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Subject: Deadlands Noir Tue 19 May 2015 - 15:02
The year is 1935, but the history is not our own.:
The Confederate States of America have been independent for over 50 years—depending on who you ask. Their economy has struggled like a one armed man in white water ever since—periodically coming up for air but mostly getting nowhere. Only the North’s ill-advised attempt at Prohibition gave the South any respite, by letting them sell cheap hooch over the border to every YoYo, Dick, and Nancy who wanted to wet their whistle. A worldwide Depression has made things even worse, and one of the most desperate areas lies right at the crossroads of the Confederacy—New Orleans. The Big Easy is at the storm-tossed center of nefarious events set in motion years ago by strange and malevolent entities bent on ruining and ruling our world. So why is this world different than our own? For starters, something happened back in 1863. The worst of the yellow rags at the time claimed the dead walked and magic returned to the world, but most people told those nuts to peddle their papers elsewhere. A few years later, an earthquake of biblical proportions shattered the coast of California into a labyrinth of towering mesas and seawater-filled canyons that came to be known as the “Great Maze.” One man’s disaster is another man’s opportunity, they say, and in that earthquake, miners discovered a new superfuel called “ghost rock” after the strange howling noise it made when burned. Inventors found all sorts of uses for the mineral, spurring amazing advances in technology and funding more than one fortune. Those same advances also spawned terrible new weapons, because if there’s one thing men are good at, it’s finding new and creative ways to kill each other.
Its wheels gummed up with the bodies of the dead, the Civil War ground slowly to a halt sometime around the 1880s. That left the Confederacy an independent nation, making it technically a win for the Rebs, but for once it had the sense not to rub anyone’s face in it. Not wanting to miss a prime opportunity, the Mormons and the Sioux Indians also seceded, forming the Republic of Deseret and the Sioux Nations, respectively. For over 30 years, the United States and the Confederacy kept their guns pointed across the Mason-Dixon Line, daring the other to flinch. Then, in 1917, both put aside their differences and briefly joined forces with the Allied Powers in the Great War. After another three years of fighting, Germany and the other Central Powers surrendered. The victory celebrations were cut short as the returning soldiers brought home with them a superflu that spread across the world. In the end, it claimed nearly 200 million lives. A brief period of prosperity followed, but ultimately, that turned out to just be the set-up for one of the biggest sucker plays in history—the Great Depression. Banks failed, stocks crashed, and companies shut their doors. Dust storms and grasshopper swarms swept the country like the plagues of Egypt, obliterating farms and dreams. The politicians say the worst is over, but most people are still making do with hope and pocket lint, and most are running low on pocket lint. Money talks these days, and when it does, most everyone listens. A good job is hard to find, but a trustworthy soul might be even harder. It’s almost enough to make a fella overlook the shadow at the end of the alley or ignore those strange bumps in the night. Almost, but not quite.
"New Orleans, 1935. The great depression is in the rear-view, yet people are still doing it tough. As a PI work is always sporadic, but of late its been harder and harder to come by. You teamed up with some other investigators, splitting costs between you to help make ends meet. The small jobs keep trickling in, keeping the business going. Now you just need that one big job, the one to make you famous."
I am looking for expressions of interest for a new game. I am looking to get started in about a month. Sessions will run on either saturday or sunday afternoons (to be decided closer to the start date). These sessions will in no way clash with Matt or Romney's campaigns. This will not be your typical style of game, there will be less of a focus on combat, and more of a focus on solving the mystery. This is not to say there will be no combat, there will definitely be combat, the things that go bump in the night are no so easily dissuaded. However if you are looking for a hack n slash style dungeoon crawl game, this is not the game for you. The spoiler above contains a short detailing on how the history of this world differs from our own. TL;DR The american civil war never ended, and the union and confederacy are two separate entities, and a great quake sunk half of California into the ocean, revealing veins of a new superfuel called ghost rock.
Deadlands Noir uses the Savage Worlds rule system, with three settting rules added.:
Blood & Guts: Characters can spend Bennies on damage rolls. Critical Failures: Whenever a character rolls a 1 on both his Trait and Wild Die, he can’t spend a Benny. He’s stuck with the result! Gritty Damage: Whenever a Wild Card suffers a wound, she rolls on the Injury Table. Injuries sustained this way are cured when the wound is healed.
Edit: You can find the Deadlands Noir rulebook in the savage worlds dropbox folder.
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Matt Power house!
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Subject: Re: Deadlands Noir Tue 19 May 2015 - 15:10
I am interested as long as your not doing pre-made characters. Because your shit at them. So shit.
HappyNoodleBoy +1 Cammando!
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Subject: Re: Deadlands Noir Tue 19 May 2015 - 15:13
No pre-made characters. You are encouraged to make your own. Only stipulation being that you must take into account, in your history and skills, that your character is a PI.
Romnipotent Loves the cock
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Subject: Re: Deadlands Noir Tue 19 May 2015 - 21:32
So shit...
PI or sub contractor to a PI? Like, the specialist the PI calls when dealing with weird shit?
Susso Newbie
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Subject: Re: Deadlands Noir Tue 19 May 2015 - 21:36
Yep interested for me and Chris.
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Subject: Re: Deadlands Noir Tue 19 May 2015 - 21:41
Yes you can be the weird shit specialist. You don't have to have been a PI for very long, in fact you can be very new to it. But at the start of the game the party is a team of investigators who have been working together for a few months.
Matt Power house!
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Subject: Re: Deadlands Noir Wed 20 May 2015 - 7:57
Romnipotent wrote:
So shit...
PI or sub contractor to a PI? Like, the specialist the PI calls when dealing with weird shit?
Romni! you be Bunk and i will be McNulty!
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Subject: Re: Deadlands Noir Wed 20 May 2015 - 11:38
Matt wrote:
Romni! you be Bunk and i will be McNulty!
When I get real internet (maybe tonight! SqueeeE) I will watch it but I've already spoken to Ryan about the redeveloped America and it's conventional history. So I'm playing a hairless film industry Pyrotechnician and Arson Specialist (Investigator or Instigator, as necessitated). Who is also Jewish. So Bunkstein and McNulty?