"Bounty Hunting as a Wargame" Topic

Would a ruleset about bounty hunting interest you?

If so, would you prefer it to be:

* set in current times
* set in a historic period
* set in a near-future period
* set in a sci-fi setting
* set in a horror setting
* other (explain)

For me I would prefer a historic setting, but that could also include a bit of horror. Ooooh, I have to start finding the figures!!!

Other: Naval. Age of Sail, please.

Scifi or cyberpunk would get me interested.

I'd check it out if it was a wild west game but I think the wild west game from THW pretty much nailed all that stuff.

Near future or scifi.

I'm not sure that you need a dedicated "bounty hunter game system". Any skirmish system (e.g. THW, Infinity, Necromudia, etc.) could handle this as a scenario. The key would be deployment, victory, scenario, and force composition special rules.

So maybe a "Bounty Hunter Supplement" would suffice?

Another for 'near-future/SF/c-punk' and agree a supplement to existing rules would probably suffice.

I'm surprised that no one has done a Dog The Bounty Hunter Family yet. Pure Post-Apoc, but good for Modern too.

Perhaps there should be a Cops and Robbers Board.

Age of Conan

I'd like to have a Dog TBH and family mini set

WT Heck, sure, I will just not buy it.

I'd play a game (heck, the High Value Target objectives in Infinity are potentially Bounties).

I don't really think it would need a dedicated game, just a generic supplement with ideas for objectives.

Sci-fi or fantasy. Takes the nasty reality out of it and lets you run your favorite assorted scum and villainy human and otherwise…

Leland R. Erickson
Metal Express
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Strontium Dog!

For Sci-Fi scenario ideas, check out "Killjoys" on the SyFy channel, which just aired its first episode last week, and which is being re-run occasionally.

Friday nights, for more content.

Western or Traveller-style or post-Apok

Other: a 'Area 88' type mercenary game-jet on jet fighter.

PT Boat or 'Littoral'-type ships in a huge archipelago/island cluster.

My favorite: Modern rpg with bounties on bankers and Wall Street brokers that broke bail.

THW'S Chain Reaction would be perfect for a game like this. (And it's free!)

Editor and all,
Bounty hunting isn't what the media portrays. I worked as a bondsman for a local company outside the Knoxville area of Tennessee for about 5 years. I occasionally picked up bounties when I was broke or the company couldn't justify paying the Bounty hunter for the FTA (failure to appear). A typical bounty was simply locating the skip, most people ignorant enough to break the law and run generally don't have the means to support a long evasion period. So they end up hiding among family or fiends generally unaware of their proper court date. No one with means to evade will risk personal finance and employment by running. Once located, the warrant from the FTA serves as the only legal justification a bondsman/bounty hunter needs to legally violate some basic personal liberties. Most of which the police are not permitted to ignore when apprehending a suspect. These rights are waved by the contract with the bondsmen if the suspect doesn't appear in court and would surprise most people who knew them. Most bondsman/bounty hunters, the professionals at least, just report to the local law enforcement, present a warrant and request an officer to accompany them to the location. Local authorities generally assist to move the process along for public safety. Unless your in the state of Kentucky, who are know to detain and deport bounty hunters, unpleasantly.
The criminals mostly consist of DUI, Domestic violence, minor drug possession. Anyone with an interesting or violent tendency will probably not make bond. The rest of the job mostly consisted of accounting, following cases, interviews, and getting phone calls from the incarcerated at all hours of the night.
Television/media has done a great deal of sensationalizing the genera. Most of the real job would end up as an editor's deleted key stroke. The interesting part of the whole profession is the basis for apprehension dates back to laws established in 1873, post-civil war America with only minor revision on the state level. The carrying of fire arms across state boundaries, entering premise of suspected harboring, abduction and detaining with little to no explanation, all based on a FTA warrant from another town or state.
Limiting the game to just the modern era might be a mistake, however from 1873 forward might give you enough to develop a broad range of scenarios for desired replay.

Wingnut

I already have a couple for fantasy, one for scifi, a few for pulp, and one for horror. I'm currently working on The Trail of the Scarlet Pumpernickel!

Interesting, wn.

Tuscaloosa,
What I took away from it is if your skipping on a misdemeanor run for Louisville, if it's Federal hide in Southwestern Oklahoma. The stories I have are less like "Dawg" and more like "Night Court".

Wingnut.

Probably a good argument to do it in a post-apocalyptic or scifi setting instead :-)

I know this doesn't have anything to do about rules. But I always thought this would make a cool bounty hunter mission. Its for laserburn but with a little tweaking it would fit most games. I thought about using it in Necromunda.

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