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Message: <blockquote data-quote="mhacdebhandia" data-source="post: 4141921" data-attributes="member: 18832">I am being perfectly serious when I say that Deadwood will basically provide all the answers to your questions.Two of the main characters, Seth Bullock and Sol Star, have come to the gold miners' camp of Deadwood in order to open a hardware store catering to the miners and other townspeople. Later in the series they become friends with Charlie Utter, who runs a mail and package service between Deadwood and the nearest established population center. When an outbreak of smallpox occurs, the bigshots in the camp send a rider to the nearest outpost of the U.S. Army, hoping they'll have a vaccine available. The fact that Deadwood exists on land technically ceded to the Sioux by the United States government is a major plot point in the second season, since everyone wants the town annexed into the U.S.A. without having the miners' gold claims voided.The troubles and limitations of frontier existence in Deadwood are significant issues for the characters to deal with, and there's very little beyond things like telegraph lines and pistols which couldn't be replicated in a D&D setting. You'd have to handwave some things like the existence of mass-produced goods available to people like Bullock and Star - perhaps they simply import them from a distant city where they can afford to contract with individual blacksmiths to have tools and weapons made.</blockquote>