Western RPG system?

[Requia ☣]

One of my GMs is talking about getting a group together to do a western game, and I was wondering if anybody knew a system thats either already appropriate for that, or could be adapted with minimal issues.

[Phox]

Deadlands.1890's Cthulhu. GURPS.There maybe be some d20 Modern stuff that works too, but not sure.

[Cramulus]

assuming you guys are hip to d20 engine, you can find a lot of stuff by googling up "d20 old west"

in googling around myself, I found this game which sounded interesting. It's a homebrew RPG so you'd have to make the playing cards yourself, etc. http://www.1km1kt.net/rpg/dueling-papers-san-francisco-edition

Dueling Papers

In the 1860s San Francisco is emerging from an economic depression with the discovery of the Comstock silver lode in western Nevada. This boom will be richer and longer-lived than the California Gold Rush and began to make a real city out of San Francisco, and millionaires out of some of its citizens. The boom only fuels the justly deserved reputation for vice of every sort.

In the midst of this stand the Editors and their Newspapers; men of the highest ideals and passions who seek to make their influence felt throughout this growing city. None willing to back down, none willing to quite in this struggle of ideas leaving only one form of final arbitration: the Duel.

the rules look relatively simple

most of the game is about coming up with the weird stories your newspaper prints

and then dueling each other


sounds like a cool concept for a game

[Richter]

If you're looking for fantasy / steampunk Old West, there is Deadlands (out of print I think).  Had a few funny mechanics, such as using playing cards in place of dice, but the setting was pretty interesting.

There's likely a GURPS module for it, or at least relevant equipment and mechanics.  If you have to write you own content, I recomend the IRL antics of Jim Bowie, Wyatt Earp, and the Donner Party.

[Requia ☣]

Ill take a look at Deadlands.  GURPS isn't really appropriate for anything.

[Cain]

Delta Green.

It's like the X-Files meets the Cthulhu Mythos.

[Richter]

Ill take a look at Deadlands.  GURPS isn't really appropriate for anything.

Bullshit.

GURPS Black Ops and Discworld.

[Phox]

Delta Green.

It's like the X-Files meets the Cthulhu Mythos.

Only everyone's a crazy Viet Nam veteran in stead of a crazy FBI agent.

[Requia ☣]

Ill take a look at Deadlands.  GURPS isn't really appropriate for anything.

Bullshit.

GURPS Black Ops and Discworld.

The core of the GURPS system is the problem, and settings books can't fix that.

[Richter]

Granted, I'd play another system given a choice. 

For what it is though, the system has never been cause for me to say "No" to a game.  It's not perfect, but I have complaints about every RPG system I've run across.

[The Good Reverend Roger]

Deadlands.1890's Cthulhu. GURPS.There maybe be some d20 Modern stuff that works too, but not sure.

Aces & Eights, from Kenzer and Company.

It's complex as hell, but rewarding.  I mean, when you have a shootout in a bar, where DO all the stray rounds go?

TGRR,
Has killed the piano player, 2 hookers, the old prospector, and the bartender.  Scatterguns indoors.  Do Never.

[Phox]

Deadlands.1890's Cthulhu. GURPS.There maybe be some d20 Modern stuff that works too, but not sure.

Aces & Eights, from Kenzer and Company.

It's complex as hell, but rewarding.  I mean, when you have a shootout in a bar, where DO all the stray rounds go?

TGRR,
Has killed the piano player, 2 hookers, the old prospector, and the bartender.  Scatterguns indoors.  Do Never.

Totally looking that shit up. 

[Cain]

Delta Green.

It's like the X-Files meets the Cthulhu Mythos.

Only everyone's a crazy Viet Nam veteran in stead of a crazy FBI agent.

Which just adds to the fun.

Well, that and the possibility of the Mi-go anally probing your entire group at some point.

[Phox]

Delta Green.

It's like the X-Files meets the Cthulhu Mythos.

Only everyone's a crazy Viet Nam veteran in stead of a crazy FBI agent.

Which just adds to the fun.

Well, that and the possibility of the Mi-go anally probing your entire group at some point.

Oh most definitely. Paranoia + Top Notch Military Hardware always ends hilariously. 

[Richter]

Paranoia is one of my favorites.

Also, didn't mean to gank your list.  Didn't read back enough.