Weird West Fantasy?

[Rob_Royale]

Over my many years of tabletop RPGs, one of my most successful games that my friends still talk about today, twenty years later, was a weird west fantasy campaign. I used some modified Palladium rules (Rifts) and character classes, and created a fantasy world where magic and firearms mixed. It was a very dark campaign and I really sold the atmosphere, mixing Dodge City with Ravenloft (D&D).

Anyway, I was thinking of taking some of that into an erotic story setting. Think the readers in the Fantasy category will go for something like that or does it have to be busty succubi, pretty elves and futa-orcs?

If anyone can recommend some stories of the weird west sort, I'd love to read them.

 

[iwatchus]

I am working on outline a sci-fi western romance for a novel. Think about a romance set in a firefly kind of universe. Outworld, just being settled, Pioneerish world with monsters beyond the settlement. But no magic and more little house on the prairie than the OK coral.

 

[ChuckWolf]

IRL, around this time period, Mesmerism was pretty big in Europe.

Maybe that could play a role in some of the stories.

Also, seances and spiritualism were big.

 

[NotWise]

Over my many years of tabletop RPGs, one of my most successful games that my friends still talk about today, twenty years later, was a weird west fantasy campaign. I used some modified Palladium rules (Rifts) and character classes, and created a fantasy world where magic and firearms mixed. It was a very dark campaign and I really sold the atmosphere, mixing Dodge City with Ravenloft (D&D).

Anyway, I was thinking of taking some of that into an erotic story setting. Think the readers in the Fantasy category will go for something like that or does it have to be busty succubi, pretty elves and futa-orcs?

If anyone can recommend some stories of the weird west sort, I'd love to read them.

Readers in SF/F are rare, but they're flexible. I have one fantasy in the category. It's a dark historical fantasy with a witch involved in fairly-realistic medieval warfare. It's reception has been OK.

I did a quick tag search and came up with four stories tagged "wild west." They're there, but I can't say the readers gave them great ratings.

Sometimes it's great to just wing it.

 

[ChuckWolf]

Depending on what direction you're going, maybe the desecration/destruction of Native American totem poles let loose all manner of beings, either gradually or all at once?

 

[ChuckWolf]

Readers in SF/F are rare, but they're flexible. I have one fantasy in the category. It's a dark historical fantasy with a witch involved in fairly-realistic medieval warfare. It's reception has been OK.

I did a quick tag search and came up with four stories tagged "wild west." They're there, but I can't say the readers gave them great ratings.

Sometimes it's great to just wing it.

Maybe not even put them into the fantasy category, perhaps just using that as a tag?

If one story is heavily Interracial or involves Mind Control, maybe just put those stories in those categories, etc.

 

[StillStunned]

Over my many years of tabletop RPGs, one of my most successful games that my friends still talk about today, twenty years later, was a weird west fantasy campaign. I used some modified Palladium rules (Rifts) and character classes, and created a fantasy world where magic and firearms mixed. It was a very dark campaign and I really sold the atmosphere, mixing Dodge City with Ravenloft (D&D).

Anyway, I was thinking of taking some of that into an erotic story setting. Think the readers in the Fantasy category will go for something like that or does it have to be busty succubi, pretty elves and futa-orcs?

If anyone can recommend some stories of the weird west sort, I'd love to read them.

I love this idea, because Weird West has so much potential. Horror and erotica go well together.

There's definitely a place for it in SF&F - there's a place for pretty much any speculative fiction. The trouble is that you're competing with at least a dozen new stories every day, and many of those are "Vol. II, Chapter 30". Those tend to suck up most of the views.

If you do it, give your story a gripping title (not like my "The Dome") and pack it full of the good stuff right from the start.

I am working on outline a sci-fi western romance for a novel. Think about a romance set in a firefly kind of universe. Outworld, just being settled, Pioneerish world with monsters beyond the settlement. But no magic and more little house on the prairie than the OK coral.

I have a WIP with a similar setting, about 9k words in. Mud and murderers and lots of sex. I haven't added much lately though.

 

[Rob_Royale]

Depending on what direction you're going, maybe the desecration/destruction of Native American totem poles let loose all manner of beings, either gradually or all at once?

I'm going for a wild west flavor. More High Noon than Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee. Not the actual historical west. The decimation of native people and the shadow of slavery makes me avoid any sort of realism. The story will be set in Aboline, Kansas, in a fantasy world. Standard fantasy races with humans of all varieties.

 

[ChuckWolf]

I'm going for a wild west flavor. More High Noon than Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee. Not the actual historical west. The decimation of native people and the shadow of slavery makes me avoid any sort of realism. The story will be set in Aboline, Kansas, in a fantasy world. Standard fantasy races with humans of all varieties.

I gotcha; yeah that makes sense.

 

[NuclearFairy]

Sounds amazing.

 

[ShelbyDawn57]

Great idea.
Suggested step one: Watch "Cowboys and Aliens."
Suggested step two: Don't do that.

Good luck. Can't wait to see what you come up with.

 

[StillStunned]

You could adapt it into a UK version too: Weird West Country.

I'm thinking something along the lines of Worzel Gummidge.

 

[ShelbyDawn57]

You could adapt it into a UK version too: Weird West Country.

I'm thinking something along the lines of Worzel Gummidge.

Weird West, UK.. Isn't that Wales?

PS. my family is primarily from around Carmarthen, so...

 

[StillStunned]

Weird West, UK.. Isn't that Wales?

PS. my family is primarily from around Carmarthen, so...

The bit of England that sticks out below Wales, actually. Cornwall, Somerset, Devon, Dorset. Associated with cider, thick accents and other rural pursuits.

 

[Bamagan]

The bit of England that sticks out below Wales, actually. Cornwall, Somerset, Devon, Dorset. Associated with cider, thick accents and other rural pursuits.

Other rural pursuits? That's a euphemism for sheep, isn't it?

 

[StillStunned]

Other rural pursuits? That's a euphemism for sheep, isn't it?

 

[StillStunned]

(Sorry, @Rob_Royale, I think I've derailed your thread.)

 

[Rob_Royale]

(Sorry, @Rob_Royale, I think I've derailed your thread.)

It happens.

 

[StillStunned]

It happens.

Even so. I feel bad, because I think Weird West erotica would be incredibly hot, if done well.

But least I posted a sheep video.

 

[TheLobster]

Weird West erotica

I can't believe you've gone through an entire tangent and no one has yet mentioned the mainstream almost-example:

 

[Five_Inch_Heels]

If anyone can recommend some stories of the weird west sort, I'd love to read them.

Lit stories? Dunno.


But TV tales of the old west don't get any weirder than The Wild Wild West (Ross Martin, Robert Conrad) and The Adventures of Briscoe County Jr (Bruce Campbell)

Lots of SciFi, magic and all sorts of other stuff.

 

[stickygirl]

Over my many years of tabletop RPGs, one of my most successful games that my friends still talk about today, twenty years later, was a weird west fantasy campaign. I used some modified Palladium rules (Rifts) and character classes, and created a fantasy world where magic and firearms mixed. It was a very dark campaign and I really sold the atmosphere, mixing Dodge City with Ravenloft (D&D).

Anyway, I was thinking of taking some of that into an erotic story setting. Think the readers in the Fantasy category will go for something like that or does it have to be busty succubi, pretty elves and futa-orcs?

If anyone can recommend some stories of the weird west sort, I'd love to read them.

Didn't know RPGs had a tabletop version - I've only seen the ones used by infantry or drones in Ukraine.

 

[Five_Inch_Heels]

Didn't know RPGs had a tabletop version - I've only seen the ones used by infantry or drones in Ukraine.

WOLVERINES!!!

 

[stickygirl]

WOLVERINES!!!

I didn't know that
They don't make good pets

 

[NotWise]

Didn't know RPGs had a tabletop version - I've only seen the ones used by infantry or drones in Ukraine.

Are we talking about Role Playing Games, or Rocket Propelled Grenades?