We Deal in Lead

We Deal in Lead

The Other Worlds Jam (#OtherWorldsJam) saw 11 amazing projects made for We Deal in Lead.

Stride into perilous worlds and give 'em hell with lead and grit.

We Deal in Lead is an 88-page full-colour rulebook delivering genre-bending gunslinging in a post-apocalyptic weird west world. Designed by Colin Le Sueur and inspired by The Dark Tower and the Man With No Name, We Deal in Lead is a lightweight combat-focused TTRPG perfect for brutal one-shots, tense solo excursions, or epic campaigns.

This book contains everything you need to dive in, including:

• Pulse-pounding gunslinger action, with legendary guns and lightning fast combat.
• An introductory gunslinger expedition, perfect for teaching new players.
• Options for solo play with a tarot-based oracle, freeing you from the curse of scheduling.
• An excursion generator to create random weird west adventures, getting you into the action immediately.
• Compatibility with Cairn; escape with your gunslingers into fantastical genres and deadly times.

Download includes a 6-track companion soundtrack EP, fillable character sheets, and an excursion tracker.

Stand true, gunslinger!

Of Sleeping Bears has done an amazing job with Watch & Warrant, the companion 6 track EP for We Deal in Lead.

• 01. High Moon
• 02. The Ghost Town of Lud
• 03. Ash & Brimstone
• 04. Rest for the Wicked
• 05. A New Frontier
• 06. Broken Order

All 6 tracks are included with the Ashcan PDF and Physical Edition.

Album art by Kim Diaz Holm.

You can find Colin (@ByOdinsBeardRPG) on Twitter, Instagram, or Facebook.

Or you can find our store at shop.byodinsbeardrpg.com.

• Colin Le Sueur (@byodinsbeardrpg) - Writer/Designer
• Fiona Maeve Geist - Editor
• Kim Diaz Holm (@DenUngeHerrHolm) - Interior Illustrations
• Amita Sevellaraja (@volapardus) - Interior Illustrations
• Perplexing Ruins (@perplexingruins)- Interior Illustrations
• Felipe da Silva Faria (@FELIPEMUKY) - Interior Illustrations
• Colin Le Sueur (@byodinsbeardrpg) - Interior Illustrations
• Evangeline Gallagher (@egallagher_art) - Interior Illustrations
• Carlos Castilho - Interior Illustrations
• Goran Gligović (@GoranGligovic) - Cover Illustrator
• Andriy Lukin (@andriylukin) - Logo Designer
• Of Sleeping Bears (Bandcamp) - Soundtrack Composer

From Colin

The tales of the Gunslinger and the Dark Tower have lived inside my head since I first read the novels in high school. A broken world, the last gunslinger in his quest to find the meaning of existence, his motley band of fellow gunslingers. There they stayed, locked away, every so often bubbling up to the surface. I've been searching for a way to translate the worlds of the Dark Tower into a faithful, exciting, engaging TTRPG and I think I've cracked it. 

We Deal in Lead is the Dark Tower filtered through my personal roleplaying experience, using the excellent and modular Cairn system. Make the broken world your own and forge new adventures. Stand true, gunslingers!

ModernModron (@modernmodron), artist and designer:

Absolutely dripping in flavour, We Deal in Lead feels ripe to create a dark fiction environment. I particularly like the rules for the order/ breaking the order and it sets up a great narrative arc leading out of a major loss, which is fantastic.

byneonlight:

First come smiles, then lies. Last is gunfire.
This has not only the mechanical prowess to accomplish its genre/setting emulation, but the soul. I cannot wait to assemble my ka-tet and ride!

Here's a recent playtest of the v0.10 rules and a preview of the introductory scenario. Thanks to Joe and Phil for helping me with the playtest!

Second playtest and actual play. Thanks to Jeremy, Kent, and Ryan!

Third playtest and actual play. Thanks Jack, John, and Wendi!