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Weird West (or Weird Western) is a genre of fiction that uses the Wild West period of American History as a foundation and then adds fantasy/supernatural elements to it. So stories where gunslingers encounter zombies, vampires, demons, robots, or any other creatures that wouldn't otherwise be present in a standard Western.
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Mad Science under the original system was much more complex, almost extremely so. You designed devices yourself, and what they would do, so unique entirely (or just use one described in the books, there were several mad science books) and then the Marshall decided what poker hand you needed to make the blueprints. Which, of course, it used the poker deck! My sibling played a québécois Alchemist. Things went boom.
Savage worlds still uses a poker deck