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<blockquote data-quote="amerigoV" data-source="post: 5314579">Although a campy movie, <a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0795505/" target="_blank">Undead or Alive (2007)</a> does capture the key points of Deadlands (the West, Zombies, and a fun ending).On the pregens:Doc has the Weird Science edge. He makes items and they have the full amount (so his 20 PPs are not spread among the powers). As he gains Powers in the future, he makes another device and it also has 20PPs). Gazetteer allows him to rig up stuff using any power the settling allows for him (subject to Rank) with half his PPs (no regen on the PPs for this item - a consumable).Shady is Huckster. If you do not have the setting, I would double his PPs to 20. In the setting, you can &quot;deal with the devil&quot; to power your spells. It basically is playing poker with a spirit. So up his PP and cast as normal.Father Sam also uses Deadlands special rules. Basically, they can cast anything cleic (you are calling on God, so just pray for what you want) but their is a tough Faith check (failure is rather punative). You might just revert to the core rules if you do not have Deadlands. Give him 2 Powers and 10 PPs, remove Conviction (setting specific), and in its place either give +5 PPs or another power.Deadlands shows how you can modify the Arcane edge to really give a different feel to magic. Without the book, you need to fall back to the core rules.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="amerigoV, post: 5314579"] Although a campy movie, [url=http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0795505/]Undead or Alive (2007)[/url] does capture the key points of Deadlands (the West, Zombies, and a fun ending). On the pregens: Doc has the Weird Science edge. He makes items and they have the full amount (so his 20 PPs are not spread among the powers). As he gains Powers in the future, he makes another device and it also has 20PPs). Gazetteer allows him to rig up stuff using any power the settling allows for him (subject to Rank) with half his PPs (no regen on the PPs for this item - a consumable). Shady is Huckster. If you do not have the setting, I would double his PPs to 20. In the setting, you can "deal with the devil" to power your spells. It basically is playing poker with a spirit. So up his PP and cast as normal. Father Sam also uses Deadlands special rules. Basically, they can cast anything cleic (you are calling on God, so just pray for what you want) but their is a tough Faith check (failure is rather punative). You might just revert to the core rules if you do not have Deadlands. Give him 2 Powers and 10 PPs, remove Conviction (setting specific), and in its place either give +5 PPs or another power. Deadlands shows how you can modify the Arcane edge to really give a different feel to magic. Without the book, you need to fall back to the core rules. [/QUOTE]

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