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Dust Devils is an independently published
Indie role-playing game

An indie role-playing game is a role-playing game published outside of traditional, "mainstream" means. Varying definitions require that commercial, design, or conceptual elements of the game stay under the control of the creator, or that the game should just be produced outside of a corporation environment....
 role-playing game
Role-playing game

A role-playing game is a game in which the participants assume the roles of fictional characters. Participants determine the actions of their characters based on their characterization, and the actions succeed or fail according to a role-playing game system of rules and guidelines....
 set in the Old West, written by Matt Snyder
Matt Snyder

Matt Snyder is a Canadian football quarterback. He has played for the semi-pro London Silverbacks of the North American Football League and for the University of Windsor Windsor Lancers....
. It was voted the 2002 Indie RPG Game of the Year; it also won the Best Synergy of Game and Rules category, as well as placing in the Best Production and Most Innovative Game categories.

The game uses playing cards and Poker mechanics to resolve scenes and situations. Players create poker hands using their character's scores to earn cards.






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Dust Devils is an independently published
Indie role-playing game

An indie role-playing game is a role-playing game published outside of traditional, "mainstream" means. Varying definitions require that commercial, design, or conceptual elements of the game stay under the control of the creator, or that the game should just be produced outside of a corporation environment....
 role-playing game
Role-playing game

A role-playing game is a game in which the participants assume the roles of fictional characters. Participants determine the actions of their characters based on their characterization, and the actions succeed or fail according to a role-playing game system of rules and guidelines....
 set in the Old West, written by Matt Snyder
Matt Snyder

Matt Snyder is a Canadian football quarterback. He has played for the semi-pro London Silverbacks of the North American Football League and for the University of Windsor Windsor Lancers....
. It was voted the 2002 Indie RPG Game of the Year; it also won the Best Synergy of Game and Rules category, as well as placing in the Best Production and Most Innovative Game categories.

The game uses playing cards and Poker mechanics to resolve scenes and situations. Players create poker hands using their character's scores to earn cards. Then, they compare poker hands to see how their characters perform in a scene. The game was the first RPG to introduce a randomized narrator. In the game, whoever plays the highest single card during a scene becomes the narrator for how the scene ends and what happens in it.

Matt Snyder republished Dust Devils in expanded form in 2007. The new edition, called "Dust Devils Revenged," includes updated rules, play advice, and a brief examination of the Old West in film
Film

Film encompasses individual motion pictures, the field of film as an art form, and the film industry. Films are produced by recording images from the world with cameras, or by creating images using animation techniques or special effects....
 and history. The new edition also included three different settings for the game.

Deathwish re-envisioned the game for modern spy action. Ronin, by Jason Blair, altered the game rules for Feudal Japan. Concrete Angels, by Jared Sorensen, altered the game for Neo noir crime.

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