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The Fall of Delta Green: plain text for backers
about 7 years ago
– Mon, Oct 09, 2017 at 08:22:28 PM
“To a season of political and social upheaval was added a strange and brooding apprehension of hideous physical danger; a danger widespread and all-embracing, such a danger as may be imagined only in the most terrible phantasms of the night."
-- H.P. Lovecraft, "Nyarlathoptep"
A quagmire overseas chews up American forces.
Apocalyptic cults rise in the Middle East, riots paralyze Paris, and Russia moves aggressively into Europe.
The United States wages secret war around the globe while its social fabric shreds and its cities crackle with gunfire.
New technologies, new sciences, and new music revolutionize our lives.
The Earth’s ecology teeters at the brink of toxic ruin.
We are very happy to present a plain-text PDF copy of Pelgrane Press' The Fall of Delta Green to all backers who took a copy in hardback or PDF as one of their rewards.
Please go to BackerKit to find the download link in your Digital Downloads or to review your rewards:
Pelgrane Press tentatively expects the hardbacks to begin shipping in January, assuming layout and approvals go smoothly over the next month or two.
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about 7 years ago
– Wed, Oct 04, 2017 at 01:45:30 PM
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The Slipcase Option: Notes from Gen Con
over 7 years ago
– Thu, Aug 24, 2017 at 12:25:25 AM
Dennis Detwiller reports on Gen Con 2017:
Gen Con 2017 was special in many ways. It was the 50th anniversary of the show, for one. For another, it was totally sold out for the first time.
They had a huge museum of roleplaying-related artifacts from the before-time, and guess what? You can be proud: Delta Green was in it (along with many other products I had a hand in, like The Unspeakable Oath, Primal Order, and Magic: The Gathering). Neat to be a fossil that's somehow still clawing away at the ecosystem (go, team coelacanth!).
Thanks to Christopher Helton for the photo
We ran into the usual suspects. Shane Ivey, my stalwart creative partner, was there managing all things with a computer-like precision (that the computer was a first-generation Amiga color, you'll have to excuse). Simeon Cogswell, our layout guru, continued a long tradition of complaining while working too hard for too little money. Booth manager John Marron was happy at all times (despite our best efforts), perhaps because he inflicted the Bob Ross board game on us and managed to get me to play. Finally, Scott Glancy created a new look at the booth called “enturly,” appearing entertained and surly at the same time. Ross Payton and the RPPR guys were there, too (minus Caleb—boo!), and we tortured then endlessly. (Pro tip: Call Ross “Caleb,” he loves it.)
We even got in a bit of a Delta Green game. We played "Operation SUGARTOWN" with Ross, the Arc Dream team, and a few RRPR regulars. Though we didn't get to finish it, much fun was had. Look for the operation in a writeup on the Patreon next month.
At the booth, we had a bunch of Delta Green newly appearing in print (full color!), and they are gorgeous: Kali Ghati,The Star Chamber, and Observer Effect. They sold like hotcakes. I did pen sketches for any Delta Green Patreon backer that stopped by, and let me tell you, I didn't expect 60+ of you to be there—but it was great (though my hand may not agree, currently).
We had a magnificently packed Delta Green meetup (audio coming soon), where we spoke at length about the state of Delta Green, answered questions, and made some announcements.
The biggest announcement has to do with the form of Delta Green: The Role-Playing Game. We’ve been planning it as a single book, but it’s huge, and the cost of shipping it to ports far and wide called for careful consideration.
The options were:
Print a single book with 500+ pages. That would have made the book so heavy that delivery to backers outside the U.S. and U.K. would have cost up to $50 on top of what’s already been paid.
Or make Delta Green: The Role-Playing Game a slipcase of two books. That contains a 192-page Agent's Handbook and a 320-page Handler's Guide. The Handler's Guide is the giant manuscript we circulated a few weeks ago, minus the rules portions that appeared in the Agent's Handbook. So, one book has rules, sanity and character creation: the Agent's Handbook. The other has monsters, magic, creating your own Delta Green, and the timeline: the Handler's Guide.
We chose option 2 for a lot of reasons. Most importantly, it reduces the international delivery costs dramatically. Our international-fulfillment partners in the U.K. can ship two separate packages—one with with the Handler’s Guide; the other with the Agent’s Handbook and the slipcase itself—for far less than shipping a single package the weight of a single, huge book. It’s a weird vagary of the way the Royal Mail handles parcels.
In option 2, no one pays any additional shipping. OK, truth be told, there are additional shipping costs, but they’re modest enough that we at Arc Dream can cover them. Backers don’t have to pay anything extra.
The fans at the Delta Green panel were happy with the announcement, and so were we. It's the best of all worlds.
So, long story short, if you ordered the “Case Officer's Handbook” option, you'll get Delta Green: The Role-Playing Game: the Agent's Handbook and the Handler's Guide in a beautiful slipcase, delivered in two packages, at no further shipping cost to you.
Whew!
Thanks for all who came out.
Madness and miracles
over 7 years ago
– Mon, Aug 14, 2017 at 10:54:50 PM
Croaker Jr : So when is the next big release coming out, eh? ;)
SGlancy12 : Well, next year Chaosium has authorized three CoC books for Pagan.
SGlancy12 : The next DG book will incorporate the Cult of Transcendence, and a whole bunch of scenarios,
SGlancy12 : including the one you're playing in today.
SGlancy12 : It may be at the printer by February (rough guess).
SGlancy12 : Who here played in "The Army is Coming" last time?
KJPotter : I did. Had a blast!
Croaker Jr : Sounds good... I missed "Army" due to work.
SGlancy12 : The Shans and their PISCES pawns may also make an appearance in the next book.
SGlancy12 : Okay gents, let's get going here. I've got to go around 7:00pm.
SGlancy12 : We won't get this done in one session, but that's no reason to waste time.
SGlancy12 : Everyone got their briefing?
—Adam Scott Glancy (SGlancy12) hosted a playtest of the scenario “Dead Letter” in an America Online chatroom in August and September 1997. The players were Shane Ivey (CroakerJr—that was me), Keith Potter (KJPotter), and Patrick Grindle (PGrindle). “Dead Letter” would be published in Delta Green: Countdown in 1999. The Cult of Transcendence appeared in Delta Green: Targets of Opportunity in 2010. Digital archaeologists unearthed the full series of transcripts in an ancient hard drive.
In This Update
Recent DG releases
DG status reports and what’s next
Join us at Gen Con
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Delta Green: Reverberations, a new adventure for beginning Agents
Recent DG Releases
Now available online and at Gen Con.
"Reverberations," a new PDF scenario meant for beginning Agents and players
Old Ones Rising available in PDF and paperback (with half a dozen features dedicated to Delta Green and many more that can be adapted to your game)
If you already bought Kali Ghati, Observer Effect, or The Star Chamber in PDF, you get $5 off the paperback edition at RPGNow. You should have gotten an email from RPGNow with that discount—check your spam filter. If you bought one of those in PDF and did not get the discount, please email [email protected]. We will hook you up.
DG Status Reports and What's Next
As always, delivery ETAs are based on our most current intelligence. That intelligence is often flawed, but this is what we have right now.
MAJOR PROJECTS:
Delta Green: The Role-Playing Game: in layout
Fall of Delta Green: in layout
Control Group: second draft finished; in pre-playtest review
Impossible Landscapes: in progress; about 2/3 written
PISCES: in outlining and planning
Deep State: in outlining and planning
Falling Towers: in outlining and planning
EXPECTED IN SEPTEMBER:
Extremophilia in PDF and print
Redacted: Fusion Centers in PDF
EXPECTED IN OCTOBER:
Delta Green: The Role-Playing Game in PDF
The Fall of Delta Green in PDF
The Unspeakable Oath 25 in PDF and print
EXPECTED IN NOVEMBER:
Music from a Darkened Room in PDF and print, updated to the new rules
Redacted: The Collectors in PDF
EXPECTED IN DECEMBER:
Wormwood Arena in PDF and print
Redacted: Big Data in PDF
It's good to be the king. From WRESTLENOMICON, illustrated by Kurt Komoda, (c) 2017.
Join Us at Gen Con
Will you make the pilgrimage to Gen Con this week? Find us at Booth 431. We have a lot going on.
Get in the ring for WRESTLENOMICON. That’s our upcoming card game of world-stomping tentacle fights, Old One-style. Wrestlenomicon was designed by Dennis Detwiller, Rob Heinsoo, and Shane Ivey and illustrated with gruesome glee by Kurt Komoda. Playtesting begins right after Gen Con, so sign up now. And come to Booth 431 to try it for yourself. Call Hastur out — I hear you have to say his name three times — and see if you can stand up to the Elbow of a Living God!
Ask questions and trade war stories at the 90-minute Delta Green seminar, Saturday at 7:00 p.m., with Dennis Detwiller, Adam Scott Glancy, Kenneth Hite, Shane Ivey, and Greg Stolze. That’s in the Crowne Plaza, Grand Central Ballroom D.
Know anyone at Gen Con who could use a pile of Delta Green PDFs in a bad-ass collectible package? Tell them go to Booth 431 and ask for the Charnel Dreams CD. The booth staff will know what to do.
Join Aaron Vanek’s epic Delta Green LARP Thursday, Friday, or Saturday night. One ticket is officially available Friday. But show up anyway and bring generic tickets. If someone doesn’t come, you’re in!
On Saturday, join your fellow Agents (or are they only enemies in disguise?) in a hunt for clues across downtown Indianapolis. A Delta Green agent needs your help opening a Green Box -- a crate full of operational supplies, including one that might save her life. Watch the Delta Green Twitter feed Saturday morning for the first clue.
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Even if you can’t make it to Gen Con, you can help us celebrate with some of the best games we’ve ever made. Starting now, and for only ten days, get Godlike, Monsters and Other Childish Things, and Wild Talents at unspeakable prices, in PDF or print (until print copies run out). We’re talking about a whopping 66% off -- we want these games to move. Print or PDF, it’s time to complete your collection.
And if you already have all those games, please TELL PEOPLE. If you know anyone who’s been curious about Godlike, Monsters, or Wild Talents, this is their best chance to get the game—and if they like what they see, the whole game line.
Greetings, Agents. This is Shane Ivey. I'm pleased to report that the Delta Green core rulebook is progressing swiftly. If you pre-ordered it, you have access to the PDF of the work in progress. We're revising the text from valuable reader reports and in-house copy editing, while our page designer works on the sections that are already finished.
Meanwhile, our extended team is working on other parts of this project. Delta Green's creators are reviewing Pelgrane Press' Fall of Delta Green. I'm working with our writers and editors to schedule production on Control Group, Deep State, PISCES, and the other books in the line. Dennis is well into the manuscript of Impossible Landscapes. And we're preparing a number of shorter downloads, such as a conversion of the lethal scenario "Music from a Darkened Room."
Our old friend James Knevitt has launched a new podcast called The Best Character You Ever Had, and I was proud to be his second interview guest. We talk about my favorite RPG character, Kester Proudfoot from The One Ring, as well as gaming and writing in Tolkien's world, Western games, and of course Delta Green. Listen here.
The Yellow King RPG, from Pelgrane Press
The Yellow King
Our friends at Pelgrane Press have launched a stunning new project of obvious interest to Delta Green fans: The Yellow King RPG.
Here's their summary:
Inspired by Robert W. Chambers’ influential cycle of short stories, YKRPG pits the characters against the reality-altering horror of The King in Yellow. This suppressed play, once read, invites madness. Or a visit from its titular character, an alien ruler intent on invading and remolding our world into a colony of their planet, Carcosa. Four books, served up together in a beautiful slipcase, confront your players with an epic journey into reality horror:
Belle Epoque Paris, where a printed version of the dread play is first published. Players portray American art students in its absinthe-soaked world, navigating the Parisian demimonde and investigating mysteries involving gargoyles, vampires, and decadent alien royalty. Includes the core rules.
The Wars, an alternate reality in which the players take on the role of soldiers bogged down in the great European conflict of 1947. While trying to stay alive on an eerie, shifting battlefield, they investigate supernatural mysteries generated by the occult machinations of the Yellow King and his rebellious daughters.
Aftermath, set later in the same reality, in 2017 North America. A bloody insurrection has toppled a dictatorial regime loyal to Carcosa. Players become former partisans adjusting to ordinary life, trying to build a just society from the ashes of civil war. But not all of the monsters have been thoroughly banished—and like it or not, they’re the ones with the skills to hunt them and finish them off.
This is Normal Now. In the 2017 we know, albeit one subtly permeated by supernatural beings and maddening reality shifts, ordinary people band together, slowly realizing that they are the key to ending a menace spanning eras and realities.
It already far surpassed its initial goal, so there's much more to come. Back it now, and pray the Castaignes look upon you with favor.
