Bettin’ Bullets

Saddle up for the ride of your life! Bettin' Bullets is a tumbleweed of a TTRPG is about a generation of cowpokes in the small frontier town in the late 1800s, showing off and showing each other up, and rallying together to overcome dangers. Conflict resolution is all diceless—who needs dice? You've got bullets. You bet your life on the bullets themselves here in Bettin’ Bullets.

This book includes:

• Gunslingin’ and horse wranglin'
• Lonesome campfire songs
• All the fixin's of cowboy life—riding, homesteading, and a sense of wonder for the natural world
• Rivalry between cowboys of a plain immature nature, such as who has the better looking horse
• Sassy writin' and some pretty rough and tumble hand-drawn cowboy art

Quick as a rattlesnake, here's Bettin' Bullets.

Mechanics At a Glance

The rough of it is this. Each PC starts the game with 6 Bullets. To resolve any conflict that’s worth considering, the GM holds an auction, and each PC bets a number of Bullets against the GM’s Secret Bid, a number they’ve assigned to the difficulty and danger of what’s at hand, but they’re not about to tell you. It's a unique system. Some might even call it plumb strange, but, it services the setting well. You get your Bullets back by doing cowboy things like riding a long while, sharing a campfire, or singing a sad song.

Setting at a Glance

There's a little town out there somewhere, out West, called "Johnsford". That's your town. Rather than having a bunch of cowboy PCs goin' off and questing in dungeons (an abandoned mine shaft will maybe do?) you're expected to stick around town. You're the important people in town, for better or worse. Trouble comes to you.

Now, putting setting and mechanics together, here—this isn't a "PvP" game, as they say, but the other cowpokes around the table are you main competition in anything that matters in Johnsford, like proving how fast you can ride, being the one to stop the bank robbery in a flasher way than your peers, and who's wearing the better lookin' hat.

Why You Want This Game

You want this game if anything on the following list you find mighty appealing.

• It's got some fun rules for horses.
• There's an earnest consideration for the cowboy life—homesteading, animal husbandry, and such.
• I dare say there isn't another game out there giving a mechanical meaning to singing lonesome campfire songs.
• Iffin' you find crudly drawn pictures of horses charming

So, come out guns blazin' and win the day or die trying, here in Bettin’ Bullets.