An Introduction to Fantasy in the Wild, Weird West [cc]
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- čas přidán 10. 09. 2024
- not about the game weird west. the genre weird west. but wild. and west.
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An Introduction to Wild West Fantasy [cc]
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Get ready to dive into the Wild West world of tabletop fantasy! In this video, we'll introduce you to this exciting genre and show you how to bring your own wild west fantasy adventures to life. From cowboys to magic, get ready to mix things up in your next gaming session.
Get ready to ride into a wild west fantasy adventure! In this video, we'll introduce you to the world of tabletop gaming and how it combines the excitement of the wild west with the magic of fantasy. So grab your dice and saddle up for an epic journey unlike any other!
Step into a world of cowboys, gunslingers, and magic in this introduction to wild west fantasy. Discover the exhilarating world of tabletop gaming in this genre and learn how to create your own adventures in the untamed American West. Get ready to ride off into the sunset with this exciting new genre! (Closed captioning available)
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My thoughts exactly
My dm has his own homebrew world that is a fantasy wild west kind of world, but that's because the continent that most of the games happen on is basically an independent nation made from a couple city states, run mostly by the corporations based out of the northern part of that continent. The reason for this is that the "old world" didn't find the resources they wanted, and left, leaving behind infrastructure and people to deal with it on their own, and eventually people found a way through the mountains into the southern part of that continent which was rich in resources, this caused the boom of the corporations taking over, and the rise of hiring gunslingers to protect their interests. (All this is what I've gathered from the world and storytelling rather than being told all this.)
Magic does exist in this world, but isn't widespread, this is because you have to be born with a magical power instead of learning it from books. To the average citizen magic is fairytales and not real.
Bullets can end you in a single shot if you're unlucky, but mages have a slight advantage depending on their power. One of my characters had the ability to grow scales that could withstand most firearms and blades, but when the magic wore off the scales fell off and he was significantly more vulnerable to damage. Pros and cons. Eventually he died from a bullet fired by a bounty hunter with a large caliber rifle that could shoot through his scales. He went out like most gunslingers, by a bullet, because he was a little too effective, but such is life on the continent of Novus.
A D&D Wild West setting sounds freaking awesome. Do you have a website or something where you’ve posted your world’s lore, because I would freaking love to read about it.
It genuinely blows my mind how much untapped potential there is even in just the function of the guns
You could have bullets handcrafted to take down any manner of fantastical creature or deliver any kind of magical effect, all loaded into a machine that fires them in a set order- that's _insane_ worldbuilding and gameplay fodder just left on the table
I like your point about descriptions of magic attacks being less compelling than physical ones. I'm writing a ttrpg in which has no magic that directly deals damage. its always more narratively compelling to stab someone with a sword than snipe them with eldritch blast from 400 feet away, and blue-bolt magic is super lame and overdone imo
I adore seeing your writing advice, and ttrpg advice. Putting into words similar opinions and the vibes of storytelling.
Also the world warping currency is such a fun idea that I include.
Keep up the good work my fellow enby.
(Extra side note hell yes hunting racists and messing with the gov in a campaign)
One of the cool things about the wild western era is the introduction of repeating firearms and metallic cartridges, which makes gunfight a lot intense and some people showing off dexterity by doing fancy fast shooting tricks with them.
the call of juarez bit is an amazing call-- ive been running a weird west flip on BitD (fistful of darkness) and the 'grit' (stress) points are a LOT of fun to recontextualize in that same sense. fast pace and 'skip to the action' mentality compliment the perception of the west well. definitely will be taking on a few of these points though :) keep up the good work
I think its a great idea for a series, talking about archetypes of settings and what you like about them
I've ran an 1800s and early 1900s era fantasy setting for years and its extremely fun! good video.
8:48 Finally someone says it! I've had so many people tell me that DS3 has such a great story, but in reality if they hadn't watched Vatividya for 5 hours they'd be totally lost.
It's because the nature of FromSoft games, people who played them have this odd fixation of being hardcore that they literally excuse the game shortcomings or lacking a pause button.
I assure you 95% of people who played FromSoft games prob didnt know how to access Artorias DLC, save Solaire in general.
That's projection more than anything
Some people do in fact like to read item descriptions, or enjoy the communal aspect of piecing together information
Also it's less the plot that anyone praises about those games(which is generally pretty threadbare and just a vehicle for your own experiences), but the background lore of the setting
the lore is meh but the visual storytelling gets your mind churning. idk if i'd call it a "story", but its a great experience, which the medium lends itself to very well.
I really like the idea of an all undead party looking for revenge. You can also use that to get around the "1 shot and your hero's dead forever" idea if you're not interested in that from a gameplay perspective. An undead put down can be brought back up if helped up by one of their allies maybe? You can use Destiny / Destiny 2 style revive mechanics. The only way one of them really dies is if the whole party dies.
Witcher with a gun yeehaw.
Fuck me. I think we all here are somewhat frustrated writers. Either ones who have never started writing at all due to impostor syndrome (me) or those who have written, but never actually published anything.
But this video, this particular video, is hitting way too close for me. Being a gamer and a spaghetti western fan, the mix between The Witcher archetype in a weird west setting has been on my mind for WAAAAY too long. There is something so captivating at that. In my defense I still have to read some of the classics on the genre (Blood Meridian by McArthy, and The Dark Tower saga by King are currently on my list), but this video is gonna be of great help for my upcoming project.
Thank you, and fuck you. Both at the same time ahahahah
Make a 5 pages long history and polish on a week!
@@mateusfelipecardoso40kview3 I appreciate the advice! Before actually beginning to write anything Ive wondered myself "how much do I actually want to write?" Will a couple hundred pages suffice? Will I need a whole saga spanning hundreds of years? Dont know. I do have a vague idea of the type of world I want to set it in.
But yeah, I guess the easiest way to start is to just start small. Write short stories and maybe compile them together to get something in the works. Maybe later even expand on them, or even shorten them.
Again, thank you for your kind advice!
Foundation started this way a compilation of short stories!@@yayedu
1:48 Antonio conselheiro history would fit in this style!
You should check out the Malifaux setting, and it’s accompanying TTRPG Through the Breach
By far my favorite weird west setting and, as someone with notoriously bad rolls, a cool card flip mechanic instead of rolls
I LOVE CALL OF JUAREZ GUNSLINGER SO MUCH! ITS ONE OF MY FAVOURITE GAMES AND I FINALLY SEE IT MENTIONED! YES!
A good example of western fantasy is Red Country by Joe Abercrombie. While in the setting firearms are in their infancy the story still draws really heavily on old western tales. Travelers crossing dangerous plains and frontier mining towns.
I have a fey realm in my modern magic setting that's explicitly the metaphysical manifestation of the romanticized Wild West. All the tropes are played absolutely to the hilt. It's the Fey, what do you expect?
Game shouldn't tell a story, it should help me create a new one.
Quick weird question, does your avatar has a little chinbeard or is just shadow ? Either way hit if i could
the micha video is probably going to kill me
also good vibeo!
Would Hunt: Showdown count as a weird west game?
What do you think?
Does golden Kamuy count as a fantasy western because it has wild goose for a large pile of gold, but it has imperial Japanese soldiers working together with Ainu hunters to survive the outskirts of an early Hokkaido.
11:48 I can't read that goddangit, your 'watch this video!'-window is in the way.
What's it say?
revenge........... graaaahhh.......
Regarding magic vs physical attack descriptions, detailed descriptions of attacks in RPGs are overrated in general unless you're limiting it to the final hit on a boss or something. There's only so many ways to describe "I hit them with my sword" and player characters are going to exceed that number by the tens or even hundreds of basic attacks.
Even in novels, the best written fight scenes are usually the ones that are a little breezy with how the action is described instead of recounting every cut and parry exhaustively.
something someting stephen king dark tower
So sure. I get what you mean when you talk about the roots of racism. But keep in mind that at the time phrenology was considered science and people would measure the heads of people to see how low they were, the white people _of course_ being the highest kind of people. I think in general it's fair to say racism is based on ignorance in many different forms.
Please unban. I am sorry. Truly. @cassius
I will do anything to be unbanned. for the love of god please.