Generates Wild West outlaws. I will probably use this in the SUBLIGHT hexcrawl I'm now running. Pairs well with this or this or maybe even this. The gang member list also has a lot of possible uses.
Favourite Crime
- Bank robbery
- Train robbery
- Highway robbery
- Cattle rustling
- Horse theft
- Kidnapping
- Jailbreaking
- Industrial sabotage
- Church desecration
- Holding up poker games
- Shaking down other outlaws
- Murder for hire
MO
- Leaves one witness alive to tell the tale
- Sets everything on fire on the way out
- Robs from the rich, gives to the poor
- Uses dynamite wherever possible
- Always has a man on the inside
- Distracts the law with pointless atrocities
- Sends victims a calling card in advance
- Attacks on moonless nights, using darkness
- Makes hostages choose which of them will die
- Blackmails good citizens into helping them
- Enraged by small disruptions to the plan
- Bans speech, makes gang use sign language
Background
- Lost family to plague, blames God
- Lost farm to unscrupulous rich guy
- Fought on losing side of civil war
- Cast out of weird religious sect
- Child of famous, secretly abusive lawman
- Escaped from cruel orphanage as pre-teen
- Last survivor of doomed expedition
- Last scion of aristocratic family
- Hanged for theft, woke up in their grave
- Falsely accused, imprisoned, escaped
- Sheriff's deputy fallen from grace
- Driven mad by unrequited love
Hideout
- Abandoned mine
- Colonial fort
- Maze of canyons
- Hunting cabin
- Ghost town
- Crumbling pueblo
- Bat-infested caves
- Distant oasis
- Old lumbermill
- High plateau
- Deserted ranch
- Circle of wagons
Preferred Weapon
- Sharps buffalo rifle - kills at tremendous range
- Pair of Colt Peacemakers w/ ivory stocks
- Sawn-off Winchester lever-action shotgun
- Remington derringer hidden in boot
- Military-issue Martini-Henry single-shot rifle
- Cart-mounted hand-cranked Gatling gun
- Antique Spanish blunderbuss, primed to explode
- Apache revolver - knife + pistol + brass knuckles
- Comanche shortbow, built to fire from horseback
- Heavy cavalry sabre used at Waterloo
- Gunstock war club decorated with feathers
- Hollow-handled tomahawk - also a tobacco pipe
Nemesis
- Naive, incorruptible town sheriff
- Solitary, weatherbeaten federal marshal
- Greed-maddened, filthy bounty hunter
- Teenage girl with murdered parents
- Railroad tycoon w/ money to burn
- Militant preacher defending their flock
- Newspaper editor agitating for justice
- Old henchman left for dead after failed heist
- Greenhorn gunfighter out to prove themselves
- Flamboyant general w/ loyal private army
- Hanging judge, famous for brutal sentences
- Clean-living masked ranger who hates to kill
Gang Members (roll as many times as you like)
- Hardened convict
- Military deserter
- Defrocked preacher
- Snake-oil salesman
- Pockmarked coward
- Big-game hunter
- Furclad mountain man
- Giggly opium addict
- Kid raised by wolves
- Cuddly alcoholic
- Foppish piano player
- Congenital moron
- Claustrophobic ex-miner
- Genteel cannibal
- Explosives expert
- Too-many-knives guy
- Lithe ex-acrobat
- Paranoid gun smuggler
- Escaped slave
- Impossibly old guy
- Devil worshipper
- Amateur playwright
- Amateur poet
- Amateur magician
- Amateur pickpocket
- Horse pervert
- Jolly blacksmith
- Duo of comic oafs
- Enormously strong idiot
- Talking parrot
- Guy who talks to birds
- Old-timey prospector
- Bloody-aproned butcher
- Monocled dandy
- Creepy undertaker
- Banker turned beggar
- Twitchy gambling addict
- Obsequious lickspittle
- Doomsday prophet
- Nitpicking accountant
- Card sharp
- Crooked surveyor
- Riverboat captain
- Taciturn cattle drover
- Fanatical atheist
- Fortune teller
- Cutthroat barber
- Tornado chaser
- One-eyed sharpshooter
- Friendly dog
- Unfriendly dog
- Grizzled scalphunter
- Elderly toymaker
- Snake handler
- Obstreperous dwarf
- Baron Munchausen
- Optimistic leper
- Cigar chomper
- Misanthropic sawbones
- Pox-ridden debauchee
- Yelping hillbilly
- Hairy-faced dog boy
- Failed politician
- Superstitious heavyweight
- Firework fetishist
- Melancholy chessmaster
- Gun nerd
- Moustache twirler
- Rabid patriot
- Insect tamer
- Gonzo journalist
- Fossil collector
- Bullwhip cracker
- Tooth extractor
- Six-fingered slavecatcher
- UFO watcher
- Animal torturer
- Paranoid gold hoarder
- Compulsive duelist
- Trick rider
- Tobacco chewer
- Wheezing consumptive
- Clammy-handed strangler
- Rain predictor
- Unscrupulous apothecary
- Raw-meat eater
- Boisterous fat guy
- Pumpkin carver
- Stick whittler
- Dirty joke teller
- Champion whistler
- Water dowser
- Vampire hunter
- Tongueless mutterer
- Lynching survivor
- Burn victim
- Faith healer
- Tattoo artist
- Mental calculator
- Silent throatcutter
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