The Guns of Megiddo

The fictional Wild West town of Megiddo, located in Cochise County, Arizona is the setting for this particular campaign.  The time is between the American Civil War and the Turn of the Century, around 1870.   The town of Megiddo is a fictionalized representation of popular Wild West destination towns like Deadwood, Tombstone and Dodge City.  Consider Megiddo to be all of these places rolled up into one.

When the Civil War ended it didn’t just change the North and the South, it changed the West forever too.  Without the War to occupy the attention of the nation, men and money began to flood westward seeking new beginnings, new opportunities and new fortunes.  Disenfranchised soldiers found second careers as gunmen, bodyguards, desperadoes and businessmen.  In the wild, open west, it was still possible to earn a piece of land with the sweat of your own labor and to strike it rich in a place where law and government couldn’t tax you dry.  If this lawless environment was the dry tinder that attracted these opportunists, then the hint of gold and silver was the match that lit it.  Stories of precious metals flowing out of newly opened mines filled the newspapers, firing the acquisitive dreams of the unlucky and out of work.

Megiddo is one of these boomtowns.  Located in the deserts of Arizona, it is situated near a brand new silver mine but not much else.  It is many, many miles away from the nearest settlement and is surrounded on all sides by lethal wasteland and warlike Indian tribes.  You came here hoping that the grim reputation of the place would keep other prospectors away.

This is a fan-created work was written for the Savage Worlds role-playing system in 2009