Cover Preview for "Bedlam City"

[Libra]

Hmmm. I'll have to see if I can find the funds to buy this book. It sounds interesting.

[kipling]

For what it's worth, I very much like it. I would have preferred a bit more on the "Bedlam City only" campaign, but I'm not sure what I would have added.

I don't know what the Lulu version is like, because I have the PDF. But I like it.

[James Thomson]

(alt+p)

Coming September 30th from Plain Brown Wrapper Games: Straight out of Bedlam.

[greycrusader]

Awesome cover!

Looking forward to seeing this one James.

All my best.

[RKane_1]

That cover is so badass that the moment I viewed it, the guy depicted appeared in my house and punched me to death.

Your lucky. He appeared at my house, took my cheetos and stole my Mountain Dew!

Rat bastard!

[leonmallett]

Coming September 30th from Plain Brown Wrapper Games: Straight out of Bedlam.

Great title. Will this also be available via Lulu?

[Dirigible]

When I see a man flying around in a jaggy purple-and-gold costume, I know that man ain't afraid of anything.

[James Thomson]

Straight Out of Bedlam will indeed be available from Lulu. It's shorter than the 400 page monster which preceeded it, and I have tried hard to make sure that while everything in the book is useful and will help you run a Bedlam campaign, none of it drastically alters the setting presented in the main book. It's meant to add value, rather than send the setting careening off in some totally new direction.

Free samples will follow soon!

[leonmallett]

Straight Out of Bedlam will indeed be available from Lulu. It's shorter than the 400 page monster which preceeded it, and I have tried hard to make sure that while everything in the book is useful and will help you run a Bedlam campaign, none of it drastically alters the setting presented in the main book. It's meant to add value, rather than send the setting careening off in some totally new direction.

Free samples will follow soon!

I'll pick up a POD copy then.

[Libra]

When I see a man flying around in a jaggy purple-and-gold costume, I know that man ain't afraid of anything.

That depends on how fast he's flying and in what direction.

[James Thomson]

Here's the first preview. It's a brief excerpt from the section "Even More Places to Shop in Bedlam."

All kinds of shopping opportunities await the courageous and determined consumer in the City of Now—not all of them for drugs or weapons (although you can certainly find some real bargains there). In fact Bedlam is so overflowing with memorable shopping opportunities that they didn’t all fit in the main book. Here are some of the ones that didn't make it.

The Royal Flush
Buried deep in the underground Liberty Shoppes Mall, this small store sits in a largely disused section near the dead Funland amusement park. Small and cluttered, it sells bathroom and toilet-related items. Soft pink toilet seats, baskets of novelty soaps, toilet lids emblazoned with your favorite sports team’s logo or the religious iconography of your choice. They also sell dozens of different types of Ceramic mushrooms (why ceramic mushrooms? I have no idea, but people love to put them in their bathrooms). Owls are also a popular motif, although why someone would want two huge staring eyes looking at them in the bathroom is even more mysterious than the ceramic mushrooms.

As small and cluttered as the store is, it sees a surprising amount of traffic. In fact it always seems to be full of grim-faced young men with hard muscles, scars and gang tattoos, lounging about and looking over the novelty soaps. The counter is manned by an angry-looking shaven-headed guy in sunglasses and a sleeveless t-shirt, with cryptic tattoos snaking up his prison-toned biceps. Or sometimes it’s his mom, a big jolly woman with enormous hair and a loud, braying laugh, who all the thugs try to avoid.

Why are scary dudes hanging around a toilet shop all afternoon? In fact they don’t sell drugs or weapons here. Hector “The Infector” Ortiz works here in his mom’s shop while he’s under house-arrest. His body beeper will alert the parole authorities if he goes anywhere but home or work, so his friends all come to see him at the store, despite having to endure his mom’s embarrassing company. As a result, the shop is extremely well-protected. Sometimes Hector’s friends will rough up shoppers out on the mall and extort them into buying novelty toilet seats and other such items from the Royal Flush, to help keep it going.

[leonmallett]

James - besides Bedlam City (which I have ordered through Lulu) and soon Straight Out of Bedlam, are there any other books in the setting for 2nd edition M&M?

[Libra]

I hope Bedlam never lands in the DC Universe, otherwise the Royal Flush gang are in BIG trouble.

[James Thomson]

In addition to Bedlam City and the upcoming "Straight Out of Bedlam", there's the adventure which started it all--Gary Weller's giant-sized "Bedlam in Bedlam" (www.rpgnow.com/product_info.php?product ... ers_id=547)

We have a whole series of adventure modules planned for Bedlam as well, starting with "Shield of Blood, Code of Silence." There are at least three more in the works.

We also plan on releasing a shorter book called "An Atlas of Bedlam" which contains more detailed maps of and notes on the different neighborhoods in the city.

And if there is enough interest in the line, we'll try a supplement on the Crawley Asylum, where many of Bedlam's worst villains (and its most terrible secrets) are locked away. A book detailing the Bald Knob Penitentiary and its residents will follow.

And if people stay interested in the setting, a book on secret societies and sinister organizations in Bedlam may be in order (the Phantom Empire, Der Oktopus, Opus Umbra, The UNICORN, The Sisterhood of the Screaming Stars, The League of Silence, etc.) A book of additional supervillains may also prove viable ("Bastards of Bedlam" seems like a good title).

Who knows, by then there may be enough extra material to do another companion book. But let's get there when we get there.

[leonmallett]

My print copy arrived yesterday. Crikey, there is lot to read through!