Spirit of the West

devlin1 · Post by **devlin1** » Mon May 14, 2007 11:26 pm

Is anyone interested in a Western one-shot this Friday?

Prompted by a little Boot Hill one-shot Mord ran for Albert and me last week, I've been working on a Western version of Spirit of the Century, which we'll tentatively refer to as Spirit of the West. I'd like to playtest it with a small group. As it happens, I'll be in San Diego this Friday evening, so it seems like a golden opportunity to make use of you people.

Mord and I ran a couple quick gunfights with it tonight, and it worked well enough, but it still needs a more extensive playtest to test out non-gunfight things. I don't know when on Friday, nor do I yet know where; that comes later.

Any takers?

jimmy corrigan · Post by **jimmy corrigan** » Tue May 15, 2007 7:44 am

mordraine · Post by **mordraine** » Tue May 15, 2007 8:29 am

*raises hand*

Skyman · Post by **Skyman** » Tue May 15, 2007 5:51 pm

devlin1 · Post by **devlin1** » Tue May 15, 2007 6:45 pm

~~[quote="Skyman"]~~Fuck[/quote]
a. Yes!

b. No!

c. You!

d. B and C

e. None of the above.

Skyman · Post by **Skyman** » Tue May 15, 2007 7:27 pm

devlin1 · Post by **devlin1** » Tue May 15, 2007 7:42 pm

~~[quote="Skyman"]~~b...[/quote]
So is that "Fuck no, I wouldn't play in your shitty one-shot!" or "No, I can't make it, and I'm so upset about that that I'm using profanity"?

Skyman · Post by **Skyman** » Tue May 15, 2007 9:03 pm

More like

Fuck it's on Friday! Shit my life sucks. Uh oh co-worker is about to walk in...click post...come on refresh dammit!...Hey how ya doing. Oh go ask her I told her everything about the diagnosis and what's going on. Oh and tell her there is a substance abuse issues up the yazoo. She'll love that....cool....*she leaves*...hey all it says is FUCK. WTF?! Well I guess that about sums it up.

ummm...no but I could have been more clear with my deep desire to do this because it would roxxor

Drew · Post by **Drew** » Wed May 16, 2007 7:19 am

~~[quote="Skyman"]~~More like

Fuck it's on Friday! Shit my life sucks. Uh oh co-worker is about to walk in...click post...come on refresh dammit!...Hey how ya doing. Oh go ask her I told her everything about the diagnosis and what's going on. Oh and tell her there is a substance abuse issues up the yazoo. She'll love that....cool....*she leaves*...hey all it says is FUCK. WTF?! Well I guess that about sums it up.

ummm...no but I could have been more clear with my deep desire to do this because it would roxxor[/quote]

You don't need a game... you need a vacation! :)

devlin1 · Post by **devlin1** » Wed May 16, 2007 1:24 pm

~~[quote="jimmy corrigan"]~~me.[/quote]

~~[quote="mordraine"]~~*raises hand*[/quote]
Yeah, I kinda figured. It's like that scene in "Return of the Jedi" when they're talking about going down to Endor, and Han says, "My strike team's ready, but I don't have a command crew" (or words to that effect), and Chewie volunteers with a roar, and it's like, well, yeah, no shit Chewie volunteered.

I think Brian Lee, who joined us for last year's Hyphen-Con '06, may join in as well. I dunno. He seemed intrigued.

Count Zero · Post by **Count Zero** » Wed May 16, 2007 2:21 pm

I would like to play, I have been wanting to try out the system.

I could probably offer my place for the game.

Skyman · Post by **Skyman** » Wed May 16, 2007 3:54 pm

~~[quote="Drew"]~~You don't need a game... you need a vacation! :)[/quote]

Amen brother

devlin1 · Post by **devlin1** » Wed May 16, 2007 5:57 pm

~~[quote="Count Zero"]~~I would like to play, I have been wanting to try out the system.

I could probably offer my place for the game.[/quote]
Cool. I will take you up on the hosting thing, too, if you're able to do it. Where do you live again?

devlin1 · Post by **devlin1** » Thu May 17, 2007 12:38 pm

BTW, as far as characters are concerned, I was thinking of making some pregens but only as far as the first three phases. That is, I'll come up with a childhood/early life phase, a war/conflict phase, and a first-starring-role phase, then leave the two guest-star phases up to the players.

This may not make any sense if you aren't familiar with the system. Suffice it to say, it splits the difference between pregen and getting to make your own character. You'll have a framework to go off of, and then you'll finish it off. I just think it'll take too long if we do full-on character generation along with trying to do a one-shot in a single night.

Anyway. Thoughts on that?

Count Zero · Post by **Count Zero** » Thu May 17, 2007 1:03 pm

~~[quote="devlin1"]~~Cool. I will take you up on the hosting thing, too, if you're able to do it. Where do you live again?[/quote]

Michelle said she doesn't mind if we play at the house, everything is good. I get off work at 6:30 and it takes me about 15 minutes to get home.

My address is:

A BIG SECRET

jimmy corrigan · Post by **jimmy corrigan** » Thu May 17, 2007 1:44 pm

yeah, i agree. it'll cut down on actual play time this way, but still give us a taste of how chargen works. good compromise, dav.

devlin1 · Post by **devlin1** » Thu May 17, 2007 1:47 pm

~~[quote="jimmy corrigan"]~~yeah, i agree. it'll cut down on actual play time this way, but still give us a taste of how chargen works. good compromise, dav.[/quote]
Thenks.

jimmy corrigan · Post by **jimmy corrigan** » Thu May 17, 2007 1:57 pm

your walcome.

oops! i meant you're walcome.

jimmy corrigan · Post by **jimmy corrigan** » Fri May 18, 2007 8:49 am

looking forward to tonight. see you all at 6:45.

Count Zero · Post by **Count Zero** » Fri May 18, 2007 9:05 am

If there is anything specific you want to drink, I would recommend bringing it. We only have diet stuff in the house.

devlin1 · Post by **devlin1** » Fri May 18, 2007 11:59 pm

Thanks for the game, guys -- hope everyone had fun. Sorry it went so late, but... that's just the way things go when I run one-shots, apparently. I'm really interested (for some reason) in getting this SotW thing in decent working order, so there may be more playtesting in the future.

Thanks especially to Jonathan (and, by extension, Michelle) for hosting.

Count Zero · Post by **Count Zero** » Sat May 19, 2007 7:50 am

~~[quote="devlin1"]~~Thanks especially to Jonathan (and, by extension, Michelle) for hosting.[/quote]

No problem, thanks for running.

jimmy corrigan · Post by **jimmy corrigan** » Sat May 19, 2007 8:13 am

that was a hoot. i had a lot of fun! thanks for running, devlin1. and as always, thanks for hosting, count zero.

SpaceMonkey · Post by **SpaceMonkey** » Sat May 19, 2007 9:56 am

Damn, I'm such a slacker when it comes to reading posts in a timely manner.

devlin1 · Post by **devlin1** » Sat May 19, 2007 11:52 am

~~[quote="dnd3eplayer"]~~Damn, I'm such a slacker when it comes to reading posts in a timely manner.[/quote]
You had all week!

Well, it was a good time. You would've liked it. Probably. But like I said, I might want to do another one sometime to try out other parts of the conversion.