Future/Perfect, Part 1 now available
over 7 years ago – Tue, Dec 20, 2016 at 10:35:40 PM

A killer is loose in Death Valley. This is one case your Agents may wish they hadn't solved.

Future/Perfect, Part 1 is the latest scenario for Delta Green: The Role-Playing Game. It's built to serve as an introduction for new Agents and new players, so it has options for Agents who have never heard of Delta Green.

Dennis Detwiller wrote Future/Perfect, a four-part Delta Green campaign, years ago and published it as a series of free downloads. Future/Perfect, Part 1, has been edited throughout and adapted to the new rules of Delta Green: The Role-Playing Game and the present-day setting. The other three parts of Future/Perfect will be adapted soon.

You can download Future/Perfect, Part 1, here. That link has been added to your Digital Downloads in BackerKit for easy reference.

And if you're curious, click here to see me (Shane Ivey, editor and publisher) run Future/Perfect, Part 1 for our friends at Lovecraft eZine. 

"Observer Effect" Update

We recently published "Observer Effect," my new Delta Green scenario. I just updated it with corrections throughout the document, so I recommend downloading the latest version. The link is in your Digital Downloads in BackerKit. In addition, the link is now a discounted (free) download from RPGNow.com, so you can add "Observer Effect" to your OneBookShelf library. If you have any trouble with the new link or the discount, please let me know. 

Remember, "Observer Effect" was an optional add-on. You should see the download only if you paid $5 for it. If you haven't already ordered it, click here to buy "Observer Effect" now.

Harlem Unbound

Check out Harlem Unbound, a new project led by our friend and colleague Chris Spivey. Harlem Unbound is a sourcebook for Call of Cthulhu and GUMSHOE that puts the players in the shoes of African American investigators in the middle of the 1920s Harlem Rennaissance. Harlem Unbound is already way past funded with 22 days to go, and it keeps adding great new material. We're thrilled to see Chris' success.

Observer Effect
over 7 years ago – Fri, Dec 09, 2016 at 07:50:12 PM

We just distributed the scenario "Delta Green: Observer Effect" to backers who requested it as an add-on in Kickstarter and who pre-ordered it at Backerkit. If you fall into one of those camps, please visit your personal Backerkit page and look for it in Digital Downloads. 

• If it's not in your Digital Downloads, that's probably because you didn't pay $5 to add it to your rewards. That's OK. It will go on sale elsewhere shortly. 
• If you are certain you did pay $5 for "Observer Effect" but it's not in your Digital Downloads, shoot an email to [email protected] with the details. We'll sort you out.
• If you don't know the link to your personal BackerKit page, click here to get it: https://delta-green-the-role-playing-game.backerkit.com/

Delta Green in progress, November 2016
over 7 years ago – Thu, Nov 17, 2016 at 11:19:44 PM

Greetings, friends. Shane Ivey here. Things are moving along with Delta Green: The Role-Playing Game. Let's take a look at some of the current projects.

Delta Green: The Role-Playing Game (aka Case Officer's Handbook)

Dennis Detwiller and I are editing this, which will ultimately be the core book of the game line, as well as bringing some final pieces together with help from Adam Scott Glancy. It's a beast of a book, and all of the other big books in the line hinge on it in one way or another, so it's getting most of our attention. Once it's done, we'll fan out to work with other contributors on the sourcebooks: Control Group, PISCES, Deep State, Impossible Landscapes, Falling Towers. You can see teasers and excerpts at Dennis' Patreon page.

The Fall of Delta Green

You'll need to ask Simon or Cat at Pelgrane for official updates on The Fall of Delta Green, but I understand it's nicely far along. They recently sent over a cover art proposal for review.

Impossible Landscapes

Dennis has been playtesting the first draft of this campaign with the Role Playing Public Radio crew. You can listen to the games on his Patreon page.

The Scenarios

I just sent "Observer Effect" to layout. 

I'm editing and revising "Wormwood Arena" now, and hope to have it ready for playtesters next week. 

Once Scott is done with his parts of the core book, "Iconoclasts" will be the next thing about which I frequently pester him. 

Soon I'll work on adaptations of past Delta Green scenarios, such as "A Victim of the Art" and "Future/Perfect." 

Oh, and Dennis wrote a short scenario about [REDACTED] that you can download at, you guessed it, his Patreon page. You can also find a recording there of him running it for me, Ross Payton, and some special guests at Gen Con.

Redacted Files

I have all the first drafts of these treatments of U.S. government agencies. I will start editing and finalizing them in the next couple of weeks.

Other Things

Believe it or not, Delta Green is just part of my life. 

Arc Dream Publishing's full-color, hardback edition of Puppetland is shipping now to stores. You can order it on Amazon. Puppetland was created by Delta Green co-creator John Scott Tynes back in the mid-1990s. It was a razor-thin, diceless RPG that relied on a particular kind of role-playing more than the mechanics of game rules to create storybook-style tales of humor and horror. This new edition is much expanded, with contributions from some of our favorite game designers, and is filled with gorgeous new art. 

In the next couple of weeks I'm going to put some hard time into bringing together a new issue of The Unspeakable Oath.

Dennis and I are piecing together a couple of new King In Yellow-related projects. We're working with great colleagues on a couple of card games, a couple of new books for our World War II RPG Godlike, a Roman fantasy campaign book for Reign, and more.

On a personal note, I'm diverting myself from time to time with some extensive dabbling in historical role-playing, which is one of my favorite genres. I tend to veer between Westerns and Napoleonics. I may take that to Patreon at some point to see if it appeals to anyone else. And I'm active again after an overlong slump brought on by an unusually persistent depressive episode. Thank you, buporion!

Follow Delta Green on Twitter and Facebook, and join the communities at the Delta Green Mailing List, Facebook's Delta Green Street Team, and the Delta Green Reddit page. 

Intel sharing and dead drops
over 7 years ago – Thu, Sep 22, 2016 at 09:44:09 PM

Just a quick note while we work on the core book of Delta Green: The Role-Playing Game (formerly called the Case Officer's Handbook). Most of you who paid for the Handler's Screen in Kickstarter or BackerKit have it now -- we're working on a few outliers due to the vagaries of shipping -- so we encourage you to post a public rating or review of it.

• Rate or review the Handler's Screen and Need to Know at RPGNow
• Rate or review the Handler's Screen and Need to Know at Amazon
• Rate or review the Handler's Screen and Need to Know at RPGGeek
• Rate or review the Handler's Screen and Need to Know at RPG.net

Recruitment Contest

We've launched a contest for new agent recruitment materials, which individual agents can print and covertly slip into copies of DG books for sale in local shops or even leave behind in random places to attract new recruits. Something creative, in keeping with the DG universe, and which will pique their interest. If you choose to include a URL in your design, use this one:

http://www.delta-green.com/games-and-fiction/

Deadline is October 1st. Submit your design as a PDF via e-mail to [email protected] with "DELTA GREEN CONTEST" in the subject line. The winner will receive their choice of t-shirt (Delta Green or Phenomen-X) or a Delta Green lapel pin (a green delta).

Thank You for Screaming

Delta Green coauthor Greg Stolze is Kickstarting a collection of 25 short stories, mostly horror. It has another week to go and we encourage everyone to pitch in. We all need more Greg in the world. Back him and read previews here:

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/gregstolze/thank-you-for-screaming

Delta Green delivery updates
over 7 years ago – Wed, Aug 24, 2016 at 04:29:37 PM

The Agent's Handbook and Need to Know (including the Handler's screen) have now shipped to most backers and are making their way to stores worldwide. But there are some backers who have not received one or the other. Here's what's up and what to do about it.

If you have not received the Agent's Handbook

Nine times out of ten, this comes up because a backer upgraded the Agent's Handbook to the extended Case Officer's Handbook in BackerKit and forgot. You can find out easily. 

• Log in to BackerKit following your personal BackerKit link. (If you have lost that link, fill in the Get My Survey form to get the link again.)
• Look up your list of rewards.
• If the list indeed includes the Agent's Handbook in hardback and you have not received it, please send a private message through Kickstarter or email [email protected]. Please include your Kickstarter email address so I can investigate quickly.

If you have not received the Handler's screen

This usually comes up for backers outside the U.S. It's due to an error on my part. I requested too few copies of the Handler's screen for our international warehouse. The missing copies on en route now, so international backers will receive the Handler's screen soon. I apologize for the delay.

If you are inside the U.S. and missing the Handler's screen, first log in to BackerKit (see the instructions above) and confirm that it's among your rewards. If it is, please send a private message through Kickstarter or email [email protected]. Please include your Kickstarter email address so I can investigate quickly.

If you have the books and like them

Please tell people! Leave a review or just a rating at RPGNow or Amazon. Ratings and reviews make an enormous difference for small-press publishers like Arc Dream. Every single one is valuable, even if it takes only a few seconds.

• Agent's Handbook: Review or rate at RPGNow or Amazon
• Need to Know with Handler's screen: Review or rate at RPGNow or Amazon
• Need to Know (just the quickstart rules): Review or rate at RPGNow

In the meantime

More horrors are on the way.