I have not had an opportunity to play the game yet. For all of these reasons, I was very quick to back Haunted West, a weird west RPG by Chris Spivey and Darker Hue Studios, the same team that brought you Harlem Unbound.īefore we get going, I wanted to point out that I did receive this from backing the Kickstarter, and was not provided a review copy of the product. I don’t want to see Indigenous people exoticized as “magical,” and I don’t want to see the Confederacy and Reconstruction shoved off into the phantom zone. ![]() There is a tendency in weird west games where the “solution” to this is to ignore the historical without ever addressing it, focusing on the “weird” almost exclusively. It shouldn’t be a secret that the western genre has erased many people of color and other marginalized people over the years. The problem with this preference is that there are a lot of weird west narratives that ignore aspects of history that I wasn’t comfortable ignoring. I gravitated towards the “weird west” subgenre, especially since I’ve always had a love of monster-hunting stories. It wasn’t until I was older, and I started watching grittier, somewhat more cynical westerns, that I started to appreciate the genre.īeing a gamer, once I started to appreciate the genre, I wanted to find a way to experience the story through roleplaying games. Part of why that property appealed to me was its overlap with superhero narratives. ![]() I was never a fan of westerns when I was young, except for The Lone Ranger.
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