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Coyote Trail (2005)

It’s an age of cowboys, rustlers, gamblers, and lawmen. The town’s assembling a posse to hunt down your gang like the dogs you are. Coyote Trail includes rules to create a variety of Wild West personalities, simple rules for fights and chases, ready-to-play adventures, story ideas, reference sheets, and numerous character, horse, and wagon templates.

Coyote Trail is fast, ready-to-use, and adaptable. You don’t have to learn a complicated system, refer to scores of tables, or spend all day creating characters. You can either create custom characters for the game or dive right in with any of the included templates. The game is designed to be light; it has a small footprint and extremely low price tag – it’s not overloaded with tons of rules or an excess of information you just won’t need. It’s meant to get you running quickly so you can have a good time.

The setting is very open, taking place anywhere you choose in the America West circa 1870. Travel the dusty trails from boomtowns to native villages. Rustle cattle, rob banks, and terrorize towns. Of course, if law and justice is your thing, take on the role of sheriffs to protect towns, and drive off bandits and Indians. Then again, you could just gamble all your money away. The included adventures immerse you into the heart of the West so even if you don’t want to the run them, you’ve still got a lot of inspiration to help flavor your setting or inspire ideas. The rules are also flexible enough to handle your own vision of the West or that of your favorite Western movie, television program, or novel.

This PDF version of Coyote Trail is ideal for those on a tight budget or who prefer instant access.

Optimized System & File
Coyote Trail includes the revised genreDiversion i rules, which provides flexible and consistent mechanics for horses, wagons, character virtues and corruptions, and more, utilizing 2 six-sided dice. The design of the PDF file has also been optimized, so you can download and print it more quickly than similarly-sized products.

Ready-to-use templates to get into the action quickly
Numerous templates for characters, horses, and wagons.

Two ready-to-play scenarios
Perfect as a diversion from your other games.

Story ideas
Numerous story and subplot ideas to help create your own scenarios.

Compatible
Use with Active Exploits Diceless or Impresa. Update characters from Shady Gulch. Easily adapt weapons from the Knuckleduster Firearms Shop.

8.5×11″ blank sheets and Disposable Dice™
Print a single page for easy-to-assemble paper dice when none are available.

Expandable
Supplements are available to expand the game.