I've been disconnected from the 'net for a few days thanks to my laptop's power supply going out, so I spent the time to make a great Deadlands player's guide from the free pdf.
My favorite picture from the Deadlands book - Engine 666. I have other pictures on the backside and inside.
Oh, I did a faux leather look by painting layers of brown, and the clear plastic book covering has an almost leathery feel to it. The image is artificially aged with teastaining - which I did to EVERYTHING.
...As you can see here. The book itself, despite being printed out this week (!!) looks years or even decades old.
Some of my more favorite Deadlands images - though there are some also on the inside covers as well.
The open book - the pages are, as I said before, artificially aged, and almost all of them are perfect looking.
And here's the map I made - though I did let my girlfriend do the scorching along the top quarter.
Speaking of my girlfriend... she created her character using a Red Dead Redemption poker deck.
OH. MY. ******. GOD.
First, she draws a joker for one of her stats - and of course draws a Spade for the trait level.
Then, I draw for her mysterious past.... RED JOKER. Harrowed with total Dominion. (and a d8 Spirit, so the manitou is gonna have some small problem getting control at first.)
Then, she picks Veteran of the Weird West and draws...
You guessed it....
RED JOKER. Eternal Hero.
And yes, we did shuffle and cut the cards - I've been playing MtG too long to let something like that slide.
Other than that, she has no exceptional stats, nothing above a d8 which isn't so good since she latched onto the Hexslinger right away (and she put that 4d12 into Deftness like a good l'il gunslinger), but still...
She's a runaway bride from a Mormon family who doesn't want to marry someone three times her age who got plugged by the abomination hunting lawmen after learning something of hexslingin' from a local hexslinger. Because she was so purty and young, the undertaker put her out on display for a little while... which is where she woke up with the Prospector just about to pour his elixir down her gullet.
...I just.... well... I wasn't wanting to start with Harrowed in the campaign. I was actually planning on running a modified version of the adventure in the Book o'the Dead for anyone who wanted to become Harrowed but... let the dice fall where they may.
I keep asking her if maybe she stole a bit of her friend's luck (who rolled in front of my eyes, with MY DICE, three 18s for a Pathfinder character), but thus far my girl has denied any such thing.