Deadlands Reincarnated!

Thanks to the combination of Deadlands and eBay the whole "no impulse buys in April" deal isn't going too well.

For a very reasonable price, I just picked up a brand new - still sealed - copy of Deadlands: Night Train, a glorious 25th anniversary box set, celebrating the original Night Train "dime novel" adventure for the first (pre-Savage Worlds) iteration of Deadlands.

It also came with Wendigo Tales, a hardback collection of short stories set in the Deadlands universe, these were the text part of the old "dime novel" series of adventures that Pinnacle published for Classic Deadlands back in the day (when I discovered and fell in love with the setting).

These digest-sized booklets were half-fiction and half-adventure module; Night Train by John Goff was number three in the series.

There were 10 published back in the late 90's, of which I still have four or five, including Night Train.

Me with my original copy of Night Train

The 25th anniversary box set, released a year or so ago, is a treasure trove of gamesmaster/player aids, as well as including a rewrite of the old adventure for use with Savage Worlds (and a couple of new, related, adventures).

We have battle mats, cardboard pawns (complete with stands; an economic alternative/addition to 28mm figures), prop toe tags to mark player-character deaths, a themed 'Wild die', cards, and wanted posters.

I haven't even gotten round to opening up these items, but am already excited that as well as the solid card pawns of monsters and non-player characters there's also tiles for the interior of the central locomotive and its cars. That's definitely something that can find a bonus use in Dead Man's Hand skirmish scenarios.