You’ve been “disarmed,” literally. One of the

damn things is gone from at least the elbow

down.

Fortunately, whichever arm you’ve got left

is now your “good arm.” Subtract 4 from tasks

that require two good arms, such as Climbing,

Swimming, and the like, and forget about

doing that whole “two-gun kid” routine.

Slowpoke (Minor)

Molasses on a cold day are faster than your

hero. Reduce his Pace by 1. This is cumulative

with the Lame Hindrance if you really want to

compete in the next tortoise and hare race.

You can guess which one you are.

Player’s Guide

Thin Skinned (Major)

Every little ol’ cut and scrape makes your

cowpoke cry for mama.

Anytime the character is wounded, he

suffers an additional -1 penalty to all his

actions.

Marshal

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