Weapon Ranges
Ranges are in yards

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Damage = 1d6

−1 A scratch
0-2 Light Wound
3-5 Serious Wound
6+ Mortal Wound

+1 if hit is to chest or head
−1 if hit is to arm or leg
+ or − weapon modifier i.e. -1 for bows
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For Shoot Outs

Table 7: Shootout Actions
* A character can switch targets between turns with no delay.
** Does not apply to fanfiring.

Table 8: Speed Modifiers

Table 3: Chance to Hit

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Table 4: Accuracy Modifiers


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Shotgun and Scattergun Wounds

Night Fighting

Accuracy Modifiers  -4 to accuracy

Visibility is reduced to a characters Observation score in yards.

On a cloudy, moonless night, visibility equals the character’s Observation score.

Under the stars and a crescent moon, visibility is twice the character’s Observation score.

Under the full moon, visibility is three times the character’s Observation score.

If the target is standing near a light source (campfire, lantern), visibility is not reduced at all.

Surprise A character firing from complete darkness, unless he was previously
spotted or is being chased, always has complete surprise.

Movement  All movement rates other than walking and crawling are halved in
darkness.

Combat Turn Movement (yards/turn)

On Foot
Crawling 2
Walking 6
Evading 12
Running 24

Mounted
Walking 8
Trotting 16
Galloping 32

Moving through door -2 yards
Moving through window -6 yards, Coordination check
Moving on stairs   up/down 1 stair per yard
Light wound in leg move distance halved
Serious wound in leg walk only, distance halved
Serious wounds in both legs crawl only
Other serious wound walk or crawl at normal speed, other move distances halved
Mount/dismount takes one-half movement allowance
Stand up takes one-half movement allowance
Dive or fall prone no penalty
Jump down one story takes one-half movement allowance
Terrible footing move distance halved

Healing Wounds

As characters heal, they recover both the Strength points they’ve lost and from the effects of the wounds. The rate at which the character heals depends on whether a doctor has tended his wounds (someone with Medicine skill has made a successful skill check).

A character who has received medical care heals at the rate of one Strength point per week per serious wound and two points per week per light wound. All light wounds are considered healed after one week, all serious wounds are considered healed when the character has recovered all his Strength points.
Thus, a character with two light wounds and one serious wound heals five points the first week (two for each of the light wounds, one for the serious wound). At the end of that week his light wounds are completely healed.  He now heals one point per week for the next three weeks. At the end of that time, his serious wound is completely healed.

If the character has not received medical attention, he heals only one point per week per light wound and no points for serious wounds. A light wound is considered healed after two weeks. The character discussed above would heal only two points per week. After two weeks his light wounds would be healed, but his serious wound would not be healed at all.
If a serious wound goes untended for three weeks, the character must make a Luck check. If this check succeeds, the character begins healing normally. If the check fails, the wound has gone septic and the character dies.
Special penalties (to accuracy, speed, and movement) due to light wounds are no longer in effect after one week of healing. Special penalties from serious wounds are no longer in effect after two weeks of healing.

Brawling damage is restored at the rate of one point per hour of rest. The point at which a character recovers consciousness should be decided by the Judge on an individual basis.
If a character is not fully recovered from a brawl, it will affect his accuracy, movement, speed, and strength. If the character has lost four or less points to brawling damage, he is affected as if he had a light wound. If his brawling damage is five or more points, the effect is the same as a serious wound. This does not come into play until after the brawl is over.

Medicine Skill

While great strides were made in medicine in the years leading up to the second half of the 19th Century, a combination of inadequate knowledge and poor facilities made both disease and injury very lethal on the frontier. A good doctor was both very rare and very highly regarded. Even some of the basic principles of first aid, which we now take for granted, were largely unknown to the general public.

Wounds are dealt with in detail in Chapter 2, and recovery from wounds is covered in Chapter 7: The Western Campaign. Regarding wounds, medical skill has these capabilities and restrictions: No amount of medical skill or tending will save a character who has been mortally wounded. Serious wounds will begin healing after a doctor makes a successful Medicine skill check.
Light wounds heal on their own, or twice as fast if tended by a doctor. A doctor can also use his Medical skill to treat animal bites, poisoning, fevers, and other diseases.

prerequisite: Literacy

Wound Points

Whenever a character is wounded, in addition to suffering a light, serious, or mortal wound, he also picks up one to five wound points. If a character’s wound points total up to more than his Strength score, the character passes out (from shock and loss of blood).
The number of points inflicted by a wound is the modified wound severity die roll. In the example above, where Montana Joe suffered a light arm wound, he also suffered two wound points.
When a mortal wound is reduced by a Luck check to a light wound, it inflicts only
one wound point.


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Allowable Actions

Shooting, moving, and a combination of these two are not the only options available to characters during a combat turn. In fact, a character can do (or at least try to do) anything the player wants. The obvious restriction is that he has only six seconds to do it, if he wants to finish in a single turn.

Some examples of what a character can do in a six-second turn:
light a fuse;
load three rounds into a revolver;
pour a glass of whiskey;
dump everything out of a box or chest;
tip over a table and crouch behind it;
tie a simple knot.

Other actions may take longer than six seconds to complete. If a player announces that his character wants to do something that the Judge thinks will take several turns, the Judge should tell that to the player and then let him decide whether he still wants to do it.  Some examples of things a character can do in more than one turn:
clear a jammed breechloading rifle (3 turns);
unsaddle a horse (2 turns);
search a trunk for important papers (3-5 turns);
nail a board across a door or window (2 turns);
cut a loophole through an adobe wall (2 turns);
pick a lock (2-12 turns);
bandage a wound (3-6 turns).

In a case where a character might be able to do something in one turn, but it might also take longer, the Judge should have the player make a Coordination or Strength check, whichever applies. If the check succeeds, the action takes one turn. If the check fails, the action takes two turns. Or perhaps the character must keep trying every turn until he either succeeds or gives up (a good example of this is trying to light a match in a stiff wind).
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