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      Ominous
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      Since we are talking Weird West, how about Weird West but D&D fantasy? This is a really good OSR adventure: Tomb Robbers of the Crystal Frontier

      Here’s a YouTube review of it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pUkPt9VcsWw&pp=0gcJCRsBo7VqN5tD

      And here’s the creator’s blog posts on the expanded universe: https://alldeadgenerations.blogspot.com/search/label/Crystal Frontier

      Ceterum censeo Carthaginem esse delendam

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        somasatori @Ominous
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        @Ominous said in Missed Settings:

        Since we are talking Weird West, how about Weird West but D&D fantasy? This is a really good OSR adventure: Tomb Robbers of the Crystal Frontier

        Taking this time to plug my favorite podcast which has an episode on this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s0GCCgNIKbo

        There’s also another recent Weird West setting out there put out by Monte Cook and using the Cypher System, which is Gunslinger Knights. It’s very much “what if The Dark Tower but RPG” but that in itself is a weird west setting.

        "And the Fool says, pointing to the invertebrate fauna feeding in the graves: 'Here a monarchy reigns, mightier than you: His Majesty the Worm.'"
        Italo Calvino, The Castle of Crossed Destines

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        • MisterBoringM
          MisterBoring
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          In the Weird West genre, I’ve heard good things about Haunted West, but I haven’t actually picked it up yet. The book is absolutely massive (800+ pages), it is written with a mechanical system that has three stages of complexity, so you can go from very narrative and story driven to a full tactical simulator of weird western life. (It also has a secret extra chapter of rules & playbooks for playing in the setting using PBTA.) I’ve heard the setting is an interesting alternate history and the selection of supernatural stuff occurring in the game is very wide and allows for a lot of diversity in setting up the antagonists of a given plot.

          Proud Member of the Pro-Mummy Alliance

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          • GashlycrumbG
            Gashlycrumb @bear_necessities
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            @bear_necessities

            With or without:

            @Gashlycrumb said in Historical Games Round 75:

            (Okay we have mining claims, and a valley with a couple of competing cattle ranches and homessteads, and a ridiculous frickin’ castle that some freak had built by Italian masons that he imported for the purpose and had guarded by Pinkertons while they worked, then released to run wild across the plains, and now it’s the Manor House like Downton Abbey, but if those PCs go into town it’s more like Deadwood. But it’s Boylei guy’s Wild Imaginary West so you have to carry this steampunkish antenna thing around to prevent weird monsters or giant versions of normal animals coming near you. Later in this story the abandoned Italian masons will appear, having survived by taking over a troupe of giant apes.)

            "This is Liberty Hall; you can spit on the mat and call the cat a bastard!"
            – A. Bertram Chandler

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              bear_necessities @Gashlycrumb
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              @Gashlycrumb tbh that’s too many words for me to read but sure yes go ahead I’ll play for at least 2 months before I flake lol 😄

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                bear_necessities @bear_necessities
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                All I really want btw is the ability to ride my horse, wear a cowboy hat, and rob trains/stagecoaches and maybe fight monsters. I’d like to be a bad guy, and not a bad guy that’s really a good guy and all the bad guys are actually good and it’s only the NPCs that are actually bad!! I just want to be bad. Let me be a bad guy. Thanks.

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                • MisterBoringM
                  MisterBoring
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                  I just had a crazy idea to merge two flavors into one great taste.

                  Dark City

                  a man in a suit stands in a dark room and says sleep now

                  and

                  The Wild West

                  a man wearing a cowboy hat is standing next to a horse

                  I’ll share more when I have it fleshed out but think: Wild West microcosm in a dome floating in space, psychic powers, secret alien schemes…

                  Proud Member of the Pro-Mummy Alliance

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                  • KarmaBumK
                    KarmaBum @Roadspike
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                    @Roadspike said in Missed Settings:

                    @KarmaBum If you like FS3, I do happen to have the stats I put together from The Network’s Western series that y’all could use as a starting point.

                    Appreciated, but I don’t have the spoons to make fun for other people right now.

                    @Gashlycrumb might want this, though.

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                    • GashlycrumbG
                      Gashlycrumb @KarmaBum
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                      @KarmaBum I’m interested, but probably won’t actually do this. I mean, it’s possible, but how will I feel next week?

                      @bear_necessities I am all for bad guys if their players acknowledge that the PCs are bad and join the Black Hats Club.

                      "This is Liberty Hall; you can spit on the mat and call the cat a bastard!"
                      – A. Bertram Chandler

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                      • GashlycrumbG
                        Gashlycrumb @KarmaBum
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                        @KarmaBum Crossing the threads again, but now I wonder if the Wild Imaginary West set says anything about the -isms. If I am remembering it right from the videos, everything west of the Missisippi is monster country. Bleeding Kansas seems unlikely if moving to Kansas to influence its vote involves not merely the horrors of moving to Kansas, but also getting eaten by a gru.

                        "This is Liberty Hall; you can spit on the mat and call the cat a bastard!"
                        – A. Bertram Chandler

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