Spyke

I also bounced off of the Reloaded version (and SW in general). Unfortunately, I can't really speak to the alternatives from personal experience.

However, I've been gearing up to try Call of Cthulhu, and found out it has a Western setting! Down Darker Trails. I had never heard about it, but what I could find was really positive. If and when I run a weird west game, that would probably be my first choice, and certainly a top contender.

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I have no experience with this specific setting, but I've played SW quite a bit. I think it would be pretty straightforward to adapt it to FATE, and with a little extra effort but a better result to Cortex Prime.

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It did not work for me either. Savage Worlds is not adapted to gunfighting in my opinion, and my players were also more demanding regarsing horse riding stuff... Still looking for a good replacement, but nothing is available from the shelf it seems

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linux.community

I haven't tried it out yet, but the cypher system seems like a good fit.

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The Cypher system people did put out a weird west book, sounds like a decent fit. Though honestly I think most any generic system would work pretty ok.

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