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Delta Green: The Role-Playing Game

Created by Arc Dream Publishing

Lovecraftian cosmic terror meets the War on Terror. The award-winning RPG setting comes thundering back in a new Cthulhu Mythos game.

Latest Updates from Our Project:

Iconoclasts: The Father of War Unleashed
almost 2 years ago – Wed, Apr 27, 2022 at 05:50:49 AM

Delta Green: Iconoclasts is now available in PDF.

If you backed Delta Green: The Role-Playing Game at Kickstarter and your rewards included the PDF of Iconoclasts, or if you preordered it at BackerKit, it is in your digital downloads at BackerKit now. 

For everyone else, Iconoclasts is available in PDF at DriveThruRPG.

First conceived and planned as a 32-page scenario, Iconoclasts evolved into a 206-page campaign. Its PDF comes with a free digital archive of over 80 handouts. Kickstarter backers got Iconoclasts for $5 when that was its expected price point. You pay nothing extra for the much-expanded final version.

Iconoclasts is available separately in hardback. Its hardback production was not funded by Kickstarter, so it does not go out as part of backer rewards. It's a separate order if you want it.  We expect the hardback to ship in September. Preorder and get the PDF and downloads now.

Written by Adam Scott Glancy, Iconoclasts brings a team of Agents to a scene of horrors all too real: Mosul in 2016, held by the self-styled Islamic State in a reign of depraved brutality. From a small base at the Kirkuk airfield, the Agents must research the horrors to come and prepare for a harrowing infiltration. We consulted with diplomats, soldiers, intelligence experts, and Muslim gamers and nongamers to develop the best possible work of horror in an already horrific setting. We hope you enjoy it.

Shipping in September (estimated) in hardback.

Horrors in Mosul
about 2 years ago – Wed, Mar 09, 2022 at 01:42:26 AM

Adam Scott Glancy's scenario Iconoclasts is in layout now. It began as a single scenario expected to be about 32 pages in PDF only. It will be published as a full campaign, 176 pages or more, available in PDF and in hardback. 

Set in 2016 during ISIL's occupation of Mosul, Iconoclasts begins with the accidental release of an unnatural horror. Delta Green calls on the Agents to bottle it up again. We expect to send Iconoclasts to the printer and to backers in PDF in mid-April and have it shipping in July or August.

Backers whose pledge levels include "every PDF" get the PDF of Iconoclasts automatically. Customers who preordered the PDF when it was only $5 get the final, much expanded PDF at no additional cost. 

The hardback edition will go on sale when it is ready to ship. Please note that Iconoclasts was included in this KS project, long ago, only as a short PDF, without budgeting for printing and shipping. That means that unlike the PDF, the print edition is not part of any KS reward. It can be ordered separately when the time comes.

Read Jack Frost & Iconoclasts—and See the Conspiracy Continue
over 2 years ago – Thu, Aug 12, 2021 at 04:56:53 AM

Shane Ivey here from Arc Dream Publishing. Since we launched crowdfunding for Delta Green: The Role-Playing Game in late 2015, we have an average of two major releases and four shorter works every year. Often, they’re slower than we would like. But often, there is far more to them than we expected. The 256-page "Case Officer’s Handbook" became the 560 pages of the Delta Green core rulebooks. The 32-page scenario Iconoclasts became a 177-page campaign—more on that below. The 256-page Impossible Landscapescame in at 368 pages plus a deep well of handouts and its own sourcebook, STATIC Protocol.

We just distributed Jack Frost to all backers in PDF, free: a 92-page adventure 48 high-resolution handouts. Find it in your Digital Downloads at BackerKit. You can  preorder it separately in paperback. We expect that to ship in September.

We have two downloads and three hardbacks to go.

Two Downloads

Iconoclasts is finished in text and is being illustrated. I expect to release it in early 2022 as a 176-page PDF with high-resolution maps and handouts. It will go out to KS backers whose rewards include “All PDFs from this project” and to all who ordered the PDF edition on top of their base rewards. It will be available separately for purchase in hardback.

Operational History is in development by Caleb Stokes. We planned for it to be 128 pages but it will probably be much larger. I tentatively expect it to come out in late 2022. The PDF will go to all KS backers. It will be available separately for purchase in print.

Three Hardbacks

PISCES is about half written, maybe two-thirds, and is in final development by Adam Scott Glancy. I tentatively expect it to come out in PDF and hardback in mid 2022.

Deep State is likewise about half written and is in final development by me. I tentatively expect it to be finished in late 2021 and to come out in PDF and hardback in early 2022.

Falling Towers is in preliminary development, meaning mountains of notes, by me and will go into active development when I finish Deep State. I tentatively expect it to be finished in mid 2022 and to come out in PDF and hardback in late 2022.

The Labyrinth

The 2018 KS for Delta Green: The Labyrinth funded four more hardback books plus four digital collections of high-resolution downloads. The first book, The Labyrinth, is available. The first download collection, an “Evidence Kit” for The Labyrinth, just went out as a digital download to backers of The Labyrinth and is now shipping to backers who ordered it in paperback.

Final Passages,an anthology of Labyrinth-related scenarios, and its evidence kit are in development by Dennis Detwiller, me, Caleb Stokes, and John Scott Tynes. I expect them to be available in late 2022.

God’s Teeth is finished in its first draft and is in editing, along with its evidence kit. I expect to send a rough draft to backers who ordered it in PDF or print in August 2021. I expect the book and evidence kit to be available in early-mid 2022.

Those Who Come After and its evidence kit are in development by Dennis Detwiller, who splits his time between writing and illustration. I expect them to be available in mid 2022.

Our Next Conspiracy

While Scott Glancy, Dennis Detwiller, and I finish those works, we are bringing Caleb Stokes aboard not only for scenarios and Operational History but to create a whole new run of DG works across 2022. He will bring the originating works of Delta Green back to unseemly life as sourcebooks for Delta Green: The Role-Playing Game, in beautiful hardback editions with full-color art. 

We launched that effort while I was still writing this update, so I would have a live link when I hit send. That was 32 minutes ago. It already hit its funding goal.

See more at Delta Green: The Conspiracy.

Download ARCHINT now
over 2 years ago – Tue, Jul 27, 2021 at 01:15:27 AM

Some analysts develop signals intelligence or SIGINT. Some develop human intelligence, HUMINT. Delta Green deals in older secrets. It needs archeological intelligence: ARCHINT, a study of appalling dangers left in hidden places.

Delta Green: ARCHINT is available as a BackerKit download for all backers whose pledges included "All PDFs funded by this project" and everyone who preordered it.

Written by Dennis Detwiller and Caleb Stokes and illustrated by Dennis Detwiller, ARCHINT features: 

  • The Amulet of the Ai-Apa
  • Blood of the Feeder
  • The Brixton Shard
  • The Eggs of Apep
  • The Gowdie Shape
  • The Hunahpú Mask
  • The Kurville Executable
  • The Miranov Object
  • The Reneteur Device
  • The Stone of Yos
  • “Sweet Lady Blood Pruner”

ARCHINT was funded only as a PDF download without a print budget, so the PDF is the version going out as a backer reward. A paperback version is available separately if you like. 

What Lingers

As always, we keep a running record of KS rewards at the Delta Green website.  That's five hardback books so far plus two hardback compilations, a quickstart rulebook, a GM screen, a dozen PDFs with paperback versions, twenty downloads, art prints, and wallpapers. Something like 1,700 pages published and a lot of awards won.

The next releases funded by this KS project will be:

  • Impossible Landscapes in hardback, expected to start shipping this week after grueling delays in cargo shipping
  • Jack Frost in PDF, now in final review and expected to go out in mid-August to all backers who get "all PDFs funded by this project" 
  • Iconoclasts in PDF, now in illustration and a (hopefully) final round of review and editing; expected to go out in September to pre-orderers and all backers who get "all PDFs funded by this project"
  • Deep State, in development, publication date TBA (likely early 2022)
  • Operational History, in development, publication date TBA (likely early 2022)
  • PISCES, in development, publication date TBA (likely late 2022)
  • Falling Towers, in development, publication date TBA (likely late 2022)

Some of those might come together more quickly.  

And that will be it for this project's rewards. 

Find Impossible Landscapes in your inbox and your withering mind. Have you downloaded the Yellow Sign?
about 3 years ago – Fri, Jan 29, 2021 at 03:47:02 PM

Delta Green: Impossible Landscapes is available in PDF. Backers and pre-orderers, log in to BackerKit and find the link in your digital downloads.

The PDF edition of Impossible Landscapes comes free with every print order of the massive, full-color hardback book (though sometimes it takes a day or two to reach your inbox). And you can order the PDF by itself at DriveThruRPG.

Written and illustrated by Dennis Detwiller, Impossible Landscapes sees Agents exploring the depths of meaning and madness in the strange, surreal phenomenon known as the King in Yellow: a play, a virus of the mind, a king whom emperors have served, a crystallization of understanding of the unfathomable nature of reality. Once your Agents have seen the Yellow Sign, they will never be the same.

Order Impossible Landscapes now