BOONDOCK CARTOMANCY

The consequences of westward expansion rear their head. Desolate, inhospitable, and unpredictable - the Outbacks are a ravaged desert, a wild tundra, an ancient tomb. Host to a plethora of unknown variables and formed from the corpses of failure, it’s a hotbed for the lawless, the corrupt, and the lost. Conditions for growing a corporate empire couldn’t be more ideal.

BOONDOCK CARTOMANCY is a tabletop roleplaying game about personal growth in a cruel and inhospitable wasteland, backlit with Western cowboys wielding powerful and unpredictable magic. It’s a game about reflecting upon the world and systems of exploitation we live in, and using ancient spells to blow up a caravan of criminals in a climactic shootout. It’s a game about interfacing with the human condition, and feeling cool as shit while doing it.

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- a vital cog in the lifeless machine. Walk into the wasteland, far from civilization and over the corpses of your failed peers, and do the dirty work that must be done for those who lack the nerve to do it themselves. Or don’t - make your own call.

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with a classless, stat-minimal character & action system that reinforces creative roleplay rather than a strict mathematics game. Nothing’s set in stone - including your moral compass.

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to bend minds and matter alike with cartomancy, a roleplay-centric soft magic system that makes you feel like a skilled wizard rather than a number-crunching accountant. Make the Outbacks your realm of conquest.

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with an open-ended campaign framework that lets your party call the shots and build the world as you play, rather than following a preset path laid out prior. Give your GM a break with less planning, and more playing.

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in a world full of non-player characters, who drive every facet of conflict and force your party to think before they act. Is violence always the best option?

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Kick-start your frontier adventures with three preset campaigns:

• ATAXIAN SILVER - Stop the spread of an anomalous metal that spreads neurological diseases to those who handle it. Includes a unique game mechanic.
• THE CARSON BUTCHER - Uncover a serial killer striking fear into a company town.
• DOPPELGÄNGER - Convince a traveling royal to return home - if you can figure out who the real one is.

BOONDOCK CARTOMANCY requires 2-6 players and 1 referee. Gameplay is casual, fiction-first, and relies on play as a conversation rather than as a strict, turn-based system.

Also available on DriveThruRPG.