[Adamant Entertainment] Far West Design Journal

[GMSkarka]

Adamant Entertainment is working on our first non-d20 RPG, and I'm writing a design journal of the process.

The game, Far West, is a genre mash-up RPG -- A fantasy world, but not one based on Medieval/Dark Ages European tropes, but rather one based on the tropes of the spaghetti western and chinese wuxia. Add steampunk elements. Mix well.

It's The Gunslinger Born meets Storm Riders meets Afro Samurai meets Perdido Street Station meets Deadwood meets Brisco County meets House of Flying Daggers and more.

I've created a tag, so you can go specifically to the design entries, rather than just reading my general journal stuff:

http://gmskarka.livejournal.com/tag/farwest

You can get an RSS feed of the design journal entries here:

http://gmskarka.livejournal.com/data/rss?tag=farwest

 

[BadMojo]

The Press Release forum doesn't seem to get a whole lot of traffic, but I just wanted to stop in to say how completely, perfectly awesome this game sounds.

Gunslingin' wuxia action with some steampunk? Sign me up!

 

[FraserRonald]

Having read the design journals, I can only sit slack-jawed in amazement at the utter cool-osity of this idea. Knowing that it's coming from Adamant, we have a fair assurance of quality, which adds a whole other level of anticipation. It's like the brewmeister telling me about this awesome new beer, and it's in the vats (right over there), but you can't taste it yet.

Frustrating, but with a whole big aircraft carrier-sized dollop of hope.

Brew on, Adamant. I'm salivating like a Pavlovian dog.

 

[GMSkarka]

Thanks for the kind words! We're pretty excited about this over here, too.

A new entry in the journal just went up, by the way: http://gmskarka.livejournal.com/tag/farwest

 

[Klaus]

This is something I thought of doing for a long while (fantasy + western tropes). The added wuxia is just icing to the cake! Very well done, Gareth!

If you need art for it, please consider me!

 

[Piratecat]

Aquiver with anticipation.

And what a great logo; I saw it, and immediately knew what the game would be without reading your press release.

 

[GMSkarka]

Another entry has been posted, this time going into some detail about the setting of Far West:

http://gmskarka.livejournal.com/296762.html

 

[Klaus]

Neat stuff.

Regarding indigenous people, China had the barbarous mongols at their doorsteps, and even in Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon there was that "going into the desert" bit with the bandits, like the desert was a No Man's Land... which reminds me of the Far West (and the Gobi Desert was to the west of China). So you might take a look at horse-riding archer barbarian clans as an analogy to Amerindians.

 

[GMSkarka]

A new entry has been posted: http://gmskarka.livejournal.com/297777.html

This one deals with the systems for Combat and Showdowns.

 

[HalWhitewyrm]

Gareth, do you have an ballpark ETA for this game? Just curious.