Product Description: Sidewinder: Recoiled is the ENnie Award winning d20 game of the Wild West by Dog House Rules. Capture the cinematic action and adventure of your favorite western movies, novels, and TV shows using this complete set of rules. Create courageous gunslingers, low-down rustlers, or high stakes gamblers and test your mettle out on the frontier. Sidewinder: Recoiled takes the d20 Modern rules and customizes them for Wild West action. This rulebook contains everything you need for active gameplay, including: Complete basic classes, skills, and feats. Weapons and equipment for the real Wild West, from tomahawks and dynamite to Colt Peacemakers and Winchester rifles. 19 new advanced classes, like bounty Hunter, Desperado, Maverick, and Tin Star. Complete rules for combat and critters. Excerpts from Bat Masterson's Famous Gun Fighters of the Western Frontier so you can learn about the Wild West from a man who lived it! Sidewinder: Recoiled is the definitive d20 treatment of the Wild West. Beware of fool's gold! So saddle up, strap on your hog-leg, and pull your hat down low. You're fixin' to ride into the REAL Wild West of Sidewinder: Recoiled! Requires the use of the d20 Modern Roleplaying Game, published by Wizards of the Coast, Inc.
Bringing the Western to the RPG I was pretty impressed with this book. I have a large number of gaming modules and this one stands out in my opinion by being well written and well organized. It has possibly the best Index and Table of Contents I have seen in awhile. That might seen an odd observation, but you have looked more then one rule book, you know how rare and yet how useful those are.
Sidewinder: Recoiled builds on to the Open Game License (OGL) D20 system rules a well thought out approach to bringing Western movie genre into the RPG world. There have been other approaches, but this one sticks to a non-magical west. Dog House Rules has provided a lot of material in the book and in supplements to run a more historical western game. But, they excel at giving you the tools and options to give your campaign the Hollywood/spaghetti/pulp feel.
Whether you want the good ol' westerns like Shane, Stage Coach, The War Wagon, or True Grit ~ or if you want the grittier more mythic feel of Sergio Leone ~ or even David Samuel "Sam" Peckinpah ~ the tools are here.
There are lots of historical information and even more on their website, [...] - they also have a range of additional material available through download PDF's including Fort Griffin. A resource for a frontier town with maps, buildings, and Non Player Characters.
A great resource for anyone wanting to run a Western Themed campaign.
Sidewinder Recoiled While it still relies the d20 moderns corebook for a few things, the game comes into its own onces your base hero (fast,tough, smart, whatever) can qualifiy for the advanced classes given. I would rather they had made the product stand alone, but as the d20 core book is only needed for the first 3 character levels and some basic rules this isn't a bad system. They also provide periodic updates and modules from their website.
If you are considering running a western's campaign and already have the d20 moderns book, I recommmend this game most highly.
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