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<blockquote data-quote="GreyLord" data-source="post: 9134658" data-attributes="member: 4348"><p>My thoughts on the entire Western RPGs being made. It's funny about how people are saying a Western RPG would not be popular.</p><p></p><p>D&D IS a Western RPG. It's a Western in everything but weapons and appearances. It has the veneer of Historical fantasy about it centering on the Medieval and Renaissance, but looking past that it is completely a Western. AD&D quintripled down (probably more) on this idea.</p><p></p><p>Medieval Europe was not a place that you'd go out adventuring, have one on one combats as a party, and then go and get some land, develop it and have it as your own. That's the American West. You have a group of cowboys (adventurers) that go protect the land and then perhaps eventually set up a homestead of their own.</p><p></p><p>The ideals of the Western (whether a sci-fi show like Wagon Train to the Stars, or a Fantasy like D&D, or even Space Opera like the the Man in a funny armored suit and never or rarely takes off his helmet who protects the alien baby) seems to appeal to the American (or more specifically, United States and Canadian citizens) regardless of the face paint that's placed on top of it. </p><p></p><p>It may be that the historical context of 60 years is true, but the ideas that were portrayed in American (or, I kind of love the Spaghetti) Westerns seem to have had quite the appeal for decades beyond that.</p><p></p><p>Even now D&D is somewhat about going after that "American" Dream where a nobody rises up to wealth and power to become a somebody.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="GreyLord, post: 9134658, member: 4348"] My thoughts on the entire Western RPGs being made. It's funny about how people are saying a Western RPG would not be popular. D&D IS a Western RPG. It's a Western in everything but weapons and appearances. It has the veneer of Historical fantasy about it centering on the Medieval and Renaissance, but looking past that it is completely a Western. AD&D quintripled down (probably more) on this idea. Medieval Europe was not a place that you'd go out adventuring, have one on one combats as a party, and then go and get some land, develop it and have it as your own. That's the American West. You have a group of cowboys (adventurers) that go protect the land and then perhaps eventually set up a homestead of their own. The ideals of the Western (whether a sci-fi show like Wagon Train to the Stars, or a Fantasy like D&D, or even Space Opera like the the Man in a funny armored suit and never or rarely takes off his helmet who protects the alien baby) seems to appeal to the American (or more specifically, United States and Canadian citizens) regardless of the face paint that's placed on top of it. It may be that the historical context of 60 years is true, but the ideas that were portrayed in American (or, I kind of love the Spaghetti) Westerns seem to have had quite the appeal for decades beyond that. Even now D&D is somewhat about going after that "American" Dream where a nobody rises up to wealth and power to become a somebody. [/QUOTE]
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