Tales From The Savage Troll

Monday, January 7, 2013

Deadlands Noir - A New Savage Worlds Setting by Pinnacle via Kickstarter! Part 1 of 3

Welcome to the Savage Troll's entry for January's RPG Blog Carnival. This month's carnival theme is New Beginnings so it seems only appropriate to highlight a new Savage Setting from Pinnacle Entertainment Group: Deadlands Noir. Think "Raymond Chandler does Deadlands" and you get the idea.

DLN PreRelease and New Orleans Map

Words: John Goff, Shane Hensley, Clint Black, and Sean Preston

Pictures: Cheyenne Wright, Aaron Acevedo, Jordan Peacock, and Mercenary Art Studio

Pages: 144

Price: $19.99 ( .pdf on DTRPG )

Blurb: Deadlands Noir is a pen-and-paper roleplaying game set in the world of Pinnacle Entertainment’s award-winning Deadlands universe. It includes new Edges, Hindrances, and powers, as well as new rules for handling detective work, the state of the Union and the CSA in the Depression-era, a complete Plot Point campaign, and of course, more monsters and ghouls than you can shake a smoking .45 at. Deadlands Noir is not a complete game. It requires the Savage Worlds core rules to play.

NaNoWriMo 2012

Another November has come to a close and I have another novel written. For the second straight year I participated in National Novel Writing Month, an opportunity to write 50,000 words in 30 days. I'm proud to report I was able to finish my third Thomas Gunn story during November.

Space City Con 2012

Last weekend I packed up the family and traveled to Houston, Texas for the first annual Space City Con. We arrived Friday night after registration closed but there was still lots going on.

In the main ballroom, the Doomsday Wrestling was in full swing. This comedy/action troop has such wrestlers as El Baño - whose finishing move involves a dirty toilet, Hot Flash - the menopausal menace, and Father Superior, the battling priest.

Savage Worlds Deluxe Scores a Gold ENnie

I have great news. Savage Worlds Deluxe Edition just won a Gold ENnie at Gen Con 2012. The 160 page core rule book to Savage Worlds offers a generic role playing system suitable for almost any genre you care to name. Congratulations to Shane Hensley, Clint Black, Joel Kinstle, and the rest of the Savages at Pinnacle for a job well done.

Here are the rest of the winners.

Recently, CJ over at DnD Digest, invited the RPTools Staff in for a YouTube interview for his site. The interview is in five parts spanning over 2 hours. It goes through a huge number of topics relating to MapTool and RPGs.

The Space: 1889 Planet Project

Space 1889 is a Steampunk role-playing game set in a fictional Victorian Era of the Earth. With the help of steam-powered spaceships, human explorers flew through the ether and colonized Mars, Venus, and Mercury.

To support the new German edition of Space: 1889, a German fangroup created the Space: 1889 planet project which currently is in it's beta phase. The project uses Google Earth to project Space:1889 maps onto a planetary sphere which is movable and searchable by users.

Check it out the promo video here depicting Mars:

See the Der Globus home page for ways to support the project and check on its progress.

You can learn more about Space:1889 and the Victorian Era by visiting our review of Space:1889 - Red Sands or from Frank Chadwick's blog. Our review of The Kerberos Club contains additional Victorian background.

Links:

Frank Chadwick's Space 1889 Blog

Review: Space 1889 - Red Sands

Space:1889 Links Page

Review: The Kerberos Club

Das Space 1889 Planeten Projekt