 Space 1889 Lifting Off!
Be a good chap and engage the Ether Propeller, would you? The button beside the flashing yellow indicator. There's a good lad. Wouldn't want to get pulverized by a meteor when we're so near to our destination, wot?
Your assumptions are correct—the long-awaited Space 1889: Red Sands is ready for its journey to the printer. As soon as the summer of 2010 you'll be arriving upon a newly savaged Mars. Best get acquainted with the geography* before we touch down, for there are a multitude of sites to visit as we explore the Red Planet. Cheerio!
*Three Faces of Mars map by Richard Clark and Jordan Peacock.
 Cheyenne Drive Update
As we said last week, the two Cheyenne Wright Savage Tales Bundles will be discontinued later today, around midnight Eastern time. The Cheyenne Wright $5 Donation item will remain available for the rest of the month. All proceeds from the Cheyenne bundles and donations go directly to Cheyenne Wright to help with his recent medical expenses (see below). With your support, we've already raised over $500. It's uplifting to see a community rally behind one of its own during a dark time, and we'd like to thank you all for your generosity.
 You Got Your Showdown in My Deadlands!
You Got Your Deadlands in My Showdown!
The first of our Savage Showdown Scenarios, Raid on Fort 51, is now available. It's a high-stakes game of automaton keep-away, with Union Blue trying to get one of Wasatch's mechanical wonders back to Fort 51 for "research and development" ('cause "thievery and duplication" doesn't sound as genteel). This three-stage mini-campaign includes all the set-up, special conditions, and figure flats you'll need for hours of explosive* tabletop battles!
*That's no euphemism, pardner. There's gonna be some BOOM!
Get the Cheyenne Wright Savage Tales Bundle
In a bit of bad news, Cheyenne Wright, an illustrator and artist who's worked with Pinnacle since the very beginning, has run into some health problems. While we don't have all the medical details, it's pretty likely that the robust insurance provided to freelance artists (ahem, cough, cough) isn't really up to the task of modern medical testing. With that in mind, we're offering two Cheyenne Wright Savage Tales Bundles for the next week. Each bundle includes half of our current Savage Tales PDFs for only $19.99, with the proceeds going directly to Cheyenne's medical expenses.
For those of you in a more directly generous mood, we've added the Cheyenne Wright $5 Donation item to the Pinnacle listings at the Studio 2 Publishing web store. Buy it once, twice, or as often as you like. Studio 2 Publishing has agreed to absorb the processing costs, so your full $5 donations will be sent directly to Cheyenne.
But On The Upside...
We have some good news for another of our artists, Kieron O'Gorman. His most recent work for Pinnacle includes nearly all of the Rogue's Gallery illustrations in the Super Powers Companion. In other work, though, he's become a featured artist in Corel Draw's sales campaign, including a graphic novel! Congratulations, Kieron.
 Fight the Good Fight at Shane's Day Job!
Shane Hensley's other job is at FireSky, makers of the recently-released Stargate Resistance. The game is now live and Shane would love for the Pinnacle fans to come over, check out the game, and show their support.
Straight from the Shane-horse's mouth: "Hey gang! It would mean a great deal to me if everyone here came over to Stargate Resistance and checked out our game. A large show of interest from you guys and gals will not only help the company, but will continue to persuade them that a certain Pinnacle project we're all interested in continues to get attention as well. Thanks!"
 Meet Nevermet Press!
Nevermet Press has joined the Pinnacle licensee ranks. Their model is a little unusual for our licensees, as Nevermet is specifically planning to leverage crowd sourcing and community development to help expand the Savage Worlds frontiers.
 Silver Gryphon Games Goes Savage
Silver Gryphon Games has also joined on as a new Savage Worlds licensee with plans to publish "boatloads of adventures," many set in their modern noir crime setting of Wellstone City.
I have no doubt you'll give both of our new licensees a warm welcome to the Savage community and the Pinnacle web forums.
 Kane Freebie—Foes of Kane Map Pack
The Savage Foes of Solomon Kane Map Pack is now available in our Downloads section. Every map from the recently-released Savage Foes of Solomon Kane has been collected into one handy reference document for you, and it's free!
 An Old Friend Returns
One of our favorite gaming podcasts, The Game's The Thing, has broken its long silence and released a new show Monday. Check it out if you've got a minute (or forty-eight-and-a-half or so).
 The Savage Foes of Solomon Kane Preorder Bundle Now Available
The Savage Foes of Solomon Kane is now off to the presses, and we're in the mood for another preorder bundle special. Order The Savage Foes of Solomon Kane Preorder Bundle and get the PDF for half price. The PDF will be e-mailed to you the next business day, and the book will follow as soon as its available (likely June 2010). The unbundled Savage Foes of Solomon Kane PDF is also currently available.
In this a dark era, there are enemies the likes of which have never been seen. There is no safe corner of the globe; evil is upon the land in every quarter. Cults and creatures, man and monster, even simple tomes so terrible that the readers’ souls are lost. From beneath the sea, within the earth, and under the cities, the siege of humanity wears on. Can you face The Savage Foes of Solomon Kane? This book contains over twenty new adversaries, each fully detailed with an accompanying ready-to-run Savage Tale. Pray you are equal to the task.
Members of the Explorer's Society can catch a sneak peek of The Crossroads Man on the Explorer's Society site.
 Buried Tales — One Win Down, Two to Go!
With your voting help, 12 to Midnight's Buried Tales of Pinebox, Texas won the Preditors & Editors Readers' Choice awards poll for best anthology. We'd like to congratulate 12 to Midnight and all the contributing authors, including our own Shane Hensley, on their success.
But this is just the beginning of the long march to total anthology domination. Watch for Buried Tales of Pinebox, Texas in this year's Origins Awards at Origins Games Fair and in the ENnie Awards at GenCon, and be sure to vote. After you take a peek into the authors' imaginations, you might be afraid not to...
 Deadlands: Reloaded Screen Inserts Available
Today, thirteen is every Marshal's lucky number. The new Deadlands: Reloaded Customizable GM Screen Inserts are packin' five pages of art and eight full pages of charts to make every Deadlands game run just a little smoother. Don't go frettin'—that includes the three-panel art spread and charts of the Deadlands: Reloaded GM Screen.
And we ain't just whistlin' Dixie when we say customizable. You use whatever pages you want. You want those with no background to save on ink? You want those on the classic Deadlands desert screen? You want parchment? There's extra background choices in the layered PDF to suit your stylistic whims.
So grab your copy today. Keep what you need at your fingertips, and keep your secrets in style.
 A Peck o' Trouble on the Wing
The Weird West is hard on a town. Some of 'em go straight to the dogs. Some go to seed. Others go to pot. But some less lucky go to the crows...
Take your posse to Alder Creek and see what sort of reception you get in Scarecrow, our latest one-sheet adenture for Deadlands: Reloaded.
Oh, and just in case you're new to these parts or it just slipped your mind, as always, all of our one-sheet adentures are free pickin's.
Rodent Fails Fear Check: Icy Doom to Come
Happy Groundhog Day! Our most famous groundhog, Punxsutawney Phil, was scared back into his hole by his own shadow today, dooming us to another six bitter weeks of winter. Woe unto us.
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