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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Max" data-source="post: 2011336" data-attributes="member: 1424">Sidewinder: Recoiled is the excellent western role playing game from Dog House Rules (DHR), using the d20 Modern rules.  They have launched The Fort Griffin Echo (FGE) to provide additional information, optional rules, and other interesting western information.  According to the information on their forums, there will be three or four issues of the FGE per year although the schedule will be irregular.  The first issue is free.  To date, they have not announced pricing for future issues.The Fort Griffin Echo is laid out somewhat like the old newspaper it is based upon.  There are five articles and one editorial, along with "advertisements" pulled from the pages of yester-year.  The old ads can be quite humorous, and may remind you of the spam you get in your email.  "Dr. Pareira's Great Italian Remedy -- For the certain and speedy cure of diseases of a private nature ... It has never failed ..."  Yep, there was spam even in the old West.  The adds are mostly small, and so do not cut down on the useful gaming information much at all.Page 1 is an introduction, that explains what the old FGE was and what the new FGE has within its pages.Page 2 is an editorial, in which the editor explains why Fort Griffin was chosen, over other more famous western towns such as Tombstone or Dodge.The Weapon Report is found on pages 3-5.  This regular column will bring in optional rules and additional weapon stats, over and above what is found in the Recoiled rules.  This column includes optional misfire rules and two new weapons that use them. For those who like to have detailed misfire rules, this column will be very useful.  They have extensive options to choose from.  Council Fires brings to life the Comanche, on pages 6 through 23.  One often repeated criticism of the Sidewinder: Recoiled rules is they do not have much information about the various Indian tribes that lived throughout the west.  Of course, there are so many Indian cultures to choose from, that doing any of them justice in a book already huge by PDF standards would have been difficult.  The Council Fires column is the answer to those calls.  There is a timeline of major events in the history of the Comanche, and details on the tribal organization and culture.  Also included are two Prestige Classes specifically for the Comanche, personal information and stats for two famous Comanche chiefs, and stats for ordinary and heroic Comanche NPC's.  Reportedly there will be a new Indian tribe detailed in each FGE.The Way It Was provides a reprint of an actual news article, detailing a robbery and murder that occurred in 1881. The short article provides some insight into the life in the old west.  The DHR gang has taken it a step further in White Hats/Black Hats, and taken the people from the news story and created backgrounds and stats for them so you can use them as NPC's in a Recoiled game.  There are eight NPC's presented, some heroic and some ordinary.  This issue details good guys, the next issue will detail some kind of outlaw gang.The final gaming section is called Cinema Styles.  This is a lighthearted look at western movies, and some of the feats & equipment that must have existed for those movie cowboys to survive.  These are darn funny, I must say.  From the "Offscreen Reloading" feat (you can reload as a free action as long as no one is looking), to The Man With No Name's "Poncho of Protection", they are all good for a laugh or two.Lastly, we have the obligatory 2 pages of OGC and OGL legal stuff.  The final page is a wanted poster.Overall, the writing in the FGE is clear and easy to follow.  The information provided begins to fill some gaps that existed in the base Recoiled rules.  Future information about Indian tribes and weapons will be especially nice.  I've given the FGE a 4/5, as not all of the articles will be useful to everyone.  Although all the articles are well written and interesting to read some may not want misfire rules, others may not be running a game in Texas and so the Comanche information won't come into play in their game.  However, considering this initial issue is free it is a "must download" for anyone playing Recoiled, or just interested in the Old West.</blockquote>

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