Western Hero

[Starmoon]

Hello, we have just started a western campaign and finished the second session.

 

Any campaign or setting suggestions would be welcomed. Here is the current game blog from one a character's perspective.

 

****Warning: there is some strong language****

http://billy-sunday.dreamwidth.org/

[bubba smith]

Re: Western Hero

 

good

[ghostwolf]

Re: Western Hero

 

Aww, shucks boss. Thanks for sharin' that out for me.

 

- the player of Billy Sunday

[Egyptoid]

Re: Western Hero

 

one of our local GMs, Brickmuppet, ran an AWESOME Western game a few years ago,

here's some highlifes:

 

 

Secessionists, trying to found a new Nation out of the Dakota Territories.

 

Natl.Geographic archaeologists, trespassing while on a quest for dinosaur bones.

 

Native Americans, trying figure out which, if any, white people to kill.

Plus the sacred lodge of their spider god.

 

Corrupt bureaucrats in the Land Assayers Office.

 

the Ghost Horse.

 

Tin-Clad steamboats in river-combat.

 

Sabotage via horse-laxative.

 

a mix-up of our Supplies on a planetary scale.

 

Law-biding Swedish settlers just protecting their own.

 

Claim jumpers and Railroad Barons, in cahoots.

[Guest Major Tom]

Re: Western Hero

 

You could always rip off -- excuse me, I mean adapt -- the plots/themes of most, if not all,

of Clint Eastwood's Western films.

 

Here's a few just for example:

 

Pale Rider: Lone Avenger comes to the aid of miners being oppressed by a

corrupt land baron and his hired guns (just replace "Lone Avenger" with

"Group of heroes" and you're all set).

 

High Plains Drifter: While it was never clearly stated that this was the case in

this film, it was implied that Eastwood's character was a murdered man come back

from the dead to exact vengeance on his killers. For a group campaign, the entire

party would have to be put in this situation, and would be a one-shot affair

(since, once the party had achieved its goal of vengeance, they would return back

to the afterlife).

 

 

 

Major Tom

[L. Marcus]

Re: Western Hero

 

Law-biding Swedish settlers just protecting their own.

Law-abiding Swedes? Something wrong with that picture.

[SSgt Baloo]

Re: Western Hero

 

Movies to watch and possibly be inspired by:

 

Silverado

 

Rustler's Rhapsody

 

Pale Rider

 

They Call Me Trinity

 

Trinity is STILL My Name

 

My Name is Nobody

[CTaylor]

Re: Western Hero

 

I think hero games works better than any other system for Western games, at least the more cinematic ones. You can make them gritty as you want (people very likely to die from a gunshot) if you want as well.

 

I recommend reading L'Amour, Brand, and other pulpish western novels for plots. L'Amour tended to have just a few stock plots he embellished and built up:

 

1) The wagon train that has problems on the way

2) The bad guy rancher pushing out homesteaders

3) The crooked guy using homesteaders to push out ranchers, then take over their land

4) The escort gone bad

5) The cattle drive

6) The explorer pushing westward

 

Any of these can be adapted for a group with a bit of thought. In terms of movies, Silverado especially and the Magnificent Seven show how to give a group enough to do in a game setting.

[Spence]

Re: Western Hero

 

Hello, we have just started a western campaign and finished the second session.

 

Any campaign or setting suggestions would be welcomed. Here is the current game blog from one a character's perspective.

 

****Warning: there is some strong language****

http://billy-sunday.dreamwidth.org/

 

If you can, pick up a copy of Western Hero

[shadowcat1313]

Re: Western Hero

 

interesting campaign ideas, I am not a big western fan, but I liked the Floating Outfit books by JT Edson, another example of group stuff.

 

and we cant forget some of these movies

Blazing Saddles

They died with their boots onErrol Flynn as Custer]

True Grit

Treasure of the Sierra Madre[Origin of Badges.... we dont need no stinkin badges]

The Cowboys

[Spence]

Re: Western Hero

 

Another few ideas.

 

The PC's are:

 

Army Scouts

Government Surveyors/Mapmakers

Territorial Marshal's

Drive or Ride Shotgun on a stage line.

Pony Express Riders

Cavalry Troop on the frontier

Prospectors searching for the legendary ______ .