Weird that this would be the post that finally makes me make an account but I’ve been wanting to run/play a Deadlands campaign for a while now, and I’ve got PDFs of all of the rule books needed for them. I’m not sure how sharing that sort of thing would work here but I’d be happy to send them your way. It’s based in the Savage Worlds system, which I’ve played a few campaigns of various flavors in and is pretty easy to pick up. I enjoy the mechanics more than the D&D I’ve played too. It’s not just a straight Western though. You could strip some of the more fantastical elements away but that’s what really makes me love it as a setting.

Why not both?

I don’t know that Elon cares enough about his children for that to matter. He doesn’t seem particularly involved in parenting any of them, does he?

Have any reporters asked him why Loving v. Virginia was not included in that list?

lmao what a nightmare. Thankfully this one seems to have plenty of sidebars and tables for the most critical information. I’m still taking my own notes while reading through things just to help me retain what I’m reading, but it feels like there will be something I inevitably overlook. Thankfully, I think my prospective players will be forgiving and bear with my mistakes.

I was more referring to that this game (Deadlands) has a sizeable list of specific models. For example, there are 9 types of Colt Revolvers. Beyond deciding for combat flavor if I want them to run single or double-action firing mechanisms, should I really be bothered with the difference in a Colt Army and a Colt Dragoon? Maybe I should have crossposted in guns so the people who care about this can tell me exactly what an illiterate Pinkerton toady would be packing.

Frankly, I probably don’t need too much as it’s fairly divergent from an accurate historical timeline. I am really just getting into the details to flesh things out and bring it to life in my head before I bring it to my players. I’ve also been looking up old photographs to understand the clothing of the time, terrain of the area, existing rail networks, and that has all been much more interesting.

Thanks, this was helpful, as is @Tapirs10 's input. It is an alt-history thing and includes some supernatural forces as well, including mad scientists who can basically create the gun Abe was just shot with. I’m pretty comfortable with figuring it out from a stats perspective, but wanted to learn a bit more as to what might be in common use taking into account things like service weapons for various forces and the chances of those being as available to the commonfolk mostly for flavor purposes. This is not the complete list https://imgur.com/fiwsH8m but it does have the LeMat you mentioned. I had to look that one up to understand why the stats were listed as such, and had a good chuckle thinking about fanning the hammer on that and ending it with a blast of buckshot towards my posse.

I’ve been hoping for a CRISPR style gene edit from shark teeth so I’ve got a backup set at the ready.

Ah, fuck. Well that sucks. Is nothing I read as a child not cursed?