Hey gang. I paused billing on this Patreon and plan to shut it down next month. I just don't have time to contribute to it like I should. It's a shame, because we have half a dozen different projects in the works even apart from Delta Green that always benefit from close attention. But we tend to hold those pretty close until they're well enough...
2022-12-24 22:23:44 +0000 UTC View Post
Canada’s Environmental Policy Impact Commission (EPIC) reviews the effectiveness of government environmental policies. Hardly anyone has heard of it. You’ve already forgotten what EPIC stands for, haven’t you?
Far fewer know that its history began in a secret RCMP unit called M-Section. Only true insiders know that in one form ...
2022-11-09 18:10:45 +0000 UTC View Post
For a long while now I've been developing a fantasy adventure game. It started as kind of a lark. I wanted a version of AD&D—the ancient original, all but unplayable yet played by millions—that leaned into the elements that most grabbed my imagination. At first, I had a heck of a time figuring out what exactly those were. I decided it ha...
2022-08-12 22:12:07 +0000 UTC View Post
This treatment of skills, specialties (formerly special training), and professions is a work in progress. Its goal is to add flexibility and utility to Delta Green skills and professions that may cur...
2022-08-02 21:45:17 +0000 UTC View Post
I drafted this short combat variant a few days ago. "Blooding" is meant to replace the usual combat rules with a quicker back-and-forth likely to leave one side pulling back and the other wondering what the hell just happened.
I've tinkered with it a bit, but before I could put some real time into it, I got clobbered by illness (some...
2022-07-01 22:47:16 +0000 UTC View Post
A mathematician inexplicably vanishes from a secretive surveillance company in Reno. She is only the first. Can the Agents recognize a pattern of killings and disappearances in time? Or will they be next to fall under the unblinking gaze of a pitiless power?
Back in 2015, Caleb Stokes ran a scenario called 2022-06-17 23:37:12 +0000 UTC View Post
If violence might defeat an unnatural threat, Delta Green expects even Agents with no training in weapons or self-defense to kill. If academic or scientific Agents feel overmatched by that challenge, remind them of some creative possibilities.
CAT’S PAWS: America is swimming in guns and haunted by gun owners who daydream...
2022-06-05 00:30:48 +0000 UTC View Post
Losing 5 Sanity Points or more in Delta Green has an obvious impact. The game explicitly says your Agent loses all self-control and either flees, goes berserk, or collapses. But when the loss is less than that, we tend to take shortcuts. "You lose 3 SAN." "Got it. OK, what do we see next?"
In my home games I have made a point of pressing p...
2022-05-12 20:58:01 +0000 UTC View Post
The historical book Regnum Congo appears in in Lovecraft's "The Picture in the House." Elements of that brief story informed a key figure in the Karotechia, a cult by Adam Scott Glancy in Delta Green. I developed it as a tome for Delta Green: The Conspiracy.
In German. Study time: weeks. Unn...
2022-02-12 01:02:34 +0000 UTC View Post
A new ritual for Delta Green: The Conspiracy.
Elaborate ritual. Study time: weeks; 1D4 SAN; +1 Unnatural. Activation: days; 1 POW, 1D4 SAN.
This ritual requires the operator or a...
2022-02-07 20:42:02 +0000 UTC View Post
Inspired by Lin Carter and excerpted from Delta Green: The Conspiracy.
In English. Study time: days. Unnatural and SAN loss special.
Miskatonic University Press, 1907. Author Henry Coburn purports to present a new annotation of an 18th-century manuscript hand-written by a New England sea c...
2022-02-06 22:10:51 +0000 UTC View Post
A tome for Delta Green, excerpted from Delta Green: The Conspiracy.
In English. Study time: days. Unnatural +3%, SAN loss 1D4.
This boxed collection of tapes and transcriptions describes a little-known, highly classified episode during a historic submarine recovery effort.
On A...
2022-02-05 20:31:20 +0000 UTC View Post
Excerpted and adapted from "Feds in the Nineties," a new appendix in Delta Green: The Conspiracy. By Shane Ivey, © 2021.
Police and federal agent...
2021-12-06 16:00:01 +0000 UTC View Post
In English. Study time: days. Unnatural +5%, special training in ghoul lore, Foreign Language (Ghoul) +1D100%, SAN loss special.
Dreams of the Changeling is a worn, ancient octavo bound in light brown leather, soft as calfskin but shiny with age and use. It bears no title or label on the outside nor any frontmatt...
2021-11-29 15:00:07 +0000 UTC View Post
When we were developing Delta Green: The Role-Playing Game, the Bonds rules quickly proved immensely important. They keep disorders and temporary insanity from setting in too quickly, and they affect the tone of the Sanity rules by giving players a fleeting hi...
2021-11-25 15:00:06 +0000 UTC View Post
A fog of exhalation and a breath inhaling bitter cold. A wince in moonlight that glared pitiless from snow. Catalina walked the frozen grass, soft boots crunching. She bore a heavy shovel, had left the cart and its balking mule a quarter-mile down the trail. Scorched timbers jutted where a fine house had stood.
It had been three years and ...
2021-11-22 17:00:01 +0000 UTC View PostA rules variant for playtesting. Post comments below.
An Agent with the Foreign Language skill can learn a loosely related language as special training with the same skill rating. This option applies only to the Foreign Language skill, not an Agent's native language.
EXAMPLE: Special Agent... 2021-11-15 15:00:07 +0000 UTC View Post
A rules variant for playtesting. Post notes below.
Exposure to the unnatural scratches at an Agent’s memory like a scar that never heals. Familiarity can alter an Unnatural skill roll result.
Gaining points in the Unnatural skill also grants special training (described on page 30 of the Agent’s Hand...
2021-11-11 14:00:05 +0000 UTC View Post
Firearms can be a comfort to Agents who come to see death in every shadow. It's usually a shallow comfort. When guns come out, it's a good bet that the mission has already gone wrong. But Agents and their players will always seek to wring every last chance of advantage out of the instruments they bring the the opera.
"9:18 a.m. Officer James Eichel arrives in his vehicle as the suspects flee on foot down the narrow alley. One suspect continues to run southbound in the alley, while the other suspect stops and ambushes oncoming officers from a partially covered elevation drop. This allows the suspect to be in an advantage... 2021-11-01 15:58:45 +0000 UTC View Post
"The SI operative must be able to live according to his cover, often in constant contact with experts in his cover activity, without arousing suspicion. He must know how to employ uncensored or underground methods of communication without undue risk to himself or others. He must be able to report accurately and explicitly and to eva... 2021-10-29 16:00:00 +0000 UTC View Post
A silver cord of cause and appalling effect connects the hills rising wild in Vermont with a haunted woman in Alabama. To save her, Delta Green must follow it to a terrifying and lethal consecration.
A few years ago I ran an off-the-cuff Delta Green scenario that I called "Falling Out." 2021-10-25 14:00:08 +0000 UTC View Post
My home (well, Discord) group is playtesting the first scenario of Operation TORCH, a looooooong-gestating GODLIKE campaign about the Allied invasion of North Africa in 194... 2021-10-21 16:00:07 +0000 UTC View Post
An optional GODLIKE rule in need of playtesting. Try it at your table and let us know how it goes. Illustration: Tom Lea, "The Two Thousand Yard Stare." EDITS: I reduced the difficu... 2021-10-14 18:42:18 +0000 UTC View Post
The image above is from a 1995 issue of The Unspeakable Oath, two years after Delta Green first appeared in "Convergence" and two years before the book Delta Green finally saw print.
We're reworking that book for its 25th anniversary in Delta Green: The Conspiracy. 2021-09-10 22:39:32 +0000 UTC View Post
I have run TONS of Godlike games over the years at conventions, stores and game clubs, but I have been a player in a Godlike game exactly once: in a demo that co-author...
2021-08-18 23:16:16 +0000 UTC View Post
"In a moment of overwhelming stress—after losing 5 or more SAN in a single roll—your Agent loses self-control. We call it temporary insanity. For a short time you cannot control your Agent’s actions. Your Agent’s primitive brain switches to pure panic, with one of three possible responses: Flee, Struggle, or Submit. Work with th... 2021-08-15 18:35:14 +0000 UTC View Post
Static floods all radios in the area and rises over the course of a few seconds to a whine beyond audibility.
A brilliant flash silently erupts in the snow and clouds over Crow Lake. It lights the whole area blue-white for an instant and is gone.
Half a doz... 2021-07-22 20:34:14 +0000 UTC View Post
"Some of the miscreants leapt into the sea; others hid in dark recesses, where they were found by Slightly, who did not fight, but ran about with a lantern which he flashed in their faces, so that they were half blinded and fell as an easy prey to the reeking swords of the other boys. There was little sound to be heard but the clang... 2021-07-17 20:16:52 +0000 UTC View Post
Caleb Stokes from Dead Channels corners me and Dennis Detwiller on microphones and asks us your questions. We don't know how to use our microphones very well so we sound like garbage. Not Caleb. Caleb sounds wonderful. Caleb has that little round fabric disk thing over his microphone. Caleb remembers to lean in real close to the mic. Ca...
2021-06-28 19:16:00 +0000 UTC View Post