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[Lejonel]

Hi all!

I just wanted to present myself to the typewriting monkey community before I lurk too long on the forums to forget about it.

To keep it short, I am a swedish (yes, blue flag with yellow cross, blond girls and *bleep*-ing ice ages every *bleep*-ing winter) gamer with a nasty habbit of starting up RPG-projects every once in a while. I never seem to get many of them finished/playable though.

I joined the 1KM1KT because I find you lot to be fantastically creative and I have enjoyed many hours reading games from the archives here. In addition, you all seem like a nice bunch of people so I thought: What the hell, let's make some new friends!

Currently I am working on an rpg set in a wild western-ish environment, but I try to avoid mentioning the west since I want to have the options to broaden the idea a bit without upsetting those expecting historical facts just because "the wild west" happens to be mentioned. Unfourtunately, I am stuck at game mechanics at the moment. I have a hard time figuring out how to bring out the spagetti western feeling so if anybody has any tips in that department I would gladly hear them!

Best regards,
Lejonel (or "Erik" if you ask my mother)

[Evil Scientist]

[Onix]

Hi Lejonel,

Maybe gunslinger is a general, non-geographic term that could be used? What is it about the spaghetti westerns that typify them for you? I have to be honest, although I'm in the US I was never a big cowboy aficionado so without knowing what you want out of it, I won't really know how to help. That said, the setting does have it's own brand of charm.

If CA comes around, he'll list off about half a dozen games to give you ideas.

In the meantime I'll throw out and hopefully it'll give you an idea or two.

[kumakami]

Wild west just refers to the american west portion of the victorian era. Good to have you, and hope to here (or read) more from you.

[J.K.Mosher]

So you thinking Clint Eastwood style action (ie Two Mules for Sister Sara/the Good, the Bad and the Ugly)
or more Tom Selleck style (Quigley Down Under), or John Wayne-ish action (the Bad Lands/ True Gritt)?

BTW; Welcome to the forums

[Lejonel]

[kumakami]

[Rubbermancer]

Cool, and welcome! I'm an Oslo fellow myself, so it's nice to see another Nordic around here.

[Groffa]

Välkommen!

[Chainsaw Aardvark]