Setup

Players perform each of these steps simultaneously.

1. Start your street with your home location
   • Reveal and place your outfit card
2. Build your stash
   • Take ghost rock from the bank equal to your outfit’s starting treasury
3. Form your gang
   • Select up to 5 dudes from your deck
   • Combined cost can’t exceed your stash
   • Each dude must be from your own outfit or be a drifter
   • Only one of these dudes may have the Grifter keyword
   • You cannot include both a Confederate and a Union dude in your starting gang
4. Place dudes at your home and pay all costs
5. Shuffle your remaining deck
6. Draw a play hand of five cards
7. Optionally resolve any Grifter ability you may have

Sequence of Play

Each round in Doomtown represents a day in Gomorra, consisting of four phases.

1. Gamblin’

   1. Ante up 1 ghost rock (borrow from bank if you have none)
   2. Set play hand aside, draw and reveal a 5 card lowball draw hand
   3. Use Cheatin’ Resolution abilities (max of 1 to be played on any player)
   • Lowest ranked hand becomes the Winner for the day
   • The Winner goes first during each phase of the day and wins ties if players want to do something at the same time

2. Upkeep

   1. Collect income from outfit card, and deeds you own and control
   2. Repay debt of any ghost rock borrowed during Gamblin’
   3. Pay dudes wages equal to their upkeep cost
      • wages for dudes from other outfits = upkeep cost + influence
   4. Discard dudes (and attached cards) that you don’t pay

3. High Noon

   • Start with Winner and go clockwise
   • Each player, in turn, makes a Noon play (Actin’, Callin’ Out, Movin’, Shoppin’, or Tradin’) or passes
   • Turns continue until all players pass consecutively

4. Sundown

   1. Check to see if anyone has won
   2. Optionally discard 1 card from play hand
   3. Draw or discard to your maximum hand size (normally 5)
   4. Unboot all your booted cards

Actin’

• Use a Noon ability on an action card in your play hand or printed on one of your cards in play
• You can only use each ability on a given card in play once per day unless it has the Repeat keyword
• Most abilities on deeds can only be used by that deed’s controller
• Unless otherwise noted, the effects of Noon abilities last through the Sundown phase

Callin’ Out

• One of your unbooted dudes challenges an opponent dude in the same location to a shootout
• If unbooted, the dude you called out can refuse by moving home booted
• A booted dude has to accept the call-out
• You can’t use this Noon play to call out a dude at their home
• If the target accepts the call out, pause the High Noon phase and begin a shootout

Movin’

• Move one of your unbooted dudes to any other location (a deed, a home, or the town square)
• This boots the dude, unless the move is:
  • from your home to an adjacent location (town square or an adjacent deed)
  • from the town square to an in-town deed
  • from the town square to an opponent’s home

Shoppin’

• Pay cost in ghost rock or use card effect, to bring a dude, deed, spell, or goods card into play from your play hand
• Dude: starts at your home location
• Deed (in town): place at either end of your street
• Deed (out of town): put off to one side of your street
• Goods: attach to an unbooted dude in a location you control
  • A dude can only have one Weapon and one Horse
  • A Gadget attaches to the Mad Scientist that successfully invents it (can trade it away later)
• Spells: attach to an unbooted dude in a location you control
  • Hexes restricted to Hucksters
  • Miracles restricted to Blessed dudes
  • Spirits restricted to Shamans

Tradin’

• Move an attached goods card from one of your dudes to another in the same location you control
• Recipient dude must be unbooted
• A dude can’t trade away a good that was received that same day

Shootouts

A dude (the leader) calls out another dude (the mark) to start the shootout.

1. Formin’ Posses

   • The leader forms his posse first
   • All dudes in the shootout location can join the posse
   • dudes in adjacent locations can boot to move to the shootout location and join

2. Breakin’ and Enterin’

   • If the shootout is in a Private location
   • Increase bounty of each trespassing dude by 1 ghost rock

3. Slingin’ Lead

   1. Make Shootout Plays
      • Start with the Winner and go clockwise
      • Use a shootout ability or pass
      • Shootout ability must be from a posse member or an action card in your play hand, unless that ability would bring a dude into a posse
      • Continue until all players pass consecutively
   2. Pick Yer Shooter
      1. Leader picks shooter for this round of the shootout
      2. Mark picks shooter for this round of the shootout
   3. Draw!
      1. Draw cards from your deck equal to 5 + your posse’s stud bonus
      2. Discard and replace a number of cards up to your posse’s draw bonus
      3. Discard down to 5 cards
   4. Reveal and Resolve
      1. Players reveal draw hands
      2. Resolve any “on reveal” effects (only applies once in this round)
      3. Make Resolution plays with action cards in your hand or cards in the posse
         • Start with the Winner and go clockwise
         • Continue until all players pass consecutively
         • Maximum of one Cheatin’ Resolution

4. Take Yer Lumps

   • Compare the ranks of the players’ draw hands
   • Highest hand rank wins this round of the shootout
   • The difference between the two ranks is the number of casualties the loser takes
   • Each posse suffers one casualty with tied hand ranks (best poker hand wins the round)
   • Discard a dude, a Sidekick, or send a Harrowed dude home booted to cover one casualty
   • Ace a dude, or discard a Harrowed dude to cover two casualties
   • Ace a Harrowed dude to cover three casualties

5. Run or Gun

   • Starting with the shootout round loser, players decide if any of their dudes flee
   • dudes that flee go home booted

6. Chamber Another Round

   • If both posses still have dudes, go back to Slingin’ Lead for another round

Jobs

The dude starting the job is the leader, and the target of the job is the mark.

1. Start the Job

   • Choose an unbooted dude to be the leader
   • If the ability that started the job came from text on a dude or goods, that dude is the leader
   • If a job requires booting as a part of the cost, the leader boots to pay it

2. Choose the Mark

   • The first sentence of the job text tells you what the mark is
   • The leader can start the job from any location

3. Form Posses

   • The leader forms a posse first
   • All dudes except the leader boot to join, unless at the mark’s location
   • The leader can use dudes at or adjacent to the leader’s or mark’s location
   • The mark can only use dudes at or adjacent to the mark’s location
   • Opposing posse is formed by mark controller, mark owner, or any player (starting at the left of the leader), in that order

4. Saddle Up

   • All dudes in both posses move to the mark’s location
   • A shootout starts

5. Is the Job Done?

   • If the leader’s posse wins the shootout, the job succeeds
   • Survivors in the leader’s posse go home booted
   • Survivors in the mark’s posse stay put
   • If the job was successful, resolve its effects

Hand Ranks

1. Dead Man’s Hand: Exactly 8♠, 8♣, A♠, A♣, J♦
2. Five of a Kind: Example A♠, A♥, A♦, A♣, A♥
3. Straight Flush: Example 8♣, 7♣, 6♣, 5♣, 4♣
4. Four of a Kind: Example K♠, K♣, K♦, K♥, 2♦
5. Full House: Example J♠, J♣, J♦, 3♥, 3♣
6. Flush: Example 10♠, 8♠, 7♠, 6♠, 4♠
7. Straight: Example Q♠, J♦, 10♣, 9♣, 8♣
8. Three of a Kind: Example 5♣, 5♦, 5♠, 2♣, 3♥
9. Two Pairs: Example Q♦, Q♣, A♣, A♥, K♠
10. One Pair: Example 7♣, 7♦, K♣, 10♠, 3
11. High Card: Example K♣, 10♠, 7♣, 3♥, A♦

• Note: Aces are always low
• This is a straight: A♠ 2♣ 3♥ 4♦ 5♠ with a hand rank of 5
• This is just a king high hand: 10♣ J♣ Q♥ K♦ A♥ with a hand rank of 1

Rule Conflicts

• Card text overrules rulebook text
• Card text that disallows something overrules card text that allows something

Winning the Game

• In Doomtown, each player’s gang is vying for control of the town of Gomorra
• You do this and win if, in any Sundown phase, you have more control than each other player has influence
• If more than one player has more control than each other has influence, the player with the most control wins

Outfit Card

1. Location name
2. Outfit symobl
3. Outfit background texture
4. Abilty and traits
5. Starting treasury
6. Production

Deed Card

1. Location name
2. Card suit (diamonds) and value
3. Control points
4. Keywords, abilities, and traits
5. Cost
6. Production

Dude Card

1. Dude name
2. Card suit (spades) and value
3. Bullet rating and type
   • silver = stud, brass = draw
4. Influence
5. Outfit symobl
6. Outfit background texture
7. Keywords, abilities, and traits
8. Cost
9. Upkeep cost

Goods Card

1. Goods name
2. Card suit (hearts) and value
3. Bullet bonus (if any)
4. Keywords, abilities, and traits
5. Cost

Spell Card

1. Spell name
2. Card suit (hearts) and value
3. Keywords, abilities and traits
4. Cost

Action card

1. Action name
2. Card suit (clubs) and value
3. Card effects
4. Cost

Jokers

• Only used in pulls and draw hands
• You must choose suit and value
• A joker does not make a hand a cheatin’ hand
• Once you use a joker, you must ace it

Counters

• Ghost Rock: track ghost rock in stash, and wanted dude’s bounty
• Blue counters: permanent bonus control point
• Red counters: permanent bonus influence point
• Green & Black counters: convenience (track owner, cover used abilities, temporary bullets, etc.)

Ability

• Abilities are card text that starts with a boldface phase and cost, followed by a colon
• The card’s controller chooses if and when to use those abilities
• Each ability can only be used once per turn, unless it is a repeat ability

Abomination

• Some horrible other-worldly critter
• Abomination is a keyword that other cards may refer to and interact with

Ace

• When you ace a card, discard it to your Boot Hill
• It is permanently out of the game
• A dude is shot dead as a doornail when aced

Action

• An action is the result of using an action card (or may refer the card itself)
• Represents special events, plans, and tactics that your dudes or your gang use
• Discard an action card as soon as its affect is finished
• Always clubs suit

Adjacent

• In-town locations that are next to each other are adjacent
  • All in-town locations are adjacent to the town square
  • Any in-town deed or home is adjacent to the deeds to its right and left
• Locations on your street are not adjacent to locations on any other player’s street
• Out-of-town deeds are not adjacent to anything

Attach

• Some cards can’t be used by themselves, but must be attached to another card
• Booted dudes can’t have new cards attached to them
• When you control a card, you also control all cards attached to it
• Attached cards and the cards they’re attached to boot separately
• When you discard or ace a card, all cards attached to it are discarded

Attire

• Attire is a kind of goods you wear
• You can wear more than one of the same type of attire (though you might look funny)
• Attire is a keyword that other cards may refer to and interact with

Bank

• The bank is where all of the out-of-play ghost rock is stored
• The bank never runs out of ghost rock

Blessed

• Some dudes and places are endowed with the power of the almighty
• Blessed dudes can have Miracle spells attached to them
• Blessed is a keyword that other cards may refer to and interact with

Boot Hill

• Special discard pile that you never shuffle back into your deck
• When a card is aced, put it in your Boot Hill, permanently out of play
• Anyone can look through anyone’s Boot Hill
• Cannot change the order of the cards

Boot

• Boot a card by turning it sideways
• A card can’t be booted again until it’s unbooted
• Booted cards cannot use an ability that has booting as a cost
• Booted cards can’t attach goods and spells
• Booted cards can’t move without a card effect, except to move home booted when fleeing a shootout
• If a booted card leaves play, it is no longer booted

Bounty

• Wanted dudes have a bounty on their head measured in ghost rock
• Any dudes in a shootout at another player’s Private location have their bounty increased by 1
• When a player sends an enemy dude to the discard pile or Boot Hill, that player adds the dudes bounty to their stash
• If a dude’s bounty goes to zero, that dude is no longer wanted

Bullet

• Bullets are a measure of a dude’s capability to win a shootout
• The number of bullets a dude has is a bullet rating
• There are two types of bullets
  • A silver bullet indicates that a dude is a stud
  • A brass bullet indicates that the dude is a draw

Casino

• A deed where you go to lose all your money!
• Casino is a keyword that other cards may refer to and interact with

Casualty

• When you lose a shootout, you suffer casualties
• You must choose any of the following losses until all casualties are covered
  • Discard a dude = 1 casualty
  • Discard a Sidekick = 1 casualty
  • Send a Harrowed dude home, booted = 1 casualty
  • Ace a dude = 2 casualties
  • Discard a Harrowed dude = 2 casualties
  • Ace a Harrowed dude = 3 casualties

Cheatin’

• You’re Cheatin’ when you reveal Cheatin’ hand
• A Cheatin’ hand is an illegal draw hand
  • Includes multiple cards of the same value and suit
• Some card abilities can punish you for Cheatin’

Confederate

• A dude that has ties to the Confederate States of America
• If there ia a Union card in play that you own, you cannot bring a Confederate card into play
• You cannot include both a Confederate and a Union dude in your starting gang
• Confederate is a keyword that other cards may refer to and interact with

Control Points

• When Sundown arrives, if you have more control points than your opponent has influence, you win the game
• Many deeds have control points (the player that controls the deed gets its control points)
• Control points are represented by blue poker chip symbols and counters

Controller

• The controller of a card decides what the card does
• When a card refers to “you,” it is referring to the controller
• A card’s controller also controls all cards attached to it
• The card owner controls the card, unless:
  • Opponent plays an ability that uses the words “take control”
  • Opponent has dudes with more total influence at a deed than the owner

Cost

• To play a card from your hand, you must pay its cost in ghost rock from your stash
• Card abilities often have a cost
  • Ghost rock from your stash
  • Boot one of your cards (usually the card with the ability)
  • Pull from your deck
• If a job has a cost, the job’s leader must pay it
• Mad Scientists must boot to pay the cost of inventing

Deck

• All players have their own deck, to draw cards from
• Shuffle before the game begins
• Shuffle after you search your deck
• Do not shuffle after looking at “the top [number of] cards”
• When empty, shuffle your discard pile to make a new deck

• Must have exactly one outfit card
• Must have exactly fifty-two cards with printed values
• Can have up to two jokers
• Cannot have more than four cards that share the same suit and value
• Cannot have more than four cards that share the same title

Deed

• Deed cards are locations that are buildings and properties
• They may provide abilities, traits, or control points
• Once brought into play, they cannot be moved
• When you bring an in-town deed into play, it goes on either end of your street
• Out-of-town deeds are set off to the side
• Always diamonds suit

Deputy

• A dude that’s been ordained to act as the law
• Deputy is a keyword that other cards may refer to and interact with

Difficulty

• Some abilities take special skills to use
• A skill’s Difficulty level is the number you’re shootin’ for when you make a skill check to use it successfully
• Difficulty is a keyword that other cards may refer to and interact with

Discard

• When you discard a card, it is temporarily out of the game
• Discarded cards are placed face-up in your discard pile
• Players are allowed to look through any discard pile
• Players are not allowed to change the order of cards in the discard pile

Draw Bonus

• Your draw bonus is the number of cards you can discard from your draw hand and replace from your deck in a shootout
• If your shooter is a draw, your draw bonus = shooter bullet rating + 1 for each other draw dude in your posse
• If your shooter is a stud, your draw bonus = the number of draw dudes in your posse

Draw (dude)

• A draw dude has a brass colored bullet casing on the dude card
• A draw dude is often referred to simply as a “draw”
• Draws add to your draw bonus during shootouts

Draw Hand

• Used during a shootout as well as the Gamblin’ phase
• Only used for its poker hand rank; you cannot play cards from it
• Be very careful never to mix or switch your play hand with your draw hand

Drifter

• A dude that ain’t got no outfit to call home
• A drifter can be included in any deck, regardless of outfit, without additional upkeep cost

Dude

• Dude cards represent characters in Gomorroa
• These fellers gonna win or lose the game for you
• They have influence, sometimes
• Always clubs suit

Effect

• An effect is anything a card can do in the game
• Abilities, actions, and traits are all effects

Experienced

• More experienced versions of a dude are indicated by the Experienced X keyword, where X is the experience level
• Different versions of the same dude are considered to be the same card for deck building purposes
• As a Noon play, you can replace your dude card in play with a different version of that dude from your hand
  • The dude retains all goods, spells, counters, and game effects
  • The card that was replaced goes to your discard pile
  • The replacement version must be within 1 experience level of the replaced dude
  • You can only replace a dude once per day
• Experienced is a keyword that other cards may refer to and interact with

Experimental

• Some Gadgets are works-in-progress and as such, can be a bit finicky
• Experimental is a keyword that other cards may refer to and interact with

Gadget

• One of those wild inventions the Mad Scientists create
• Gadget is a keyword that other cards may refer to and interact with

Gamblin’

• First phase of the basic sequence of play
• Opponents play a round of lowball to determine the Winner for the day

Gang

• Your gang are the dudes you currently have in play
• Your starting gang are the dudes you put in play during game setup

Ghost Rock

• Ghost Rock represents your money and resources in the game
• Mystical type of coal was discovered just after the mad shaman Raven unleashed the demons onto the earth
• It howls when burned and releases ghostly skulls into the air
• It’s powerful and has pushed innovation forward

Gomorra

• Gomorra, called “Doomtown”, is the city in California where the game takes place
• The play area can be envisioned as a map of Gomorra depicting the locations owned by the player’s gangs

Goods

• Goods cards represent items that your dudes can own
• Must be attached to another card you already have in play (usually a dude)
• Always a heart suit

Government

• Some deeds represent official government buildings in Gomorra
• Government is a keyword that other cards may refer to and interact with

Grifter

• Shady fellers that can do stuff before the game begins
• You can only have one Grifter in your gang when you set up the game
• Grifter is a keyword that other cards may refer to and interact with

Grit

• An overall measure of how tough that dude is
• Equal to that dude’s value plus bullets plus influence

Harrowed

• When a dead dude just refuses to stay put in the dirt, we call them Harrowed
• Harrowed dudes can cover more casualties suffered in shootouts
• Harrowed is a keyword that other cards may refer to and interact with

Help Text

• Italic card text in parentheses
• Does not change the way the card works
• Serves as a reminder of rules that apply to the card

Hex

• Spells created by Hucksters using special magic that comes from poker decks
• Hex is a keyword that other cards may refer to and interact with

High Noon

• This is when all the action happens in Doomtown
• Third phase of the basic sequence of play
• Shortened to “Noon” in card text

Holy Ground

• Sanctified deeds where Abominations can run into trouble
• Holy Ground is a keyword that other cards may refer to and interact with

Home

• The outfit card serves as the home for your gang
• It’s the place your dudes come into play when you recruit them
• The place where your dudes can (usually) be safe from the other players’ dudes

Horse

• A Goods card that makes it easier for a dude to travel
• A dude can only have one Horse attached at a time
• Horse is a keyword that other cards may refer to and interact with

Huckster

• A gambler who has learned to manipulate spirits through his card-shark abilities
• Hex spells can only be attached to Hucksters
• Huckster is a keyword that other cards may refer to and interact with

Improvement

• Some Gadgets work with something to make it work better
• Improvement is a keyword that other cards may refer to and interact with

In town

• In-town locations are the town square, each outfit’s home, and in-town deeds that are in play
• They might be adjacent to one another

Influence

• A stat on dudes that shows how much pull they have in Gomorra
• Used to prevent your opponent from winning the game
• Used to take control of locations

Invent

• To bring a Gadget into play, a Mad Scientist must invent it
• To invent a Gadget your Mad Scientist must:
  1. Boot in a location you control (this is the cost of inventing)
  2. Pass a skill test
  3. Pay the cost of the Gadget
  4. Attach the Gadget to the Mad Scientist that invented it
     • The Gadget can be traded to another dude later

Job

• Big events where dudes get together to accomplish something
• Each job has a leader and a mark (the target of the job)
• Includes a shootout if the job is opposed

Keyword

Keywords appear in bold at the top of the card, and are descriptions of that card that can be referenced by other card text. You can spot a keyword in card text because it is capitalized.

These are all keywords:

• Abomination
• Attire
• Blessed
• Casino
• Confederate
• Deputy
• Difficulty
• Experienced
• Experimental
• Gadget
• Government
• Grifter
• Harrowed
• Hex
• Holy Ground
• Horse
• Huckster
• Improvement
• Mad Scientist
• Melee
• Miracle
• Mystical
• Non-Unique
• Out of Town
• Private
• Public
• Ranch
• Saloon
• Shaman
• Sidekick
• Spirit
• Strike
• Token
• Union
• Unique
• Weapon

Leader

• The dude (and player) doing the Callin’ Out in a shootout
• The dude starting a job

Legal Hand

• A hand that does not have cards that duplicate the same suit and value
• It’s often an advantage to have a legal hand

Location

• Locations are all the places you can move to in Gomorra
• Each outfit’s home, deeds, and town square are all locations
• Most locations are in town, but some deeds are out of town
• In-town locations might be adjacent to one another

Lowball

• Lowball is a variant of poker in which the normal ranking of hands is inverted
• The Gamblin’ phase uses lowball poker rules to determine the Winner for the day

Mad Scientist

• Creators of wild inventions powered by ghost rock
• Only Mad Scientists can invent Gadgets and bring them into play
• Mad Scientist is a keyword that other cards may refer to and interact with

Mark

• The dude (and player) that is called out in a shootout
• The target of a job

Melee

• Sometimes it’s a good idea to bring a knife to a gunfight
• Melee is a keyword that other cards may refer to and interact with

Miracle

• Hallelujah! It’s a…
• Spell card that can be attached only to a Blessed dude
• Miracle is a keyword that other cards may refer to and interact with

Mystical

• Something that ain’t of this earth
• Mystical is a keyword that other cards may refer to and interact with

Non-Unique

• You can have several Non-Unique cards in play
• Most goods, spells, and actions are Non-Unique
• A dude or deed that isn’t unique will have the Non-Unique keyword
• Non-Unique is a keyword that other cards may refer to and interact with

Noon

• Short for High Noon
• Indicates that an effect can only be used during the High Noon phase

Out-of-town

• Out-of-town deeds are not adjacent to anything, not even other out-of-town deeds
• Out of Town is a keyword that other cards may refer to and interact with

Outfit

• One of four factions vying for control of Gomorra
  • The Law Dogs, who maintain law and order
  • The Sloane Gang, an outlaw gang camped nearby
  • The Morgan Cattle Company, the big business in these parts
  • The Fourth Ring, a recently arrived circus and freak show
• The outfit card serves as the home for your gang

Owner

• The owner of a card is the person whose deck the card came from
• An owner of a card never changes
• Determines controller of card when influence at that card is tied

Phase

• The sequence of play is broken down into steps, called phases
• Abilities are labeled with the phase in which they can be used
• The four phases of a round are:
  • Gamblin’
  • Upkeep
  • High Noon (shortened to “Noon” in card text)
  • Sundown
• Special phases are:
  • Shootout (when a dude is called out and accepts the challenge)
  • Resolution (triggered by revealing a draw hand)
  • React (trigger defined in card text)

Play Hand

• These are the cards you can bring into play by paying their cost
• Typically you have a hand limit of 5 cards

Play

• When you make a play, you’re taking some sort of activity
• Players take turns making plays during each phase, starting with the Winner
• Many plays are restricted to a specific phase
  • Example: a “Noon play” can only be made during the High Noon phase
• You may make a play out of turn with a React or Resolution effect

Posse

• A player’s group of dudes involved in a shootout or job

Private

• A building or land owned by a private citizen
• Any dudes in a shootout at another player’s Private location have their bounty increased by 1
• Private is a keyword that other cards may refer to and interact with

Production

• How much ghost rock a card contributes to a player’s income during the Upkeep phase

Public

• A building or area open to the public
• Shootouts happen here a lot, and it’s hard to figure out who started them, so people don’t become wanted just for shootin’ at each other
• Public is a keyword that other cards may refer to and interact with

Pull

• Pulls are used to determine if a dude succeeds at a challenging task
• Draw the top card of your deck, reveal it, and check its value
• Success if card value equals or exceeds target number

Ranch

• A deed where animals are raised
• Ranch is a keyword that other cards may refer to and interact with

React

• A React ability allows you to interrupt normal turn taking to respond to something that just happened
• The Winner has the first chance to React, followed by the other players around the table (until everyone passes)
• A React ability’s card text will tell you when the ability is triggered and any restrictions that apply

Resolution

• Players may respond with Resolution abilities when draw hands are revealed
• Cheatin’ Resolution abilities can only be used when someone reveals a cheatin’ hand
• Each player can only have one Cheatin’ Resolution ability used on them per draw hand

Saloon

• A deed where you go drinkin’
• Saloon is a keyword that other cards may refer to and interact with

Shaman

• Shaman dudes can have Spirit spells attached to them
• Shaman is a keyword that other cards may refer to and interact with

Shootout

• When your dude or dudes decide to exchange bullets with their dude or dudes
• A shootout happens when a dude accepts a call-out, or when a job is opposed

Shooter

• The primary dude slingin’ lead for a round of a shootout
• Use your shooter’s full bullet rating when calculating your stud bonus or draw bonus

Sidekick

• A kind of good that can be sacrificed to take casualties during a shootout
• Sidekick is a keyword that other cards may refer to and interact with

Skill

• Some dudes have special skills that allow them to invent Gadgets or cast spells
• Skilled dudes will have one of these keywords:
  • Blessed: for casting Miracles
  • Huckster: for flingin’ Hexes
  • Mad Scientist: for inventing Gadgets
  • Shaman: for invoking Spirits
• These keywords always appear with a number, that together, are the dude’s skill rating
• When a dude uses a skill, make a skill test:
  1. Pull and add the card’s value to the dude’s skill rating
  2. Meet or exceed the Difficulty level (of the spell or Gadget) to succeed

Spell

• Spell cards represent special talents that dudes with magical affinity can perform
• Must be attached to a dude card you already have in play
• Hexes attach only to Hucksters
• Miracles attach only to Blessed dudes
• Spirits attach only to Shamen

Spirit

• Spell card that can be attached only to a Shaman
• Spirit is a keyword that other cards may refer to and interact with

Starting Treasury

• The amount of ghost rock available to form your stash during setup
• Shown in the lower-left corner of your outfit card

Stash

• Where you keep your ghost rock counters that are in play and are available to spend

Street

• Your street consists of the in-town locations you own
• You start your street with your outfit home during setup
• When you bring an in-town deed into play, place it at either end of your street
• If a deed in your street leaves play, move your locations that were agacent to it to close the gap

Strike

• A hole in the ground where people dig up ghost rock
• Strike is a keyword that other cards may refer to and interact with

Stud Bonus

• Your stud bonus is the number of extra cards you can draw and choose from during shootouts
• If your shooter is a stud, your stud bonus = shooter bullet rating + 1 for each other stud dude in your posse
• If your shooter is a draw, your stud bonus = the number of stud dudes in your posse

Stud (dude)

• A stud dude has a silver colored bullet casing on the dude card
• A stud dude is often referred to simply as a “stud”
• Studs add to your stud bonus during shootouts

Suit

• Each card has a suit
  • Spades: Dude cards
  • Hearts: Goods cards and Spell cards
  • Diamonds: Deed cards
  • Clubs: Action cards
• Involved in determining hand rank of draw hands using poker rules

Sundown

• Fourth and final phase of the basic sequence of play
• See if anybody has won the game, and if not, prepare for the next round

Token

• A special kind of dude that shows up just for a shootout
• Token dude cards cannot be included in your deck
• When a Token Dude is aced or discarded it is removed from play instead of going to the discard pile or Boot Hill
• Token is a keyword that other cards may refer to and interact with

Town Square

• The area in the middle of the table is a location called the town square
• The town square is adjacent to all in-town locations

Trait

• Effects that are always on while the card is in play
• Appear on cards in plain text below keywords

Unboot

• Cards come into play unbooted
• Unboot your booted cards at the end of the Sundown phase
• To unboot a card, turn it striaght up in the play area

Union

• A dude that has ties to the United States of America
• If there ia a Confederate card in play that you own, you cannot bring a Union card into play
• You cannot include both a Union and a Confederate dude in your starting gang
• Union is a keyword that other cards may refer to and interact with

Unique

• Dudes and deeds are unique unless they have the Non-Unique keyword
• Other cards are unique if they have the Unique keyword
• You can only have one copy of a unique card in play
• You can’t have a unique card in play if a copy of it is in your Boot Hill
• You can have up to four copies of a unique card in your deck
• Each player can have a copy of a unique card in play
• Unique is a keyword that other cards may refer to and interact with

Upkeep

• Second phase of the basic sequence of play
• Collect income, pay debts and dude wages

Upkeep Cost

• How much ghost rock a dude requires in wages
• Discard dudes you can't afford to pay during Upkeep

Value

• A card’s value ranges from one to thirteen
• Aces = 1
• Jacks = 11
• Queens = 12
• Kings = 13
• A card’s value can never drop below one, or exceed 13

Wages

• You must pay a dude’s wages equal to his upkeep cost during the Upkeep phase
• If a dude is from another outfit you must pay extra wages equal to the dude’s influence
• If you don’t pay a dude’s wages discard that dude

Wanted

• A dude is wanted when he has a bounty
• If a dude’s bounty goes to zero, he is no longer wanted
• If a dude becomes un-wanted, his bounty goes back to the bank

Weapon

• A goods card that is used to attack other dudes
• A dude can only have one Weapon attached at a time
• Weapon is a keyword that other cards may refer to and interact with

Winner

• The Winner is determined by the Gamblin’ phase
• The Winner wins the pot in the Gamblin’ phase
• The Winner goes first in the High Noon phase
• The Winner goes first during a shootout
• The Winner has the first chance use React or Resolution effects