#the deadlands 2020

[neechees]

The Devil & the Huntsman (Indig ppls edition)

[hamable]

This is so niche and silly but I just spent a half hour looking for a song that was used in an animatic like four years ago that has since been deleted and I FOUND IT!!!! Living Dead from Jasper in Deadland. Think it was used in a Sanders Sides animatic lmao. Anyways yeah just glad I found it again.

[famewolf]

I've been trying to 100% all the missions and side quests in ESO since the summer of 2020 and I finally reached High Isle!

I'll be done in time for the Necrom release; I've not been release date ready since Summerset.

[regal-bones]

Hi, I just discovered your art through your swords, I am incredibly delighted on how good they look and how clean your animations are! But I can't help but notice there is an underlying lore going on and I want to ask if you have stuff of The Continent available to read. I love nothing more than other people's imaginary worlds and the lore and stories they made for it!

Hey !!! first of all thank u so much, that’s really sweet! And yes I do !! Sorry this took so long to answer I wanted to make a big master post :)

so first of all and as a little disclaimer, the bulk of this project is on hiatus while I work on my video game Last Sprout. (more info on that here!) But I’ve been adding little bits to it every now and then, and still been doing stuff like swordtember to flesh out the worldbuilding! Also a lot of this is quite old (some stuff from about 2020) so excuse if the art and writing is of,,, poorer quality than my recent stuff.

As an intro, I made a little animatic trailer to the series here!

if you want full on written chapters of writing, you can read:

Curated Curios Chapter 1 and 2, and the prologue Peregrine and the Starpainter (I also have a first draft of chapter 3 written which if you want to read feel free to message me, it’s just a lil rough around the edges!) A Map of the Deadlands a web novella with some animated artwork!

Then there’s other stuff! One of them is The Back Room. This is the earliest of all of the projects and has a lot of lore, as well as stuff like DnD stats! There’s a lot of pages so I’ll highlight my faves, but have an explore because there’s other stuff than what I’ve mentioned here!

The Back Room - Artefacts The Back Room - Map of the Continent The Back Room - Races The Back Room - Museum of the Continent (DnD One Shot)

Then there’s everything I have here on tumblr! For this very ask I went through and added the #curated curios tag to everything I’ve posted here on tumblr that’s from the curated curios universe! You can follow this link or the tag on this post to check it out! Most of the artwork and stuff for it I’ve shared here on tumblr!

so yeah! I hope you enjoy !!! This universe is very dear to me and I hope you have fun checking it out :} have a lovely day !!

[t-wanderer]

Any fave ttrpgs?

Oh. Yeah, that's a lot. I love obscure rpgs. Um....here hold on.

This is my collection, minus anything I acquired in the last year. My top five are: 1. Psychosis: Ship of Fools 2. Amber Diceless/Lords of Gossamer and Shadow 3. Mage: The Ascension 4. Unknown Armies 5. Abberant Other faves include Deadlands: Hell of Earth, Legend of the Five Rings, Mechanical Dream, Old World of Darkness, Shadowrun, Alternity, Everlasting, Torg, Rifts, Armegeddon, Talislanta, In Nomine, Sorcerer, Mekton Zeta and Cyberpunk 2020, The Strange/Numenara, Kult, Nobilis, Exalted, Mutants and Masterminds and Mystic Empyrean, I do still enjoy DnD, but still haven't really tried 5th edition. I've been resistant to learning it and a while back realized that the resistance is because if I do learn it it will be the 9th version of DnD I've had to learn. I love making custom settings and I love drawing maps. Here are a few of the maps I've used in games I ran.

I ran my first game in 1989. Role playing is my longest and strongest obsession. Thank you so much for asking!

[jeffs-gamebox]

#RPGaDay2024 August 3.

I ran Star Wars D6 from West End Games all through high school, college and a few times afterward. I also messed around with Star Wars d20 for a long time. I never get tired of pre-Disney Star Warsh.

Most often played: Star Wars D6 from West End Games. This one is a really tough call. Must be a sign of old age. I had to think about it for a long time before I decided on Star Wars. AD&D 2nd Ed, D&D 3rd Ed, and ICONS all come very close. Cyberpunk 2020, Deadlands, and Werewolf: the Apocalypse are way up there. I’ve just named seven games I never get tired of running. Star Wars D6 has only…

[eigwayne]

I have to admit, I am a little bummed that WOTC/Hasbro is pulling this OGL busting baloney right when I was getting back into D&D. It really sours the mood. But this should be a reminder to people that there are other games that are not D&D. Let me say it again.

You can play tabletop that is not Dungeon & Dragons.

And I don’t mean things like Pathfinder 1e and other d20-based systems and OSR revamps of D&D. I mean, there are games out there that are not D&D/OGL-based at all- and therefore not subject to WOTC’s whims.

When I played regularly, we would try out different systems. I’ve tried Vampire the Masquerade, In Nomine, Seventh Sea, and a couple non-fantasy genres. I think my group tried Feng Shui and Champions, and maybe Deadlands? It’s been a long time and those were one-shots, mostly. And I still have my Sailor Moon BESM book kicking around somewhere. Others were into Warhammer and Call of Cthulu and Shadowrun, another into Palladium’s Robotech game, another into Cyberpunk 2020 (no, I do not know how he feels about the videogame).

I’m not saying you have to give up D&D- I’m certainly not going to. But if the recent news is leaving a bad taste in your mouth, there are other games out there, and most of the fun of D&D isn’t the ruleset- It’s playing pretend with your friends.

And rolling dice, that’s pretty fun too.

[salamanderpie]

Giddy up Dantonio realizes pretty quickly that he doesn’t have as much ease in the saddle as an undead abomination...

[gemlighter]

nothing left but her soul and a bag, now she's living dead

[creatorofuniverses]

Day 15 - Outpost

Inktober continues! This year I’m using the official prompt list. All of my drawings will be tagged #inktober 2020.

"Outpost” is a weird word that legit only made me think of Deadlands, so have Jack keeping watch for... whatever. Weirdly enough, this is like a redraw of the first picture I ever drew of Jack. I am encouraged by the fact that there does, in fact, seem to be some improvement.

[probablycopyrightedrpgideas]

If “Westworld” taught us anything, your Deadlands campaign can seamlessly transition into a Cyberpunk campaign.

[neechees]

I've never seen fan art for this show so I guess I'll just have to do it my fuckin self

Waka Nuku Rau + some Mehe the dynamic duo

[weepingwidar]

Valentino Skarwan (Guatemalan/Austrian, 1998) - Deadland Chichicaste (2020)

[inquiriesofart]

.triggered memory.

Night fell, and the illusion fell with it. Where once had stood the small town of Haven, the town that had brought them together what felt a lifetime ago, stretched the skeletal remains of a ruin. They could barely breathe for the smell of death and fear that lingered in the air.

“Dear God,” Lisbeth murmured.

“God ain’t here,” Emil fired back, almost offhandedly.

Nevari’s mind echoed with a voice that was hers, then wasn’t, and in a blink--a vision--a memory--that disappeared as quick as it had come.

 He’s real. He’s here.

He’s here.

He is here.

Her eyes closed.

But you aren’t.

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Gonna try and upload some art and such that I haven’t been posting here, since I’m enjoying tumblr again :> My Deadlands campaign was my creative muse for most of 2020 (and still is going into 2021), so expect a lot of that! I hope you enjoy!

Nevari belongs to @lanesandsparks

[chilicpepper]

Welcome to OCeptember! I’m doing this challenge with clusters by week. 

#1: Favorite OC

That’ll be Pluto, my favorite sona. Developed in 2019, she was made to be my self-insert in the world of The Executioners. She represents what I fear I would be if I had a worse personality or never tried fixing myself. However, many of the scenarios planned with her give her a redemption or healing arc that will help her grow to be a better person. :)

#2: Unexpectedly Loved OC

This one was really hard to choose, because either a ton of OCs or no OCs at all would qualify for this. I went with Hamsa Palmer because he was originally supposed to only be Pierre Amidt’s right hand man and bodyguard in my story The Illuminatist’s Acid Trip. He grew to have an actual face and personality and backstory from there.

#3: Least Loved OC

Dylan Kwan. Hands down most hated OC I made for 3 reasons: 1: He was one of a collection of OCs that were made in late 2019/early 2020 in a period I deem a cringe era because of a lot of ideas and actions I look back on as stupid and embarassing. 2: He was based on my brother and some other annoying and obnoxious content creators. I can’t stand his personality. 3: Dylan basically looked at Hyperlight, pointed at him, and had the audacity to say, “I’m gonna be him but better.” Which not only was stupid and full of hubris, but was also something he totally failed at. He’s in a better place now that I rehomed him in the Anomalous Research Institute with some other similar characters in the cringe era but I still hate his guts.

#4: Initial Designs

I typically don’t change OC designs much, if at all. Victor Afton (yes, it’s Afton. as in that family haha right Afton) used to be a cyborg corpse because it looked cool, but after reading The Twisted Ones and The Fourth Closet I realized that he could be an animus en machina, or “soul in the machine.” He has one of those disks that send out the deception frequency, for lack of better words. That gives him the appearance of a normal man. I really need to give him a proper ref because there’s so much to talk about him. He’s got 3 different versions of him now, pictured above.

#5: About the OC’s World

Let’s talk about Eta Carinae, shall we? I have to name for the actual world so I just call it Eta Carinae, the city most of the world’s development is from. It’s a place where I can move a lot of my Wings of Fire OCs to because I thought it’d be cool if they were in a cyberpunk world. The world of Eta Carinae also includes the Deadlands, along with a port city south from Eta Carinae called Capella. Eta Carinae itself is located at the border of 2 massive deserts and is kinda like a Las Vegas. An oasis in the middle of nowhere. To the immediate north is the Black Desert with volcanic activity and lava sand. To the immediate south is the White Desert, made of salt and very light colored sand. It makes for a very picturesque contrast at the border of the 2 deserts when seen from afar. 

#6: Regrets

I honestly didn’t understand what this meant. Perhaps regrets of what I should have done? That’s hard. I put down Expression just because I wasn’t able to use him that much when I still rped as him on the romac discord server. They still rp there, but it’s so fast-paced that I can’t keep up with my paragraph-response style. He was supposed to be a medic in training, but there were no chances for him to assist anyone. He was also supposed to have a little joke where he wasn’t allowed to enter the pub because he was only 17 and the rp kinda centered around a pub. That also didn’t happen. Final regret doesn’t really count because there’s still a chance of it happening but I still haven’t written my romac fanfic, Apocalyptically Romantic. It was supposed to be my rp characters kicked out of their rp universe and into a similar universe, just without any of the other rpers’ OCs. I worked hard on their backstories, so I wanted them to have more fun adventures than simply sitting on the shelf collecting dust. 

#7: Obscure Fact

This one’s for Hyperlight/Octavian Lung because I love him <3 and he’s the most solid, fleshed out character I’ve ever made. Anyways, obscure fact #342 about Octavian is that he dyes his hair a different color and pattern every month, and it’s usually seasonal themes. I drew him before on Christmas with white and red striped hair like a peppermint candy cane. Pictured above he styled his hair into strawberry blond curls. 

[weirdletter]

Weird Westerns: Race, Gender, Genre (Postwestern Horizons), edited by Kerry Fine, Michael K. Johnson, Rebecca M. Lush, and Sara L. Spurgeon, University of Nebraska Press, 2020. Cover art by James Rinere, info: nebraskapress.unl.edu.

Weird Westerns is an exploration of the hybrid western genre—an increasingly popular and visible form that mixes western themes, iconography, settings, and conventions with elements drawn from other genres, such as science fiction, horror, and fantasy. Despite frequent declarations of the western’s death, the genre is now defined in part by its zombie-like ability to survive in American popular culture in weird, reanimated, and reassembled forms. The essays in Weird Westerns analyze a wide range of texts, including those by Native American authors Stephen Graham Jones (Blackfeet) and William Sanders (Cherokee); the cult television series Firefly and The Walking Dead; the mainstream feature films Suicide Squad and Django Unchained; the avant-garde and bizarre fiction of Joe R. Lansdale; the tabletop roleplaying game Deadlands: The Weird West; and the comic book series Wynonna Earp. The essays explore how these weird westerns challenge conventional representations by destabilizing or subverting the centrality of the heterosexual, white, male hero but also often surprisingly reinforce existing paradigms in their inability to imagine an existence outside of colonial frameworks.

Contents: Introduction: Westworld(s): Race, Gender, Genre in the Weird Western – Michael K. Johnson, Rebecca M. Lush, and Sara L. Spurgeon   Part 1. The Weird West, Past and Present 1. Attack of the Monstrous Vegetable: Bret Harte’s Pioneer Nightmare and “Miscegenation” Dream – Tara Penry 2. Strange Country: Sexuality and the Feminine in Robert Coover’s Ghost Town – Eric Meljac and Alex Hunt 3. A Selective History: Identity and Identification in Deadlands – Nicholas William Moll   Part 2. Native Reclamations and Representations 4. Mongrel Transmotion: The Werewolf and the Were/Wear/Where-West in Stephen Graham Jones’s Mongrels – Joshua T. Anderson 5. Indianizing the Western: Semiotic Tricksterism in William Sanders’s Journey to Fusang – Sara L. Spurgeon 6. Magnificence and Metas in Professional Westerns – Domino Renee Perez   Part 3. Surrogate indians and Other Indigenous Metaphors 7. Defamiliarizing the Western on the Extraterrestrial Frontier: Jonathan Lethem’s Girl in Landscape – Johannes Fehrle 8. Shining the Light of Civilization: The Savage Other of the Frontier in Firefly and Serenity – Meredith Harvey 9. Racial Metaphors and Vanishing indians in Wynonna Earp, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, and Emma Bull’s Territory – Rebecca M. Lush   Part 4. The African American Presence in the Weird Western 10. The Mad Black Woman in Stephen King’s The Dark Tower – Jacob Burg 11. Uncle Tom’s Cabin Showdown: Stowe, Tarantino, and the Minstrelsy of the Weird West – Joshua D. Smith 12. Race and Gender in the Time Travel Western – Michael K. Johnson   Part 5. The Undead in the Weird Western 13. Go West, Old Man: Or, Buffalo Bill and the “Yellow Peril” in Zeppelins West – Cynthia J. Miller and A. Bowdoin Van Riper 14. amc’s The Walking Dead and the Restructuring of Gender and Race on the Neofrontier – Scott Pearce Afterword: This Is (Not) the End – Stephen Graham Jones Contributors Index