Aim

• Spends whole turn, next turn ignore 4 points of penalties; or +2 to roll
• Attack must be first action in the following turn

Bound & Entangled

• Entangled: Can’t move, and Distracted
• Bound: Can’t move, Distracted and Vulnerable, no physical action other than breaking free:
  • From a foe: Grapple, improves on success (one level), raise (two levels)
    • Shaken foes maintain their hold
  • From a Device: Strength -2 or Athletics, with any penalties for the material
    • Can break, generally with Hardness 4

Breaking Things

• Target: 2 or wielder’s Parry if held
• Hardness: 4 Rope; 8 Lock, Light door; 9 Firearm; 10 Heavy door, Knife, Sword; 12 Handcuffs
• Damage exceeds Hardness → broken, shattered, ruined, etc.
• No bonus damage or Aces

Called Shots

• Hand (-4): Target may be disarmed
• Head or Vitals (-4): +4 damage
• Item (-4/-2)
• Limbs (-2)
• Unarmored Area (-6/-4/-2)

Cover

• Light Cover (-2): A quarter of the target is obscured
• Medium Cover (-4): Half the target is obscured, or target is prone
• Heavy Cover (-6): Three-quarters of the target is obscured
• Near Total Cover (-8): Target is barely visible

Damage

• Raise on attack → +1d6 damage
• Damage total above target’s Toughness → Shaken/Wounds
  • Success: Shaken; if Shaken, +1 Wound
  • Raise: Wound per raise, Shaken

Defend

• Focus all energy → +4 Parry
• No Multi-Actions, can move but not run
• Lasts until beginning of next turn

Desperate Attacks

• Frantic attacks to hit a target at the expense of damage
• Attacker adds +2 or +4 to Fighting, subtracts like amount from damage

Disarm

• Use Called Shot on object or limb/hand
• Roll damage normally (no raise effect or Aces)
• Defender makes a Strength roll equal to damage or drops item
  • Shakes/Wounds: -2 penalty limb, -4 hand, and Wounds

Distracted & Vulnerable

• Lasts until end of next turn
• Distracted: -2 all Trait rolls
• Vulnerable: Actions and attacks against gain +2

The Drop

• +4 to a character’s attack and damage rolls
• Knockout: If Shaken or worse, target makes a Vigor roll (-2 if head) or fall unconscious

Evasion

• Aware character makes an Agility roll at -2, to avoid an avoidable attack

Fatigue

• 1 Fatigued: -1 all Trait rolls
• 2 Exhausted: -2 all Trait rolls
• 3 Incapacitated: Cannot perform actions, and may be unconscious
  • May be unconscious for 2d6 hours
  • Recovery via food, water, Healing if possible, to Exhausted
• Recovers one level per hour

Fear

• Spirit roll on encounter
  • Success: carry on
  • Nausea: Shaken and Fatigued
  • Terror:
    • Extras are Panicked
    • Wild Cards roll on Fear Table
      • +2 on Critical Failure
      • &plusmin; Fear penalty

Free Attacks

• Single attack unaltered by Edges and combat options

Ganging Up

• Each adjacent non-Stunned assailant adds +1 to Fighting rolls (max +4)
• Multiple defenders cancel out attackers

Grappling

• Opposed Athletics rolls
• Attacker wins → foe is Entangled, Raise → Bound
• If foe is Bound, the grappler is also Vulnerable

Hold

• Hold action to act later in the round
• No new Action Card if round ends, but can still choose when to act
• Shaken or Stunned: loses Hold status and turn for round
• To interrupt while on Hold, opposed Athletics roll to go first

Improvised Weapons

• Light: Range 3/6/12, Damage Str+d4, Min Str d4
• Medium: Range 2/4/8, Damage Str+d6, Min Str d6
• Heavy: Range 1/2/4, Damage Str+d8, Min Str d8

Incapacitation

• Can’t perform actions, but still dealt Action Cards
• Edges/Hindrances are ignored while Incapacitated
• When Incapacitated, roll Vigor:
  • CF: Character dies
  • Failure: Permanent Injury and Bleeding Out
  • Success: Temporary Injury (goes away when Wounds healed)
  • Raise: Fleeting Injury (goes away when Wound healed or 24 hours)
• Vigor roll each day, and is no longer Incapacitated (/unconscious) if successful
• Bleeding Out: dying, must make a Vigor roll at start of turn
  • Failure: character perishes
  • Success: they survive, but must roll next turn
  • Raise: they stabilize, no more rolls needed

Innocent Bystanders

• Skill result of 1 hits a random victim adjacent to or directly in line of fire
• Wild dice never hit innocent bystanders
• WC must miss with Wild Die for a RoF 1 to hit an Innocent Bystander
• RoF 2+ / Shotgun: Skill rolls 1 or 2

Jokers

• All allied WildCards gain a Benny
• NPCs: Benny into general NPC pool
• Character acts whenever they want
• +2 to all Trait and damage rolls
• Shuffle the deck afterwards

Mounted Combat

• Fight: Lowest of Fighting or Riding skill
• Falling: Shaken, Stunned, Wounded, mount Incapacitated → Riding roll
  • Fail → Falls, may take 2d4 damage
  • Critical Failure → Falls, may take 2d6 damage
• Shot at a rider of 1 → mount hit instead
• Mount is Shaken or Wounded → rears or bucks, Riding to stay on
• Charging: +4 to damage roll with successful Fighting
• Setting Weapons: Reach 1+ “set” against a cavalry attack
  • Attacker must be on Hold and win an opposed Athletics roll to interrupt
  • Whoever has the most Reach adds +2 to roll
  • Winner adds +4 bonus

Multi-Actions

• Up to 3 actions per round
• Two actions: -2 penalty to both
• Three actions: -4 penalty to all
• Actions must be declared before rolling

Natural Weapons

• Bite: can bite grappled targets
• Claws: +2 Athletics (climbing) on any rough or soft surface
• Horns: +4 damage at end of Fighting action in with it Runs and hits

Nonlethal Damage

• Causes Wounds as usual, but Incap → knocked out for 1d6 hours

Obstacles

• +2: Heavy glass, thick leather, drywall, wooden shield, aluminum car door
• +4: Sheet metal, steel car door
• +6: Oak door, cinder block wall
• +8: Brick wall
• +10: Stone wall, bulletproof glass, tree

Off-Hand Attacks

• Precise actions off-hand suffer -2 penalty
• Off-hand weapons don’t add Parry bonus

Panicked

• The character moves their full Pace and becomes Shaken

Poison

• After Shaken by a Poison attack → Vigor roll - poison strength
• On failure, victim is Distracted, and:
  • Knockout: Incapacitated and unconscious for 2d6 hours (twice for CF)
  • Lethal: Stunned, takes a Wound (two with CF), and perishes with 2d6 rounds
  • Mild: Suffers Fatigue (Exhaustion with CF); cannot cause Incapacitation
  • Paralyzing: Stunned, for duration or next turn
• Treatment: Healing - (poison strength) to stop effects, only one attempt

Prone

• Ranged attacks suffer -4 penalty to hit prone characters at 3”+
• -4 points of damage from Area Effect attacks
• Prone defender in melee, -2 Parry, -2 Fighting roll
• Standing costs 2” of movement

Push

• Opposed roll of Strength/Athletics
  • Success → push up to 1” (2 yd)
  • Raise → 2” (4 yd)
  • Double either if Scale is larger than foe
• Pushed character makes an Athletics roll or is knocked prone
• Running: +2 to push
• Can’t push a foe two Sizes larger
• Attackers and defenders add their shield’s Parry bonus

Ranged Weapons in Melee

• Only one-handed weapons
• TN is the defender’s Parry
• If attacking a non-adjacent target while in melee, attacker becomes Vulnerable

Readying Weapons

• Can ready up to two items per turn as free action
• Inaccessible items take an action

Recoil

• Firing at a Rate of Fire greater than 1 in an action → -2 penalty Shooting

Reloading

• Nocking an arrow or loading a sling are free actions
• Reloading is an action
• Slower weapons have Reload X, where X is the number of actions
• Run: Agility roll (-2 penalty) or no reload progress

Shaken

• Only free actions; moving and running
• Start of turn, attempt recovery with Spirit → Shaken removed

Shotguns

• +2 Shooting, 3d6/2d6/1d6 damage at ranges
• Double barrels: one attack, +4 to damage
• Slugs: no Shooting bonus, 2d10 damage, Innocent Bystanders on 1 only

Size & Scale

• Smaller creature adds difference to attacks
• Larger creature subtracts difference from attacks
• -6 Tiny: Armor joint, baseball, mouse
• -4 Very Small: Human hand or head, basketball, house cat
• -2 Small: Human limb, bobcat
• — Normal: Human, motorcycle, bull, horse
• +2 Large: Hippo, most vehicles
• +4 Huge: Dragon, whale
• +6 Gargantuan: Building, kaiju, ship

Sleep

• Without at least 6 hours of sleep every 24, Vigor (with cumulative -2 every 24 additional hours) or suffer Fatigue
• Stimulants can add +2 to the roll

Stunned

• Distracted until end of next turn
• Vulnerable until recovered from Shaken
• Fall prone (or knees)
• Can’t move or take any actions
• Don’t count toward Ganging Up

Support

• Roll relevant skill, declare which Trait to Support
• Success → +1, Raise → +2, CF → -2 (max +4, other than Strength)

Suppressive Fire

• Weapon must be able to fire as rapidly as a revolver and can’t require reloading between shots
• Uses three times usual number of bullets for its Rate of Fire
• Incurs Recoil regardless of original Rate of Fire
• Make shot to center of a Medium Blast Template
• Success → Distracted
• Raise → hit with shot (no bonus damage)
• Maximum casualties equal Rate of Fire

Surprise

• Ambushers begin on Hold
• Victims make a Notice roll → Dealt in

Tests

• Player describes action
• Attacker skill roll determines opposing attribute, any modifiers
• Attacker wins → choose Distracted or Vulnerable
  • Raise → Shaken, other effects
• Repeated tests should be less and less effective
• Can roll all dice for a Test, but only uses highest total

Thirst

• Two quarts of water per day, doubled in very dry or hot conditions
• Day after dehydration, Vigor roll every eight hours (four in extreme)
  • -2 if low on water, -4 if out of water
  • Failure: level of Fatigue, Exhausted on CF
• Incapacitated from thirst → perishes after 2d6 hours

Touch Attacks

• +2 to Fighting roll

Two Weapons

• Two melee weapons → +1 Fighting vs. single/unarmed w/ no shield

Unarmed Defender

• Attacker with melee weapon → +2 Fighting vs. no weapon/shield

Unstable Platform

• Fire or throw from moving mount → -2 Trait

Wild Attack

• +2 Fighting, Vulnerable until end of next turn

Withdrawing from Melee

• Adjacent non-Shaken and non-Stunned opponents get Free Attack