Rules

## Setup

Choose one of the Starting Cards add 3 Old Books 1 Knife and 1 Saltgun. Collect any locations weapons or effects that come with the starting card and add all these cards to your player deck.

Shuffle the Resource Deck place the Monster Deck face down in numerical order and set the Effects in an easily searchable place on the table.

Draw four cards from the top of the Resource Deck and place them face up in the center of the table. This is the resource lineup

## Beginning A round

Draw 6 cards from your deck and choose a first player. The first player draws the first card from the monster deck and places it beside the monster deck, add effects listed on the card and resolve any attacks the monster may have starting with the first player.

## Defeating a monster

To defeat a monster and collect its points first overcome its Effects and return them to the effects deck, then use attack research and special points to defeat it. The player attempting to defeat the monster must have as many or more points in all categories to defeat the monster. When a monster is defeated a new round begins with a new monster and the player who defeated the last monster becomes the new first player.

## Doing Research

When a player is incapable of defeating a monster they can spend research points to collect resource cards. To buy resource cards place research points from any card in your hand or on the table into the discard pile. The number of research points paid is how many points you can spend to purchase cards from the resource lineup. Each card has a cost at the top right corner. If the player cannot afford any of the four cards, the lineup can be placed on the bottom of the resource deck, and four new cards can be drawn, if the player still cannot afford any of the cards they forfeit their turn and research points.

## Finishing the game

When all players are dead or in hell, or when you run out of time to keep playing count each players Points and the player with the most points wins. Only points listed on resource and monster cards count towards your final score.

## Glossary

### Defeat

Follow the instructions on cards first, then use the Research, defense, and special statistics to defeat a monster or effect. When defeating a monster card pull it out of the game and place it face up beside your player deck it's points will count to your final score at the end of the game. When defeating an Effect card simply place it back into the effects deck.

### Disable/Deactivate

Turning a card over makes all of its attacks and effects stop functioning. Including its abilities to prevent other cards from being attacked. This lasts for the time allotted on the card which did the disabling.

### Player deck

The cards you have in your draw pile, hand, and discard pile. These cards should be starting cards, and cards purchased from the resource lineup.

### Points, Costs, and Power

The number indicated at the top right of each card is one of these three things. If it is a resource card that is it's cost, if it is a monster card that is it's power level. Both resource cards and Monster cards add to your final point score at the end of the game.

### Turn

A player begins his or her turn by attempting to destroy the monster, if they cannot then they can do research or trade cards of equal value to another player. Then their turn ends.

### Round

A round is the time from when the first player goes until that same player goes again or another player defeats the monster and becomes the first player.