I ran a wild west game of 5e called Spellslinger for three years from 3rd to 15th. You can actually adapt most DnD monsters and races quite easily to a wild west them.
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Dwarves - gold and mithril prospectors
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Wood elves - dessert nomads
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Aaracocra - native Americans although you need to be respectful obviously
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Tielflings - always played piano in bars for some reason
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Giants - desert giants work really naturally
It also turns out they’re is an absolute ton of fantasy wild west art which serves for great inspiration.
–thats…fantastic! New inspiration for me, wild west fantasy
It was so much fun to run as well. Watch a few episodes of West World, or Cowboys vs Aliens, and you would be brimming with ideas.
The ever-present ‘southern desert’ in my campaign world is now firmly and forever going to be a wild west frontier for sure.
The only regret I have is that I didn’t have this mini at the time!
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