Gun & Grace

"You will know them by their trials, pilgrim."

Gun & Grace is a lean, weird-west folk horror RPG about wandering between salvation and ruin. You play pilgrims — dangerous, flawed, principled — sent to towns where sin has taken root and something old is stirring under the floorboards.

Your pilgrim might be a Tibetan monk in a duster, a Catholic penitent with a sawed-off, a Diné protector invoking Monster Slayer, an imam sighting down a lever-gun at worshippers of Shaitan, or someone whose beliefs and burdens are entirely their own.

It’s not about being the fastest draw. It’s about the weight of the trigger — and the vows you might break to pull it.

What You Get

• Complete rules in 4 pages — faith and firepower, damnation clocks, vow-breaking consequences.

• ¡La Banda Está Muerta! — a full, self-contained scenario of undead mariachi nuns whose nightly hymn keeps something worse locked in the crypt.

• A framework where multiple spiritual traditions can share the same table, from borderlands Catholicism to pre-contact Indigenous cosmologies, Sufi metaphysics to Buddhist protective rites.

• Tools for creating your own trials of belief, identity, and survival — in towns where competing worldviews coexist uneasily under the same hard sun.

What It’s Not

• No sprawling splatbooks.

• No gear porn.

• No “haunted cowboy buffet” of disconnected tropes.

• Just tight mechanics, hard choices, and the smell of gun oil in a prayer book — whether that book is bound in leather, cloth, or bark paper.

Play Style

You’ll like Gun & Grace if you enjoy:

• Folk horror with dust on its boots.

• Multiple cultural viewpoints in tension and in dialogue, each with its own way of naming what’s in the dark.

• Player-driven moral dilemmas where there’s no right choice — just different costs.

• Short sessions that still feel like a full story.