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Message: <blockquote data-quote="John Morrow" data-source="post: 2188301" data-attributes="member: 27012">It's a bit of both, with lots of other influences.My group has played a few pure Wild West games and there are some destinct genre differences having to do with the Sheriff motiff (the players often get sucked into being the Sheriff in Wild West games), guns and gunfights (one-on-one combat and ranged combat being the norm), the lack of magical healing, due process and a modern sense of law and justice, and the fact that Indians, Mexicans, and bandits are never quite inhuman monsters that can be slaughtered without empathy the way many fantasy monsters are.  So while there are strong similarities in some of the regards that you've mentioned, there are also a lot of strong differences.</blockquote>