Boot Hill is a western role-playing game designed by Brian Blume and Gary Gygax. First published in 1975, Boot Hill was TSR's third role-playing game, not long after Dungeons and Dragons and Empire of the Petal Throne.
Boot Hill has been both praised and criticised for focusing on gunfighting. The first edition was specifically marketed as a miniatures combat game, but even in the later editions, most of the rules are combat resolution, with rela...
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