Wild West Role-playing

[richarDISNEY]

I personally love Classic Deadlands.  Good character creation, neat combat system and cool magik and monsters!

Aces and Eights is a neat game (we played it for about 4 months regularly), but the game was a tad complex, even without all of the optional rules.  But our major nitpic was character advancement.  You made a great character (yes.  I did not find the 'fleshing out' all that bad...), but when it was time to 'level up', points came far and few in-between. 

Also those 'card based' chase system was a tad daunting...

Great combat system though.

I have the hardbound copy of Aces and Eights for sale for those in the USA.
I also have a copy of Deadlands:Reloaded hardbound for sale also...

[Legionnaire Bert]

Thansk a million to everyone for the suggestions - wow! Sorry I've been a  bit tardy replying, real life's been intruding in the shape of work

Really appreciate the suggestions, folks, thanks very much!

Bert

[Legionnaire Bert]

Aces and Eights is great but it can be too in depth for some

http://www.kenzerco.com/aces_n_eights/

Cheers!

[Legionnaire Bert]

That does look interesting 



www.gallopingmajorwargames.com

Ta!

[Legionnaire Bert]

Coyote Trail, available as a download from Wargame Vault for £3.07:

http://www.wargamevault.com/product_info.php?products_id=27617

There's also 5 expansion sets available (and an American War Of Independence adaptation)  - all similarly low-priced.

Thanks very much!

[Legionnaire Bert]

Deadlands: Reloaded is also current, and quite good.

Thank you! Will check them out.

[Legionnaire Bert]

Savage Worlds available from http://www.drivethrurpg.com

A generic system that is incredibly easy to pick up and play with.

Cheers, Dude!

[Legionnaire Bert]

Aces & Eights is superb but, as Leetje's already mentioned, it is ridiculously detailed. I purchased the "Shattered Frontier" hardback tome when it first came out & I still haven't come anywhere near reading through it all.

There's also a list of Western RPG's here that might tickle your fancy.

Thanks, Stavros, that's really useful, ta!

[Legionnaire Bert]

+1 on Deadlands. I actually like the older system and it's poker-hand based mechanics (I'm not familiar enough with Savage Worlds to comment). The cards really added to the western feel (saloon card games and the like). And despite the steampunk-horror nature of the game, it's really mostly a western game, and you can downplay the fantastic elements pretty easily...

Cheers - that sounds like it could really fit in with what I have planned, thanks very much.

[Legionnaire Bert]

What's going on, Robbie?
Are the Inquisition finally going to investigate what is REALLY going on at The Little House On The Prarie ?!?  

Your note of suspicion has been duly noted, citizen - stand by for imminent psyche-re-evaluation and attitude re-alignment...

 

[Legionnaire Bert]

One of the reasons people think Aces and Eights is complicated they feel they need to use all the rules straight away.

For example there are detailed rules for cattle drives that workout things like how many cattle you might lose crossing various terrain. When you start out, unless your actually running a cattle drive you would not even want to consider this rule.

One of the love hate things with A&8s is the character creation. It allows you to get an amazing amount of depth but some people prefer not to spend an hour fleshing out their character. Personally I like it.

On another note as a companion for whatever RPG you decide I highly recommend CowTown creator http://www.amazon.com/Knuckleduster-Cowtown-Creator-Authentic-Role-Playing/dp/0966704630  It's a great book. I learned lots of things about the old west that I did not know before reading it. 

Cheers, really appreciate the advice - I will mull it all over as I reqally fancy adding a Wild West element to Dark Heresy!

[Legionnaire Bert]

Gutshot is really cool and movie like!

Cheers!

[Legionnaire Bert]

if you want a setting then try and find a copy (printed or electronic) of "Western Hero" by Hero Games. Has a whole section on Deadwood 1876 (real - well mostly real - not HBO). 

My thanks Brian, sounds good - cheers.

[Legionnaire Bert]

I personally love Classic Deadlands.  Good character creation, neat combat system and cool magik and monsters!

Aces and Eights is a neat game (we played it for about 4 months regularly), but the game was a tad complex, even without all of the optional rules.  But our major nitpic was character advancement.  You made a great character (yes.  I did not find the 'fleshing out' all that bad...), but when it was time to 'level up', points came far and few in-between. 

Also those 'card based' chase system was a tad daunting...

Great combat system though.

I have the hardbound copy of Aces and Eights for sale for those in the USA.
I also have a copy of Deadlands:Reloaded hardbound for sale also...

Cheers, Richard. The rules complexities of any of these systems won't be an issue, as I'll be using the Dark Heresy rules. It's just a scenario or two I am after, and these suggestions really sound like they may fiot the bill - cheers.

[Rob_bresnen]

Western City-

I just bought it cheep off Mongoose Publishing, as £5 for a copy of the rule book (I bougt 3- you can never have enough)

We ran a session last week and it was a lot of fun.

it's a very stripped down system, not sure what you had in mind. It's unique selling point is that it is a Games Master-less RPG- wierd but true!