>Fantasy world
Boring.
>WILD WEST Fantasy world
Now we’re talking.
Adding a “Wild West” before the theme of your setting simply improves it, no ifs ands or buts. This applies to every conceivable setting. Try to prove me wrong.
Wild West makes your games better.
WILD WEST Wolrd War 1
WWWW1
hmm you might be onto something
That's just the Mexican Revolution.
Rugged individualism meets the indifferent meatgrinder. If that doesn't cause interesting conflict for the players to bounce off of, I don't know what will.
They made a movie about that with Anthony Hopkins in it
I figured this out much earlier
When i was a kid i was building a setting that is basically Wild West Dark Medieval WW1. It took place on a continent where it's not endless badlands, canyons, then it's a devastated no man's land at least, with trenches & old castles everywhere, thrice abandoned battlefields littered with decayed corpses in rusted armor
I could never figure out though how to make the denizens of this world fight in melee though in proper knightly manner
>I could never figure out though how to make the denizens of this world fight in melee though in proper knightly manner
The spirits of the fallen war-dead scorn those who rely upon underhanded methods on the field of battle.
The upholding of decent knightly conduct, respect and humane treatment of the opponent is what staves off the worst ailments of the battlefield - disease, hysteria, possession and the like.
Proper etiquette such as respectful treatment / repatriation of the dead garners favor with the spirits of the battlefield, conferring boons unattainable by the likes of mortal science or magic.
Wild West horror
Wild West romance
Wild West Kung Fu
Wild West epic
Wild West superhero story
Wild West drama
Wild West porno
Wild West comedy
Wild West crime investigative
Wild West cyberpunk
You're right.
>Wild West cyberpunk
Okay, I can picture all the rest but not this. How the hell would Wild West Cyberpunk work? Bionically enhanced cowboys moving cattle for heartless corporations? Settlers getting paid off by the same corps to go settle the lands of the cyber-Injuns?
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Easy.
Just have a cyberpunk setting. In Texas.
Houston and Austin are mega-cities, but there's a pretty clear dividing line from where you go from the major cities to the desolate wasteland of post-industrial America. Have some US Marshals running about, border-patrol agents. Keep talking about how everyone hates the Mexicans. Farmers are struggling to eke out a living when the Chinese are cloning cows to make hamburgers out of. Ilicit drug trades, gangs in the inner cities, militia's forming in rural towns where the big government isn't willing to spend the resources. Bands of nomadic hippies living in vans cause housing prices have gotten too insane.
A lot of potential there. You could play as US Marshal's using your big iron to bring steely justice upon cyberfreaks brewing hypermeth out of old barns.
>I cannot picture wild west cyberpunk!
>*proceeds to picture wild west cyberpunk*
blame!
>what is cowboy bebop
>what is trigun
It's basically just a Nomad-centric campaign in Cyberpunk
Set in on a rimworld in a space faring setting.
I'm trying to work on a setting like this but I'm having trouble justifying the cyberpunk megacorps tbh
Just imagine instead of a peaceful world government taking to the stars like in Star Trek it's a collection of competitive Megacorps, each wanting to strike out into new, resource rich worlds. As corpos do, they would of course save costs anywhere they could and abandon poor investment planets.
If that was done in the Star Trek universe instead of Star Fleet, it could be very interesting.
>small fleet of US Navy starships
>each mega-corp has more tonnage than the Navy
>US Marshals on the ground on some planets as only law
>Mega-corps negotiating with individual species and worlds
>Khan and other genetically enhanced are respected CEOs and leaders in their fields
>enhanced humans are the norm by the 23rd Century
>everyone has the behavior chip but tuned for their Corp
Interstellar ranching companies raise cattle and genetically-engineered racing animals on vast, billion-acre ranches on remote worlds.
Galaxy Rangers time.
You could use the Borderlands series as inspiration.
>uninhabited resource-rich planet discovered
>intergalactic corpos jump on that shit like dogs on a steak
>rapidly build towns, infrastructure, mining and logging operations
>planet's ecosystem starts waking up from a years-long hibernation cycle
>most of the planet's fauna is deadly as frick
>things start falling apart
>some corporations start shipping in prisoners as penal labor
>things fall more apart
>corpos start pulling out, abandoning the civilians
>also abandoning the prisoners who immediately start forming bandit gangs
>everyone else is left huddling in fortified towns on a lawless planet surrounded by deadly nature and insane bloodthirsty criminals
>but the corpos still take time to sell them shit
>especially guns
Borderlands does a lot of stupid shit but I liked their take on space corps, they gave them all clear visual themes and branding with their products and advertisements. The employees of said corpos also have a wide range, from "mostly normal schmucks" to "Patrick Bateman-tier psychopaths" and "pigfrick stupid morons with money."
Is there a good Borderlands system?
It would need good tactical combat, but also D&D's HP bloat and XP/level grind.
D&D 4e but magic items have 1d6 magic properties
The Wild West was already like that, with corporations hiring mercenaries to straight-up just death-squad people out of land that they wanted for plantations/oil wells, etc.
In a cyberpunk setting, corps would still be willing to kill for gold, semiconductors still have to get made. And land? On the right areas around aquifers, the corps could save a pretty penny on water condensers if they can just pump water to the surface for hydroponics.
If anything, Cyberpunk goes all too well with Wild West, moreso than even Fantasy.
Wasn't just the Wild West. Pennsylvania had the "Coal and Iron Police". If you had "any colliery, furnace, or rolling mill within this commonwealth" you could create your own police force. Because the coal must roll.
Coalpunk is underrated
Cyberpunk but it's in Dallas.
>Corporations hire corporate gunslingers instead of corporate ninjas/samurai
>all business deals are settled with shootouts
>flying cars with bullhorns
anytime dredd goes to texas city
Steam punk essentially but Western Frontier instead of Britain.
>Wild West Kung Fu
Now I want to do that. Guns and Kung Fu. You need to be a master of one od the other to be able to compete.
I think you'd enjoy Feng Shui RPG then.
Wild West Xianxia
>Wild West mecha
Frick, that actually sounds kind of sick.
Look at Cannon Busters on Netflix, pretty much this
That “anime” sucks complete ass.
He should actually look into GunxSword. An earlier work by the creator of code Geass.
Seconding Gun X Sword. My favorite thing about it was the shockingly refreshing moral that "Revenge is actually okay, so long as you don't let it turn you into an butthole. Killing that awful person who ruined your life is fine, just don't become an awful person yourself."
Wake up, Dann.
>look it up
>it’s some western “anime style” drivel
No.
There's a Wild West MTG set coming out soon and the odds that it'll suck are close to 100%.
They hate guns so much that they didn't even put the Revolver in their recent MtG Cluedo crossover set and now they want us to trust them to deliver on a good Wild West set.
So hey I plan to do a story about someone running a wild-west /tg/ game, but they get sucked into it Jumanji style with the GM going mad from power. I'll post my notes for the setting and see if anyone is interested in them, or if they think they're shit.
>repurposed ideas for an indianna jones styled archeaology adventure setting, essentially just a bit further back in the timeline
>The world is a moon inhabited by humans, and a planet inhabited by elves, they share the same atmosphere, and travel between the two is possible with airships.
>There's also alchemically engineered beastfolk as a servant race
>Humans live mostly on archipeligo's with european styled cultures having the largest, and other flavors of human being on smaller more isolated islands
>Elves have a wide variety of cultures, often get grouped as things like 'snow elf' or 'sand elf' and so on, they had massive and prosperous civilizations that for some mysterious reason collapsed and degenerated into tribal societies about a century prior to first contact with humans
>Human kingdoms explore the planet, and set up 'dependencies', which is not direct colonization, more like setting up trade ports and propping up local kingdoms as vassal-states
>A number of Bioshock Infinite floating cities are created, but they have a revolution and declare independence with 13 of them forming something like the United States
>One group of elves basically sell off their land creating a frontier for the floating cities for them to settle on- this land is a 'territory' in the same way western Territories worked for the US
>They build up a couple cities and infrastructure, and boom, wild west.
>Also at some point they have a civil war over whether 'rights for everyone' actually includes 'everyone' like the Elves and Beastfolk or not.
Where can we read this?
I haven't written it yet, and it'd be for a bunch of ecchi-style comic-things. It's also the second of it's kind I'd want to write, but the first one would be set in a more bog-standard fantasy campaign, wheras a third one might take place in a wierd-world-war setting.
>But anon! Why make cringe anime uwu shit, when you could write real shit instead?
A. autism.
B. effort.
C. The tools I have make doing cringe anime shit easier to write.
If any of that continues to interest you, I can still give you a link to my work.
Not too much else, other than what I was thinking for the archeology adventure setup
Which is you have a cold war between three main factions, one broadly democratic, one broadly fascist, and one broadly communist on the humans planet. A number of monarchies are in essence forced into exile on the elven planet in the remnants of their colonies creating a sort of fourth faction.
These factions then go looking into the ancient ruins of the elves for magical artifacts and so on, with the intent to, if not use them, then at least deprive them to their rivals.
I was also thinking the ancient greece/roman elves would have an amazon theme to them.
I think one of the areas Borderlands misses the mark is that it doesn't do a proper contrast of civilization and the wilderness. In the mainline games, it's kind of all action, all the time, everyone's out to either kill you or frick you over. One of the central themes of Wild West stuff is 'is the civilization we are bringing to the frontier, actually an improvement'.
I think 'Tales from the Borderlands' helps fill this niche a lot better since half the perspective is from two bureaucrats entering the hostile world of Pandora and forced to survive in it as they go through their quest, and the other is on two con-women desperately trying to get out.
>I think one of the areas Borderlands misses the mark is that it doesn't do a proper contrast of civilization and the wilderness. In the mainline games, it's kind of all action, all the time, everyone's out to either kill you or frick you over. One of the central themes of Wild West stuff is 'is the civilization we are bringing to the frontier, actually an improvement'.
I think it's there but it's not really a central theme to Borderlands. The answer to 'is civilization better?' is a great big fricking nope - the only halfway positive corp representation we see is Mr. Torgue, but he's more of a mascot, I think.
I mean, look at how Atlas and Hyperion both fricked their own shit up. The main antagonists of 3 are fricking social media influencers.
Yeah, but then on the other hand, everyone on Pandora will either shoot your or scam you. Kinda hard to root for the lawless frontier when it's just all blood and guts.
Not to say Borderlands can't do over-the-top stuff, I think just a couple layers of more serious worldbuilding could have elevated it. Again- I thought one of the strongest points in the franchise was in Tales of the Borderland when Rhys is trapped in the desert and he has to keep going in order to complete his mission cause otherwise he stays stranded in the planet and dies. There's some actual pathos there that's explored a bit.
>Yeah, but then on the other hand, everyone on Pandora will either shoot your or scam you.
Right, but most of the people shooting at you are either corporate stooges - e.g. Atlas or Hyperion troops - or bandits - prison conscript labourers brought to Pandora and abandoned by Dahl, subsequently driven insane by the Vaults but honestly they were not good people before that.
The scammers are abandoned Dahl employees circa 1, and then after that ex-corporate people.
So the kind of people who would shoot and/or scam you are the kind of people civilization would bring in.
Civilization sucks. The lawless anarchy of Pandora also sucks .
I guess you have to ask yourself: do you want to get raped in the mouth by a dick covered in shards of broken glass, or get raped in the ass by a dick covered in razor wire?
uh what kind of thread did I just walk into
You don't want to know.
Very cool, keep going
Mild East Setting blocks your path
Wild West Mild East
WHAT NOW MOTHERFRICKER!
>tfw no twink gunslinger bf
I swear to god this guy's RPGs are all "What if we take a fantasy version of a movie setting we all love, and make it as boring, realistic, and political as possible?" Like he'd be perfect for making a Game of Thrones RPG.
No fun allowed.
why is the white man's take on eastern fantasy gay and cringe but the yellow man's take on wild west is based and soulful?
shit forgot to attach my image
I know people have an aversion to ai, but there was some fun looking fantasy west slop the other day.
The US of A were a mistake and so were you
D&D is already implicitly a Western
This is true and yet wild west on its own is boring as frick for anyone who is not American and even most of them. It is the eternal wild west conundrum.
Are you the guy who posts the ai generated western fantasy stuff to /slop/?
Eh, I recently tried a weird west bugpunk fantasy game, and it was just okay. Maybe because it didn’t have the cowboy aesthetic (it was more injuns and trains tbqh)?
Can you tell us more? I'm preparing a Weird West campaign and I'm currently balancing powers and guns. But I also have a lot more questions depending on your experiences.
Not really, no.
Dammit, shilling for Outlaws of Thunder Junction starts particularly early.
I was looking for this on the internet like a madman to have a book of random tables for the Wild West and be sure to not miss anything. I didn't want to be unprepared and not to have that one specific shop I missed.
I was so desperate I even felt like buying the book (that would have been my second book). But then I asked chatgpt. That tool is so efficient at doing autistic work like that. Giving you list, categories, random names...
What tool do you use for your Wild West games?
ChatGPT's great for generic shit like that. A good place to bounce an idea off of or gin up some inspiration. Based on your post, I just asked it to come up with ten frontier town names for a Wild West game. Could I have come up with Coyote Springs or Tumbleweed Junction on my own? Sure. But when you need a quick name for an unplanned stop, it's pretty perfect.
I just asked to give me the price ranges for a bunch of items in 1850. I'm so glad the tedious work can be done by someone or something else.
>chatgpt as a GM helper
holy shit, where was it when I was still being a GM and working on my setting? I needed tons of lists or random stuff... if I only I could have automated the process back then
>/tg/ just discovered that adding cowboys makes everything cooler
You guys are so slow.
Love cowpunk settings
As was pointed out in a podcast, the COW in this is an acronym for Code Of the West. So the full title of the show is Wild West Code Of the West Boys of Moo Mesa.
I'm okay with ninja turtles but something about cowboys cow boys disturbs me.
Best of both worlds.
I want to try this with a Wild West setting and get double for my money. Wild west x wild west
Wild West mythological ancient Greece.
How would this even work?
>Stranger, tread careful on this dusty trail, for to cross my path, you must unravel a riddle as twisted as the river bends:
>What creature walks on four legs in the mornin', two at high noon, and three when the shadows grow long?
>WILD WEST Fantasy world
May I play a Sasquatch?
My ex got me into this indie folk band called Lord Huron who's lyrics are all seem to be set in a weird, slight mystical fantasy western setting. Not my normal cup of tea musically but I've ended up really getting into them for that reason I think.
Great driving/road trip music too.
>Great driving/road trip music too
Indeed. I got introduced to them by some lad on Ganker.
Very Ganker band so that makes sense.
If the american western aesthetic isn't your cup of tea, incorporating western themes and tropes is an excellent way to present a harsh and unforgiving setting.
Settlements living a thin line between civilization and barbarity.
A promise for a better life for those brave enough to tame the land around them.
Grave personal injustices settled through vigilantism.
Men and women that cling to the old ways in a ever-progressive society, tradition versus change.
Interplay between community versus individualism.
Prospecting for rare precious metals or minerals fueling an economic boom, with all of the good and bad that comes with boom towns.
Some ideas to inject into your next story.
I recently realised I love wild west tropes despite not really caring for any wild west media. I love duels at sundown, bounty hunting, lawless towns, excessive amounts of revolvers, opportunistic business men buying out towns and pushing out natives and all that jazz, and I like to put it in my games, but the genre as a whole doesn't sit right with me. Can't place why
Wild West Hyper-Erotic Sexventure.
Can't have the wild west without some imported girls to spend that hard earned few dollars you got.
Please stop this at once, kind sir. This is a nsfw town, and you are going against the law
> wild west, but native americans have a higher tech level
Ever checked out the comics East of West by Jonathan Hickman? It's kind of post-apoc with magic thrown in, but the Native Americans are way ahead of the tech curve.
No but that sounds interesting.
Uh, wicke-wild, wild
Wicky-wicky wild
Wickey wild, wicky-wicky wild, wild
Wicky-wicky wild, wild west
Jim West, desperado
Rough rider, no you don't want nada
None of this, six-gunnin' this, brother runnin' this
Buffalo soldier, look it's like I told ya
Any damsel that's in distress
Be out of that dress when she meet Jim West
Rough neck so go check the law and abide
Watch your step, we'll flex and get a hole in your side
Swallow your pride, don't let your lip react
You don't wanna see my hand where my hip be at
With Artemus, from the start of this, runnin' the game
James West tamin' the west so remember the name
Now who ya gonna call?
Not the G.B.'s
Now who you gon' call?
J dub and A.G
If you have a riff with, people wanna bust, break out!
Before you get bum-rushed at
When I roll into the (Wild Wild West)
When I stroll into the (Wild Wild West)
When I bounce into the (Wild Wild West)
Sisqo, Sisqo
We going straight to the Wild Wild West
We going straight to the Wild Wild West
Now once upon a time in the west
Mad man lost his damn mind in the West
Loveless, kidnap a dime, nothin' less
Now I must put his behind to the test (Can you feel me?)
Then through the shadows, in the saddle, ready for battle
Bring all your boys in, here come the poison
Behind my back, all the riffin' ya did
Front and center, now where ya lip at kid?
Who dat is? A mean brother, bad for your health
Lookin' damn good though, if I could say it myself
Told me Loveless is a mad man, but I don't fear that
He got mad weapons too, ain't tryin' to hear that
Tryin' to bring down me, the champion
When y'all clowns gon' see that it can't be done
Understand me son, I'm the slickest they is
I'm the quickest as they is, did I say I'm the slickest they is
So if you barking up the wrong tree we comin', don't be startin' nothin'
Me and my partner gonna test your chest, Loveless
Can't stand the heat then get out the Wild Wild West
Will Smith really only did the coolest of bangers
I like the wild west aesthetic but wild west games suffer from the same issues nautical games do. Too much vast expanse of nothingness
Deadlands.
When you're right, you're right:
Did you know that China had its own Wild West (Wild East?) phase in the 1910s-1930s?
The country suffered a power vacuum that led to the rise of various warlord "cliques" that fought to control the country - hence the period's name, the "Warlord Era".
Imagine a Wild West in Asia but this time with WW1 surplus arms dealers, Russian mercenary armored trains, Chinese former-army bandits, Korean settlers, Japanese military intervention and so on.
It's a really interesting historical period that hasn't had much in way of media presence, but lends itself well to all sorts of campaign possibilities.
Really? China suffered a warlord era? Man... that's just odd. I thought that after the Warring States Period; the Three Kingdoms Period; The Sixteen Kingdoms Period; The Northern And Southern Dynasties; The An Lushan Rebellion; The Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms Period; The Northern and Southern Dynasties 2: Song Edition; The Red Turban Rebellion; and The Ming Collapse, they had gotten the hang of "Not collapsing into feuding warlord states every few centuries".
The warlord period is fricking fascinating, including such characters as: The Christian Warlord, who supposedly would mass baptize his troops with a fire-hose before battle.
Or: The Dogmeat General, AKA the Three Hows. Because he didn't know how many troops he had, how much money he had, or how many wives he had.
I've also been studying Central Asia in a class, and we just went over how the region became quite lawless following the 1905 revolution. There's some real looney toons shit that went on, like a bank-robber/revolutionary takes a bag of cash from a bank. He asks to go the bathroom. After about a half hour they check on him, and the see he's gone and the window is open. The police send out the word to track him down, but he's disguised himself by crossdressing as a woman. A muslim woman with a full-body hijab (so you can see why it'd be a good disguise). He boards a train, but a russian woman tries to strike a conversation with him. He keeps quiet, but this woman is a karen (the choice of words by my prof.) who is extremely offended a muslim woman is refusing to talk to her- even if she doesn't know Russian she should at least acknowledge her presence. She finds out he's a cross-dressing bankrobber when she notices he's wearing pants. EXCEPT: Turns out she's a friend of the bank-robber and ends up not turning him in anyway.
Ok,those stories sound wild as hell. Guess I'll do some research on that era on my spare time
The Dogmeat General's antics don't stop there.
Issuing his soldiers medals made of cigarette-box gold foil, firing artillery at the clouds during a drought while hurling obscenities at the god of rain... Guy was a colorful character.
Wrote slam poetry about buddhist temples he blew up. Not particularly good slam poetry.
I think one went something like-
'The Buddhists said one thing, I said the other.
I blew up your temple.
Go frick your mother.'
>Not particularly good slam poetry.
tautology
if you haven't watched it already check out this movie. it's basically a western movie that takes place during the japanese invasion of manchuria.
>Racist Norway
blase
>WILD WEST RACIST NORWAY
Hell yes.
They and all of Scandinavia could stand to get a little more racist, really. Central and Western Europe, too.
>Try to prove me wrong.
Wild West World of Darkness.
I accept your concession.
Why would that be bad?
you literally and figuratively just proved him right...
>wild west sword and sorcery
I know that this is arguably just weird west, but can we call it Colt & Sorcery?
Colts & Collieries
This board needs an AI that automatically removes any thread whose subject is "my preference good, your preference bad".
This board needs an AI that automatically removes any post whose content is "my metacommentary good".
nah. what I said is correct.
I just recently ran the Ghost Mountain game in ICRPG. It was pretty fun.
moar slopWest