Given the similarities between Colonial-era Australia and the Western genre, could a "Weird OZ" type setting, where Weird Western tropes are ported to the Australia setting, work? What about the idea of adding "Australia elements" to a fantasy world, ala how Spellslinger achieves Weird Western status by adding classic Western tropes to a standard D&D world?

>>95911718 (OP)
Seems distasteful desu. We have our own native and colonial history, its kind of insulting to everyone to just supplant that with a bunch of mythologized americanisms

Almost kind of a good idea, but would be DOA without the input of actual aboriginal writers. Critics would eat it alive. And desu it would honestly be pointless without that, because "porting" the wild west to Australia with no original perspective would be boring and Gay.

>>95911748
>We have our own native and colonial history
Let's be honest, mate, Australian colonial history is boring af compared to the American Wild West.

I'm doing a post-apocalyptic Western Australia campaign at the moment. Not quite western but leaning on it as much as Fallout does. Lots of huntsmen and adders and mozzies to put up with.

>>95911718 (OP)
Worked for Quigley Down Under.

>>95911718 (OP)
Kangaroo Westerns/Bushrangers are already a thing. Sure: Weird West works fine in Australia and has been done before, mostly in horror novels.

>>95912670
What's that one slasher series about the friendly maniac bogan? He kills a couple cops in the beginning of one of the movies.

>>95912696
Can't say I know that one, sorry. I hate slasher horror. Monsters eating peoples' heads? Fuckin' awesome. People hurting each other? Gross and sad.

>>95912696

>>95911718 (OP)
I've been playing Rifts so long I can recognize all the art from it by the thumbnail alone.

>Rifts Australia 2 never

I really liked the Mutants Down Under supplement for After the Bomb which had a lot of fun anthro animals, giant insects and weird mystic shit.

>>95911718 (OP)
Already exists, but you don't actually play games so you're just posting here to kill a few minutes

>>95911748
Your native history is a bunch of tar-black obese alcoholics who sleep in the middle of an active road
Your Colonial history is a bunch rapists from London living in squalor among the above people

>>95912718
That's it, thank you.

>>95911789
>actual aboriginal writers
They can't speak English, they can't use a written language at all, and even if they could they have the thought processes of an actual animal

>>95912952
Excuse me, the rapists were the alcoholics. The blackies prefer gasoline fumes.

>>95912643
Are you completely misremembering? That movie does not have any Supernatural or sci-fi elements in any capacity

>>95912972
It has magical abbos.

>>95912594
Yes but its not american. We're better off without their yeehaw hero worship brainrot

>>95912952
Yep. Now fuck off we're full

>>95913278
No one wants to come to your shitty island. Yet every one wants to come to America. Curious!

>>95911718 (OP)

Is it tough? My impression was that it was actually pretty different. No real native menace, most terrain is really worthless, no indipendence, no foreign (AKA spanish-mexican) interference.

>>95913691
No one wants to come to your shit country, even Australia and its population of criminal spider-fetishists is a preferable alternative.

>>95911718 (OP)
I don't think so. I live in Texas and used to assume Australia was the same as us when I was younger because they developed as a backwater nation comprised of colonials living a very undeveloped region and starting from scratch. The truth of it though is Australians were far more under the crown than we were and most of their population congregated in coastal cities where the majority of their culture developed--the brush had a stake in things but it wasn't nearly as widespread as the small towns that dotted the American west and the very local nature of law enforcement as opposed to support from Britain. Nevermind that the crown was meddling in Australian politics and development which greatly influenced what they became.

Basically, the chance at an Australian nation with a similar development to the American west was smothered in the crib, for better or worse. I'm not sure if it ever could've happened even if the Brits weren't involved though, the conditions of the continent are different than the US which makes it much harder to be self-sufficient through agriculture.

>>95911789
As a commercial product, pretty much this. Post Apoc gets around it to a degree.

Postcolonial Aboriginal history is largely one long period of them eating shit, with a few notable exceptions. In terms of media, even when native Americans are villains they're much more powerful. We don't have the same body of media here.

Bushrangers would be cool, wouldn't mind doing an Australian skirmish wargame at some point. But I'm not really appropriate for this thread, I'm not overexposed to westerns enough to find Weird Westerns interesting, let alone Australian stuff.

Honestly, the best treatment would either be post Apoc, and//or by an American, the more passportless the better. It would be cringeworthy for Australians but that distance and lack of baggage would create a more interesting product.

>>95917082
>I don't think so.
Then you're just ignorant. Kangaroo Westerns (that is: Westerns set in Australia) are a genre that goes back oh.... eighty years. And the weird west among those goes back at least fifty.

>>95918136
It's entirely different than US westerns, different themes and all that. With Aus, it's more about the Outback and weird/deadly shit out there, in the US westerns are about small town politics, banditry, native attacks, and the wars in the new world going on at the time (US Civil War, Mexican Civil War, Texan Revolution, etc). It was a surprise to me too just how different the places are despite the superficial similarities.

That said, it's probably more of what OP wants though, the conditions are different and the idea of a US western vs an Australian western are two separate things. Have fun with the stuff unique to the area and don't try and transplant something that won't feel authentic to locals.

>>95918238
>There are differences
That's true
>It's entirely different than US westerns
That's massively false weasel words

>>95911718 (OP)
You missed the worldbuilding general.

>>95911789
Aborigines spent literally tens of thousands of years doing fuck all in Australia. In a time period which saw the Africans master agriculture and iron-working, the Maya, Aztecs and Incans creating advanced civilizations in the hearts of high mountains and sweltering tropical jungles, and the Chinese inventing gunpowder and paper-making, the Aborigines... never grew beyond the Stone Age.

Seriously, any setting that included an actual historically accurate depiction of Aboriginal tribes, with their harems of child-brides, infanticide, cannibalism and constant wars, would be slammed as white supremacist propaganda.

>>95921796
They did make an incredible variety of fishing hooks on the coast. But ultimately didn't need to change what was working.

>>95912718
>I always wear condoms
>never know where you shielas have been

Just need some Eshay flicks now

>>95917591
Post apoc setting I’ve been running for the past year or so is weird
It’s set really far in the future in an australia that was colonised by china at some point in time and used as a convict labor camp for peoples in the middle east and africa who resisted global goverment
Which was then struck with a world destroying event of similar magnitude to the extinction event at the end of the ice age

Leftoids will probably complain about it appropriating asian cultures or something, despite the fact that me the author is east asian

While rightoids might complain about almost everyone in the setting being asian or arabic but probably not for most of them unless it’s directly pointed out

I didn’t really advertise the setting as an “australain” one either
Though I would say it still is one at a much more subtle level, in the small details and to a degree is about the loss of Australinness that has been brought onto our country both physically from introduction of forgiven wildlife and culturally.
In small pockets of the world Some of that australain character holds though

If I was from some other english speaking country i would have probably lined this setting with stereostypically australian seeming things
But that doesn’t feel genuine to the past present and future continuing reality of things here

>>95921796
>>95926471
Honestly if you look at the vast majority of human history technological progress is the exception that was so successful it’s now become the norm
The start of metalworking only goes back eight thousand years
But eve just homo sapeins have been around for several times that, if you count other near human species things go back even further

>>95911718 (OP)
Honestly, if you want a Weird Oz, then just play Shadowrun. Sixth World Australia is a clusterfuck of your standard deadly Australian fauna, deadly awakened magical fauna, drop ears that carry Vampiric Virus, deadly corporations who after Matrix Crashes want to claim as much of interior for themselves as possible, deadly awakened magical natives who want their ancestral lands back, deadly mana storms (Sydney is cut from the rest of the world by a permanent mana storm) and even areas without 24/7 access to Matrix.