Editing Deadlands (section)

==Settings==
Deadlands currently spans a number of different game-lines, each of which represent different aspects of the same setting cosmology - kind of similar to how the [[Forgotten Realms]] got the [[Al-Qadim]], [[The Horde]], [[Maztica]] and [[Arcane Age]] spin-off settings. So, here's 1d4chan trying to straighten them all out for you.

'''Weird West:''' This unofficial title refers to the ''original'' Deadlands setting, taking place in the late 1800s during the height of the Wild West. What more needs to be said? This gets more confusing post-2021 due to the release of ''The Weird West'', the new timeline that has displaced it - see below.

'''Hell on Earth:''' The first of the spin-off games, this is the Deadlands world in the post-apocalyptic reality of 2097, some 16 years after World War 3 led to the planet being blanketed with Ghost Rock-laced nuclear warheads, allowing the Reckoners to crawl out of the spirit world and start running rampant.

'''Lost Colony:''' Set in the same time-zone as ''Hell on Earth'', this moves the action to the alien planet of Banshee, which humanity had been trying to colonize, Space Western style, before WW3 killed off everybody back home and left the survivors stranded.

'''Noir:''' The first setting to be launched completely under the Savage Worlds system, Noir is an interquel to ''Weird West'' and ''Hell on Earth/Lost Colony'', taking place in the time period from the 1920s to the 1950s and showing how things led up to R-day in 2081. Interestingly, one fan of Deadlands Classic put out his own take on the interquel in the form of "Deadlands: Weird Wars", which is set in the late 1930s between the first and second world wars, years before ''Noir'' was a thing; his website with all his stuff is still up today, and you can find it [[http://greywolf.critter.net/weirdwars.htm right over here]].

''Dark Ages:'' Announced in 2021, this setting covers games set in Europe during the Dark Ages of the Medieval period. Important because it sets up the retcon from ''Weird West'' to ''The Weird West''.