Bullets & Bourbon: Reloaded

Physical copies of Bullets & Bourbon: Reloaded can be found at my website and Third Kingdom Games!

The year is 1886 and the Jefferson Territory remains lawless, deadly, and unincorporated. The United States government has deployed the cavalry to pacify the region, but it remains a wild country. The town of Lincoln is the closest thing to civilization in these parts, but venture too far from town and you'll find yourself in the true frontier.  If you’re willing to risk it all, the Jefferson Territory is home to wealth and glory. Just keep your fists hard and your wits keen, cowpoke. Better folk than you have gone out there and died. They certainly won’t be the last. 

Bullets & Bourbon is a card-based tabletop RPG where the players take on the role of Cowpokes - outlaws, bounty killers, homesteaders, and other folks that have come out West in search of something - or the Dealer, who serves as a referee and storyteller.  All anyone needs to play is their own deck of cards and a means of keeping track of their character and the goings on in the West.

Sessions are episodic, with Cowpokes traveling from one town to the next working odd jobs or planning their next score - maybe they're guarding wagon trains, robbing banks, or following the hastily drawn scribbles on a treasure map they won in a hand of cards.

The game is played out like a conversation until a risky scenario or action is presented, at which point a Challenge is started.  Challenges are played out a little like a hand of Poker and a little like a game of War! and can represent anything from a shootout to a horse race to convincing the sheriff that you’re not in town to cause trouble.  One shouldn't go into every situation guns blazing, however - Challenges are dangerous and oftentimes downright deadly.  A Cowpoke needs to be equal parts clever and lucky to make sure they don't wind up in a shallow grave out on the prairie.