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# Arroyo Grande Old West Fantasy

An online GURPS game of the Wild West, mixed with with beastmen, dwarfs, elfs, and magic.

## Concept

Magic exists on the planet of Erd, yet somewhat improbably, history mostly resembles the history of Earth. In 1875, in the territory of Colorado, there is a town named Arroyo Grande. A group of gamblers, gunslingers, and other drifters have arrived in town and banded together to resist the plots and plans of the corrupt town leadership, all in hopes of keeping Daffy's Casino open.

### Online Play

The group usually meets online on Mondays from 5 pm until 9 pm Central Time (USA, GMT -600). Lurkers and additional players are welcome and should contact Mark Langsdorf, the GM, at mark.langsdorf@gmail.com for information on how to get in on the game.

## Setting

### Erd

Erd is a planet suspiciously similar to Earth in the 1870s, with three major differences:

* supernatural forces exist, and can be manipulated and controlled
* various races other than humans exist. Elfs and Dwarfs are the most well known, but there are many species of Beastfolk.
* Christian monotheism never took off. The major religion is the Rapturous Mystery Faith, a human-supremacist monotheistic cult that promises protection against the coming apocalypse. Minor faiths include Christianity; the Church of the All-Encompassing Void (a surprisingly friendly and generous cult obsessed with order and purity); and various animist cults among non-humans.

### The United States of Columbia

The United States of Columbia (USC) is similar to the USA; a free market democracy with expansionist tendencies. Officially, it has no state religion, but the Rapturous Faith is at least loosely held by around 60% of the human population and most laws are in line with Rapturous doctrine. Legally, non-humans are mostly full citizens though often without franchise, and they have rights written into the Constitution, but a lot of humans tend to treat them badly and there are some things they can't do legally.

### Arroyo Grande

Arroyo Grande is a mining town in USC territory of Colorado, a few days by stagecoach away from the territorial seat of Denver. Arroyo Grande is built over Sunflower tribes Elfen hunting lands, violently appropriated by the Spanish and sold to the USC after the Tenochian-Columbian war. The mines produce ores of gold, silver, iron, and copper, worked by dwarfs and beastmen overseen by human foremen. The dwarfs claim there should be an orichalcum lode somewhere in the hills, but it's never found. Most of the 10,000 or so people are humans, with a sizeable minority of beastmen, dwarfs, and a few other races.

There are two hotels: the Grande Hotel, owned by the Mayor Burnsides, and Daffy's Casino, a restaurant, bar, and gambling house owned by Daffy. The Grande is expensive and unwelcoming to non-humans, while Daffy's is reasonably priced and welcome to all.

### Economics

The USC is a mature TL5 society, which uses silver thollar coins for currency, as well as paper bills. The economics are slightly complicated due to the existence of magic.

## Characters and Campaign

Drifters
A listing of the gamblers, gunslingers, and other folks who are rallying to support Daffy.
~~ Character Creation ~~
Session Logs

What happened and when
Notable Persons

A collection of notable people in Arroyo Grande and environs.
Questions and Answers

Resolved and unresolved enigmas.
## Rules

Rules References
The official and optional rules that are in use.
Rules Clarifications
Clarifications of official rules that are unclear.
House Rules
Changes to official rules.
Earning Character Points
Ways to earn CP for advancement.
## Tools

Online Tools
GCA Support
## Campaign Wiki Editing

I'm going to post setting information here on the wiki, and players are welcome to add additional details or their own notes for the game. Feel free to contribute whatever you feel like.

Remember that it's easier to reorganize existing info than to organize non-existing info, so if you don't know where to start or are worried about messing up an existing page, don't worry! It is a better use of your time to just start typing on some existing page and let someone else move stuff around later.