In the Light of a Setting Sun: Tombstone Edition

In the Light of a Setting Sun is an adventuring tabletop roleplaying game for western adventures; take on the role of a Cowpoke, a fighter who must rely on their gumption to make their way in an uncaring world. Tombstone Edition builds off of the remains of previous editions, while adding a number of new mechanics and resources for Judges. 

Play with it, ruminate on it, improve it.

Tell me your thoughts in the official Setting Sun discord.

• Created by Jon Davis 
• Developed & Edited by Fiona Geist
• Cover & Layout by Micah Anderson

This game kills fascists! 

"I haven’t spoken since I left the beautiful Wyoming ranges; the Tombstone edition of In the Light of a Setting Sun is worth breaking my vow of silence."

- M. Dolor

"A brilliant, quick draw Western ruleset arming you with everything you need to play exciting and dangerous campaigns across rolling landscapes. I particularly love the Renown mechanic and how it ties into duels and the likeliness of your character dying. Elixirs offer otherworldliness and the whole set of simple rules sings the old songs of the genre."

- Marco Serrano, Spicy Tuna RPG

"The engine of this game is cleaner than it has any right to be - much cleaner than the dusty frontier towns it depicts. The writing is sparse, but that is a feature, not a bug - you don't have to hack apart paragraphs to find the rules you need and there's just enough hint of an implied setting that it feels generative as opposed to choking and restrictive. I meant to spend several days reading through it but I breezed through the text in a single evening, visions of gunfighters in my head."

- James from Crumbling Keep

• $100 USD - I'll be able to afford developmental editing for the book.
• $300 USD - I'll be able to afford copy editing for the book.
• $800 USD - I'll  be able to afford layout for the book.
• $1,000 USD - I'll be able to make the book PWYW.
• $1,500 USD - I'll be able to write a starter adventure for Tombstone Edition.
• $1,600 USD - I'll be able to afford developmental editing for the adventure.
• $1,800 USD - I'll be able to afford copy editing for the adventure.
• $2,300 USD - I'll be able to afford layout for the adventure. 
• $4,000 USD - I'll be able to afford an initial print run of a hardcover version.

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• Need a cowpoke on the fly? Try the Setting Sun Cowpoke Generator made by Brandon Yu (Chaoclypse)!

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