Dust Bowl Galaxy Rulebook
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Dust Bowl Galaxy is a space western game of exploration¸ outlaws and frontier survival.
It is a rules-light low-prep game where you build your starship out of spare parts¸ crew it with custom made aliens¸ and go explore the galaxy one randomly (or not so randomly) generated sector at a time. When you blow something up¸ you weld the leftovers onto your ship¸ call them upgrades and keep on truckin'.
You are in a tin can with half a dozen other scoundrels and there is literally nothing outside for light years. You are tumbling through a bitter galaxy that used to have a lot more people. You are going where many others have gone before. The trick is surviving to come back.
You are looking for a new rock for your people to call home. And once you find it¸ the refugees can leave their overcrowded slums to become settlers so you get rich doing the right thing... just this once.
On an unrelated note¸ you are totally not pirates. "Not in this port¸ officer.”
This game requires use of playing cards. You may use a couple regular poker decks (and deface them with sharpies)¸ but it is faster to play it with a set of Dust Bowl Galaxy Cards . There are 237 of them in the set¸ covering all the ship components¸ gadgets¸ alien species and their abilities¸ as well as planets and stars for random galactic sector creation.
This game also requires six-sided dice. About thirty of them will suffice for the whole group. They do not come bundled with the game¸ but there are many hobby stores that will happily sell you these in a variety of colors and materials.
Dust Bowl Galaxy is a space western game of exploration¸ outlaws and frontier survival.
It is a rules-light low-prep game where you build your starship out of spare parts¸ crew it with custom made aliens¸ and go explore the galaxy one randomly (or not so randomly) generated sector at a time. When you blow something up¸ you weld the leftovers onto your ship¸ call them upgrades and keep on truckin'.
You are in a tin can with half a dozen other scoundrels and there is literally nothing outside for light years. You are tumbling through a bitter galaxy that used to have a lot more people. You are going where many others have gone before. The trick is surviving to come back.
You are looking for a new rock for your people to call home. And once you find it¸ the refugees can leave their overcrowded slums to become settlers so you get rich doing the right thing... just this once.
On an unrelated note¸ you are totally not pirates. "Not in this port¸ officer.”
This game requires use of playing cards. You may use a couple regular poker decks (and deface them with sharpies)¸ but it is faster to play it with a set of Dust Bowl Galaxy Cards. There are 237 of them in the set¸ covering all the ship components¸ gadgets¸ alien species and their abilities¸ as well as planets and stars for random galactic sector creation.
This game also requires six-sided dice. About thirty of them will suffice for the whole group. They do not come bundled with the game¸ but there are many hobby stores that will happily sell you these in a variety of colors and materials.