Would someone be so nice to point me to western-like DW material?

14 thoughts on “Would someone be so nice to point me to western-like DW material?”

1. No… But someone has definitely made an Apocalypse World hack set in the wild west. I’d bet my poncho on it.

   All *World stuff can be banged together in a spare half hour. Google it or check out the Apocalypse World forum.

2. http://rpg.drivethrustuff.com/product_info.php?products_id=112749&it=1 I knew this existed, Never read or tried it, Adrian Thoen apparently made it, maybe he can tell you more…

3. Shadi Alhusary was working on something (see:  https://plus.google.com/103327399280421334863/posts/TVq2rDbk7Q1)

   Alfred Rudzki made World of Dusters (https://plus.google.com/100812462809734403456/posts/S2hMkAVP346)

   From the Barth Forth Apocalyptica forums:

   – Gunsight: http://apocalypse-world.com/forums/index.php?board=39.0

   – Western World: http://apocalypse-world.com/forums/index.php?board=28.0

4. Yay someone mentioned World of Dusters! That said, I have updated that game a little and given it an overhaul in terms of appearance and name. Lead+Gold can be found here https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1W–JCqcrWf1Jwn-MymObmQ594yfctkg9SVfEjX3Hkn4/edit?usp=docslist_api

5. I just posted about Apocalypse West (written by my lovely wife Willow Palecek  ) a couple months back. Let’s see…

   Original forum post:

   http://apocalypse-world.com/forums/index.php?topic=555.0

   Zipped download:

   https://www.dropbox.com/s/dagolfjhdxmpbyc/Apocalypse%20West.zip

   The Apocalypse West playbooks:

   https://docs.google.com/file/d/0B9cu0IVYfHtidFprbE9ScGlFNXM/edit

   If you play it, let us know how it goes!

6. My first draft, slightly playtested Cowboy World is here

   https://drive.google.com/folderview?id=0B9G77aR8YgmbYmNtLWtOTW1IVWc&usp=sharing

   It is classless and play bookless. The first playtests went very good so I am quite optimistic. 

7. Tim Jensen I know it’s a shallow criticism, but I was thrown by the prevalence of the rifle-wielding nun on the ApocWest Playbooks.

8. Nikitas Thlimmenos I have it, but didn’t have an occasion to use it yet.

9. Thanks everyone for the suggestions. I would like to clarify, tough, that I am planning to run not a western game, but a DW fantasy game using classic western tropes (the railroad company, the gold mines, the bank robbery, the band of outlaws, the lawless frontier town, etc), and mostly standard playbooks plus some addition like shaman and spellslinger. I was hoping that someone already tackled this approach.

   edit Also, I am aiming for the cheesy side.

10. I see the link  to my GDrive above does not work, so here it is again.

    https://drive.google.com/folderview?id=0B9G77aR8YgmbYmNtLWtOTW1IVWc&usp=sharing

11. Here’s the free Gdocs version of the spellslinger

    https://docs.google.com/document/d/1dnbrTRUssVJDlUhlVYBrloo3nXTn17tN-odHdzcokac/edit?usp=docslist_api

12. Adrian Thoen did you develop something else on the theme?

13. I found this Gunslinger CC:

    http://2d6cents.com/2013/02/dungeon-world-compendium-class-the-gunslinger/

14. Paride Papadia The spellslinger is the only thing I’ve developed with a distinct western theme. I toyed with the idea of a gambler but couldn’t come up with a core mechanic that I found satisfying.

    The Spellslinger kind of encapsulated the things I found interesting in Western stuff, though I’d love to see something that riffed heavily on wird west spaghetti westerns and stuff like high plains drifter. Ghost stories in the west are cool!

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