Are there any gritty old west PbtA games out there? I have World of Dusters, and I’m eyeballing Raising Stakes?

25 thoughts on “Are there any gritty old west PbtA games out there? I have World of Dusters, and I’m eyeballing Raising Stakes?”

1. Cowboy World, but I don’t remember the author

2. Do you know Dogs in the Vineyard?

3. dust devils is neat too

4. Meguey Baker I’ve heard about it a bunch, but never tried it. I know Vincent wrote it, but does it have similarities to the player-facing gameplay of AW?

5. Pretty sure Andrew Medeiros and Charles King are both working on western hacks. Both will be fantastic and about very different themes.

6. William Nichols Yeah, I believe Raising Stakes is by Andrew Medeiros​. Hadn’t heard of the Charles King one. I’ll seek it out. Thanks!

7. Pretty sure its in early closed alpha. Its not published anywhere. Yet.

8. Adam McConnaughey Dust Devils is amazing

9. Also, Meguey Baker I’m getting a 404 on lumpley’s main link to buy dogs from the lumpley online store.

   (http://www.lumpley.com/dogs.html, link at the top right)

10. http://nightskygames.com/welcome/game/DogsInTheVineyard works for me, William Nichols 

    Dogs is well worth playing. It’s not a “standard” Western, though.

11. Dogs is on drivethrurpg too!

12. Cool. Now I need to read Dogs, Beautiful Bedlam, and (finally) Sagas. That’s a nice list.

13. William Nichols​ Raising Stakes was released a few months ago through Andrew Medeiros​’ Patreon: patreon.com – Andrew Medeiros is creating Tabletop Roleplaying and Live-Action Games | Patreon

    And you can buy it here: https://payhip.com/b/a7os

14. Yep! I was meaning to refer to Charles King ‘s unnamed pbta hack. He thinks Drew missed the central tension or something.

15. Right! Sorry

16. I had a go at hacking AW2 into a western: Frontier World. It’s here here if you want to take a look: drive.google.com – Frontier World – Google Drive

17. Riccardo Lenzi Oooh awesome. Thanks!

18. Anna Kreider Advertising for Drew with a call to action is always appropriate. 🙂

19. There’s How The West Was Lost by Willow Palecek​

20. Apocalypse West. However, this is not the hack I was looking for. I saw one around here recently, just can’t lay hands on it right now…

    ramblingsofjacobanddelos.com – Apocalypse West Quick Start

21. Aha! From Riccardo Lenzi​…and I’ve just noticed he already posted it. This is what happens when you start posting by mobile and have to put it away and then hours later remember to submit it.

22. Hi Tony, I pm-ed you regardin Cowboy World, which is playtest right now.

23. https://plus.google.com/114532354852541722890/posts/dpbwvp5RRqu

24. Here’s one we came up with and played. It’s mostly a reskin, but there are some new ideas too. It’s more Deadwood, Hell on Wheels, etc.

    https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B_dOIZGCUXGkTFpGTm5lbkNWYlE

25. Riccardo Lenzi Will need to try this out

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