This is my gaming circle minus my ACKS players. I am such an asshole. Since they're in the big city now, the players really wanted to know if there were any magic weapons for sale. ACKS ain't 3e or 4e though. There is exactly one magic weapon for sale. I rolled randomly to see what it was and... ...it's a cursed -2 sword. So I told the players there's a weapons dealer/fence who's looking to get rid of a magic sword he's gotten ahold of...cheap. Only 6,000gp when usually a +1 item would be 10,000gp. So far they are not suspicious. They're going to be so pissed at me. I can barely contain my excitement.
More true than at first glance. So much of this stuff still dates back to Union vs. Confederates. And no, not referencing racism here, but rather the conflicts that informed the whole american West.
ReplyDeleteLook at the Earps in that gif, and then the cowboys. The way they're dressed is historically accurate. The northerners who came to the west were usually Republican (who indeed backed the Earps in Tombstone), dressed in dark clothes, lived in towns, wanted law and order (though not beyond corruption). They wanted to civilize the west and came to build personal empires.
The cowboys were southerners, mostly. Dressed in colorful clothing, were country folk, were Democrats (who indeed, supported the Cowboys in Tombstone) wanted freedom and "din't like no law round here...". They came west to be free and escape what they saw as stifling civilization. They might have wanted to be rich on a personal level, but certainly didn't want to see the west turned into a big-government place full of rules and regulations (as they conceived the east to be), where bureaucrats and lawmakers could tell you what to do.
Its that ding dang gov'ment keeping me down!
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