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How To Play Outgunned

Hi everyone, this is a special how to play episode of Firebreathing Kittens podcast. I’m the game master for an upcoming session using the rules for Outgunned. This episode is a summary of what I learned after reading the rule book. Hopefully this will be a handy guide for how to play for my players, will help me organize myself, and will be useful for you listeners, too, who are looking to play your own Outgunned game at home.

I’ll organize this how to play guide into sections.

1. Game category

2. Skills

3. Distances

4. Gear

5. How to attack

6. Grit

7. Conditions

8. Time Out

9. Reloading

10. Death roulette

11. Gambling

12. Cover

13. Adrenaline

14. Spotlight

15. Rides

16. Chases

17. Helping allies

18. Double difficulty

19. Weak spots

20. Re-rolling

21. Extra actions

22. Heat

23. Building a character

Game category. Outgunned is a cinematic action role playing game. We’ve all seen movies where heroes crawl through air ducts, keep a runaway bus above a minimum speed, face off alone against a dozen goons, look to the camera with a dashing cut on their cheek, a hero who walks in slow motion towards the camera while everything behind them explodes. That’s the type of game Outgunned is, and that’s the sort of hero you will be roleplaying as. A hero is someone on a missi