I'm in the "hope you are soon" stage; waylaid with illness. This is exactly what I needed today - enjoyed with a few cups of tea. I'm not aware of any other detailed reviews of We Deal in Lead, so your work here is genuinely appreciated - it's always great to learn a bit about the solo RPG process by hearing you think out loud.
Get well soon, buddy. I'm also feeling under the weather today and even had to go for a sick leave from work today, which I never do. Really don't like missing work as it feels like I'm letting people down but today it was just impossible 😢 All the best, brother ❤
The Gunslinger is so weird because it's inspired by the poem Childe Roland to the Dark Tower Came by Robert Browning (1852). There was no thought of this novel becoming a series until much later on. This one is tonally much different than what follows but does set the stage wonderfully for a strange world that has "moved on". To this day my absolute favorite is The Drawing of the Three followed closely by The Wasteland. These core 3 sit differently than the rest of the series. Its before it gets too big and sprawling is more focused in my opinion. You could even start the series with The Drawing of the Three and not really miss much that doesn't get a synopsis.
I was not expecting a full bibliography when I started this video! Just awesome. I loved Joe Landsdale’s weird western tales, will need to pick up the other books you recommended! *edited to fix author’s name
Love Colin's work! Just got my copies of Runecairn Wardensaga Remastered and the Runecairn Bestiary, and they're lovely. Thank you for the fiction recommendations too, I really need to read The Dark Tower!
Another excellent review, Daniel. Thanks for your work. I too loved the Dark Tower series, I lived in fear Stephen King would die before he finished the series back in the day.
I'm so thankful for the great content you so consistently provide-this one being over an hour long! You are knowledgable within the field of tabletop games in general, it seems, and the mixture with your willingness to share it in a detailed manner makes me happy I discovered your channel. Thank you for keeping up the good work!
A welcome video. Cairn is my favorite RPG rule set to solo. So I got We Deal in Lead thinking it was going to be perfect for that Shadows of Brimstone vibe, but I got side tracked. Have you tried Ironsworn: Badlands? I know you have some reservations about Ironsworn, but but using Badlands in a Shadows of Brimstone setting is just fantastic! Ironsworn: Delve is a must for exploring the mines and otherworlds and Hexcrawl is a must for the map, encounters and jobs. I highly recommend that you try it and then you could make a video comparing and contrasting the two rule sets.
The Gunslinger is my favorite book, laste year I published a solo RPG inspired by (but not based on) the Dark Tower. I'll be checking this game later on. "Go then, there are other worlds than these."
Oh right on! It’s my favorite fantasy series. :). Ran a book club during COVID. That was my 7th time through the series. :) what’s the RPG you released? I’ll check it out.
@@TheDungeonDive Really love the Dark Tower, both as a concept and as a work of fiction. I published the game on drivethru, ti's called "To the Heart of Reality", since it's based on the idea of having a quest that drives you to the center of all existence (rather than the events and characters of the series). It's my first work so it's not great, but thanks for the interest.
I gather there's a large market for sci-fi and fantasy Daniel ,but I keep hoping for a people based Western ttrpg game - purely based on the many real and big figures and major events in that part of your history . ( Would also love a non sci-fi and non fantasy WW2 game focussing on your real service people and events too ) . Thanks for your work from Oxfordshire England .
Thanks. Enjoyed your content for years. I do not have/take time to play but I am playing vicarously through you (though you do not play through often). Honest enthusiasm is key for me, and you have/deliver it ! Agree on Dark Tower. "Weird West" is right! EDIT: You do some playthrough!
I bought We Deal in Lead at my local game store last year. I have been looking for other Weird West stories (besides Dark Tower), so thank you very much for that.
First off, great video, loved the intro as this sets up the play through perfectly! Never really been interested in this setting, but after watching this, has made me think twice 😊 Also, what makes me love rpgs is the feeling of freedom in that ANYTHING can happen, as in your story, so cool that she turns out to be a werewolf(well almost a full time one!!) But in another story, that healer could of been in league with Rose, and could of sent you down some dark path to way lay you, or get you killed 😂 Excellent video Daniel 👌😁
Also a huge fan of the Weird West genre. Here's a couple of my reading recommendations are: The Few and Cursed by Felipe Cagno, The Good, The Bad, and the Infernal by Guy Adams
Great video! I bought 'We Deal In Lead' but never got around to it. I will pick up the Wild West book of tables too (although I'll be numbering the pages with biro myself by the looks of it!)
that was a really enjoyable video. I've never been into the wild west / weird west setting, but you make it sound really interesting and i'm going to have to track down six gun planet and the hawkline monster.
@TheDungeonDive I'm sorry to hear that. I'm exclusively a solo roleplayer and I love actual plays. I have tried numerous times to get into group actual-plays, but I just find them incredible boring. On the other hand, solo actual-plays are my favorite form of entertainment. I know solo campaigns tend to trail off in engagement as the videos progress. I hate that, because long-form solo campaigns are the absolute best. I do what I can to engage with them as much as possible to encourage their growth, but alas, I am only one person.
I’d love to spend more time focusing on one game, but I also have to think of paying my bills. :). Unfortunately, that means mostly having to keep new things cycling through.
Daniel, that’s the gist, the essence of the dungeon dive right there in this video. That is just my opinion but man, I really enjoy it. Thanks for all the good work. I picture you as the humanists of the renaissance, curious and holistic.
I have ALWAYS thought The Black Tower would make an awesome RPG!!! However, this system aeems lacking in even as a basic system. We all have our own props and preferences but you actually have to supplement the game with additional information and resources that's an incomplete game...
Not at all. I can’t think of a single RPG I don’t supplement with other things. I love mixing and matching. But this has everything you need in a single book for solo or group play. I just choose to always have more options when I play, and like to show people neat things.
Daniel's videos are always the highlight of the day 😊
Dungeon Dive absolutely rocks ❤
Glad you like them!
@@TheDungeonDive "like" them? No, Daniel, I LOVE them! 😊
Thank you SO MUCH for everything you do my dear friend ❤️
I'm in the "hope you are soon" stage; waylaid with illness. This is exactly what I needed today - enjoyed with a few cups of tea. I'm not aware of any other detailed reviews of We Deal in Lead, so your work here is genuinely appreciated - it's always great to learn a bit about the solo RPG process by hearing you think out loud.
Get well! I was sick for like 4 weeks recently, and just started to really feel better a few days ago. I had this NEVER ending cough, and it sucked!
Get well soon, buddy. I'm also feeling under the weather today and even had to go for a sick leave from work today, which I never do. Really don't like missing work as it feels like I'm letting people down but today it was just impossible 😢
All the best, brother ❤
Take time to get well. Thats super important. :).
@@TheDungeonDive Thank you, Daniel ❤️🙏🏼🙇♂️
The Gunslinger is so weird because it's inspired by the poem Childe Roland to the Dark Tower Came by Robert Browning (1852).
There was no thought of this novel becoming a series until much later on. This one is tonally much different than what follows but does set the stage wonderfully for a strange world that has "moved on".
To this day my absolute favorite is The Drawing of the Three followed closely by The Wasteland. These core 3 sit differently than the rest of the series. Its before it gets too big and sprawling is more focused in my opinion.
You could even start the series with The Drawing of the Three and not really miss much that doesn't get a synopsis.
I was not expecting a full bibliography when I started this video! Just awesome. I loved Joe Landsdale’s weird western tales, will need to pick up the other books you recommended!
*edited to fix author’s name
Glad you enjoyed it!
Love Colin's work! Just got my copies of Runecairn Wardensaga Remastered and the Runecairn Bestiary, and they're lovely. Thank you for the fiction recommendations too, I really need to read The Dark Tower!
Yeah, his stuff is great. Very thoughtful.
You got RW-Remastered already!? Holy cow. I thought they weren't shipping until the beginning of june.
Another excellent review, Daniel. Thanks for your work. I too loved the Dark Tower series, I lived in fear Stephen King would die before he finished the series back in the day.
So glad he did. I didn’t start reading until he finished. I don’t start a series until it’s done. :).
I'm so thankful for the great content you so consistently provide-this one being over an hour long! You are knowledgable within the field of tabletop games in general, it seems, and the mixture with your willingness to share it in a detailed manner makes me happy I discovered your channel.
Thank you for keeping up the good work!
My pleasure. Thank you for watching and commenting.
El Topo by Alejandro Jodorowsky
Pretty good! I prefer Holy Mountain.
There is also the Jon Shannow trilogy of books by David Gemmell which were also a bit weird west with a mysterious gunslinger, which are worth a read.
Yep! Got those. :) I've got so many WW I didn't show.
A welcome video. Cairn is my favorite RPG rule set to solo. So I got We Deal in Lead thinking it was going to be perfect for that Shadows of Brimstone vibe, but I got side tracked. Have you tried Ironsworn: Badlands? I know you have some reservations about Ironsworn, but but using Badlands in a Shadows of Brimstone setting is just fantastic! Ironsworn: Delve is a must for exploring the mines and otherworlds and Hexcrawl is a must for the map, encounters and jobs. I highly recommend that you try it and then you could make a video comparing and contrasting the two rule sets.
Thanks! I do not like the Ironsworn system, so I will most likely not be checking out Badlands.
I actually have a three video series on how I play Shadows of Brimstone as a solo RPG using just the things in the game, along with Hexcrawl.
The Gunslinger is my favorite book, laste year I published a solo RPG inspired by (but not based on) the Dark Tower. I'll be checking this game later on.
"Go then, there are other worlds than these."
Oh right on! It’s my favorite fantasy series. :). Ran a book club during COVID. That was my 7th time through the series. :) what’s the RPG you released? I’ll check it out.
@@TheDungeonDive Really love the Dark Tower, both as a concept and as a work of fiction. I published the game on drivethru, ti's called "To the Heart of Reality", since it's based on the idea of having a quest that drives you to the center of all existence (rather than the events and characters of the series).
It's my first work so it's not great, but thanks for the interest.
Cairn and We deal in Lead are based on Into the Odd and Electric Bastionland . I have mixed them all up in solo gaming and it’s fun
Yep! Those are mentioned as inspirations in the book. Good mixes.
I gather there's a large market for sci-fi and fantasy Daniel ,but I keep hoping for a people based Western ttrpg game - purely based on the many real and big figures and major events in that part of your history . ( Would also love a non sci-fi and non fantasy WW2 game focussing on your real service people and events too ) . Thanks for your work from Oxfordshire England .
Thanks. Enjoyed your content for years. I do not have/take time to play but I am playing vicarously through you (though you do not play through often). Honest enthusiasm is key for me, and you have/deliver it ! Agree on Dark Tower. "Weird West" is right! EDIT: You do some playthrough!
I bought We Deal in Lead at my local game store last year. I have been looking for other Weird West stories (besides Dark Tower), so thank you very much for that.
First off, great video, loved the intro as this sets up the play through perfectly!
Never really been interested in this setting, but after watching this, has made me think twice 😊
Also, what makes me love rpgs is the feeling of freedom in that ANYTHING can happen, as in your story, so cool that she turns out to be a werewolf(well almost a full time one!!) But in another story, that healer could of been in league with Rose, and could of sent you down some dark path to way lay you, or get you killed 😂
Excellent video Daniel 👌😁
Thanks! Glad you enjoyed it. :)
Also a huge fan of the Weird West genre. Here's a couple of my reading recommendations are:
The Few and Cursed by Felipe Cagno,
The Good, The Bad, and the Infernal by Guy Adams
Haven’t heard of the Cagno! Thanks. I’ll look into it.
Oh and you either have an older copy or a misprint copy because my names table has all the numbers.
Great video! I bought 'We Deal In Lead' but never got around to it. I will pick up the Wild West book of tables too (although I'll be numbering the pages with biro myself by the looks of it!)
Yeah. I need to go in and number the pages. That was super annoying! I think there are a couple of volumes of that.
that was a really enjoyable video. I've never been into the wild west / weird west setting, but you make it sound really interesting and i'm going to have to track down six gun planet and the hawkline monster.
Thanks! Westerns are so cool.
Acid Westerns are another genre peps might wanna take a look at (El Topo, etc).
El Topo is pretty good!
When ever someone mentions weird west, the first thing I think of is Tex Arcana from Heavy Metal magazine. Never forget it’s beneficial demons lol.
Such good art.
It really was.
This has been on my shelf for a while. I'll have to give it a try when I get some free time.
It's very good for solo play.
Will you be featuring the rest of this story on the channel? It looks really good.
I will not. Follow up videos always under-perform.
@TheDungeonDive I'm sorry to hear that. I'm exclusively a solo roleplayer and I love actual plays. I have tried numerous times to get into group actual-plays, but I just find them incredible boring. On the other hand, solo actual-plays are my favorite form of entertainment.
I know solo campaigns tend to trail off in engagement as the videos progress. I hate that, because long-form solo campaigns are the absolute best.
I do what I can to engage with them as much as possible to encourage their growth, but alas, I am only one person.
I’d love to spend more time focusing on one game, but I also have to think of paying my bills. :). Unfortunately, that means mostly having to keep new things cycling through.
@@TheDungeonDive I understand completely. I think we all have that problem in one way or another. 😅
Daniel, that’s the gist, the essence of the dungeon dive right there in this video. That is just my opinion but man, I really enjoy it. Thanks for all the good work. I picture you as the humanists of the renaissance, curious and holistic.
Thanks. I really like this video - one of my favorites I've done. I was really hoping it would have performed better.
Dark Tower series was fantastic. Too bad about King being such a hypocrite, though.
I don't really know anything about him. I just read and like his stories. Better that way.
@@TheDungeonDive It really is. Getting on Twitter was a mistake. Uninstalled from my phone a few months ago.
I have ALWAYS thought The Black Tower would make an awesome RPG!!! However, this system aeems lacking in even as a basic system. We all have our own props and preferences but you actually have to supplement the game with additional information and resources that's an incomplete game...
Not at all. I can’t think of a single RPG I don’t supplement with other things. I love mixing and matching. But this has everything you need in a single book for solo or group play. I just choose to always have more options when I play, and like to show people neat things.