Frontiers

Frontiers is a Wild West steampunk themed live action role-playing game using boffer & Nerf weapons to resolve combat in a simple rules system with a strong focus on role-play, costuming, and atmosphere. All stories played out in the game are generated by the players through the characters they play without any game masters or non-player characters.

For ages 18 and up

Overall Theme

Money. It’s the heart of the American Dream to become filthy rich overnight. The California Gold Rush of 1849 was the source of this dream for the hundreds of thousands of people who traveled from far and wide to mine the gold fields of the wild west. For many, the California Gold Rush did not have the results they had hoped for, but gold is discovered at Fort Colville of the Oregon Territory and a new gold rush is on.

Fort Colville was established in 1825 as a fur trading post with the local Native American Indian tribe, but as more people hear about the gold there, the Fort Colville Gold Rush is about to begin. The name of the game is to make In-Game money using any means, within the rules and social expectations, as you see fit.

Frontiers would like to explore a dilapidated feel of steampunk with rusted metal, tarnished brass, and worn leather of a working class trading post town mixed with the shining new of inventions and the incoming wealthy all within the typical Wild West American vision.

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Canon Note

Canon for the world of Frontiers has a foundation of social and historical expectations as included on this website, but does not necessarily include contributed materials. Contributed materials, which will be noted and credited, are creative additions to the world of Frontiers that add flavor to the game, but is neither right or wrong, nor does it have to used by all players. Players are encouraged to debate, discuss, theorize, and contemplate contributed information through their characters. This idea allows players to create intrigue and share creative ideas that makes the world of Frontiers a unique and interesting place.

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References & Influences

The world of Frontiers is the work of Biomechine Productions (Natalya C), and is not based on any one source. There are many stories set in the steampunk genre that may or may not be reflected in Frontiers, but the following media provided ideas:

Movies

• 12 Monkeys
• 13 Ghosts
• From Hell
• Mary Shelley's Frankenstien
• Sherlock Holmes
• Steamboy
• Wild Wild West
• Young Guns

Television

• Deadwood
• Escaflowne
• Now and Then Here and There
• Tinman

Video Games

• Crono Trigger
• Final Fantasy 1 - 7

Other

Internet searches on steampunk and 19th century America