Editing Weird Western (section)

=Hucksters & Hexes=
Finally, there's the least common subgenre; taking a purely fictional world and setting your story in the Wild West analogue to it. Basically, the other subgenres are about adding fantasy or sci-fi elements to a Western; this is about adding Western elements to a fantasy or sci-fi... usually a fantasy, since "science fiction plus Western" is literally the definition of [[Space Western]].

The reason why you don't see this type of Weird Western much is probably for the same reason you rarely see a [[Gaslamp Fantasy]] that doesn't use a "Real World" basis; it's a lot more work on the creator's part.

Whilst this subgenre of Weird Western will often draw from American myths and folklore, like the Fantasy Americana, it's here where you are more likely to find more "classic" fantasy elements drawn in - wizards, elves, dwarves and orcs.

[[Spellslinger]] is perhaps the purest example of "[[Dungeons & Dragons]] does the Wild West" you'll ever see without homebrewing it.

[[Anchorome]] is a region of the [[Forgotten Realms]] based on North America... but it's Pre-Columbian North America, so it doesn't really count.

[[Golarion]] has a little-detailed continent called Arcadia that is clearly supposed to be its North American analogue. But even in the known world, the Shoanti tribes have a "Magical Native American" flavor to them, the River Kingdoms have a regional flavor of the Great Lakes, the nation of Andoren is basically an idealized post-British Revolution America, and plenty of critters from Native American mythology and American settler folklore show up in the [[Pathfinder]] bestiaries.

[[Labyrinth Lord]] has a [[splatbook]] called [[d20 to Yuma]] that is all about adding Western trappings and elements to your OSR games, and even features some b-movie shoutouts like the Giant Gila Monster (from the cheesey monster movie of the same name) as a monster.