Deadlands

Deadlands is a roleplaying game, published by Pinnacle Entertainment Group, where an alternate history of Earth similar to our own occurs up until 1863. That's when the Reckoning occurs--a bizarre event that allows monsters, spirits, and more to once again inhabit the world of mortals.

Now the year is 1877. The place is the American West but haunted by the forces of darkness. Undead gunslingers, hostile Indian spirits, strange cults, and worst of all, the sinister Reckoners. The Civil War drags on, while federal agents and Texas Rangers struggle to deal with the eldritch menaces while hiding the awful truth from the public Back East.

Players take on the role of gunfighters, hexslingers, shamans, or pious blessed in an attempt to learn about the Reckoning and the mysterious beings behind it.

The eight-times Origin Award-winning setting has be converted to many other systems over the years and is available in the original Classic Rules, D20, GURPS, as well as a Savage Worlds version due out in 2004.

See also: Deadlands: Hell on Earth, Deadlands: Lost Colony