Sidewinder: Recoiled

[JPL]

...yeah, I'm buying that. I'm a d20 Modern junkie.

Rub a little "Blood and Fists" on it, and you can play Kwai Chang Caine.

Two possible approaches I like:

1. A freewheelin' Brisco County Jr.-type campaign. The heroes encounter steamtech, pulpy bad guys, time travellers, and aliens.

2. I just rented "The Dirty Dozen" and "The Magnificent Seven", so I'm thinking in terms of "action hero teamup." Each of the characters is iconic and larger-than-life...or at least very colorful. Plenty of "slow walk" scenes a la Tombstone, where a handful of heroes walk into battle against vastly great odds. Living legends.

I'd love to have someone play the scary Mexican knife-thrower from "Desperado"...

 

[takyris]

Bah, what a boring idea, I can't possible imagBRISCO!!!!

Okay, I'm sold. Where do I sign?

Dude, I loved that show.

(sigh)

 

[JPL]

Bah, what a boring idea, I can't possible imagBRISCO!!!!

Okay, I'm sold. Where do I sign?

Dude, I loved that show.

(sigh)

It's really too bad that "Wild Wild West" poisoned the idea of Western Steampunk for many of us.

Yeah, I remember being 19 and a freshman at college and hanging out with my fellow nerds on a Friday night watching the man-god called Bruce Campbell...

 

[BrooklynKnight]

Heh, that man rocks.

 

[JPL]

Heh, that man rocks.

Indeed.

The plan for my new gaming group is that each of us will take a turn as GM of a different campaign, and each GM will supply pregen player characters

For the Brisco campaign, I'd feel comfortable throwing in that wandering Shaolin, a Pinkerton detective, the tinkerer, maybe a former circus strongman...just a weird bunch of guys.

For the Iconic campaign, I'd start with the James Coburn character from "Magnificent Seven" --- so fast he can throw a knife quicker than you can shoot a gun, so deadly that his only competition is himself. Maybe add the world's greatest long-range shooter, a la "Quigley Down Under." Maybe a former slave turned Buffalo Soldier. And a mysterious Clint Eastwood "Man with No Name."

 

[Max]

the Iconic campaign, I'd start with the James Coburn character from "Magnificent Seven" --- so fast he can throw a knife quicker than you can shoot a gun, so deadly that his only competition is himself. Maybe add the world's greatest long-range shooter, a la "Quigley Down Under." Maybe a former slave turned Buffalo Soldier. And a mysterious Clint Eastwood "Man with No Name."

All great choices for Iconic's. You've got the knife, rifle, and pistol covered. I'd say you need a brawler and a tracker to round out the bunch. Fun game ideas, although I'm as big a Brisco fan as others are. Recoiled is going to be great for both types of games.

Max

 

[JPL]

All great choices for Iconic's. You've got the knife, rifle, and pistol covered. I'd say you need a brawler and a tracker to round out the bunch. Fun game ideas, although I'm as big a Brisco fan as others are. Recoiled is going to be great for both types of games.

Max

A tracker and a brawler would be great, too. In fact, the freed slave could just as easily be a bareknuckles boxing champ rather than a Buffalo Soldier. And a Native American tracker would work fine.

[I thought about a Chinese railroad worker as one of the iconics...a 5'2" Tough Hero 10, hard as nails...but I'm not sure it works]

I'm thinking about a gambler, too. But more Maverick than Kenny Rodgers.

And maybe a fire-and-brimstone Southern Baptist preacher / Confederate vet.

In the Brisco game, I think I could get away with a master of the whip [using the lasher prestige class from Sword and Fists]. One of the players played a Spanish whipmaster in my Victorian one-shot last year...sounded just like Antonio Banderas...maybe this is his Mexican cousin.

I'd love to do a character who mainly threw knives, but in the iconic game I think he would just be someone who was great at knives as a byproduct of having a 20 Dexterity and Improved Initiative and Quick Draw and so forth...stuff that would carry over to a gunfight. In the Magnificent Seven, Coburn's knifeplay was mainly to demonstrate that he was the deadliest of a deadly bunch...it wasn't something he did exclusively.

In the Brisco campaign...isn't there some kind of knife-thrower class in Complete Warrior? I think that game world would be forgiving enough to tolerate a guy who threw knives even when the shooting started.

 

[JPL]

Sadly, the PDF has been pushed back a few weeks.

Maybe some of the Sidewinder guys will stroll by and answer a few questions. I'd like to know what the options are for advanced classes, f'rinstance.

I'll go knock on their door...

 

[Geoff]

Sadly, the PDF has been pushed back a few weeks.

Maybe some of the Sidewinder guys will stroll by and answer a few questions. I'd like to know what the options are for advanced classes, f'rinstance.

I'll go knock on their door...

Your knock was heard loud and clear pilgrim. Let the bullets ('er questions) fly and I'll answer them the best I can.

 

[JPL]

Your knock was heard loud and clear pilgrim. Let the bullets ('er questions) fly and I'll answer them the best I can.

Howdy, Geoff.

Tell me about the advanced classes. I know from the previews that there's a rifleman.