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<blockquote data-quote="S'mon" data-source="post: 1696944" data-attributes="member: 463"><p>Yes - inevitably the Western is always being reinvented for the current generation.&nbsp; A Roy Rogers Western may be as hard to relate to now as a Charlie Chaplin movie - though I've seen at least a few latre '40s/early '50s westerns that seemed much grittier &amp; truer-to-life than anything from the 1990s.&nbsp; Most of us these days don't want to play in a Western setting where all the goodies are white, the Injuns are subhuman fiends existing solely as disposable rifle-fodder, and blacks &amp; Mexicans don't exist.&nbsp; OTOH many of us don't want to play in a Western where the gentle Native Americans live in Harmony with Nature and the white settlers (apart from the required protagonist) are abhuman fiends existing solely to demonstrate the moral bankruptcy of western civilisation.&nbsp; It takes all sorts.&nbsp; <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile&nbsp; &nbsp; :)"&nbsp; data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /></p></blockquote><p></p>

[QUOTE="S'mon, post: 1696944, member: 463"] Yes - inevitably the Western is always being reinvented for the current generation. A Roy Rogers Western may be as hard to relate to now as a Charlie Chaplin movie - though I've seen at least a few latre '40s/early '50s westerns that seemed much grittier & truer-to-life than anything from the 1990s. Most of us these days don't want to play in a Western setting where all the goodies are white, the Injuns are subhuman fiends existing solely as disposable rifle-fodder, and blacks & Mexicans don't exist. OTOH many of us don't want to play in a Western where the gentle Native Americans live in Harmony with Nature and the white settlers (apart from the required protagonist) are abhuman fiends existing solely to demonstrate the moral bankruptcy of western civilisation. It takes all sorts. :) [/QUOTE]

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