"Interesting gaming idea I found in a comic book" Topic

Yesterday I took my kids to the local comic book store for them to look around. As I was wandering around I saw a comic series entitled "Manifest Destiny". On the cover were two guys dressed in War of 1812 style uniforms. Interesting thought I and took a look. It was on the Lewis and Clark expedition but with a twist. Not only were they to explore and note wildlife ect. But check out the French rumors that monsters exist in the unknown West and kill them if true.

Read the first one and got hooked. So I have ordered some Knuckleduster War of 1812 figures along with a few of my Mountain Men and getting ready to game a "Weird" early West style game.

I think this has a lot of potential. You have the Spanish and Hudson Bay not happy about the US moving into the region. There could be secret cults, unknown tribes of strange beings, traditional Indian mythical creatures and who knows what else. Along with Indians, Russians, Spanish and trappers/traders.

Now to look for some good creatures, cults and monsters and figure out a good set of rules to use. Ah, a good summer project ( along with the other five or six I have going).

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I am going in this direction myself, once my Imagi-Nation tries to claim some of Mother Spain's New World territory for itself. About a hundred years earlier, but the same basic idea.

Sound idea , got me straight onto the bookmarks.
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Check out the old Deadland monsters figures.

In a similar vein, the (excellent) John the Balladeer/Silver John stories and novels by the late Manly Wade Wellman use many different myths and legends of the Appalachians as plot points: link

Good comic gave me plenty of ideas.

Love the monsters ideas. Especially the Wendigo and the Demons from CP.

Anyone else know about the Manifest Destiny comics?

You might also try some old D&D monsters: rock monsters in the Rocky Mountains, lurkers, water elementals, marauding buffalo, killer elk, etc. And don't forget jack'olopes (probable inappropriate appostrophy use).

Evil Man Eating Horse.

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This sounds really cool and reminded me of this book from a couple years ago- Cryptid about the secret journals about Lewis and Clark finding Bigfoot on their expedition…

You have to share pics of what you come up with

Thanks jpattern2,

Wow! A whole new genre to mine for pulp. Just Wow!!!

Right now I am thinking of matching French with werewolves, Spanish with a religious cult, Russians with Vampires along with zombie Indians, Wendigos and other such monsters.
Man, I wish someone made a 28mm Keelboat! Also, starting to think about what rules to use, umh.

Don't forget that the Chinese had explored the West coast, and perhaps dumped off some of their unwelcome monstrous creatures or persons.

I hadn't thought of that. Excellent idea.

The Abenaki have a tradition of were wolf stories perhaps learned from their contact with the Norse. There are many similarities in their mythology.

I used this for a French and Indian war game a while ago:

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and I worked in European witches here:

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You absolutely need dinosaurs. Jefferson seriously thought the Corps of Discovery might meet dinosaurs, wooly mammoths and other cool extinct creatures. Prove him right.

Very cool. Strikes me as a Lewis and Clark version of Brotherhood of the Wolf (neat idea).

Indians dressing up bears and wildcats to terrorize the white man? Sounds like a plan! :D