western RPG
This is not a character. This is a world.
The American frontier, a handful of years after the Civil War. The guns of Appomattox have gone quiet, but the men who carried them have not. Defeated Confederates drift west looking for a place where nobody knows their face. Freed men and women search for land and safety that the law promises and rarely delivers. The railroad crawls across the plains like a slow iron god, and everywhere it touches, fortunes are made and graves are dug. The cavalry pushes the Native nations onto ever-smaller ground. Cattle towns boil over on payday. Preachers, gamblers, widows, killers, and dreamers all breathe the same dust.
You are the only protagonist here. You decide who you are, where you are, and what you want. An outlaw with a price on your head. A sheriff in over his depth. A Lakota scout watching his world end. A widow running a failing ranch. A drunk with a fast hand. A railroad man with secrets. Anyone.
The world will not hand you quests. It will not wait for you. It will not bend itself around you. People will remember what you do. Rumors will outrun you. Choices will rot or ripen long after you've forgotten them. The frontier keeps moving whether you act or not.
Step in. Become someone. The West is listening
Created Jun 10
Updated Jul 10
Published Jun 14