SALOON OF GHOSTS

The dead are waiting. The cards are shuffled. Your friends' souls are on the table.

You are a gunslinger and eight members of your gang have just been killed in a bank robbery gone wrong. Now you've stumbled into a saloon that shouldn't exist, somewhere beyond the edge of the desert. Inside, thirteen dead gunslingers are waiting to play cards. Beat them, win back the souls of your friends, and maybe walk out alive. Lose, and you'll never leave.

What Is Saloon of Ghosts?

Saloon of Ghosts is a solo tabletop game where you play blackjack against the ghosts of legendary gunslingers in a haunted frontier saloon.

Armed with nothing but a deck of cards, two hidden aces up your sleeves, and a willingness to cheat death, you'll face thirteen supernatural opponents. Each ghost changes the rules of the game in their own way. Some help you. Some don't. Some are almost impossible to beat.

Defeat a ghost and you'll claim one of their haunted relics: cursed objects that can bend the rules in your favour. Save them for the right moment and they might save your life. Waste them and you'll be facing the dead alone.

Every hand is a duel in this twisted solo-blackjack game set in the weird wild west.

The cards are shuffled. Pull up a chair, it's time to play.

How It Plays

The game uses a single standard deck of playing cards.

At the start of the game you'll create a legendary gunslinger by drawing cards from a name generator, then prepare three decks:

• Your Draw Deck
• The Ghost's Draw Deck
• The Ghost Deck to determine which legendary spirit you'll face next.

Each ghost has:

• A unique special ability that changes the rules of the game
• A unique relic you can win

The first ghosts you meet might give you an advantage. The last ghosts would rather see you buried.

What You'll Need

• A standard deck of 52 playing cards
• A pencil or pen
• The Saloon of Ghosts PDF
• About 20–30 minutes

No dice. No game master. No prep.

Just cards, ghosts, and bad decisions.

Who Is This For?

Saloon of Ghosts is for players who enjoy:

• Solo tabletop games
• Blackjack and card games
• Weird westerns
• Ghost stories
• Push-your-luck mechanics
• Small indie RPGs and tabletop experiments
• Games that tell stories through simple rules

One Last Hand

The piano is playing. The whisky is warm. The ghosts have been waiting a long time for someone foolish enough to sit down at their table. Shuffle the deck. Hide an ace up your sleeve. See if you can beat the dead and win back the souls of your friends and pray that you make it out alive...

Ambience

To make your gameplay more immersive you can also add to your order half an hour of Haunted Saloon ambience to listen to whilst playing, filled with the sounds of whisky being poured, cards being shuffled, the creaky saloon sign, and the ghostly moans of the dead.

Alternatively, you could play the game in an actual haunted saloon... but we wouldn't reccomend that.

About

Player Count: 1

Game Length: 20 - 30 minutes

Pages: 25

Designer: William Long www.longgames.co.uk

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