Assembling the Parts
Entry Type: I finally got some more stuff for future gaming.
I got two imported soundtracks both scored by Ennio Morricone - the greatest film composer ever, John Williams be damned! Navajo Joe was pretty well featured in Kill Bill (I think three tracks were used - including A Silhouette of Doom in the awesome Elle Driver fight) but only one from Navajo Joe actually appears on the official Kill Bill soundtrack. I had to import the soundtrack because that was the only way I could get it. The other soundtrack is to A Fistful of Dollars, the film that created the spaghetti western genre. I had to import that because it was the only way to get the entire soundtrack.
Ennio Morricone will definitely be supplying the soundtrack to the western game. Once everyone comes up with a character idea, I would love to be able to have a specific Morricone track be a different character's "theme song." Since he did the score for 30 different westerns, it shouldn't be too hard to do.
I also finally got the rulebook to Sidewinder: Recoiled, another western D20 rulebook. It has some good things but I'm going to be using much more from OGL Wild West than Sidewinder. The writers for Sidewinder took a very strange stance on gunfights and players could literally get shot like 10 times before it even makes a dent on them. That is the total opposite from what I'm going for, so that wont work at all. They have optional massive damage rules but the whole "save vs. death" thing just totally sucks in my mind. I can't see putting something that important in the hands of a single random dice roll - and a D20 no less. Also, the Sidewinder rules don't really allow for impairments from damage, which I'm totally sold on. But Sidewinder has some great Advanced classes which I'll probably end up using.
I got two imported soundtracks both scored by Ennio Morricone - the greatest film composer ever, John Williams be damned! Navajo Joe was pretty well featured in Kill Bill (I think three tracks were used - including A Silhouette of Doom in the awesome Elle Driver fight) but only one from Navajo Joe actually appears on the official Kill Bill soundtrack. I had to import the soundtrack because that was the only way I could get it. The other soundtrack is to A Fistful of Dollars, the film that created the spaghetti western genre. I had to import that because it was the only way to get the entire soundtrack.
Ennio Morricone will definitely be supplying the soundtrack to the western game. Once everyone comes up with a character idea, I would love to be able to have a specific Morricone track be a different character's "theme song." Since he did the score for 30 different westerns, it shouldn't be too hard to do.
I also finally got the rulebook to Sidewinder: Recoiled, another western D20 rulebook. It has some good things but I'm going to be using much more from OGL Wild West than Sidewinder. The writers for Sidewinder took a very strange stance on gunfights and players could literally get shot like 10 times before it even makes a dent on them. That is the total opposite from what I'm going for, so that wont work at all. They have optional massive damage rules but the whole "save vs. death" thing just totally sucks in my mind. I can't see putting something that important in the hands of a single random dice roll - and a D20 no less. Also, the Sidewinder rules don't really allow for impairments from damage, which I'm totally sold on. But Sidewinder has some great Advanced classes which I'll probably end up using.