Gunless Gauchos

Well, partner, we reckon you'd be a gosh-darned fool to miss this here PWYW game

Now, we said we wouldn't publish a "Western," since that genre tends to be tied up with a mess of tropes about colonialism. But our buddy Will convinced us that you can play an elf on a horse singing songs by moonlight about ranching and fighting and surviving on the semi-arid plains without those tropes. Heck, without six-shooters, even. So here we are.

Pick yourself up this one-page game, grab a d6 (six-sided die), imagine up somebody with a mysterious past out on the frontier (a frontier—if it wasn't dang obvious already—without any guns!), and get to having a good time with your fellow gauchos.

It's one lonesome page! What are you waiting for!?

If you like this one, maybe check out some of Will's other excellent work:

• Borough Bound
• Music d20

And check out some games designed by this here Stillfleet Studio:

• Danse Macabre: Medieval Horror Roleplaying
• Stillfleet
• Blister Critters

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Gunless Gauchos v1.0. July, 2025
Words by Will Savino
Art and design by the Stillfleet Studio:
Art by Ethan Gould
With additional art by Sunaree Paiwong
Logo by Christopher Pickett
Layout by Wythe Marschall and Sunaree Paiwong
© 2025 Will Savino (game) and the Stillfleet Studio (art)