Terra the Gunslinger

Terra the Gunslinger

infobox RPG
title= Terra the Gunslinger


caption= "Terra the Gunslinger" cover
designer= Jun'ichi Inoue, F.E.A.R.
publisher= Enterbrain, Game Field
date= 2001
genre= western,steampunk
system= custom
footnotes=

nihongo|"Terra the Gunslinger"|テラ:ザ・ガンスリンガー is a western/steampunk role-playing game made in Japan.

The setting is the fictitious continent "Terra", based on North America during the American Old West. Its theme is frontier spirit. The setting is fictitious, but actual historical Americans also appear as non-player characters, including Thomas Alva Edison, Nikola Tesla, Jesse James and Belle Starr. There are guns, steampunk items representing lost technologies (for example, phlogiston generators or aetheric drives). Players face monsters called the "Dark". Player characters may be (automata, bounty hunters, gunslingers, preachers, saloon girls, steam-mages, U.S. marshals and other archetypes); they ride the transcontinental railroad on their way to the far western frontier.

As in the Tokyo NOVA role-playing game (as well as the American game Castle Falkenstein), playing cards are used instead of dice. The suits of cards correspond to four abilities: Spade (♠) is spirit, heart (♥) is hope, club (♣) is cool, and diamond (♦) is desire. The card motif is meant to bring to mind a game of poker, as often seen in western movies.

On a trip to Japan, RuneQuest's designer Greg Stafford noted that he liked the look of "Terra the Gunslinger".cite web|title=Greg's Japan Trip|url=http://www.glorantha.com/tribes/japan_trip.html]

References

External links

* [http://www.tenra.net/terra/ "Terra the Gunslinger" Official Site]


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