We Deal in Lead

Stride into perilous worlds and give ‘em hell with lead and grit.

We Deal in Lead is an 88-page full-colour rulebook delivering genre-bending gunslinging in a post-apocalyptic weird west world. Designed by Colin Le Sueur and inspired by The Dark Tower and the Man With No Name, We Deal in Lead is a lightweight combat-focused TTRPG perfect for brutal one-shots, tense solo excursions, or epic campaigns.

This book contains everything you need to dive in, including:

Pulse-pounding gunslinger action, with legendary guns and lightning fast combat.
An introductory gunslinger expedition, perfect for teaching new players.
Options for solo play with a tarot-based oracle, freeing you from the curse of scheduling.
An excursion generator to create random weird west adventures, getting you into the action immediately.
Compatibility with Cairn; escape with your gunslingers into fantastical genres and deadly times.

Download includes a 6-track companion soundtrack EP, fillable character sheets, and an excursion tracker.

Stand true, gunslinger!

Soundtrack

Of Sleeping Bears has done an amazing job with Watch & Warrant, the companion 6 track EP for We Deal in Lead.

High Moon
The Ghost Town of Lud
Ash & Brimstone
Rest for the Wicked
A New Frontier
Broken Order

Album art by Kim Diaz Holm.

You can find Colin (@ByOdinsBeardRPG) on Twitter, Instagram, or Facebook.

Team Members

Colin Le Sueur (@byodinsbeardrpg) - Writer/Designer
Fiona Maeve Geist - Editor
Kim Diaz Holm (@DenUngeHerrHolm), Amita Sevellaraja (@volapardus), Perplexing Ruins (@perplexingruins), Felipe da Silva Faria (@FELIPEMUKY), Colin Le Sueur (@byodinsbeardrpg), Evangeline Gallagher (@egallagher_art), Carlos Castilho - Interior Illustrations
Goran Gligović (@GoranGligovic) - Cover Illustrator
Andriy Lukin (@andriylukin) - Logo Designer
Of Sleeping Bears (Bandcamp) - Soundtrack Composer

From Colin

The tales of the Gunslinger and the Dark Tower have lived inside my head since I first read the novels in high school. A broken world, the last gunslinger in his quest to find the meaning of existence, his motley band of fellow gunslingers. There they stayed, locked away, every so often bubbling up to the surface. I’ve been searching for a way to translate the worlds of the Dark Tower into a faithful, exciting, engaging TTRPG and I think I’ve cracked it.

We Deal in Lead is the Dark Tower filtered through my personal roleplaying experience, using the excellent and modular Cairn system. Make the broken world your own and forge new adventures. Stand true, gunslingers!

What People Are Saying

ModernModron (@modernmodron), artist and designer:

Absolutely dripping in flavor, We Deal in Lead feels ripe to create a dark fiction environment. I particularly like the rules for the order/ breaking the order and it sets up a great narrative arc leading out of a major loss, which is fantastic

byneonlight:

First come smiles, then lies. Last is gunfire.

This has not only the mechanical prowess to accomplish its genre/setting emulation, but the soul. I cannot wait to assemble my ka-tet and ride!