Quote from: finarvyn;789536Let's call this "Boot Hill Diceless RPG."

I think that the western genre could lend itself to a diceless rpg format.

If I created a Western game it would need to include

i) Rules for coolness under fire
ii) A Traveller style lifepath Chargen
iii) A raise system for initiative - something like (off the top of my head)
   * You draw an unrevealed card
   * You "bet" on that card with the chips being an action pool or similar
   * You can raise and reraise that pool
   * the Highest bet acts first but the card you drew affects the action pool you have left
iv) stats for all the movie Wild West figures rather than the real ones

Quote from: jibbajibba;789855If I created a Western game it would need to include

i) Rules for coolness under fire
ii) A Traveller style lifepath Chargen
iii) A raise system for initiative - something like (off the top of my head)
   * You draw an unrevealed card
   * You "bet" on that card with the chips being an action pool or similar
   * You can raise and reraise that pool
   * the Highest bet acts first but the card you drew affects the action pool you have left
iv) stats for all the movie Wild West figures rather than the real ones

If I recall correctly, the first of these and something similar to the second are in Aces & Eights.

As someone who has spent most of his life in Texas, New Mexico and Oklahoma, I am always curious (and usually amused) at what people think these places are really like.

For a game, it will all boil down to what look and feel you are shooting for...pun intended...  Are you wanting Classical Hollywood westerns like Stage Coach or Rio Bravo or Red River, Spaghetti westerns like The Good, the Bad and the Ugly, Modern westerns like Open Range, something more realistic, or something including the  paranormal (Jonah Hex)?

For career paths, what would you want in there?  Doc Holliday was a freaking dentist with an aptitude for killing. Bat Masterson grew up on a farm, apprenticed as a surveyor, hunted buffalo, became a lawman, and then retired as a sports writer in New York City.  Wyatt Earp also farmed, studied law, hunted buffalo, became a lawman, spent many years as a dilettante to his rich common-law wife, and ended his days as a movie consultant in Hollywood.

I'd think what you'd need is some kind of random or semi-random "shit you've done" thing, where careers wouldn't be so much like character class, as they would be experiences that you take away skills or bonuses from, depending on how long you've done each of them.

So maybe something Traveller-esque.

Quote from: RPGPundit;789845I think that the western genre could lend itself to a diceless rpg format.

Please write this. Please.

Quote from: Brad;790780Please write this. Please.

Well, you never know...