Sidewinder: Recoiled (d20 3.5 Western Roleplaying, Mythic Vistas)

By Christopher S. Warner and Bradley W. Hindman

Sidewinder: Recoiled is the ENnie Award winning d20 game of the Wild West by Dog House Rules. Capture the cinematic action and adventure of your favorite western movies, novels, and TV shows using... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1932442340
• ISBN13: 9781932442342
• Release Date: January 2006
• Publisher: Green Ronin Publishing
• Length: 296 Pages
• Weight: 1.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 10.8" x 0.8" x 8.3"

Customer Reviews

Pitch Perfect Western Roleplaying

Incredibly well written, well planned d20 based game that perfectly captures a straight forward American western atmosphere. It is full of solid historical writing, campaign ideas, and genuinely interesting character ideas and prestige classes. I ran this for a year and half and it was one of the best RPG campaigns I've had the pleasure to experience. The game system is also well supported online and it was easy to create NPCs, enemies, and adventures. I would highly recommend this game to anyone who loves American western literature or film (and RPGs...)

Bringing the Western to the RPG

I was pretty impressed with this book. I have a large number of gaming modules and this one stands out in my opinion by being well written and well organized. It has possibly the best Index and Table of Contents I have seen in awhile. That might seen an odd observation, but you have looked more then one rule book, you know how rare and yet how useful those are. Sidewinder: Recoiled builds on to the Open Game License (OGL) D20 system rules a well thought out approach to bringing Western movie genre into the RPG world. There have been other approaches, but this one sticks to a non-magical west. Dog House Rules has provided a lot of material in the book and in supplements to run a more historical western game. But, they excel at giving you the tools and options to give your campaign the Hollywood/spaghetti/pulp feel. Whether you want the good ol' westerns like Shane, Stage Coach, The War Wagon, or True Grit ~ or if you want the grittier more mythic feel of Sergio Leone ~ or even David Samuel "Sam" Peckinpah ~ the tools are here. There are lots of historical information and even more on their website, [...] - they also have a range of additional material available through download PDF's including Fort Griffin. A resource for a frontier town with maps, buildings, and Non Player Characters. A great resource for anyone wanting to run a Western Themed campaign.

Sidewinder Recoiled

While it still relies the d20 moderns corebook for a few things, the game comes into its own onces your base hero (fast,tough, smart, whatever) can qualifiy for the advanced classes given. I would rather they had made the product stand alone, but as the d20 core book is only needed for the first 3 character levels and some basic rules this isn't a bad system. They also provide periodic updates and modules from their website. If you are considering running a western's campaign and already have the d20 moderns book, I recommmend this game most highly.