Wild West (role-playing game)

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Wild West is a role-playing game published by Fantasy Games Unlimited in 1981.

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Description

Wild West is a Western system of skill-based character rules. [1] The game includes 45 skills, cross-referenced to indicate where they add to each other in determining a character's chance of success, plus rules for employment, gambling, dynamite, horses, cattle drives, mule trains, stage lines, railroads, the military, and the Indians. [1] Dodge City is briefly described as a campaign setting, and the game also includes a map of the Old West. [1]

Publication history

Wild West was designed by Anthony P. LeBoutillier and Gerald D. Seypura, and was published in 1981 by Fantasy Games Unlimited as a boxed set with a 40-page book, a large map, and four reference sheets. [1]

The adventure Trouble on Widow's Peak was published in 1984.

Reception

W.G. Armintrout reviewed Wild West in The Space Gamer No. 52. [2] Armintrout commented that "Wild West is OK in my book - the good basic system makes up for the lack of polish. It is worth looking into." [2]

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References

  1. 1 2 3 4 Schick, Lawrence (1991). Heroic Worlds: A History and Guide to Role-Playing Games. Prometheus Books. p. 401. ISBN   0-87975-653-5.
  2. 1 2 Armintrout, W.G. (June 1982). "Capsule Reviews". The Space Gamer . Steve Jackson Games (52): 31.
  3. ↑ "Different Worlds Magazine".
  4. ↑ https://archive.org/details/completeguidetor0000swan/page/236/mode/2up
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