Editing Western (section)

==/tg/ Relevence==

Oh, you're wondering what /tg/ relevance this has? Well, just to start with, with RPGs we have:

* [[Boot Hill]]
* [[Deadlands]]
* [[Spellslinger]]
* [[Dogs in the Vineyard]]
* [[Pathfinder]]'s [[Gunslinger]] class.
* [[World of Darkness|Werewolf: The Wild West]].
* That RPG based on Firefly/Serenity.
* And '''plenty''' of others.

Then there are actual board games set in the period (MANY railroad games, just to start with.)

===More general influence===

In addition to all the above, we could very well argue that without the Western, we never would have had [[Dungeons & Dragons]], which, despite what [[Historical Fantasy]] nuts may say, began its existence as this strange hodge-podge of common Western tropes in a quasi-Medieval Europe backdrop and infused with [[Sword & Sorcery]], Classical [[Mythology]], European Mythology, [[Tolkien]], and whatever elements of pop-culture from the 60s-80s that [[TSR]] felt like including. It even got [[Murlynd|a literal cowboy god]], rolled up by one of Gygax's friends and a lifelong Western aficionado in the second-ever session of ''D&D''. Even to this day, the "[[Standard Fantasy Setting|standard fantasy setting]]" is more like a Western set in a faux-European countryside than anything else.