If you know Bully Pulpit's other game 'Fiasco' this game is similar.

'Cowboys With Big Hearts' is a basic 'Story Game' about a group of people in a story closer to what Clint Eastwood would direct.

I purchased the hardcopy and PDF. I'm located in Canada and shipping was reasonable for price and time.

I printed the play sheets and they look great as well.

The subject matter and the history that it's based on is tragic in its own right. These people are all on the shortest end of the stick.

So, why not be a rag-tag collection of slow speaking, shade throwing, do-gooders on an Archer-esque rampage through the no-longer so wild west.

You can all be Doc Holliday (Tombstone, Wyatt Earp), Satine (from Moulin Rouge), Purvis (from Alien: Resurrection), or https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/IncurableCoughOfDeath

These documents have everything a player needs to play their character.

My gaming group has had a lot of fun with The Immortal.

This book is exactly the supplement you want to play games in the same genre as John Carter, Buck Rogers, Flash Gordon, and believe it or not Futurama. This realization made it difficult for me to NOT see Fry as the Earthling, Prof Farnsworth as the Technician, Leela as the Mutant, and Bender as the Engine of Destruction. It's a great looking book with art from the era the game is based off of. If you are a fan of "Swords & Planets" style fantasy and want to use Dungeon World as your game system then this is the book for you.

This is the game that you want when you want to emulate Blade Runner, Neuromancer and almost any novel of the cyberpunk genre. This game brings the idea forth that characters are not created in a vacuum and without relationships are little more than wannabes walking the street talking to themselves.

Technoir has a simple tool for game masters to create a plot and allows the player characters to get involved quickly once the plot map has been completed. This very same plot map is used to show the web of relationships within your individual game and how it relates to the city guide (termed as Transmission in the game) your group is using.

The book is simplistic in its layout and structure. It's art is stock standard except for the chapter dividers which beautifully evoke the cyberpunk/noir feel by showing active life in each of the cities described in the Transmissions. Much like the cover of the book.

One of the major flaws of this game is its focus on character-character interaction and that it only wants scenes to develop towards conflict with two living things. You cannot roll the dice to affect a lock, you simply pick that lock to get into the building, but you will have to face off against the guards inside if they catch you. This is something for players to get used to and can detract from the first few games.

Long term play could also be seen as a flaw but this game would be excellent in a convention or for a short campaign with regular players.

I would recommend this game to anyone wanting to play a cyberpunk game and especially those who have played Shadowrun or Cyberpunk for a long period of time to see how this game uses the tropes of the genre differently.

While I have been the game master for over twenty years this book gave me insight into the 'hows' and 'whys' of the new style of game mastering. It goes beyond having the characters meeting in a bar and being approached by shadowy stranger. I highly recommend this book for any game master.

How to be a Great GM is an excellent resource for new game masters and game masters wanting to get back to the basics of the craft of game mastering. It provides excellent advice that is often available in pieces around other role playing game books, the Internet and game master sections of RPG books.