Editing Deadlands (section)

==The 2021 Revamp==
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In 2021, Pinnacle announced (published?) a brand new iteration of the classic Deadlands setting, still running under the Savage Worlds system, to replace the original classic Deadlands setting. Whilst there are some rules overhauls - for example, a return of the Metal Mage (multiclassed Huckster/Mad Scientist) and a new ability to play a Grey Hat in the form of an ''actual'' black magic-using [[Witch]] or [[Warlock]] - the big difference between this new iteration of Deadlands and the original is an assortment of retconned lore.

This new version is formally titled "Deadlands: The Weird West" - contrasting Deadlands Classic, where "The Weird West" was only printed on the spines of the books and not as a subheading like Hell on Earth or Lost Colony. The big difference between this and Classic in terms of lore is that the Reckoners plans have gone tits up in a fair few ways, diminishing their grip on the world and giving humanity more of a fighting chance. These changes are considerable, and include Lost Angels getting hit by a tidal wave that annihilated the abomination known as Reverend Grimmes and the worst of his cannibal cult, one of the two Stones being killed for real, and both Hellstromm and Raven deciding to go underground... oh, and the tiny little fact that the Confederated States of America are no longer a thing, as the Union managed to win a decisive victory at the Battle of Washington and use the momentum from that to break the Confederacy's back rather than stalemating, causing America to still be divided between two rival powers twenty years later.

All of these changes are actually worked into the setting's lore. This "Nu-Deadlands" and Deadlands Classic are linked by one of Deadlands' more infamous metaplot elements: time travel. The full details have yet to be revealed and are promised as being covered as part of the Dark Ages setting, but this is the gist of it: the infamous villain known as the Cackler, whom Pinnacle has been teasing about being important for years, is actually the first [[Harrowed]] - more than that, he's Arthur's archenemy Mordred from the [[Arthurian Mythos]]. For centuries, he's been trying to track down living descendants of his to reincarnate the spirit of his mother Morgana, and in this timeline, he succeeds in doing so. However, this ritual causes something called "The Morgana Effect", which causes ripples to flow backwards through time, which basically allowed a secret benevolent conspiracy called the Twilight Legion to actually interfere and foil some of the Reckoners' bigger, bolder plots, most notably causing the fall of the Confederacy, the death of Stone the Elder, and the flooding of Lost Angels.

Deadlands: The Weird West has been received about as well as [[Dungeons & Dragons 4th Edition]] or [[Pathfinder Second Edition]]. The game's creator openly saying that the Confederacy was retconned due to real world politics just guaranteed controversy.

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