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Our latest PDF adventure for #TalesOfTheOldWest is now available exclusively via @drivethrurpg.com with art by @2000ad.bsky.social’s Tazio Bettin. The player characters are hired to retrieve a stolen bag of gold. But the situation gets complicated.

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Campfire Tales: Biting the Dust in Albuquerque - Effekt | DriveThruRPG.com
This is one of three adventures, the first Campfire Tales, which were originally written as actual play scenarios to coi
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February 12, 2026 at 6:46 PM
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#TalesoftheOldWest #RPG #Western #TTRPG
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We know some of you got #TalesoftheOldWest for Christmas. If you did, congratulations! If you are getting to “break” this new horse might want to know about this thread community on Discord discord.com/channels/398... and/or this Facebook group facebook.com/groups/30836...
Digital illustration on a cowboy riding a bucking horse while three others look on.
December 26, 2025 at 11:05 AM
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We know some of you got #TalesoftheOldWest for Christmas. If you did, congratulations! If you are getting to “break” this new horse might want to know about this thread community on Discord discord.com/channels/398... and/or this Facebook group facebook.com/groups/30836...
Digital illustration on a cowboy riding a bucking horse while three others look on.
December 26, 2025 at 10:12 AM
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And, in even more good news for Swedish fans of Effekt and Westerns, #TalesoftheOldWest is ALSO now available at the famed SF Bokhandeon too

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Tales of the Old West: Core Rules
Welcome to the Old West, where life is hard, life is short, and life don’t owe you a goddamn thing.But you are extraordinary.Neither race nor gender can limit what you can become. It don’t matter wher...
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December 11, 2025 at 8:16 AM
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Swedish Effekt podcast fans, and Swedish fans of Western themed TTRPGs. We being good news just in time for Christmas! #TalesoftheOldWest is now available IN Sweden with NO import duties. Check it out at Alphaspel

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Tales of the Old West RPG: Core Rules - Alphaspel
Spelbutik med ett av Nordens bredaste sortiment inom brädspel, figurspel, kortspel och rollspel
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December 9, 2025 at 10:35 AM
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As we say in #TalesoftheOldWest “when the guns come out, everyone loses”
November 28, 2025 at 10:38 AM
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Why does #TabletopGaming magazine give #TalesoftheOldWest the coveted #MustPlay rating? You will have to buy a copy available in UK stores from today. Or online ttgami.ng/offers
October 23, 2025 at 5:04 PM
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What IS hot, TabletopGaming magazine? (And while I am here let’s just celebrate that we can buy an independent tabletop gaming magazine on the high street). Oh look, #TalesoftheOldWest gets a mention in the Western themed Indie Roundup. That’s cool 😎
A spread from Tabletop Gaming magazine with the headlines What’s Hot on one page and Indie Roundup on the other An illustration of the cover image of our QuickShot with the text “If you want your westerns to bend more towards the realistic and historical with the same grittiness as Dust Devils, then Tales of the Old West is worth a look. This is from publisher Effekt and utilises the Year Zero engine that has been so popular in all of Free League's RPGs over the years. It promises an uncompromised view of the Old West, where the monsters are other people and the land is dangerous. You can try it for free with the quickstart rules on DrivethruRPG.
October 4, 2025 at 11:22 AM
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Great to hear Jolene and Saul Morales on Gaming Perspectives talking about #TalesoftheOldWest as a non-violent game (because of reluctance to start a fight of course). Both times he ran the adventure in the core book, it was resolved without a shot being fired.

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Episode 327: Running Non-Violent RPGs, Gaming Perspectives with Saul and Jolene — GamingPerspectives
Jolene was looking at the different types of games she has played in. Though she likes tactical combat games. She loves Shadowrun 5th edition and D&D for example, she also likes mysteries, dramas, and...
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September 30, 2025 at 11:13 AM
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During the KS for #TalesoftheOldWest the generous support of backers meant we promised 3 extra PDF adventures, the first of which The Las Vegas Legacy is released today, by amazing coincidence *exactly* one year after the stretchgoal that unlocked it was reached
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September 25, 2025 at 7:45 AM
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An excellent review of #TalesOfTheOldWest! Particularly considering that three of the four reviewers HATE the #YearZeroEngine

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LIVE Review – Tales of the Old West TTRPG by Effekt Publishing | Wild West Tabletop Roleplaying
YouTube video by Dungeons and Dyslexia
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August 14, 2025 at 3:34 PM
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Started to work my way through some Westerns as I’m intending to run the #talesoftheoldwest #ttrpg at #furnacecon in October.

Last night it was the more recent “The Thicket”. Tonight I’m going with “Pale Rider”. I’ve a bunch of Eastwoods to go through but what else should I look out for?
July 5, 2025 at 7:49 PM
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* I love our #TalesoftheOldWest ltd edition for example. But while I think it’s cloth plus foil logo is perfect for that game, I might well NOT chose a similar one if offered for MANY other games.
Maroon cloth bound hardback book with Tales of the Old West logo
July 2, 2025 at 5:39 PM
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It’s #FreeRPGday2025! Matthew will be running #TalesoftheOldWest at his local store. Speaking of which the TotOW QuickDraw is free every day at www.drivethrurpg.com/en/product/4... 68 pages - gritty Western rules, five pre-generated characters and an adventure.
Tales of the Old West QuickDraw - Effekt | DriveThruRPG
The West owes you nothin’, but it might just be the making of you. Y’all call this lawless town home—a land of opportunity and fortune, violence and danger, risk and reward. Stand by your faith, your...
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June 21, 2025 at 6:35 AM
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Our webstore is open! You can buy #TalesoftheOldWest direct from us (including the last few dozen EXCLUSIVE clothbound versions). There even shipping prices for more than one country (but not all countries yet).
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June 12, 2025 at 8:45 PM
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On #FreeRPGDay I will be at The Games Shop Aldershot running #TalesoftheOldWest
A screenshot of a Facebook post, which features a ruggedly handsome Adonis pointing at a copy of Tales of the Old West, with another copy in the crook of his arm. With the caption “Matthew will be at (Free RPG day 06.21.25)”
June 11, 2025 at 7:01 AM
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Another UK retailer is stocking #TalesoftheOldWest. This one is Dungeonland in Blackpool. If you are stuck in a caravan on a resolutely British rainy summer day up there, get yourselves over to Dungeonland to pick up a bargain. www.dungeonland.co.uk/home/Tales-O...
Tales Of The Old West Core Rulebook
Welcome to Tales of the Old West. Where life is hard, life is short, and don’t owe you a goddamn thing. But you are extraordinary. Neither race nor gender can limit what you can become. It don’t m...
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June 10, 2025 at 12:51 PM
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Gotta say, it’s a real pleasure to see all that #TalesoftheOldWest swag in your haul.
June 3, 2025 at 12:17 PM
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Not just pictures, video too! KS backer Brandon shares his first look though #TalesoftheOldWest
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Tales of the Old West - First Glimpse
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May 28, 2025 at 7:08 AM
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Yee Har! Backers in the States (and territories 😉) are getting their physical copies of #TalesoftheOldWest. So pleased they like it.
Kickstarter posts from backers receiving their copies “Received my book here in Pennsylvania, USA. Came through in perfect condition. Looks Great! Thanks for all the hard work!” “I just received my shipment here in Columbus, Ohio. I am extremely pleased! Everything arrived flawless and the book was much larger than I expected. It is gorgeous! I looooove it. The GM screen and dice are amazing as well! Thank you so much, Effekt!!!”
May 27, 2025 at 7:19 PM
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More #TalesoftheOldWest research on cavalry horses newprairiepress.org/cgi/viewcont...
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May 26, 2025 at 2:54 PM
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No, *you’re* researching the weapons that the US Cavalry would have been carrying in the 1870s in New Mexico. Colt revolvers, Springfield carbines and Sharps 1874 rifles you say? Those Cavalry sabers look good too. Things are about to hot up in #TalesoftheOldWest !
Springfield 1873 carbine and Colt single action army revolver shown with other memorabilia from the 7th Cavalry
May 26, 2025 at 10:42 AM
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It’s great to hear that our patient US #TalesoftheOldWest backers are getting their shipping notices. Everything is meant to be sent by the end of tomorrow.
A drawing of a 1880s Mexican hunter waiting, sat on a rock.
May 22, 2025 at 4:25 PM
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A high stakes poker game in Silver City and a run in with a grizzly bear in the woods - great fun with #TalesOfTheOldWest tonight!
Western saloon map with various characters represented by tokens with vintage photographs
May 21, 2025 at 8:54 PM
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In honor of #SelfPromoSaturday we are very proud to say that backers around the world are receiving our #TalesoftheOldWest TTRPG, and not only that, it’s appearing in a couple of stores too
A new releases display in the Games Shop, Aldershot, where Tales of the Old West sides alongside a coincidentally Western themed boardgame
April 19, 2025 at 11:46 AM