# Ironsworn: Badlands tags: #game/rpg/badlands #game/rpg/ironsworn ![[Badlands (cover).jpg|600]] **Ironsworn: Badlands** is Keith Stetson's fan supplement (2020, CC BY-NC-SA 4.0) in the grand hobby tradition of taking a beloved engine and insisting it would be better with a ten-gallon hat — adapting **[[Ironsworn]]** to a **Western** setting by trading the Ironlands' haunted fens for six-guns, canyons, and the long empty horizon. It carries over the full engine and re-dresses it: the Ironlands become a frontier, the sworn vows a cowboy's contract, and the oracles get reskinned for the genre, on the usual assumption that the whole world can be improved by being made to look like every Western you've ever seen. The package includes a **world workbook** (same structure as the base game — build what you want), a set of replacement and added **oracles** — regions, settlement names, Ironlander-style names, plus a **wildlife** oracle for the frontier's critters — and **new assets**, some simply renamed versions of base-game assets re-spun for the setting (with mechanics barely touched), plus the option of occult/"weird Western" assets if you want your Badlands to have a supernatural underbelly. New **moves** fill the gaps the setting opens up, and there's a genre-flavored revision of **Draw the Circle**. It's the standard "same engine, new coat" hack — done competently, and a favorite jumping-off point for anyone who wants Ironsworn under a wide-brimmed hat. ## Editions - **Ironsworn: Badlands (v0.3)** (2020) — Western adaptation supplement by Keith Stetson, plus its region map. *In the library.* ## References - [Ironsworn — Official Website](https://www.ironswornrpg.com/)