I built a one-shot around this idea on a heavily-modded Tiny D6 system, letting people choose which of the 4 they wanted to be with variants like wealthy or scientific Victorian, captain or gunner pirate, disgraced or retired Samurai, cattle driver or 49’er, and so forth. I set it in San Francisco to get some good conflux of cultures.
Of my 4 players, 3 of them chose to be rich Victorians. facepalm
“Gunslinger” is largely going to be after 1865, after the US Civil War. Revolvers as we know them in the old west only existed after the 1850s. The first revolvers that you would call a revolver would be about 1835. So you don’t really have the overlap for French privateer, unless it’s a former privateer.
…i think that’s why it says elderly french pirate: he was formidable in his youth, but that was four decades ago…
(revolvers may rule the day but a well-timed flintlock will still f*ck you up)
Cool idea, except the pirates wouldn’t be part of it cuz the era you’re calling the “old west” didn’t start in 1800 - westward expansion was in its early beginnings then. The classic era of gunslingers and saloons and stuff was really a very brief period between the Civil War and the 1890s. Another forgotten bit of trivia about that time is that around 25% of cowboys then were black.
Was that the samurai that sent a fax to Abraham Lincoln?
Is that an event that occured?
don’t think so but it could have. the fax machine was patented in 1843, 22 years before Lincoln was shot, although the first commercial service was started up the same year he died.
There were gentleman thieves in the west too https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Bart_(outlaw)
I imagine he worked something like this
There’s a cowboy in Dracula
…that’s exactly where my imagination went first, and then onward to the league of extraordinary gentlemen, and then i started brainstorming elements for my eberron campaign…
Or you play a system that has build a world where the age of exploration, king Arthur, the Russian revolution, the hanseatic league, the itialian city states, the spanish inquisition, and much more are all happening at the same time.
7th Sea has some wacky world building, but it stays realistic enough to be quite believable and coherent.
I was going to guess Rifts because I’ve heard crazy things about their setting, too.
RIFTS is set in the future, 300 years after an apocalypse brought magic back to earth
It’s fantasy + sci fi
