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The Knuckleduster Cowtown Creator
Published by Knuckleduster Publications
Written by Forrest Harris with Rob Lusk and Phillip Webb
250-page b&w softback; $24.95
Thanks to Hollywood, we have all an idea of what the typical town of the Wild West should look like. Films and television have made it all so familiar that the creative efforts of the GM may fall flat in the telling. This is where the author of The Knuckleduster Cowtown Creator hopes to be of aid, by presenting a sourcebook useful for creating a genuine cattle town. Forrest Harris makes use maps and floor plans, period illustrations, and photographs; but above all, he makes use of the history of the old West itself. The given material is presented to be useful in any Western set or similar game, but does provide statistics for three game systems -- the Weird West of Pinnacle's Deadlands RPG, Grey Ghost's Fudge system, and for what it describes as, "The World's Most Popular PRG," or rather the d20 system as derived from Deadlands d20.
Knuckleduster Publications have only released three titles before this: two solo adventure books (The Devil's Addition and Raining Hammers, The Ballad of Johnny MacDonald) and a sourcebook on Western sidearms, The Knuckleduster Firearms Shop. All of them have been very well received, especially by Pyramid itself, which means that the expectations for this recent release are high indeed. The Knuckleduster Cowtown Creator is a fat paperback done in a large typeface, with a layout that . . .
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Article publication date: January 10, 2003
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