Werewolf: The Wild West is a role-playing game from the World of Darkness line by White Wolf Game Studio. The setting is similar to Werewolf: The Apocalypse but takes place in the Wild West in the 19th century. This time, players take upon the roles of Garou, raging werewolves, and wage holy war defending the Pure Lands (the Americas) from overwhelming corruption in the form of the mighty Bane called the Storm-Eater.
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7 Strange Tales From the Wild West. BY Kyla Cathey. August 10, 2016. Wikimedia Commons // Public Domain. The old Wild West is the stuff of legends: Gunslingers robbing banks and trains.
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White Wolf Publishing came up with a new model for game releases as historical RPGs, each based on one of the original World of Darkness games. This resulted in three new lines: Vampire: The Dark Ages (1996), Werewolf: The Wild West (1997), and Mage: The Sorcerer's Crusade (1998). By 1998 White Wolf was facing continued economic problems, and was hitting a crisis. Of their last five World of Darkness games – the three new historical games, as well as 1994's Wraith: The Oblivion and 1995's Changeling: The Dreaming – only Vampire: The Dark Ages sold well. White Wolf also decided that they could not afford to keep publishing Changeling: The Dreaming, Werewolf: The Wild West, or Mage: The Sorcerer's Crusade, so the company began publishing them under its new imprint called 'Arthaus'. The Changeling line did well at ArtHaus, as did Mage: The Sorcerers Crusade, but Werewolf: The Wild West was unable to succeed even given the cheaper costs of the imprint.[1]
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Contents.Background When supernatural menaces of horror fiction are injected into a Western setting, it creates the horror Western. Thomas has described how the two combine: 'Unlike many other tales, the weird Western uses both elements but with very little loss of distinction.
The Western setting is decidedly 'Western' and the horror elements are obviously 'horror.' 's series has been running, off and on, for a decade now and he still remains bullish about the genre:As far as Mariotte is concerned, the potential for Weird West stories is limitless. 'The West was a weird place. There are ghost towns and haunted mines and when you bring Native American beliefs into it, then the possibilities are even greater.' Examples Books The term is of recent coinage, but the idea of crossing genres goes back to at least the heyday of. There was at least one series character who could be classified as a Weird West character. Was a deputy whose adventures often involved, and creatures from.
The Winters stories were written by and published in the 1950s. Around that same time, one of the oddest of all Western characters, appeared. This was an actual gorilla who strapped on a pair of Colts to avenge the death of the kindly who had raised him. His adventures appeared in the British.There have also been various Weird West including 's Dead in the West.
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(1966) saw the legendary outlaw fighting against the notorious. The same year, paired another famous outlaw with another famous horror character. The Ghoul Goes West was an unproduced film to star as Dracula in the Old West.Examples include. (serial, 1935). (1937). (1938). (1956).
(2015). (2019)Games An example of the pen-and-paper variety is the horror-hybrid,. Set in an alternate 1870s America, the game draws heavily on gothic horror conventions and old lore to derive its sense of the supernatural. Characters can get involved in situations ranging from banks heists to shoot-outs involving and over the course of their adventures. Another example is the production, in which players play characters (called garou) who are charged with fighting a force of spiritual corruption called the Storm-Eater.also use this same motif, one of the earliest horror-Western games being for the. The game has a variety of classic horror tropes in it, ranging from werewolves and vampires, to, that the player must contend with nothing more than a trusty six-gun at his hip. ^ 'An essential taster of.The Weird West'.
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'Hanging Out in the Weird West with Jack Ketchum'. 1 (1): 22–31. Kitson, Niall (2007). (subscription required). Irish Journal of Gothic and Horror Studies. Retrieved May 28, 2007., Dark Horse Comics.
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Archived from on March 11, 2008. Retrieved November 17, 2017.Further reading. Green, Paul (October 2009).
Encyclopedia of Weird Westerns: Supernatural and Science Fiction Elements in Novels, Pulps, Comics, Films, Television and Games. Lumberwoods, Unnatural History Museum.