Jackknife Trail

A game by Harrington Martin Books

Solo Duet Three or More Pay What You Want

A complete action role playing, frontier exploring, character leveling, hunt and grab, loot finding, adventure game

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Adventure Wild West

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Description

Jackknife Trail is a complete action role playing, frontier exploring, character leveling, hunt and grab, loot finding, adventure game that's built around the usage of a single deck of ordinary playing cards. If you're familiar with the Cards \& Catacombs rules, you'll have no problem adjusting.

This game is designed to function as a solitaire experience as well as a group-based crawl. Jackknife Trail is made to accomodate almost any sized group of players you could gather.

Inside you'll find rules on how to build gritty frontier characters utilizing six unique classes and an array of unique items and advancements. Pray the cards are in your favor as you set out into the punishing wilds of Old West.

Your characters grow in power as you explore and build your party into prominence. The ability to enhance your rifles and pistols through the concept of infusing them with items of their same kind, using various parts, some local help, and a keen mind, creates an incentive to keep playing and a series of clear creation goals that will spark your desire for dominating on the prairie.

Using a simple character creation process, you'll build characters and venture forth, hoping the cards and their numeric variables are your friends. But be prepared to make several characters. The cards can get... nasty.

Jackknife Trail will bring you endless possibilities through a design that thrusts you right into the action and places you on a course for countless western adventures.