“You wanna shoot me, Marshal? You ain’t fast enough, and my posse has a pyromaniac gadgeteer who’s already aiming at ya. You ain’t got the grit. You want me, I’ll be traveling the owl-hoot trail.” – Calabash Twigg, orcish outlaw, part-time bounty hunter and a very bad man To ride the owl-hoot trail: to take […]
Category Archives: Owl Hoot Trail
By Kevin Kulp Owl Hoot Trail is a fantasy steampunk Western game (reviewed here and here) published by Pelgrane in 2013. Clinton R. Nixon wrote the core of the game that Matt Breen and I developed. Our aim wasn’t to make a Western-flavored fantasy game that felt like D&D with spurs; it was to make […]
by Clinton Dreisbach “The Box” is an adventure for Owl Hoot Trail meant to be run over one session. It is a good introduction to the game and is suitable for one-shots, but can work as the beginning of a campaign. The structure is a little unusual in that the adventure is about two groups […]
The Everwayan points out that with “…all the excitement over the release of 13th Age, it might be easy to overlook another excellent new release from Pelgrane Press, the Western RPG Owl Hoot Trail.” Further along is mentioned “The setting is mostly up to you. You can dial up the Weird Westerness or dial it […]
Handouts Matthew Breen has designed a lovely one-page character sheet for Owl Hoot Trail – download it here. Download the two-page extended character sheet from the rulebook here. Download the three Perdition map handouts from the rulebook here. Adventures The Box is a one-shot adventure by Clinton Dreisbach – read it here. Articles and Resources Kevin […]
User Baz King on the UK Roleplayer forums says that Owl Hoot Trail makes him want to tear up all his notes. He continues, “The system in OHT is simple and light, but with all the buttons that OGL games press. On a quick read though, I’m impressed and want to know more.” Read the […]
Co-Designer of Owl Hoot Trail Clinton runs a game of the finished Owl Hoot Trail on google hangout with Jason Morningstar, Andy Kakowski and Bert Isola.
by Kevin Kulp My first mistake was in thinking Owl Hoot Trail was D&D with guns. I was just starting to develop and polish Clinton R. Nixon’s remarkable, streamlined game of old western fantasy, and I thought I was on well-trodden and familiar ground. I set up a sample encounter, one which I expected […]