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Originally Posted by Atgxtg
If we wanted to be completely true to history, we should probably drop gunfighters and cowboys from the profession tables. Just too rare. It seems that at their heyday there were less than 40,000 Coybows in the Old West. That is about 1 person per 1000, at best.
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Yah, boo!
Sure, there were loads of farmers, farmers' wives, shopkeepers, tailors and so on. But so what?
If you have a Wild West setting you don't want to play a shopkeeper who just keeps shop. Well, I wouldn't, anyway.
You'd want to play the farmer whose family was slaughtered by bandits, the pioneer whose sister was captured by Indians, the civil war veteran who has become a bandit, a lone gunslinger, the whore with a heart of gold, the crazy prospector, a group of bandits and so on.
People don't play the 90% of people, they prefer the 10% of the population who were exciting and interesting.