Contact Information

Shane Hensley's Email address is PEGShane@gmail.com.

Our mailing address is 1263 E Walnut Road, Gilbert, AZ 85298. Our website is www.peginc.com, but you probably know that.

The corporate entity is Great White Games. Shane Hensley is a bit of a shark nut. People still know us as Pinnacle Entertainment Group, or "PEG," so that's our DBA (Do Business As).

Orders

Our orders are handled by a separate company, Studio2Publishing. They can be contacted at this email. Note that their warehouse and all our physical merchandise is in Knoxville, TN, far away from the guys who actually write the books, or the artists who do the illustrations (who tend to live all over the world)..

Studio2 is run by our great friends and constant supporters, Frank Uchmanowicz and Jim Searcy, two of the most dependable people you'll ever meet.

If you have a problem with an order, contact Jim at Studio2.

Writing For Pinnacle Entertainment Group

If you're looking to create your own setting, go to Licensing. If you're interested in working on our products, or have already been contracted by us and want some more information on our style, read this.

About Pinnacle Entertainment Group

Pinnacle began in 1994 with Fields of Honor (a historical miniatures game) and The Last Crusade (a collectible World War 2 card game designed by John R. Hopler).

Certainly what we're best known for is Deadlands, which has now been going strong since 1996. Deadlands has appeared as a roleplaying game, a miniatures game, a collectible card game, a collectible disk game, and a comic book. The roleplaying game can be found in its original "classic" edition, in the d20 system, and "Reloaded" for our current house system, Savage Worlds. It has also been translated into Steve Jackson Games' popular GURPs system.

Look for Deadlands to appear in other mediums in the coming year.

A Litany of Thanks

Through the years, many people have been instrumental in Pinnacle's success. Matt Forbeck and Greg Gorden were early founders and contributed greatly to Deadlands. John R. Hopler was the first to join the team, and now works on computer games at Cryptic Studios. Hal Mangold is now with Green Ronin and was the first Deadlands Brand Manager. Zeke Sparkes was another key member of Pinnacle who helped define the look and feel of our award-winning Savage Worlds. John Goff is also an alumni, and wrote one of our most enduring and deadly "Dime Novel" adventures, Night Train. Randy Mosiondz was one of the first to hop on the Savage Worlds bandwagon and really help us polish the rules up to their current state.

Most recently, Paul "Wiggy" Wade-Williams was our Creative Director, and wrote far more products than we could keep up with. Joe Unger was our Marketing Director and managed some fantastic events and promotions. Simon Lucas and Robin Elliot truly raised our graphic and design bar with books like Dave Blewer's Sundered Skies, Paradox Entertainment's Savage Worlds of Solomon Kane, and Slipstream.

The Current Team

"Evil" Mike and "Chaos" Steve aren't really evil, and are very well-organized, despite their names. They run all of our convention games as well as the Savage Worlds Explorer's Society, and you won't find two nicer guys or more entertaining Game Masters.

If you'd like to run games for us at a convention or store, please contact Mike at evilmike@peginc.com, or Steve at chaossteve@peginc.com.

Clint Black is the administrator of our forums and resident rules guru; and his wife Jodi helps us edit and proof final manuscripts. Piotr Korys is our stat-proofer and line editor. Cheyenne Wright is our great friend and "go to" artist. Simon Lucas is also still around and helps with business development and art direction. A host of other people help from time to time, as well, including past members of Pinnacle and wonderful friends like Jay and Amy Kyle who still edit, proof, and act as sounding boards for our wild ideas.

Shane Lacy Hensley - President & Founder

Shane and Michelle Hensley owned a game store called Fun 'n Games in Blacksburg, VA, while they attended school at Virginia Tech. During that time, Shane wrote for every major gaming company, including TSR, White Wolf, and West End Games, among many others.

In 1994, Shane started Pinnacle Entertainment Group, where he created the best-selling, award-winning Deadlands, Savage Worlds, and many other games and settings with the help of Michelle and those others mentioned above. Since then he’s written dozens of books and several novels, and designed everything from card games to miniature games to computer games.

 In 2004, Jack Emmert asked Shane to join Cryptic Studios as a designer on City of Villains, the sequel to the smash-hit City of Heroes Massively Multiplayer Online Roleplaying Game. Shane enjoyed several wonderful years at Cryptic before moving on to become Studio Head for Superstition Studios. Rumor has it he’s making an MMO based on one of his most popular properties.

Shane now lives in Gilbert, Arizona, with Michelle and their two wonderful sons, Caden and Ronan Hensley.

If you'd like to see what Shane is reading, check out his bookshelf on Shelfari.

Shane can sometimes be found playing World of Warcraft as Tirrian on Ravencrest, Age of Conan as Durgan on Omm, or his favorite, on City of Heroes / Villains as Buckshot. on Virtue (note the . at the end of Buckshot.) He never minds other Pinnacle fans saying hi.

Shane’s Credits include:

Novels & Fiction
Sole Survivor (West End Games)
Blood of Tarrian (West End Games)
Darkfall (HarperCollins)
Dead End(West End Games)
Prisons (White Wolf Studios)
Reaching for the Stars (West End Games)
The Trilogy With No Name (Pinnacle)

Major Licensed Work
Army of Darkness Roleplaying Game (Eden/MGM)
Killer Instinct Collectible Card Game (Topps/Nintendo)
X-Files Collectible Card Game (Topps/Fox) (Unpublished)
Star Wars: Secrets of the Sisar Run Roleplaying Game (West End Games)

Computer Games
City of Villains (Cryptic Studios)
Thunderscape (SSI)
Entomorph (SSI)
Panzer General (SSI)
Weird Wars (Strategy First)
Operation: Watershed! (4-H/USDA)

Roleplaying Games
City by the Silt Sea (TSR/Hasbro)
Nightmare Lands (TSR/Hasbro)
Earth, Fire, Water, & Air (TSR/Hasbro)
Ravenloft Monstrous Compendium II (TSR/Hasbro)
Terror in the Skies (FASA)
Humans (FASA)
Temple of Rec Stalek (West End Games)
When Axioms Collide (West End Games)
Techbook: Ships (West End Games)
Crosshairs (West End Games)
The World of Aden (West End Games)
Campaign Chronicles (West End Games)
A Fist Full of Zombies (Eden/MGM)

Collectible Card Games
The Last Crusade (Pinnacle/Chameleon Eclectic)
The Last Crusade: The Russian Front (Pinnacle)

Miniature Games
The Great Rail Wars (Pinnacle)
Rippers (Pinnacle)
Fields of Honor (Pinnacle)
Fields of Honor: The American War For Independence

Pinnacle Products Personally Written or Developed
The Last Crusade (Producer)
Fields of Honor
Fields of Honor Fields of Honor:The American War for Independence
Deadlands: the Weird West
The Quick & the Dead
Deadlands Players Guide
Deadlands Marshal’s Guide
Hell on Earth
Waste Warriors
The Great Rail Wars
City o’ Gloom
The Last Crusaders
Savage Worlds
Evernight
50 Fathoms
Rippers (Developer)
Necessary Evil (Developer)
Deadlands: Reloaded
The Savage World of Solomon Kane (Developer)
Traveller's Tales - The Gottleib Horror

Large Convention Guest of Honor Appearances
Guest of Honor: Origins 1997 (with Tom Clancy and Bruce Campbell)
Guest of Honor: NukeCon 1998 Guest of Honor: Arcanacon 2000 (Sydney, Australia)
Guest of Honor: Leprecon 2003 (Dublin, Ireland)
Guest of Honor: GenCon England 2004
Guest of Honor: Archon 2004 (St. Louis, MO)
Guest of Honor: GenCon SoCal 2004 (San Diego, CA)
Numerous smaller convention appearances

Honors
Named 13th Most Innovative Person in the Gaming Industry by peers, 2000
Named 7th Best Designer in the Gaming Industry by peers, 2000
Awards Origins Award: Best Roleplaying Game of 1996 (Deadlands)
Nigel Findley Memorial Award for Best RPG of 1996 (Deadlands)
Origins Award: Best Miniatures Game of 1997 (Great Rail Wars)
Origins Award: Best Short Fiction of 1998 (Leftovers)
Origins Award: Best Collectible Card Game (1999)
Origins Award: Best Vehicular Miniature of 1999 (Velocipede)
Origins Award: Best Fantasy Figure of 1998 (Hanging Judge)
Origins Award: Best Historical Miniatures Game of 2000 (Fields of Honor)
Origins Award: Fan’s Choice Award for Best Roleplaying Game of 2003 (Savage Worlds)
Ennies Award: Best Roleplaying Game of 2003 (Savage Worlds)
Origins Award: Best Roleplaying Game of 2006 (Deadlands Reloaded)