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Spivey and his crew have put together what they've dubbed the Ouroboros System, a d100 implementation that's hardly taxing for any experienced gamer to digest, but simply different to most established game engines. The only caveat I have off the bat is nothing to do with the content at all - it's the system devised for the game. 'Haunted West's origins lay not in outdated history books, but in those campfire tales, wordslingers' stories, and the oral traditions of myths,' as the last-named section begins. Far more sweeping and comprehensive are Haunted West's delvings into actual history, especially the sections on The People, Historical Folks, and The American Myth. The actual 'alternative Reconstruction' chapter of the book - presenting a Reconstruction that genuinely delivered on the promise of ensuring some measure of freedom and justice for the supposed beneficiaries of the American Civil War - occupies a small portion of the book, but hardly dominates it. It does the best job of representing an actual historical period of any RPG I've seen - and that in what's supposed to be a weird setting with space set aside for alternative history. And Haunted West isn't about snatching the historical spotlight away from good old White Anglo-Saxon Protestants to refocus it on just one or even two other participants in the Old West's real history either - practically everyone gets their shot, from Jewish and Irish settlers, through Chinese and Mexican Americans, as far down as the sole recorded Thai soldier to have fought in the American Civil War.Īs regards that historical richness, Haunted West does a phenomenal job of unearthing the actual records of the time, and recreating the Western experience. Was Bass Reeves really the inspiration for the Lone Ranger? Whether or not, his real-life exploits can certainly inspire a fantastic RPG narrative.

Maybe this shouldn't come as any surprise seeing as how the true story of the Old West is largely the story of forgotten or suppressed voices - who were out there doing the pioneering, building, and adventuring often stolen from them in later.

Chris Spivey's Foreword recounts his childhood enthusiasm for Westerns - even those whose arrant racism needed later, more critical scrutiny: 'I loved the action, the grit, and the epic tales of a world beyond my grasp.' And action, grit, and epic tales are what Haunted West serves up by the chuckwagon-full. Haunted West was conceived, according to its materials and accompanying blurbs, to amplify 'the Voices of the Forgotten People of the Old West.' As Chris Spivey writes at the book's opening, 'the West and its mythology are drenched in prejudice regarding race, sexuality, gender, religion, ethnicity, and anything under the sun that makes humans different from one another.' It's remarkable, then, how well the game succeeds in doing just that, while at the same time reeking with love and veneration for the Old West.

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Plus there's a slew of other material in the pipeline, and the final shape of the game may very likely be different once all the items are in. As well as Chris Spivey himself, it marshals (no pun intended) other contributing talent from the commanding heights of the RPG community, including 'gang' members such as Chris Spivey, Dennis Detwiller, Gareth Hanrahan, Ken Hite, and Daniel Kwan. It's hard to think of an aspect of the Old West it doesn't cover (though there are one or two, and more on that later). One further justification and then I'll shut up - Haunted West is massive.

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So here are my interim findings from the initial core PDF - open to revision as further add-ons come moseyin' on down the trail. That's justification enough for getting an interim review out there. It's also partial - in the favour sense - because the game was created and led by Chris Spivey, already celebrated for his achievement with Harlem Unbound, and this project has been awaited with baited breath by gamers for many a moon now.

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It's partial because the full game was the beneficiary of an immensely successful Kickstarter, and a great many of the stretch goals are still in progress.

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