I've been working on a secret project for a while now: a Wild West campaign setting for the
PFRPG. I'm calling it "Guns of the Western Kings" (formerly: "Gunslinger", but that is a little too close to some other trademarked names. Plus Pathfinder has since come out with an ill-conceived
class of the same name). Here's a picture I drew when I first came up with the idea about 4-5 years ago, which still gives a pretty good idea of what this whole thing is about:
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| (No longer called Gunslinger and no longer being developed for D&D 3.5) |
I thought maybe the best way to introduce you to the campaign setting was to tell you how my first playtest of it went. But first, I feel I should clear up a few things. This is a campaign setting for the PFRPG, not a new roleplaying game system. It uses the same rules and has many of the same races, classes, and monsters. It is not steampunk, it is not
Eberron, and it is not
Deadlands. It is an original fantasy world, not a magicked-up version of the late 19th century American West. The world of
GotWK is one of kings and presidents, dragons and locomotives, wizards and six-shooters.
But I'll tell you more about it later. For now, let's hear how the first play session went!