Ooo, glad to see this still going. It’s be kinda cool to see a bit of content based around the final frontier version you did a while back.

I did that as a bit of fun though if we had some more writers going in on this stuff we might put out an actual Final Frontier book and rule set. Greg is thinking for issue #14 of Grimoire doing an article that lays out a Mhar: Age of Steel outline which would be a 1830s variant setting based on the Napoleonic Wars (Sharpes and Horatio Hornblower series) along with an early "Wild West" (Pepper boxes and cap-and-ball pistols instead of six-shooters) where the frontier ends at a version of the Mississippi. The usual tropes of the Western would be explored in the article as well as River City, the Vicksburg of the Confederation. The Confederation of Pancea is a young nation, only a generation old, formed out of rebellion of colonies against the Kalidorian Empire (now embroiled in a bloody civil war). The war of Independence ended with the Emperor (often little more than a figurehead) stepped in and offered peace, asking that the colonies accept the tribes within domains of the Confederation to be equal partners. PCs of the Confederation can be from colonial stock or one of the Chartered Nations who have their own congressional representatives, businesses, schools, and newspapers (printed in their own languages).
Downriver lies the territories of Leseria (Spain) and the Saramyn Empire (Byzantium) while inland lies the territories of traditional native peoples (including goblins and halfling tribes). On the far coast are colonies set up by the Shenglu Empire whose treasure ships arrived a century before looking for the Mountain of Gold and have fought for control over the far shores of the continent with the Saramyn Empire over that gold while fighting a war back home with the Islands of Harido.
River City is the home base for lawmen, cowboys, gamblers, and perhaps a paranormal investigator. Bandits and river-pirates, gold-diggers and rancher feuds. Rumors of gold deposits in the prairie and badlands beyond are matched with tales of valleys filled with giant bones and stories of "thunderbirds" and ruined towns carved into cliff-sides.

This is… this is awesome…

imagine their surprise when they discover Mongo is an ogre...

I’ll admit, my memory of the full background of Mhár is a bit fuzzy. I never convinced my player group to run it, and gone were my plans for a Hooda as a discount Joan dé Arc. But this put the image of a Hood cow-poke literally sniffing out some cattle rustlers in my head…

A fuzzy calamity Jane…

You can try with giving them each the new QuickStart book with the mini adventure and premade characters to try out.

I may try here in oz, I moved an ocean away from my gaming group. Either way, I really should just purchase the rest of the line, and your back catalogue of BNW.

Well, as mentioned, the Quickstart book is Pay-what-you-want with a suggested $1.50 price tag

also if you want to buy my stuff in PDFs, drop me a note here. I have some stuff still left in dead tree but postage to Aussie might get a little pricy