In the 28th century the city of Zackary runs on vice, and its most notorious dive runs on blood. Welcome to the floor of the Bombshell Club.

1 The Stage

BOMBSHELL is a two-player skirmish fought across two facing rows, three fighters a side. Each player runs a crew of three fighters, the Bombshells, scraped from the gutter and remade into instruments of the crowd's pleasure. You feed them drugs, bolt cybernetic mods onto their bodies and try to leave the other crew in pieces.

2 What's in the Box

Drugs, Mods and Items form the Black Market deck. The Components tab lists every card in full.

Every fighter is a card. Five numbers, two sets of arrows, and one personal trick set her apart.

1 Reading a Bombshell

2 Skills

Each Bombshell has one unique Skill. The icon beside it says when it works. The words on the card say who it can hit, with four fixed phrases:

1 Set Up to Play

1. Prepare the dice. Put the red Health dice, the purple Toxicity dice and the Buff and Debuff tokens where both players can reach them. HP lives on the red die and Toxicity on the purple one: no damage tokens.
2. Determine the first player. Decide at random who goes first.
3. Draft the Bombshells. Take twelve Bombshells out of the deck, place them face up between the two crews, and set the rest aside. Starting with the first player, take turns picking one out of those twelve until each crew holds three.
4. Place the Bombshells. Take turns putting your three on your own row. Each starts with her full HP (red dice) and a full pool of Action Dice (green).
5. Draw the Black Market. Starting with the first player, take turns drawing from the Black Market deck until both hold three cards.

A turn is three phases, but the floor only moves in the middle one. You ready your fighters, spend their dice, then let everything wear off.

1 The Three Phases

1. Start Phase. On the very first round, skip this whole phase: you set up with a full hand, full Action Dice, and a first player already chosen. Every round after: draw 3 Black Market cards, recharge each Bombshell's Action Dice by placing that many dice on her card, then roll for initiative.
2. Action Phase. Players alternate activating one Bombshell at a time, spending Action Dice on actions, until no Bombshell has dice left or both players forfeit the round.
3. End Phase. The round ends the moment no Bombshell has Action Dice left (or both players pass). First The Corner: one free die for each Stunned Bombshell. On a 4, 5 or 6 she stands up with 1, 2 or 3 HP (a 1, 2 or 3 leaves her down; The Corner never removes her). Then remove every buff and debuff from drugs and skills (her Toxicity drops back to zero), lose any unused Action Dice, and reshuffle all Black Market cards back into the deck, except Mods already equipped on a Bombshell: those stay on.

2 The Five Actions

Most actions cost Action Dice from the Bombshell taking them. Taking Drugs is the exception: it costs no Action Dice.

3 Under test

An attack is one throw of Action Dice, read straight off the Result Chart. How many dice you load is the only real choice.

1 Making an Attack

1. Declare a target. Pick an enemy Bombshell sitting in the direction of your attacker's arrow.
2. Attack roll. Choose how many of this Bombshell's remaining Action Dice to roll, then roll them.
3. Check your result. Read your highest die on the Result Chart below.

2 The Four Results

3 Damage and Reaction

1. Deal damage. The attacker rolls a D6 and adds Strength. The defender rolls a D6 (none on a Critical) and adds Armour. Subtract the defence from the attack; whatever remains is damage. The attack has to beat the defence: equal totals are a parry and no damage goes through. There is no cap: a monster roll is a monster hit.
2. Apply damage. Turn her red Health die down by that many points. At 0 HP she is Stunned: down on the floor, out of action, but not out of the match.
3. Reaction. On a Miss the target always reacts; on a Hit she reacts if she is still standing. A Reaction is one die, rolled by the defender at no cost, read on the same Result Chart: 3 or more lands. Then the exchange closes, and a Reaction never causes another Reaction. A Strike or a Critical leaves no opening, so the target cannot react.

4 Stunned: down, not out

At 0 HP a Bombshell is Stunned: she drops to the floor where she stands. Excess damage from that hit is lost. While she is down she cannot activate, attack, react, or use Skills; her Passives, Auras, taunts and equipped Mods are all switched off. She cannot be chosen as the target of attacks, Skills or cards, and while she is down no amount of damage can finish her. The only way to take her off the board is a Coup de Grâce, or her own Adrenaline Rush going wrong.

1. Coup de Grâce. During your activation, spend 1 AD and choose a Stunned enemy inside your attack arrows: she is removed from the match. No roll, no Reaction. This counts as that activation's attack.
2. Adrenaline Rush. Once per round per Bombshell: activate your Stunned girl, spend 1 of her Action Dice and roll it. A 6 stands her up with 2 HP and adds no toxicity. A 5 stands her up with 1 HP and fills her Toxicity to her ODR, one point short of an overdose, so she takes no more drugs that round. It never tips her over on its own. A 3 or 4 does nothing: she stays Stunned, the die is gone, and that was her activation. A 1 or 2 knocks her out of the match for good. She cannot try it at all once she is in overdose.
3. The Corner. At the end of each round, roll one die for each Stunned Bombshell, free. On a 4, 5 or 6 the smelling salts work: she stands up with 1, 2 or 3 HP, ready to activate next round. On a 1, 2 or 3 she stays down. The Corner is safe: it never removes her.

Drugs and chrome come off the same deck. One makes her hit harder right now, the other never washes out.

1 Drugs

A drug carries a Toxicity of 1 to 3, a Buff, and an Overdose. Taking a drug is free and does not tire the Bombshell. While her Toxicity is below her ODR, you can give her any drug, even one that takes her far past it. Once her Toxicity reaches her ODR she takes no more drugs this round, even though she is not in overdose yet; past it she is in overdose.

• If her total Toxicity is at or below her ODR, only the buffs apply.
• If it goes over, both the buffs and the overdose debuffs apply.
• All drug effects last until the End Phase.
• An Overdose ends early only if the Toxicity causing it is cleared. When that happens, its effects end with it.

2 Mods

Mods are cybernetic upgrades you equip for 1 AD. Their skill is always active while equipped and costs nothing to use. A Bombshell carries one Mod at a time, and it stays until it is removed or replaced. When a Bombshell is removed from the match, her drugs and mods go back into the Black Market deck (while she is only Stunned they stay on her, switched off).

3 Items

Items are one-shot consumables: grenades, med kits, antidotes and the like. During one of your Bombshell's activations, spend 1 AD to use one, resolve it, then put it in the discard pile. They use the same four targeting phrases as Skills: a target reaches anyone, and only in range binds the Item to the arrows of the Bombshell using it. They sit in the Black Market alongside drugs and mods.

★ Components

Every card in the box, straight from the source data. Filter by type, narrow by toxicity, or search by name and effect.

★ Quick Reference

The numbers and results you reach for mid-game.

Winning

F.A.Q.

Quick answers from the rules.