Wild West d20?

[Yellow Sign]

I just ran across a old Boot Hill character and I begin to wonder. Is there any Wild West d20 rules out there? I mean a true Wild West game with fast draw rules and such. Not a magic/western game like Deadlands.

 

[2WS-Steve]

Sidewinder by Citizen games should fit the bill.

 

[tensen]

I think you can strip the magic out of Deadlands.. But I'd probably recommend Sidewinder.

 

[aurin777]

Deadlands d20 will work fine. When they converted it to d20, they messed up the whole magic system anyway. Once the cards were gone out of the game, the game lost its flare, in my opinion.
~~~Brandon (who no longer plays Deadlands)

 

[Yellow Sign]

I agree. The cards in the old Deadlands system was a wonderful idea and we all enjoyed the heck out of it when we played.

 

[Neo]

I agree. The cards in the old Deadlands system was a wonderful idea and we all enjoyed the heck out of it when we played.

I've heard this exact stement about how taking the cards out of the magic system ruined it from dozens of people, but as someone who never played their non d20 version I don't really get the significance of the statment.

Can someone let me know how the cards factored intot eh original Deadlands magic system and why it was so good please?

Perhaps their is a way to reintegrate the original cards into a D20 scope?

 

[trancejeremy]

Ugh. The old Deadlands magic system was basically the player making a die roll, then drawing 5 cards and making a poker hand.

Flavorful, maybe, but annoying in practice. You always had to look things up in the book to see if the poker hand was good enough to cast it.

 

[Yellow Sign]

I never played a magic using character in Deadlands so I don't know about that but I loved getting cards for inituative. It was just the flavor of the game using poker cards and chips in the game that really did it for me.

 

[Falanor]

This is my favorite Wild West game Sidewinder D20

 

[Zenon]

I mean a true Wild West game with fast draw rules and such. Not a magic/western game like Deadlands.

Sidewinder by Citizen Games fits the bill perfectly for what you want - it really does have that old Boot Hill feel.

http://www.citizengames.com/wildwest.htm

and they have a MasterScreen insert which will let you check out how they handle some things:

http://www.citizengames.com/sidewinder.pdf

A short summary of the Fast Draw round is on there.

Enjoy!