One false move. One bad deal. One broken promise. That’s all that stands between you and a one-way trip off the nearest skyscraper.

You manage to navigate the ins and outs, you’ll find yourself on the top of the heap. You stumble, you’ll spend the rest of your short life sucking wind until the concrete comes up to kiss you.

At least you’ll have lived a story worth telling, yeah?
Because in the end that’s what we’re all doing here.
Telling stories.

Five-Story Drop is a collection of episodes for Streets of Bedlam: A Savage World of Crime + Corruption.
Within these pages, you’ll run across a suburban cannibal cult, gun-running streetracers, a precinct-wide conspiracy, a sadist with a taste for young girls, and a man who simply refuses to stay dead.

Five-Story Drop includes:

“Does a Body Good”
“Life in the Fast Lane”
“The Burial Plot”
“That Man’s Got a Real Backscratcher”
“Eli Mendoza is a Dead Man”

Coming October 2012 in Print + PDF.

The printing bricks that is! The new files are under final review and the pdf will be uploaded to the printer on Tuesday, September 4th. I should have print copies very soon. Then they’ll go out to backers. YOU WILL FINALLY HAVE YOUR HARDCOPIES! I am excited (and relieved) about this. The revised version of the PDF will go up Monday, the 3rd.

In addition to cleaning up some typos, the final copy of the book now includes:

New Drug Rules
Drugs are a big part of Bedlam and these rules touch on the popular vices, their effects, and in-game penalties for their abuse.

Episode Generator
A new episode generator lets you drum up a compelling scenario with a few flops of the cards.

NPCs Have Edges + Hindrances
Look at all that depth!

Other Minor Tweaks
Including a new Hindrance and some other cool things.

The delay on this stemmed almost entirely from the move and the new job and all that other real world stuff. But all that’s settled down and I’m back on track. Expect a Five-Story Drop update very soon!

Savage Worlds fan Will Herrmann has launched a Kickstarter for a quick-and-easy character generation program called Wild Card Creator. You can check out the details here.

I’ve seen the Wild Card Creator alpha at work and it’s impressive. It’s easy to use, has a clean interface, and requires nothing on the user’s part to get up and running (outside of owning the PDFs you wish to use). The Wild Card Creator will fully support Streets of Bedlam and all its future supplements, so you can whip up dirty-dealin’ thugs and gun-totin’ dames with just a few clicks, but also the entire Deadlands line, Agents of Oblivion, Realms of Cthulhu, Kerberos Club, Hellfrost, Low Life, and tons more.

I hope you check it out. For a genre-hopping game system like Savage Worlds, a universal character creator seems like a great fit.