THE CORE RULES MANUAL
The Core Rules Manual includes the game system and everything you need to create your character.
The game system is used to manage characters actions and combats resolution.
Although comprehensive enough to keep the game meaningful, the system is designed to be as simple as possible, since WILD WEST 1873's aim is to be easy to play, while always emphasizing role-playing.
Each character has characteristics (i.e. STRENGTH, MORALITY ...) and skills (i.e. "Instinctive shooting", "orientation" ... ) enabling him/her to perform actions.
For any role-player, character creation is a special moment, full of flavor. You're in for a treat. In WILD WEST 1873, you randomly define a lot of things as characteristics, age, relationships with the law, with the army, with the Indians, former profession if any, languages, reputation, old acquaintances etc ... and you allocate yourself a percentages capital to skills.
Some characteristics, such as MORALITY and SPEED, are written on the back of the character sheet, well out of sight of other players... The same applies to any skills you may wish.