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What is Deadlands?<\/h2>\n

Deadlands is a tabletop RPG that mashes up the Wild West, horror, and the supernatural into a genre all its own: the Weird West<\/strong>. First published in 1996 by Pinnacle Entertainment Group, Deadlands is set in an alternate-history American West where a cataclysmic event called the Reckoning<\/strong> tore open the veil between worlds.<\/p>\n

The Reckoning happened on July 3, 1863, when a Sioux shaman named Raven performed a ritual to drive out the white settlers. The ritual worked \u2014 but it also unleashed the Reckoners<\/strong>, ancient entities that feed on fear. Now the West is haunted: the undead walk, mad scientists build impossible machines, hucksters gamble with spirits, and the land itself is twisted by supernatural terror.<\/p>\n

The Weird West<\/h2>\n

Deadlands’ setting is a twisted mirror of post-Civil War America. The Union and Confederacy still fight. The railroads push west. But now there are zombie outbreaks, haunted mines, and towns where the dead don’t stay buried. The Great Maze \u2014 a region of California swallowed by the Reckoning \u2014 is a nightmarish landscape of impossible geology and ancient horrors.<\/p>\n

Technology is steampunk-adjacent: mad scientists (called Mad Scientists<\/strong>) build death rays, robots, and other impossible devices powered by a supernatural energy called ghost rock<\/strong> \u2014 a mineral that burns hotter than coal and reeks of brimstone.<\/p>\n

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