http://mountzionpress.com/blog2 A General Store Of Old West RPG Resources Thu, 29 Oct 2009 12:43:16 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en "Behold a pale horse: and his name that sat on him was Death, and Hell followed with him" -Rev 6:8 -Johnny Ringo, translating the Mexican Priest. Tombstone (1993) is the mythological retellling of the conflict between the Cowboys and The Earps. It is a great movie, with many quoteable lines. While ... http://mountzionpress.com/blog2/2009/09/16/idea-mining-tombstone/ A well-dressed card sharp riffles a deck of cards and vanishes in a wisp of smoke. A man wearing a bowler with a mechanical monocle raises his hand and fires a smoke-belching contraption that blankets the street with beetles. A dour-faced preacher--bible in one hand, Colt Navy in the ... http://mountzionpress.com/blog2/2009/08/31/deadlands-reloaded/ Previous post in this series include game prep: brainstorming, game prep: npc creation, AP 1st session, AP 2nd session. Dust Devils Revenged. Chimera Creative. Matt Snyder. 2007. 116 pages. Digest sized. Get it while the getting is still good. Below is an email I received from ... http://mountzionpress.com/blog2/2009/08/06/dust-devils-revenged-a-review/ The player for Andrew Wagner (now a Deputy Marshal) couldn't join us as he was a one-night guest, but one of our regulars joined us and created a character. Jess Warner In a freak twist of fate, a stray bullet from Levi Oden's gun killed Jess's mother. Though just 16, he ... http://mountzionpress.com/blog2/2009/08/06/dust-devils-ap-2nd-session/ "See the Elephant" Andy Adams left the family farm in Indiana and headed west in the Early 1880s. For 10 years he was a working cowboy up and down the Great Western Cattle Trail. Who better, then, to give a first-hand account of what life was like in the ... http://mountzionpress.com/blog2/2009/07/29/see-the-elephant/ We jumped right into character creation and I described the conflict rules as we went--relating them to the particular stat at each step. The only restriction I gave them was that the characters were all hunting Levi Oden. I left it up to them the hows and whys. I ... http://mountzionpress.com/blog2/2009/07/27/dust-devils-ap-1st-session/ My players will be on the trail of Levi Oden, a fugitive from Justice. I haven't decided if they are all working together, probably not. Here are the important supporting characters. Horace Abernathy, Marshal of Redding Mid-thirites. believes he's found the perfect set-up as a do-nothing lawman. Hell, so long as ... http://mountzionpress.com/blog2/2009/07/24/57/ What's Going on Here I am running a two-session game of Dust Devils Revenged starting Saturday. I haven't really done any prep and I'm not using pregens, so I thought it might be interesting to blog the whole experience from Game Prep through AP to a review of Dust Devils ... http://mountzionpress.com/blog2/2009/07/24/dust-devils-ap-prep-brainstorming/ "John C. H. Grabill sent one hundred and eighty eight photographs to the Library of Congress between the years 1887 and 1892. This collection is considered the premier collection of western frontier photography in the United States today. Known for their gritty realism, these sepia-toned windows to the ... http://mountzionpress.com/blog2/2009/07/21/first-hand-views/ For my last Deadlands game I detailed the fictional town of Melody Colorado. I played around with some of the details, but it partially replaces Walsenburg Colorado, the county seat of Huerfano County. I choose Huerfano Co., despite never having been there, because it was along a cattle ... http://mountzionpress.com/blog2/2009/07/16/melody-colorado/