Damn, there’s a cartload of comments. Are they all about westerns? I assume so, as that was the most important bullet point.

The thing about the western is, as you hinted at, it can mean a lot of different things. Most people probably do want all gun fights and horse tricks. My interest in the western is largely as a metaphor or allegory, which sits on a weird point of the historical-media axis. I suppose I’m most interested in how and why the former became the latter.

Oh, and I’m actually the guy trying hard not to fall into the trap of writing a PbtA western. It’s just everything I am writing is a western (mostly)