Since I'll be looking more closely at Boot Hill over the next couple of weeks, I thought it might be useful to share this advertisement for the game, which appeared in issue #28 of Dragon (August 1979).
With luck, you can read the two paragraphs above, because they make no mention of campaign play and indeed suggest that Boot Hill is anything more than a roleplaying game as the term had come to be understood at the time. Even though my friends and I never did much with the game beyond run gunfights and similar mayhem, we nevertheless considered it an RPG little different from others available at the time (except perhaps that its rules were thinner). I doubt we were alone in this.
My D&D group played it a few times but it never caught on with us. We would have the standard bank robberies and shootouts but it never went much beyond that. No one was willing to put in the time to develop any real campaign worlds for it as we were laser focused on fantasy and sci-fi at the time.
ReplyDeleteHorrible game, like other TSR non-D&D games. Let's take lethal simulationist rules and put them in a setting that screams for cinematic rules...ugh. TSR was one-trick pony.
ReplyDeleteCool to see the map and counters in the box set, reminiscent of Star Frontiers. Interesting on how these games baked in 'miniatures' gaming literally out of the box.
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