You are outlaws on the run and low on luck. You tussle with lawmen, monsters, and other gunslingers; ingest toxic materials to cast workings; and befriend horses to commit crime.

Varmints, Vagabonds & Vigilantes is a classless system with fast character generation, a baroque but deadly quick gunfight resolution system, a magic system based on consuming gunpowder and ammo, and horses as far as the eye can see.

Version 0.2.2

Franco A. Alvarado / Root Devil

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The primary inspirations for this game follow and are referenced throughout the ruleset:

• a blog post by Prismatic Wasteland
• Errant
• Blades in the Dark
• Horses for Cairn
• We Deal in Lead
• Revenant Quill’s Sulphur Mage

A complete catalogue of inspirations would be impossible due to the ephemeral nature of memory and the litigious natures of certain organizations who don’t even like to be mentioned.

This is a cobbled-together game in the folk tradition of homebrew gaming tables with various ideas, mechanics, inspirations, and philosophies borrowed (looted) from treacherous delves into blogs, forums, chat groups, adventures, and systems.

This ruleset is released under CC-BY-SA 4.0. Refer to License for more info.