THE SETTING
For our Old West games we created the fictional Pima County, New Mexico. There is a real Pima County in Arizona, but we moved ours to New Mexico so we had more freedom for creativity. Our Pima County is a microcosm of the real New Mexico featuring all of those iconic terrain features from your favourite western movies, ranging from wide arid deserts to verdant grasslands, from broken mesas to high, snow-capped peaks, with plains and Bad Lands thrown into the mix along with a border with Mexico provided by the Rio Grande.
So Pima gave us a setting for shootouts in towns, raids on banks, assay offices and ore carrying mine wagons, cattle rustling, range wars, actions against hostiles, attempts to rob stage coaches and trains, incursions…
