Mister Yuk wrote in The Non-TSR Recent Fun Finds thread:Couldn't Blazing Saddles have been enough for an Old West one?
mbassoc2003 wrote in The Non-TSR Recent Fun Finds thread:Maybe because the Wild West has never attracted any quality writers.
Mister Yuk wrote in The Non-TSR Recent Fun Finds thread:Think you can insert that too into why whole industries don't cater to fan interest when fans will surely cough up their money as fast as anyone else.
Mister Yuk wrote in The Non-TSR Recent Fun Finds thread:I see your point but we wouldn't have played that. I'm not meaning to unload on anyone (pun intended), I have significant Indian heritage and that would have been more of, at least, my game. The person that taught me to play D&D had similar (conquistador) family background. We would have made a game very different from its sources just like we did with D&D. The old west has everything D&D has if you use everything including Chinese and many other culture's mythologies that flocked to this country during that time period. It would have been bad guy of the week for a little while, but it wouldn't have been long.
ZardokhasSpoken wrote in The Non-TSR Recent Fun Finds thread:I wasn't trying to offend, just pointing out the most common tropes. Obviously other races and cultures played a role in the Wild West, and they would contribute to such a game, but still the game would boil down to shoot-outs, middle of the street duels, racial clashes over territory/treasure, good guys with guns vs bad guys with guns.
benjoshua wrote in The Non-TSR Recent Fun Finds thread:One trope that is often over-looked, and surprised me the first time I heard it, is that about one-fourth of all cowboys were black/African American. You certainly don't get that impression from most wild west movies.
mbassoc2003 wrote in The Non-TSR Recent Fun Finds thread: The idea of exploring political power, economic struggle, murder mystery, or gothic horror for example is not something the majority are willing to consider Wild West roleplaying. Of course if those are explored they expand the game, but also pull it into the orbit of other games like Cthulhu, and whilst you may be able to sell Wild West Cthulhu to the Cthulhu crowd, they aren't buying it because it is Wild West, but because it is horror, the same way a D&D player will buy an expedition into an Egyptian tomb, not because it is Egyptian, but because it is D&D.What the Wild West genre needs is fans who care, and are willing to work at improving the game. Without those, they do not deserve, nor will ever get, investment from the talents in the RPG space, and the publishers who influence them.
Mister Yuk wrote in The Non-TSR Recent Fun Finds thread: during that game was allowed to do only one action with my PC.
Mister Yuk wrote in The Non-TSR Recent Fun Finds thread:Want an action movie? This guy made one for $7K.El Mariachi (1993) - Rotten Tomatoes
sauromatian wrote in The Non-TSR Recent Fun Finds thread:Of all the things that turn people away from D&D, that happens far too often.
Mister Yuk wrote in The Non-TSR Recent Fun Finds thread:Want an action movie? This guy made one for $7K.
sauromatian wrote in The Non-TSR Recent Fun Finds thread: More-or-less true, but after it was picked up by the film industry it was given at least $100K of technical makeovers (sound & editing), plus all the money spent on promotion & distribution.