Howdy.

Howdy.

As I'm typing this I'm sitting in literally the one place in all the world furthest from the country. New York City. But my present living situation aside, I spent the first 21 years of my life in a town so small it did not have a post office. Or a school, or a police station, or... anything really. My first car was a Ford pickup truck, my first love lived on a dirt road, and the first gun I ever fired was a revolver. I've climbed a mountain just to watch the dawn, rode horses since I was still in my mother's womb, stood in the deepest bowels of a coal mine, and run in abject terror from a pissed off bull.

But for all that I'm a happy redneck, I also have a very nerdy side to me. I still love my Nintendo 64, can't find space for all my books, watch way more anime than live-action TV, read National Geographic almost religiously, and drool over every cool new piece of technology that comes out. And alongside camping and fishing, one of my greatest passions will always be Pen & Paper Roleplaying.

When that siren call of adventure reaches my ear, I grab my trusty bag of dice, draw up a character (or two or three) and start gleefully cracking skulls and searching dusty tombs and commanding hordes of howling zibgubs. I've Gamemastered and/or played in everything from The Forgotten Realms to Star Wars to a modern zombie apocalypse and much more. And for many years, I always thought, wouldn't it be cool if I could take my country roots and apply them to gaming?

Yes. Yes I can. And an example of that is the purpose of this here blog. This blog will cover, in short, a specific campaign of my creation set in the good ol' Wild Wild West, as well as discussing western themed gaming in general as well as a subfocus on rural adventuring as can be applied to any system or setting.

I will eventually work my way into specific examples of in-game situations, rules, and scenarios using a system and example characters of my own design, but will begin with a more overview type look at the campaign. This is my first ever blog so I'm still figuring this whole thing out, but I'll do my best to keep it fresh and keep it coming.

Thanks y'all, hope you enjoy.                          - Brandon J. Young