Re: Old West Setting?
I personally feel most comfortable running Heroic games with around 150pt, 75/75 or any breakdown there-in. For western I would test build a few characters, and you will need to decide about the Firearms... it will be a big decision for the campaign. I personally would build the 5-10 most common firearms for the setting, include bows and arrows, etc. then work with the players, anything out side of those items either need to be approved by you, or if non-standard by the setting standards, then perhaps purchased with character points as a "special" model or something along those lines. Otherwise I would not have the players required to purchase the guns and such, gets to be too expensive and stops making sense at some point.
so to recap, I think 150 CP characters are about right, heroic, but they don't fly
as suggested in Heroic games PCs don't tend to have to by their equipment except in special cases. I would stick with that as well.
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