Favorite Rule Set?

[General Roos]

Foundry´s The Rules With No Name are awesome!

But Legends of the Old West is also fun and easy to play!

[jet]

We played the entire Assumption campaign using Legends of the Old West. Clean, easy rules with nice advancement (in the same style as Mordheim and Necromunda). That being said, the big downside to LOTOW is the potential gap that forms between posses. In other words, if some folks play more regularly than others in the campaign they will quickly tower over their opponents and potentially make the game less fun.

[mraaker]

In Necro/Gorka/Mordheim/Blood Bowl campaigns there is compensation of some sort for the gang/team with the lesser rating, either after the battle/game or something to help out during (the Special Cards in Blood Bowl for example).  Is this true for LOTOW?

Thing about Rules with No Name is you have to make a fate deck.  To make it look good, say to the level of custom Confrontation/AT-43 cards, you need the templates in high res from, take pictures of your miniatures all at the same size/distance, trace them out of their backgrounds (that's the long bit) and layer them over the blank templates from Foundry-- then export them to a sheet format and get them color printed, cut them out and sleeve them, ideally with the hard plastic shells for baseball cards.   Of course you would want the miniature's stats and skills on there as well and these can change depending on how you play.

[Aaron]

LotOW does have that mechanism. The problem is that you have to survive combat with the more powerful gang to receive it. This often leads to not-very-fun games where a hopelessly outgunned posse flits around just long enough to run away and gain some resources. All in all it is a fun system though.

[Lowtardog]

Dont discount my personal favourite Deadlands - VSF or Steampunk however the rules work well for normal gunfights and is what I always default to with some one new to the genre

[Mikey]

My favorite set is Tombstones and Tumbleweeds from Precis http://www.pigames.net/store/product_info.php?cPath=49&products_id=465

They are on a similar scale to Gutshot with less paperwork. They have less of a Hollywood feel to them than Gutshot or TRWW imo.. They also have a much better variety of period weapons that the other two..