Badlands: Wild West Role-Playing

Badlands: Wild West Role-Playing

This is a rules-lite Role-playing game designed around using Poker mechanics to determine success and failure. The name comes from various parts of the United States of arid, rocky canyons, colorful cliff faces, and balancing rocks.. They are not arable for farming, not enough scrub for grazing, and are inhospitable to settlement. These places in the Western United States are often referred to as Badlands       

Badlands: Wild West Role-Playinga few simple ideas built into the design:

1. Mechanics based on Poker, a staple of the Wild West

2. Ease of character creation that intuitively creates Role-play opportunities

3. Use a Meta-currency for the GM and Players to influence game play

4. Lean harder into the narrative than the crunch

5. Create space to tell Wild West based stories, natural and unnatural

The game comes with a character sheet, quick play guide, and a starting adventure to you start playing.