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You play as one of four Deadly Strangers who just arrived to Gallow Springs on the same day. The locals watch on with bated breath to see what you’ll do next...
Welcome, weary traveler, to the town of Gallow Springs...
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Bantam West Board Game
Bantam West is an ITS adventure board game for 1-4 players. Begin life anew as one of four Deadly Strangers who all just arrived in the outlaw town of Gallow Springs. Work, fight, build, and burn to become the most Notorious. It’s time to tell your own story.
Work, Fight, Build, and Burn
Starting with nothing but sand in your pockets, you set out to make a living. Now, how you go about that is entirely up to you. Endeavor in the four natural biomes and forage, log, hunt, or mine your way to mastery. Defeat enemies that lurk in the treacherous terrain, empty their pockets, then mount their heads in the Saloon for all to see. Build Cabins on resource rich land and hire workers to harvest in your stead. Or set fire to it all and watch it burn. No matter the path you choose, there is a unique way for you to win.
Tell Your Own Story
The four Deadly Strangers are recoiling from their own personal tragedies, but now their troubled pasts matter not. It is up to you to step into their shoes and guide their choices. With the interlocking game mechanics and limitless pathways that form our ITS system, you can find new strategies and tell new stories each time you play. The emergent storytelling aspect of Bantam West will have you and your friends recounting tales of your daring antics for weeks after a wild play session. Remember when you slept next to a grizzly, and beat it in a “bear” knuckle brawl the next day? Or that time you won every prize at the annual Harvest Fair? If not, then it’s time for you to dive in and tell your own story!
Experience More Over Time
As you progress through each game mode, additional mechanics are revealed granting you more options and strategies. The introductory mode welcomes new players and warms them up to the way of life in Gallow Springs. Once you gain your footing, the town opens up and new opportunities arise in the standard mode. When its time for you to master your skills, explore the terrain after dark in the advanced mode. If you’ve mastered it all, create custom game modes using the modular game mechanics, components, and our written guide. Bantam West is the gift that keeps on giving.
Open World - ITS Adventure Game
Explore this Western sandbox as you travel through an outlaw town and the wilderness, wetlands, plains, and mountains that surround it. Make demands, strike bargains, or perform impressive feats as you interact with the NPCs in town, each with their own unique personalities. Leave town and defeat the Enemy NPCs in search of the loot and resources they protect with their lives. Do this and more all while you navigate treacherous terrain, weather, fire, and random events as the board comes to life. Our ITS System, short for Immersive Tabletop Simulator, is self-contained, meaning there is no need for a Game Master. The open world is ever-changing, and you must adapt your strategy if you are to survive.
What You'll Discover In This Box:
- 5 x Highly Detailed Game Boards
- 6 x Double-sided Store Tiles
- 4 x Memorable Characters
- Gather Resources & Level-Up
- Build Cabins & Burn 'Em Down
- Buy, Sell & Loot - Earn Your Keep
- PvP (Optional) & PvE Combat
- 54 x Unique Event Cards
- Recruit a Posse or Betray Them
- Calendar & Seasons - Plan Ahead
- Weather & Hazards to Navigate
- ...and even more!
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Add-Ons & More
Terrain Upgrade: Cabins
Game Trayz
Marshal’s Badge
Metal Coins
Which Deadly stranger are you?
Whether you live the life of a powerful merchant, an agile gunslinger, a malicious arsonist, or a stealthy thief, there is a unique way for you to come out on top!
Levi Mercer
“The Marauder”
Mika ManKiller
“Cool Water”
Jericho Jones
“Little Cisco”
Hannah Wilde
“Big Sis”
Gunslinger
The Gunslinger is a natural leader who views obstacles as opportunities and has a strong inner monologue that is part blessing and part curse. Trained in all firearms, Gunslingers have a tendency to find solutions to their problems between a pair of iron sights.
Thief
The Thief has a love for patterns, a keen eye at picking up discrepancies, and a good read on people. The silent and observant type. Untrustworthy, alluring, and elusive, Thieves are highly sought out by those they have done wrong, but only ever found by very few.
Merchant
The Merchant is a true introvert who excels at developing plans and strategies for every eventuality. They always looks to logic before emotion. For the love of coin, Merchants will travel far and wide, collecting experiences, knowledge, and connections along the way.
Arsonist
The Arsonist is the type who leaps before they look, relishing social interaction and rife with emotions. They can take control of a room with rhetoric alone. These fiery folks find beauty in the ever-changing flame, and remain highly unpredictable to even their closest allies.
What Makes the game good?
Easy Onboarding
During your first play-through, the introductory game mode lets you focus only on a few objectives to learn the game's flow. When ready, move on to the standard and advanced game modes and watch as endless new possibilities arise.
Simple But Strategic
Each turn presents countless choices to make and paths to take, while the gameplay is driven by intuitive mechanics, interfacing, and iconography. At first appearance, the game’s density may seem daunting, but its learning curve prove to be fun and engaging as players become well oriented after just a few turns.
Modular & Custom Experiences
The game feels hearty even in its simplest, lightest weight form, while the advanced mechanics add more of what already works. Nearly all game mechanics and components are modular, so you can create custom game modes using our guide.
Gorgeous Components
Thanks to unlocking multiple KS Stretch Goals, every component has been upgraded from base specs. From the gorgeous washed minis to the linen-finished cards and the dual-layer player boards, we spared now expense in producing our first-ever game. The top-quality components only adds to the game’s already tremendous table presence.
how to play, intro mode
how to play, Shadow Governors mode
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Pillars of Creation
Rock-solid mechanics involve gameplay loops that are fun, fulfilling, and avoid convolution. We review each detail and game mechanic to make everything clear and concise. Constructive criticism is always welcome, and we strive to live by the old military adage of "bring suggestions, not complaints." With ego and greed cast aside, good games will rise above all else.
Expansive themes in both breadth and depth, which means that nothing is just surface level. There is a beating heart beneath every aspect of our creations. For every piece of art and line of text that you may witness, we can assure you that there is an entire catalogue of information backing each detail. The large majority of our world building process occurs in the background, is closely safeguarded, and remains unseen—until the time comes to reveal it.
A gorgeous and immersive production can always be expected from Team Bantam. Art is what makes us human, therefore, it will never be limited by budget or time constraints. We never make promises that cannot be kept, therefore we will always be extremely deliberate in sharing our release dates and assure total transparency when it comes to our production timelines.
What is An Immersive Tabletop Sim?
The Immersive Tabletop Sim, or "ITS" for short, is a type of role-playing board game pioneered by Bantam Planet. These games emphasize player choice and creative problem solving in a self-contained system, thus requiring no game master to function. All ITS games will be compatible for combined play!
ITS Distinctions
No Game Master
It combines aspects of TTRPGs, stealth games, fighting games and exploration games in a self-contained system—meaning no Game Master.
narrative forming
The opportunities for scoring points always greatly outnumber the winning conditions, emphasizing player agency and narrative.
Character’s Perspective
All game interactions are witnessed from the character’s point of view, allowing the players to immerse themselves in the game world.
BANTAM WEST
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