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Deadlands: History, Setting & Spinoff games

Deadlands is a genre-mixing alternate history role-playing game which combines the Western and horror genres, with some steampunk elements. The original game was written by Shane Lacy Hensley and published by Pinnacle Entertainment Group in 1996.

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Deadlands topic overview

The analysis highlights History, Setting and Spinoff games as prominent areas in the source structure around Deadlands.

Related topics
79
Source areas
9
Connected nodes
88
Extracted relationships
206
Concept neighborhoods
26
Bridge connections
88

What this topic covers Research coverage

Source areas are shown by the number of related topics found in each part of the analysis. Use smaller areas too: they can reveal specialized angles and content gaps.

Setting · 31 topics
Spinoff games · 12 topics
Overview · 11 topics
System · 9 topics
Development · 5 topics
Reception · 5 topics
Other reviews and commentary · 3 topics
Awards · 2 topics
Release history · 1 topics

Smaller areas are not necessarily less important. They contain fewer connections in this analysis and can be useful for finding specialized angles or coverage gaps.

Key facts & relationships

High-confidence facts extracted from structured source data. Use them as anchors for further research.

Designers
Shane Lacy Hensley
Genres
Alternate history, Western, Horror, Steampunk, Fantasy, Weird West
Publication
1996 (1st edition) · 1999 (2nd edition) · 2006 (Deadlands: Reloaded)
Publishers
Pinnacle Entertainment Group
Systems
d20 System, GURPS, Savage Worlds

Explore all related topics Closing gaps

Browse the complete topic structure, not only the most central items. Less prominent entities and concepts can reveal missing angles, specialized context and useful research gaps. Each item opens a new analysis centered on that subject.

Overview

Development

Setting

System

Spinoff games

Release history

Reception

Awards

Other reviews and commentary

Advanced semantic analysis

Deeper signals for content research, entity SEO and topical coverage. The plain-language headings explain what each technical view is useful for.

How Deadlands connects Entity context

The extracted context around Deadlands shows recurring relationship patterns in the source. For example, Deadlands → As, Black Circle, Bust, CCG, Deadlands Noir, Dieselpunk, Disk Wars, Doomtown, Earth, Frag, FRAG Deadlands, Ghost Creek, Gulch, Headfirst Productions, Hell, It, Lost Colony, Lost Colony CCG, Lost Colony RPG, Mad Max-esque Another extracted example is Deadlands → Additionally, Among, August, Brave, Deadlands Noir, Deadlands Noire, Earth, Fate Chips, Femme Fatal, Flory, Great White Games, Great White Games' Savage, Hell, In, In May, June, Kickstarter, Lost Colony, Matthew Cutter, May. Use these groups to spot repeated connection types before inspecting the individual relationships.

Deadlands

Top relations

related to Spinoff games · 40
Deadlands → As, Black Circle, Bust, CCG, Deadlands Noir, Dieselpunk, Disk Wars, Doomtown, Earth, Frag, FRAG Deadlands, Ghost Creek, Gulch, Headfirst Productions, Hell, It, Lost Colony, Lost Colony CCG, Lost Colony RPG, Mad Max-esque
related to Deadlands: Reloaded · 36
Deadlands → Additionally, Among, August, Brave, Deadlands Noir, Deadlands Noire, Earth, Fate Chips, Femme Fatal, Flory, Great White Games, Great White Games' Savage, Hell, In, In May, June, Kickstarter, Lost Colony, Matthew Cutter, May
related to history · 25
Deadlands → Aces, Alive, Anniversary Edition, Classic GURPS2021, Deadlands Dime Novel, Eights, Exists, GURPS, GURPS Deadlands Dime Novel, Hexes, May, October, Original Deadlands, Reloaded, Rerelease, Revised Deadlands, Savage Worlds, Steve Jackson GamesGURPS Deadlands, Supported, System
related to Reception · 21
Deadlands → And, Andy Butcher, Arcane, But, Cities, December, Dragon, Excellent, He, However, In, It, It's, Rick Swan, Shadowrun's, Swan, The Weird West, There's, Western/horror, Westerns
related to Setting · 20
Deadlands → American West, Arizona, Boston, Deep South, Dodge City, However, Kansas, Mexico, Mississippi River, New Orleans, New York City, Northeastern United States, Reloaded, Tales, Terror, The, These, Tombstone, United States, Wild West
related to Awards · 18
Deadlands → Adventure, Best Role-playing Rules, Card Game, DeadlandsBest Graphic Presentation, DeadlandsBest Science Fiction, Fantasy Figure Miniature, Fantasy Miniatures Rules, Game, Graphic Presentation, Great Rail WarsBest Roleplaying, Hangin' JudgeBest Vehicle Miniature, Independence DayBest Trading Card, Origins Awards, Reloaded, Role-playing Game, Science Fiction, Supplement, VelocipedeRoleplaying Game Supplement
related to Development · 11
Deadlands → Atlanta, Brom, Confederate, Greg Gorden, Hensley, Matt Forbeck, Necropolis, Pinnacle, Pinnacle Entertainment Group, Shane Lacy Hensley, White Wolf Publishing's
related to System · 9
Deadlands → Bones, Fate Chips, Game Master, In, Instead, The, The Marshal, The Posse, Traits
is a · 4
Deadlands → experience, genre-mixing alternate history role-playing game which combines the Western and horror genres, new roleplaying game about the Weird West, rich
Publication · 3
Deadlands → 1996 (1st edition), 1999 (2nd edition), 2006 (Deadlands: Reloaded)

Important terminology

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Important terminology

game setting also system reloaded rules released west savage worlds great role-playing weird western reckoners players fate chips edition group

Deadlands relationships Subject–Predicate–Object triples

TTTA extracted 206 structured relationships around Deadlands. Examples in this analysis include Deadlands → Designers → Shane Lacy Hensley and Deadlands → Genres → Alternate history, Western, Horror, Steampunk, Fantasy, Weird West. The table shows each extracted connection, where it came from and its confidence.

SubjectPredicateObjectConfidenceSrc
DeadlandsDesignersShane Lacy Hensley1.00infobox
DeadlandsGenresAlternate history, Western, Horror, Steampunk, Fantasy, Weird West1.00infobox
DeadlandsPublication1996 (1st edition)1.00infobox
DeadlandsPublication1999 (2nd edition)1.00infobox
DeadlandsPublication2006 (Deadlands: Reloaded)1.00infobox
DeadlandsPublishersPinnacle Entertainment Group1.00infobox
DeadlandsSystemsd20 System, GURPS, Savage Worlds1.00infobox
Deadlandsis agenre-mixing alternate history role-playing game which combines the Western and horror genres0.90text
Deadlandsis arich0.90text
Deadlandsis anew roleplaying game about the Weird West0.90text
Deadlandsis aexperience0.90text
the Deep Southinstance oflater supplements expanded the in-game adventuring area to include places0.80text

Related concept clusters Concept neighborhoods

The concept neighborhoods around Deadlands bring nearby vocabulary together. In this analysis, examples include Game, Setting and Rules. Use the clusters to find adjacent concepts and terminology that may deserve separate research.

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    • Rules
    • Reloaded
    • Weird
    • West
    • Edition
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    • Role-playing
    • Savage
    • System
  • deadlands
    • Game
    • Setting
    • Rules
    • Reloaded
    • Weird
    • West
    • Edition
    • Great
    • New
    • Role-playing
    • Savage
    • System
  • role-playing game
    • Great
    • Also
    • Earth
    • Hell
    • Western
    • Reloaded
    • Role-playing
    • Weird
    • West
    • Set
    • Players
    • Savage
  • pinnacle entertainment group
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    • Pinnacle
    • Published
    • Western
    • Edition
    • New
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    • Savage
    • System
    • Weird
    • Worlds
    • West
  • savage worlds
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    • Gurps
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    • Rules
    • Also
    • Pinnacle
    • Setting
    • Horror
    • Western
    • Chips
  • game master
    • Western
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    • Role-playing
    • Weird
    • West
    • Doomtown
    • Group
    • Horror
    • Set
    • Great
    • Released
    • Setting
  • collectible card game
    • Western
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    • Role-playing
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    • Doomtown
    • Group
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  • deadlands noir
    • Game
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    • Savage
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Connections between topic areas Semantic bridges

For Deadlands, one of the stronger structural bridges in this analysis connects Deadlands with Setting. Bridges highlight paths between different parts of the map and can reveal research angles that are easy to miss in a flat list.

Min side: 3
DeadlandsSetting · splits 57 ⟂ 32
DeadlandsSpinoff games · splits 76 ⟂ 13
DeadlandsOverview · splits 77 ⟂ 12
DeadlandsSystem · splits 79 ⟂ 10
DeadlandsDevelopment · splits 83 ⟂ 6
DeadlandsReception · splits 83 ⟂ 6
DeadlandsOther reviews and commentary · splits 85 ⟂ 4
DeadlandsAwards · splits 86 ⟂ 3

Map overview Semantic statistics

Deadlands

Nodes89
Edges88
Triples206
Avg. degree1.98
Density0.022472
Components1

Source & methodology

TTTA analyzes the structure around Deadlands to surface related topics, entities, relationships, concept neighborhoods and bridge connections. Use the map to explore areas such as History, Setting & Spinoff games, including less central topics that may reveal useful research gaps. Automatically extracted connections are research leads rather than rewritten encyclopedia content.

Source: Wikipedia — Deadlands · EN edition · Analysis: TopicsToTalkAbout

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