Band-Aids & Bullet Holes

Band-Aids & Bullet Holes is a deck-builder tabletop role-playing game about a tight-knit community of professional assassins, the debts and vendettas they carry, and one person's quest for bloody revenge. Each session emulates a revenge movie like Kill Bill or John Wick in about as much time as it would take to watch one.

All you need to play is:

• 2-5 players
• 1-3 hours per session
• A standard deck of playing cards for each player

BA&BH currently has a demo available for free, an expanded ashcan edition for purchase, and a fully fleshed out zine edition in the works. If you buy the ashcan now, you'll get the full digital zine for free when it's done.

B&B is an original rules set for slowly building up characters and then smacking them together like action figures. It contains:

• Simple, intuitive mechanics for pursing your sworn enemies
• Simple, intuitive mechanics for fighting Two Dozen Goons all at once
• 52 pieces of unique iconography to mix and match between characters
• 52 cool assassin names
• 26 venues for dramatic urban duels
• 7 prewritten characters, customizable to your particular taste

The system is easily re-skinnable for any community of people headed towards one-on-one climactic conflict. If you want to play as a pantheon of Gods, professional wrestlers, immortal vampires, superheroes, sci-fi bounty hunters, a high school debate team, fool-hardy wizards, or amateur golfers, you can repurpose this system without a lot of work (some assembly required).

If you have a brain the size of a watermelon (i.e. big), you could play this game with your Wreck This Deck deck. If you do, the law says you must tell me how it goes in the comments.

Band-Aids & Bullet Holes is, first and foremost, a game for emulating John Wick style cinema. But here's some other quality references:

• Kill Bill
• Blue Eye Samurai
• The Mariner's Revenge Song
• The Dark Knight

It basically means the same thing as early access: the game is perfectly playable and thoroughly playtested, but art, layout, and maybe even additional rules changes are likely coming in a future more polished release.

As the game gains more of these things, it's likely to increase in price. If you buy it now, you'll always have access to the most up-to-date version regardless of what price you paid initially.