We’re starting a Boot Hill 3rd Edition game. We have 2 players ready to start and we’re inviting more. Here’s the rundown.
If you don’t know Boot Hill 3E, no problem. We’ll be learning together. And the system is not especially complex. Here’s a good overview of how to get started in the game. https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Ym8 ... pyu8/edit#
Posting twice per week, or more often if you can. GM will general post the same day when all of the players posts are in.
The game will be faithful to the real historical Wild West as possible. More like “Lonesome Dove,” “Outlaw Jose Wales” than “The Good, the Bad and the Ugly” or “A Fistful of Dollars.” (Although those are great movies!)
Players will start at 1st Level.
The setting will be Texas, 1873. Six years after the end of the Civil War.
Unfortunately, PCs playing lone drifters isn’t workable. (GM doesn’t have the time needed to run solo games). The PCs need to be in a group, as with most RPG games. The players will decide on an occupation for their group. Examples:
Bounty hunters and/or guns for hire
Outlaws – maybe like the James Gang or the Hole in the Wall Gang
Cowboys on cattle drives – likely more dangerous and exciting than it sounds
Texas Rangers – Indian fighters and outlaw hunters
Comanches or U.S. Army – lots of combat, but probably not very interesting otherwise
Ranching family – Cattle punching, herd-defending brothers and their dad (and NPC mom. Or someone can play Ma, if they want. She’s probably pretty good with a Long Tom shotgun).
The game page is here. https://www.unseenservant.us/forum/viewforum.php?f=1326 More on the setting is below.
~~~Game Setting~~~
Texas, 1873. The Civil War ended six years ago, and peace in the land should prevails again. But the war veterans who returned to Texas found the cattle herds gone to wild. And businesses closed down and not many paying jobs. Soldiers from other states and territories found themselves in similar situations upon their return, and many set their sites on trying their luck on the frontier. Regrettably, some of these men found that they are averse riding behind a dusty herd, pushing a plow, or breaking much of a sweat at all. Many of them have turned to cattle rustling, horse thieving, or plain robbery and banditry.
Others have put their weaponry skills to work as bounty hunting, working as hired guns, or itinerant gambling (usually also known as card cheating). All very dangerous occupations.
Yet others have become lawmen sworn-in to uphold the laws of the State of Texas. To try to keep order in the town, bring outlaws and desperadoes in for justice if possible-- and if not, apply justice in the field. Unfortunately, the pay is low and risk to life and limb is high. There's just not enough of these peace officers, distances between them tends to be very far.
And of course, there are always the Comanches and the Kiowa. It was a good five years during the war, during which time the Comanches expanded their empire, drove out their hereditary enemy tribes, and further strengthened themselves as the lords of the southern plains. But the U.S. Army soldiers are back, and they're building more and more forts. And there are more and more Texans, and they're better armed than before. Some of them are bold and foolish enough to try to drive their cattle herds, bust sod, or even lay railroads on the Comanches' buffalo prairie. Many soon learn to regret it.
And if that's not enough, there are the rustlers, horse thieves, and bandidos crossing the Rio Grande from Mexico. And of course the Texas versions of the same crossing into Mexico.
There are lots of guns in Texas, 1873 – and lots of reasons to use them.
We'll learn as we go along. I was considering Savage Worlds, but one of the players wanted to go with BH. And I figured, if people are going to have to learn a new system, why not have them do that for most well-known game for the genre? So as to be more likely to be able to reuse the knowledge in the future.
