In his most famous book series, The First Law, Joe Abercrombie does something genius. Even though his series is set in the same fantasy setting, not every novel in the same genre. His novel, Red Country, is a Western novel inside a fantasy world. There's cattle drives and boom towns. It is a fantasy story but also very much a Western tale. I highly recommend it! 

It inspired me to bring a similar mashup to a fantasy ttrpg. I had developed a place with loud saloons and lonely desert boom towns but this was all for D&D. And over the years, I had seen other D&D "westerns" come and go as one-shot products, so I put it all away. As a side note, I love Deadlands, but that's whole different thing than what I was trying to pull off.

I even commissioned art a while back.

Blame it on the truffalo
Monte Cook Games reached out to a lot of folks to see if we wanted to join Megadungeon month. I was flattered as I was also part of the group MCG called on for the Cypher OGL project that birthed Mystery Flesh Pit National Park ttrpg.

I was trying to find an inspiration for what to do as a dungeon when it hit me, I could do an underdark western boom town! You couldn’t get more fantasy western ttrpg than that! The same day, I came up with the truffalo and it all clicked. It cemented for me after I came up with some factions more appropriate to an underdark area as compared to a surface world setting.

Don't like westerns, don't worry
I realize many fantasy GMs are buying things for the parts, not the whole. It something I do myself. So while this dungeon has weird west elements, it is also right what it says on the tin, a giant Hobgoblin Market fleshed out with random tables, NPCs and locations adventurers can visit to buy gear or find work. This way, GMs who aren't as attracted to the weird west parts can just ignore them and use what they want!

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Buckle up, bronchos 'cause we are in for a ride.