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[Thunderforge]

While looking for some Savage Worlds files, I stumbled across Savage Lythia which had a page dedicated to FAQ and errata for Savage Worlds. The April 2005 FAQ listed a number of Savage Worlds settings that were listed as "Coming Soon and Much Much Later." Some of them did wind up being released, but others never did see the light of day:

• Rippers RPG (Victorian monster hunters who can gain powers from their prey)
  
• Low Life (In the distant future, creatures descended from " cockroaches, worms, snack cakes, and stranded aliens" have inherited the "Oith". The strangest comical post-apocalyptic setting ever devised.)
  
• Slipstream (Flash Gordon style science fiction with a Savage twist.)
• Sundered Skies (Flying ships, floating islands and fantasy horror)
• Modern Ops (Modern-day skirmishes in the format of Rippers: The Horror Wars.)
  
• Red Rising ("Near future sci-fi thriller with elements of Paranoia")
  
• Sticks & Stones (Cavemen grunt, no speak! It Rock! (Hey, I just invented the pun!))
  
• Scairy Tales (Fairy Tale Land gone horribly wrong)
  
• Dragon Kings (King Arthur comes back sometime in the future and trades his horse for a Harley!)
  
• Savage Deadlands: The Weird West (a.k.a. Deadlands Reloaded)
• Evernight: The Cradle of Midnight (The epic sequel to Evernight)
  
• Weird Wars: Weird War II (tentative title, World War II Savage Worlds style)
  
• Empire of Bone (Zombies and humans living side by side in a cool gothic fantasy world)
  
• Weird Wars: Unholy Lands (tentative title, the Crusades Weird Wars style)
  
• Great Rail Wars (Spiffy new Savage Worlds version)
  
• Savage Deadlands: Hell on Earth (a.k.a. Deadlands Reloaded II)
  
• Savage Deadlands: Lost Colony (a.k.a. Deadlands Reloaded III)
  

Also on the FAQ were products that were "mere rumors or not in production yet." Apparently they were all mere rumors because not a single one saw the light of day:

• Takanak City Tales (Savage Pulp Action setting book)
  
• Forsaken (Modern-day Techno-horror-thriller)
  
• Lost Angels (Monster hunting in the city of Lost Angels in the Deadlands universe)
  
• Weird Wars: Wilderness Wars (Pre-USA Colonial America wars)
  
• Blood Moon (A "gothic" apocalyptic world where a piece of the moon has crashed into the Earth.)
  
• For Hive Queen And Country (super-duper top secret, no info)
  
• The Big Book of (Insert Popular Author's Name Here) (Mys-teer-ious!)
• Crime Does Not Pay (Golden Age superheroes) - unofficial title.
  
• Fortune & Glory (Another Pulp book, details are scarce) (Ravaged Earth covers concepts of CDNP & F&G, so they may not actually come out)
  
• Weird Wars: The Boxer Rebellion
  
• Weird Wars: Blood Feud (American Civil War)
  
• No Man's Land ("A surreal post-apocalyptic setting in which a massive alien being landed on Earth and changed the planet and even reality itself.")
  
• Bones ("Mobsters and hitmen against the forces of darkness in the ultimate den of sin: Las Vegas in the 1970's").
  
• Deep Black (Disavowed superspies struggle against the forces and schemes of F.E.A.R.)

There were a few Savage Tales listed as well that were upcoming:

• Necessary Roughness ("An awesome SWAT team adventure, featuring the Oakland Raiders!")
  
• Night of the Chupacabra ("A cool adventure for Deadlands that wraps up a couple of old threads.")

I'm sure that the products that didn't make it were cancelled for good reason, most likely because they weren't as good as the other titles that did eventually get released. Regardless, I just think it's interesting to see what things might have been.

And the FAQ says that there was a Smilin' Jack Bust that was sold at one point
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[Enno]

A real pity, that some of these products never made it (at least in the form advertised), but that's the way dice bounce and priorities change.
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[kronovan]

Color me surprised that Weird Wars - Blood Feud was never created. You would think a Civil War setting would a sure hit for this system. I'm very glad they did WW Tour of Darkness though, so I won't complain too much. Weird Wars - Boxer Rebellion would be a complete hoot - really wish that got made too.

[Thunderforge]

Maybe they thought a Weird Wars version of the Civil War had too much overlap with Deadlands?
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[kronovan]

[ValhallaGH]

[Pariah74]

Slipstream, Low Life, and Rippers did come out...among many others on that list.
In fact, if you look at the products released vs the ones that fell through there's a pretty good track record. Compared to other companies it's an exceptional track record!

And I would guess being good or not had little to do with it, and it more about other factors like personnel changes, creators backing out, finances, etc. The idea that they were not as good as the ones that did get created assumes a finished product exists. Likely it doesn't.

The idea was good enough to get approval in the first place, so it's unlikely that they would allow the project to continue to a finished result and then not publish it because it didn't meet some standards. A more likely scenario is that the person who believed in the project, and was working on it got tied up in other projects, possibly with other companies. These things happen.
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[operations]

Forsaken sounds pretty cool actually.
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[VonDan]

you notice that except for Empire of Bone (which has nice zombies) none of the canceled projects had zombies. The quickest way to get a savage worlds project canceled is to tell Shane there are no zombies in it

[Clint]

[Cutter XXIII]

[ironfort]

[scourger]

[newForumNewName]

I'm pretty sure that HoE:R is in a pipe somewhere...
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[Thunderforge]

Hell on Earth Reloaded is supposed to be coming out within the next 6-9 months I believe and Cutter made a topic a while back about the possibility of Lost Colony Reloaded, although he said it would be years away.

And I too would have liked to see Weird Wars: Unholy Lands. All those pictures of crusaders in Savage Worlds Deluxe make me want to play them!
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[chugosh]

I'm still stoked to buy a pdf of Sticks and Stones if it ever comes out. I've always dug the cave man adventure idea, even if none of my regular players do. Then there is the irony of buying a pdf about stone age adventure.