Deadlands Noir.pdf

DeaDlanDs noir

WorDs

John “Night Rain” Gof

Additional Words By: Shane “the Hack” Hensley,

Clint “Fade to” Black, & Sean “Pistol Whip” Preston

Pictures

Cheyenne “Triple Hugo and Countin’” Wright,

Aaron “Ace” Acevedo, Jordan “The Pistol” Peacock,

Mercenary Art Studio (Bien Flores, Jovenal Mendoza, Bryan Magnaye)

layout

Shane “Hatchet” Hensley

Proofing

Mat “the Knife” Cuter, Scot Alan “Words” Woodard,

Simon “Lusty” Lucas, Adam “Babyface” Loyd

DeDication

John: This, like everything else I do in life that’s worthwhile, is for Joyce.

Shane: To the Kickstarters; Cheyenne: Max Danger—Private Eye

Deadlands created by Shane Lacy Hensley

the Way Out West, Savage Worlds and all related original characters, marks and logos are trademarks of Pinnacle

Produced under license by Studio 2 Publishing, Inc. The Studio 2 logo is a trademark of Studio 2 Publishing, Inc. ©

Persons of interest

Capos: Andreas Harald Wild, Andrew, Andrew Chang, Bo Saxon, Olivier Brencklé, Cédric Jeanneret, Chris Aardappel,

Christian Nord, cl taylor, Clif Hanson, Colin Peacock, Daniel Petersen, Dave Borne, David Harriss, David Hogg, Drew

Sutherland, Glenn Mochon, Greg Biondo, Hart Nelson, Ingo Beyer, Jef Hubbard, John C “GandalfThePlaid”, John Rogers,

Joseph Schnurr, Julien, Kate Bankson, Kenneth Lavender, Kenny Perry, Lord Deron Creag Mhor, Luke Edwards, Marc

Keil, Mark Hom, Mark Margraf, Mark Spanjer, Mathew Broome, Philip Cahiwat, Philippe Myhal, Rajan Khanna, Ray

Wisneski, Robert Mayer, Ross Ramsay, Sergio Silvio Herrera Gea, Steve Howells, Stuntlau Perez, synthapse, Tom Miksch,

waeberhardt

Private Dicks: Alex Meyer, Anthony Samples, Azrael Johnston, Bryan Haakensen, Bryan W. Schuder, Cassandra

Humenuk, Clif Roach, Curtis Lyon, Damien Serrano, Darrin, Drea O’Dare, Drew Wendorf, dvorak, Dylan Young, Eric

Avedissian, gsugu, James Crane, Jesse Burneko, Joshua F. Aiken, John Ivicek Jr., Jonas Hansson, Jonathan A. Gillet, Lee

Langston, LwoodY2K, Martin Coulter, Mathew York, Michael Goldsberry, Michael Macielak, Michael Schell, Michael

Thompson, Noah Carden, Paul Flanaghan, Peter C. Hildreth, Philipp Christophel, Richard Logue, Robert Loper, Ronald

Conner, Ryan Wolf, Samuel Cole, Steven Moy, Thom Shartle, Thomas Putney, Vincent Ecuyer, Wayne “The Cap’n” Coburn,

yazalick

Shopkeepers: Aaron Leeder of Noble Knight Games, Adventure Game Store, Barry Oser of North Coast Roleplaying,

Hammer Hall Gaming, Darren Johnson of Imperial Outpost Games, Donny Rhye of Book & Music Exchange, Dragon

Snack Games, Dragon’s Lair Comics & Fantasy Austin, Falyne, Fred Graves of the Tatered Book, Game Daze, Game Kastle,

GamesHQ, George Vasilakos of Zombie Planet, Michael Breen of Hometown Games, Olympic Cards and Comics, Oto’s

Video Games and More, Randy Lander, Sci-Fi City, Steve Ellis of Rainy Day Games, Trollune

Shamus: Aaron Boorem, Adam Loyd, Adam Trojanowski, Adam Waggenspack, Alexis Hoarau, Alosia Sellers, Andrew

Barret-Venn, Andrew Markell, Andrew Parr, Andrew Zillmer, Andy Ward, Angus Manning, Aric Wieder, Arthur Dent,

AWJ Marshall, Axel GOTTELAND, Benjamin Schollnick, Bret Easterbrook, Brian Jones, Brian S. Holt, Bryce Undy, Calvin

Shafer, Casidhe Nebulosa, Charles Clarke, Charles E Miller, Charles Strange, Chip & Katie, Chris Edwards, Christian

Lindke, Christopher DeLisle, Christopher P Stilson, Christopher Plambeck, Collard Jofrey, Craig Bishell, Craig Langrall,

Craig T., Damon Richardson, Dan Keller, Daniel Ley, Daniel Stanke, Daniel Walker, darksonic, Dave Ellingwood, David

Cornwell, David Hixon, David Hoover, David “Yavon_Gorky” Lallemand, Davy Claessens, docwho2100, Don King, Drew

Biddle, Dustin Gulledge, Edward Linder, Eric Edwardson, Ethan Zimmerman, Evan, Fenric Cayne, Frédéri Pochard,

Gauthier Loupiac, GeneralEcks, Gilbert Isla, gleepism, Gordon Fagan, Greg Howe, Hank Woolsey, James a.k.a. uber, Jamas

Enright, James Blair, James Klodt, James M. Yager, James Schrecengost, Jared Thibault, Jason Brown, Jason Hayes, Jef

Jones, Jef Scifert, Jefrey Maslany, Jesse Goble, Jim Burzelic, Jim Calabrese, Jim Otermat, Jim Waters, Jimmy “JR” Tyner

3rd, Joe Terranova, Joe Thater, Joe Van Ginkel, Joel Beally, Johan Allerslev Lund, John A W Phillips, John Bellando, John

Higginbotham, John Hosteter, John Huber, John M. Trivilino, John Moquin, John W. Thompson, Joseph Rook, Josh Miller,

Joshua W. Pitman, Justin Taylor, Karsten Kopplin, Ken Finlayson, Kenny B, Kevin C. Wong, Kevin Doswell, Kevin Empey,

Kurt Runkle, Kyle Nef, Kyle Pinches, Landon Sommer, Leath Sheales, Lee Alley, Leo Matoush, Lucas Schoield, M. Sean

Molley, Mark Magagna, Mark Mezner, Mark Sweetman, Martin Bauer, Mathew Wasiak, Michael B. Moe, Mike “Lucci”

Carlucci, Michael M. Kelly, Mike Peterson, Mikloshe, Morgan Ellis, Morgan Walther, Nathan Reed, Nils Anker Tønner-

Oldefar, Noah Ban, Noah Gibbs, Oliver Peltier, Pascal Oliet, Patrick Paulsen, Patrick Rowley, Paul Harris, Pavel Ojeda,

Pedro Coppola, Philippe Deville, Phillip Fatka, Phillip Millman, Paul Allen Timm, Ralph, Rambo, Raphael Päbst, Richard,

Richard Reynolds, Rich Scrase, Rick Jones, Rob Dunning, Robert Kukuchka, Rob Lusk, Robert Rosenthal, Robert & Connie

Thomson, Robert R. Valdes Sr., Robin Tunkel, Ron Steinhauser, Ross Thompson, Ryan Riojas, Ryo Ogawa, Saint, Sam Hock,

Sam Wong, Samantha Lambert, Sameer Patel, Scot Alan Woodard, Scot Kehl, Scot Leslie, Scot Maynard, Scot Neal, Scot

Nisenfeld, Sebastien Blouin, Shane Emmons, Shan Morris, Shannon B. Marce, Shawn “King Zombie” Beaty, Simon Stroud,

Stephan Auerhahn, Stephen Robinson, Steve Dulson, Steven Roman, T. Kurt Bond, Tad Simmons, Tas Jones, The Roach,

Thom Jason, Tifaine Highly, Timothy Hannon, Timothy Mullen, Tom De Bruycker, Tom Lumley, Tore S. Svenningsson,

Treanna Von Ruf, Trey Mercer, Urban Blom, Volker Greimann, Walter F. Croft, Wayne Williams, William Huggins, Yakaru

Dezaki, Zachary Hopko

Hardboiled: Aaron Wong, Angel Leigh McCoy, Jacques DuRand, Dave Hit, David “JustDave” Talboy, Gary “Slug”

Perkins, Gavin Phillips, Joe Frankovitch, John and Frances Rowat, John Beatie, Kairam Ahmed “Mr. Ray O’Dark” Hamdan,

Nicholas Brigance, Ranger Dave Ross, Ryaan Kraft, Seth Davis, Shane Dale, Simon Ward, Sven Schläpfer

Dons: Andrew Leonhart, Bob Brez, Bret Bozeman, D.A. Evosirch, Daniel W. Cisek, Don Davenport, Doug Davison,

Douglas Lange, Jack Emmert, Jonathan Clancy, Josh Thaler, Kurt “Telas” Schneider, Mathew Brumield, Mathew Evans,

Mathew Sanderson, Raymond Croteau, Shannon R. Bell, Timothy Link, Vince Kwiatek, Wesley E. Marshall

Mayors: James McKendrew (New Orleans), Eoin Burke (Chicago), John Billings (Shan Fan), Marguerite Kenner (The City

of Gloom), Kevin Stoner (Lost Angels)

Night Stalkers: David Fry (Jacob Whateley), Terry McGregor (Terence “Mac” McGregor)

contents

Persons of Interest .......................................................... 2

Foreword .......................................................................... 4

DARK TIMES ................................................................ 5

Heroes .............................................................................. 6

Sample Characters .......................................................... 6

Making Characters ......................................................... 7

New Skills ........................................................................ 9

New Hindrances ............................................................. 9

New Edges ...................................................................... 11

Gear & Goods ................................................................ 13

Guide to the Big Easy .................................................... 22

City Center ................................................................... 23

Downtown .................................................................... 24

he French Quarter ..................................................... 25

Northside ...................................................................... 25

Riverfront ..................................................................... 26

Uptown ......................................................................... 27

he Outskirts................................................................ 28

Detective Work .............................................................. 29

SETTING RULES ........................................................... 29

Knock-Out Blows .......................................................... 30

Second Wind .................................................................. 30

Social Conlicts .............................................................. 30

Patter ............................................................................... 32

Tailing ............................................................................. 32

MAGIC! ....................................................................... 34

Griters ............................................................................ 34

Patent Scientists ............................................................. 38

Voodoo ........................................................................... 40

Harrowed ........................................................................ 42

he Kingish ................................................................... 59

Interesting Locales ........................................................ 60

City Center ................................................................... 60

Downtown .................................................................... 62

French Quarter ............................................................ 64

Northside ...................................................................... 67

Riverside ....................................................................... 68

Uptown ......................................................................... 69

he Outskirts................................................................ 71

MAKING MYSTERIES! .................................................... 73

Case Generator .............................................................. 74

RED HARVEST! ............................................................ 80

1) he Lady Vanishes .................................................... 82

2) Lost Love .................................................................... 85

3) A Chance in Hellstromme ....................................... 88

4) A “Friend” in Need ................................................... 89

5) Homework ................................................................. 92

6) Down on the Bayou .................................................. 93

7) A Neat Little Package ............................................... 95

SAVAGE TALES ............................................................. 99

he Axeman Cometh .................................................... 99

A Taste of the Good Stuf ............................................101

Dead Men Don’t Forgive .............................................102

Fate’s Dead Hand .........................................................104

he Guns of Algiers ......................................................105

he Least of hese ........................................................106

A Matter of Trust ..........................................................107

One for the Road ..........................................................109

hanks for the Memories ............................................110

To Be… Or Not ............................................................111

he Twelth Chamber ..................................................112

A View to Die for ..........................................................113

What Little Girls Are Made Of ...................................114

Who’s Laughing Now? .................................................117

ROGUE’S GALLERY ...................................................... 118

Abominations ...............................................................118

Humans ..........................................................................130

Personalities ..................................................................134

Index ..............................................................................142

game master’s section

SECRETS & LIES! .......................................................... 47

he Twentieth Century ................................................. 48

More Setting Rules ........................................................ 49

Fear Levels ...................................................................... 49

Radios and Telephones ................................................. 50

Veteran of the Concrete Jungle .................................... 50

Griters ............................................................................ 52

he Harrowed ................................................................ 53

Patent Science ................................................................ 55

GAME MASTER’S GUIDE TO NEW ORLEANS ........................ 56

he Black Hand .............................................................. 57

he Red Sect .................................................................. 58

foreWorD

Simon Lucas, one of the Pinnacle crew who ran the

company for a while, swears he suggested Deadlands

Noir to me almost ten years ago and I didn’t seem all

that enthused. Credit where it’s due. Simon has always

been ahead of the game so I certainly don’t doubt it.

It may also have been that the time just wasn’t right.

We were relaunching Deadlands the Weird West (as

Deadlands Reloaded ) and all my atentions were on that

and how to tell the story of the servitors in Plot Point

format—it’s much harder than it probably sounds.

In March of 2011, whatever muse had talked to

Simon nearly a decade prior inally got around to

puting the buzz in my ear. I was driving through the

desert from Las Vegas to Arizona when just the words

“Deadlands Noir” came to me. I wasn’t reading Noir

at the time, hadn’t seen any ilms that triggered it—it

literally just came to me while I was driving this long

stretch of terrain that was about as far removed from

Noir as you can imagine.

I couldn’t get it out of my head. Ideas for plots,

character types, and the evolution of the Deadlands

story between the Weird West period and Hell on

Earth came to me so fast and furious I couldn’t keep

up with them all. The very name sounded cool to me—

Deadlands Noir.

But would anyone else like that idea? It was a niche

of a niche of a niche. People had to like roleplaying

games, had to like Savage Worlds , and had to like

Deadlands . A lot of my friends were doing Kickstarters

at the time so I thought maybe that would be a good

way to see if anyone wanted it. We could invest enough

to show what it was going to look and feel like, but if

our community wasn’t interested it would save us from

manuscripts, art, and of course a massive printing bill.

I was keyed up to write it, but I had a day job in video

games and things were geting tough time-wise. There

was no way I could deliver on Kickstarter promises.

There was only one person I’d trust to write something

like this—my college Game Master, good friend,

and now fan-favorite John Gof. Not only was John

immersed in the world of Deadlands and had writen

some of our best material for it, but he was actually a

former Private Detective (among other things). Noir

isn’t all about private dicks, but they’re certainly central

to it. John took to it like a duck to water, and quickly

suggested it should focus on New Orleans.

For art, I turned to the ever-reliable and always

enthusiastic Cheyenne Wright. Not only did he create

amazing art and graphics for the project, but he also

performed, scored, and produced the entire video

series Hard Boiled in the Big Easy. This was no simple

task. Not only did he go through voices and music

in record time, he created over 40 diferent “speed

paintings” for the video as well. If for some reason

you didn’t see them, do yourself a favor and search for

them on YouTube right now.

With the two key players in place, all that remained

was to put together the Kickstarter. For those who

haven’t tried, these things are a ton of work. Besides

all the planning, there’s promotion, stretch goals,

budgeting, sourcing (without real numbers to do so),

bookkeeping and then puting together any events

tied to it (like our “Don’s Game” at GenCon 2012).

Actually creating the books, maps, cards, custom

Bennies, and so on wasn’t so bad—we do that all the

time. Coordinating all of those things and delivering

them on time and in one batch so we could aford the

shipping was another mater entirely.

With all the preparations under our belt (thanks

especially to Clint Black and Simon Lucas for this), I

set the Kickstarter in motion the morning of May 15th,

2012. Or at least I tried to. I had a simultaneous update

on Facebook and the irst Kickstarter update all ready

to go when my computer crashed. E-mails and private

messages started coming in while I rebooted my big

computer and monitored my laptop—”Where’s this

big announcement you said you were making at 9

am?” I panicked a litle, but the amount of incoming

mail was a good sign. After multiple rewrites of the

announcements on all our various social media, I hit

the Launch buton and we were of.

We asked for $8000. We were funded in two and a

half hours.

It was great, but we had a handful of stretch goals

irmly ploted and the rest were simply ideas we had

discussed. It became quickly apparent we had to get

them solidiied and communicated immediately. With

the help of a great team and the encouragement of the

backers, we were able to do so with only a few mistakes.

Now here we are almost seven months later. John

turned in a fantastic manuscript, Cheyenne hit it out

of the park with his moody art, Clint kept watch over

the rules, Simon helped with graphics and big concepts,

and our new Art Director, Aaron Acevedo, pulled of

the amazing task of geting all the accessory art created

in time, such as the gorgeous tile maps and Figure Flats.

Our entire team hopes you like it—like Raymond

Chandler likes similes. Or mooks like dames. Or rain

likes New Orleans.

Okay, I’ll stop now. Ya mook.

—Shane Hensley

November, 2012

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