Questions about Deadlands Reloaded
Hi guys
With all the corona madness I decided setting up some online games, and me and some friends got FG on steam. I decided to go for Savage worlds with the Deadlands Expansion, because it sounded like a lot of fun. The entire setup has proven really tough though. Is it me? I don’t really know where to start...so I’ll just fire some questions:
1. What’s with the different savage world versions? On steam I got savage worlds deluxe. Now I hear I should have gotten SWADE? Is this correct? I assume Steam has the latest version?
2. Since there are next to no tokens coming with the game, I got creative and made a load of them in PS (I mastered that so I’m not a complete idiot) and imported them, but I cannot find out how let the players use them for their characters: I can attribute one of my tokens in the combat tracker, but my players cannot see them, even though I have set them to shared, and a small face icon appears on the token bag.
3. When learning, I put 2 characters and a few npc in the combat tracker. I then pull them onto some map. My npcs can attack. However, I cannot make the characters attack from the combat tracker? Why not?
4. Combat tracker, npcs using power: How do I use this? It seems there is no automation going on? For example the “armor” power; my shaman has it -Armor(10)- and I can pull it on a friendly or himself (from the combat tracker to the map) which generates a dice roll but that’s it. The effect i.e. [Toughness +2] is not registered on the npc in the tracker. Am I supposed to change this by hand/ If so, how? There is no extra mini box to enter the effect, and if I just change the toughness value how can I keep track / revert? Drag and drop from the box on the left turns the power roll into an attack: a sword appears and the game rolls an attack.
I am gonna start with these, the entire experience has proven really difficult, and I am just trying to get to grips with the basics here. Also, there is next to nothing to be found on the specific Deadlands setting.
Last question, is there a way to export the manuals out of the game so I can read them on my ipad and not only in game?
Thanks in advance for any assistance to this newbie.