I caught up with Jodi Black from Pinnacle Entertainment. We talk about the box sets, Deadlands anniversary edition, and the future.
Thank You Jodi, it’s always fun.
Savage Worlds: Deadlands: Stone and a Hard Place
$29.99
Death rules this land. From the sun-scorched earth to the empty noose swaying in the skeletal branches of the hangman’s tree to the bloodstained buzzards circling overhead…the Wild Southwest thirsts for souls. Make sure it don’t get yours, partner. Matthew Cutter’s Stone and a Hard Place details the strange locales and odd characters of the American Southwest, provides new Edges and abilities to gussy up your Harrowed or hexslinger, new Setting Rules to emulate Death’s grip on the land, Savage Tales galore, a passel o’ terrifying abominations, and an epic Plot Point Campaign that pits a posse against Death’s red right hand – the one and only Stone!
Stone and a Hard Place requires the multiple-award winning Savage Worlds core rules and Deadlands Reloaded to play
Ulisses Spiele Announces Return of Torg in New Updated Edition
CHANDLER, AZ (July 21, 2015) – Ulisses Spiele US, a division of Germany’s premiere game manufacturer and distributor, today announced the return of the influential Torg roleplaying game.
The new game is entitled Torg: Eternity, and is a new and updated take on the original game and its setting. The design team includes many who worked on the original Torg line that debuted from West End Games in 1990.
Torg co-creator Greg Gorden has been involved at a high level and given it his blessing: “I really like this re-imagining of the TORG mythos. The streamlining and modernization of the game mechanics feel spot on. I cannot wait to play this game!”
The game’s rights were sold after the closure of West End Games and were eventually purchased by Torg fan and president of Ulisses Spiele, Markus Plotz. “TORG is a one of a kind RPG. The setting is unique and for over 15 years, I dreamed about releasing a new and updated version. Now, with the help of the amazing Shane Hensley, that dream finally becomes reality!”
Shane Lacy Hensley heads up the United States studio where both Torg: Eternity and The Dark Eye are being created. “Though my plate is pretty full with my own company, Pinnacle Entertainment Group, I couldn’t resist working on the game that gave me my start. I also met a kindred spirit in Markus Plotz who truly loves and appreciates what a turning point Torg marked in RPG development, so I just couldn’t say no.”
Torg: Eternity will debut in 2016 in deluxe, full color hardback format.
About Ulisses Spiele
Ulisses Spiele is the premiere manufacturer of RPGs in Germany. The company’s portfolio includes amongst other games The Dark Eye (the biggest Fantasy RPG in Germany), the German version of the Pathfinder Roleplaying Game (as a license from US RPG giant Paizo Inc.) and the new German V20 version of Vampire – The Masquerade.
Additionally Ulisses Spiele is known as the German distributor for the critically acclaimed tabletop games Warmachine and Hordes from Privateer Press and Infinity from Corvus Belli.
With TORG: Eternity, Ulisses Spiele publishes its first English RPG.
Doomtown: Reloaded
$39.99
Welcome to Gomorra. A bustling settlement in the Weird West. Rebuilding after a cataclysm, the citizens of the town struggle to remake their lives. Now is your chance to take it to the streets of Gomorra and show who runs the most dangerous boomtown in the West.
Doomtown is an expandable card game set in the Deadlands universe. Based on the classic collectible game, Doomtown: Reloaded is a fast-paced game of gun slingin’, spell slingin’ and mud-slingin’! Use poker hands and card pulls for everything from gunfights to summoning abominations.
Doomtown is a game with a story, it puts you in charge of one of the four main outfits vying for control of Gomorra: The Law Dogs, the Sloane Gang, the Morgan Cattle Company, and the Fourth Ring. Who will control the town? Grab your hat, saddle your horse, and load your gun. You have a town to claim.
2+ players
Ages 14+
25-30 minute play time
Contains:
286 cards + rules, learn to play guide, counters and player aids
SW: Deadlands: Noir (HC)
$29.99 SRP
New Orleans, 1935. Whoever called this “the Big Easy” sure got that one wrong. Things are tough all over. Honest work is hard to find, and even dishonest jobs are getting scarce. The one thing that’s not in short supply is trouble. From shady thugs to crooked cops to Mafia soldiers, there’s plenty of characters out there looking to give an honest Joe a hard time. And that’s not the worst of it. There are stories going round about things that go bump in the night. Things you wouldn’t want to meet in a dark alley on a darker night. And those stories aren’t just coming from rummies or saps who read that Epitaph rag. Still, there are a few heroes left in the concrete jungle. Steely-eyed private dicks, fast-talking grifters, wild-eyed inventors, and shadowy houngans still struggle against the encroaching darkness. With enough moxie-and more than a little luck-they might just be enough to turn the tide.
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 automatic at.
Deadlands Noir is not a complete game. It requires the Savage Worlds core rules to play.
Savage Worlds: Deadlands: Noir Companion (Hardcover, 8.5 x 11)
$39.99 SRP
Deadlands Noir introduced you to the rain-soaked streets of “the Big Easy” and the heroes who battle from its shadows. The Deadlands Noir Companion shines a light on the rest of Noir North America-including Chicago, Shan Fan, Lost Angels, and the incredible City of Gloom. The Companion also introduces martial artists, and adds Sykers and the Blessed to the ranks of those struggling against the eternal darkness. Don’t go alone into the black night, shamus. Take a Companion.
Deadlands Noir Companion is not a complete game. It requires Deadlands Noir and the Savage Worlds core rules to play.
Savage Worlds: Deadlands: Ghost Towns
$19.99 SRP
Visit the strangest locales in the West, and find a new place to hang your hat! In the Weird West, every town stands at risk of destruction by natural disaster, man’s folly, or the dangers lurking in the dark. At every turn, a settler’s path is menaced by threats mundane, terrifying, and just plain odd.
Ghost Towns gives you the lowdown on seven new burgs, plucked from every corner of the West, for use in your Deadlands Reloaded campaign. All the major players, points of interest, and mysterious plots are detailed, with Savage Tales ready to roll.
If seven ain’t enough for you, amigo, you’re in luck, you can have as many as you want! Ghost Towns includes a random generator to make creating your own strange locales a snap. A quick shuffle and a little thought and you can call a whole town into being in an instant, be the envy of Hucksters and developers everywhere!
After all, everyone needs a place to call home, no matter what’s whispering from the shadowed corners or hiding inside the local shop.
