Thats fairly confusing. So who owns what?
Pinnacle owns Deadlands. WotC owns Five Rings. Five Rings owns the DOOMTOWN game mechanics and has a contract to use the Deadlands property in the game. AEG doesn’t own any part of the product. 2: An Overview of the game. Q: So, tell me a little about DOOMTOWN. A: It’s a fast paced game set in the Wild, Weird West of the Deadlands alternate history. In that history, a group of Indians called the Last Sons used an ancient ritual to make a deal with some evil spirit creatures called Manitous. Those Manitous have been unleashed on the world, and as a result, things didn’t turn out quite the way the history books say they did. The Civil War is still raging; a huge earthquake sank most of California into the pacific, and a strange substance known as ghost rock has been discovered. Ghost rock burns hotter and longer than coal, that that efficient fuel has allowed the development of all sorts of steampunk technology. DOOMTOWN is set in the tiny frontier town of Gommora. Gommora sits on top of
