Quick update on Add-On reward packages!
over 8 years ago – Thu, Oct 29, 2015 at 04:51:56 PM

We're in the last few minutes of this project and I've only now realized we have a serious problem in one of our Add-On Reward options.

On the Add-On Reward Table there was an option for $220 to add "All the physical books." That was meant as a way to add the hardbacks to your RISING THREATS pledge of $80 and make it the equivalent to the NEW AGE pledge of $300. 

The problem is that some backers noticed they could pledge only $1 for "FRIENDLY" and add $220 and get all nine books for $221. A price that low for nine beautiful hardback books hurts us. 

So we've removed that $220 add-on from the menu and don't plan offer it in backerkit. If you want all nine books, please pick the "NEW AGE" tier instead for $300. You'll also get a ton of amazing resources in PDF.

HOWEVER! It's the last minutes of the project. If you have the chance to change your tier to the right one, please do so. But we don't want anyone who misses this update to feel like we've tried to pull a bait and switch on them. If this project ends and your pledge was $221 in good faith to get all the books, we will deliver all the books. Just be patient as we sort through it all. We'll take care of you. 

I better hit SEND so this gets out there before the project ends. I hope it makes sense. I'm sorry for the confusion. I don't know why I didn't catch this problem before. If this last-minute change causes anyone grief, WE WILL WORK WITH YOU to make everything good. 

(BTW, HOLY CRAP we hit $360K! Thank you all! Look for a proper update soon.)

Shane Ivey
Arc Dream Publishing

Here's the updated Add-on Rewards Table.

If in doubt, skip the Add-On table and grab THE NEW AGE tier and you're done.

What eldritch forces propel this work?
over 8 years ago – Wed, Oct 28, 2015 at 12:25:34 AM

On October 25 we posted what we figured to be the last update before this campaign's end. We had just hit $260K and unlocked what we thought would be the final book from this campaign, Deep State. So we announced a "Hail Mary" final goal to unlock a new book, PISCES, at $300K. It seemed unlikely but worth the try.

Two days later we're about to hit $300K and still have 40 hours to go.

All those careful negotiations with shadowy powers must have paid off after all.

But this is Delta Green. We aim to go down fighting. So here's the new final goal. 

Really final, this time.

Seriously.

Delta Green: Falling Towers

This is Shane Ivey writing, by the way. Here's a little background. A couple of months ago at Gen Con 2015, Scott Glancy and I were trading thoughts about the ways Dennis Detwiller had hinted at the Fate evolving.

The Fate, if you remember, was an influential and lethal cult in New York that wormed its way through the heart of power throughout the 20th century. Ordinary New Yorkers who worked and lived in certain circles feared the organized crime syndicates. The organized crime syndicates feared a deeper, more shadowy syndicate called the Network, a syndicate that could do impossible things. Nobody was safe from the Network. Nobody talked about the Network, but everybody knew about it. And nobody was safe from it. The Fate was the cabal at the heart of the Network. It was a cult that was followed -- or outright worshipped -- an immortal sorcerer named Stephen Alzis.

Delta Green knew about the Network. They had traded shots with it a time or two. They  almost always lost, and they usually lost big. By the end of the 1990s Delta Green's leaders said New York City was all but off-limits for Delta Green operations. A truce with Alzis was the best they could manage.

You can find all this in Delta Green and Delta Green: Eyes Only.

A while back Dennis Detwiller, the creator of the Fate, told Scott and me that he figured that at some point after 9/11, Stephen Alzis vanished. There was no fanfare, no coup, no maneuvering. He just stopped showing up. And naturally all his followers started taking each other down, each of them wanting to be top boss.

So, Scott and I at Gen Con were talking about that. We started laughing at the thought of Delta Green agents in New York realizing what had happened, and how rabid they would be to jump in the middle of all that and take another shot at the Fate. 

The more we imagined it, the more it sounded like a pretty bad-ass campaign to play.

That's Delta Green: Falling Towers. 

If this runaway project hits $340K, we'll publish it. 

Falling Towers will be two things. First, a series of scenarios where Delta Green agents in the 2000s turn every available resource toward rooting out the fractious Network and destroying it. Second, a sourcebook for the mysteries and threats Delta Green faces in New York today. You can run a Fate-hunting campaign in the 2000s and use that as a launch point for an ongoing New York campaign today. The primary writers will be me, Daniel Harms, and Dennis Detwiller. Dennis will illustrate it.

So. Will this project hit that lofty goal? We can't say. Delta Green has tried to take down the Fate before. Tried and paid the price.

But the mission is never over.

"Lover In the Ice"

Meanwhile, we're about to send backers a download link for the Delta Green conversion of "Lover In the Ice," which backers unlocked in our social media campaign. "Lover In the ice" is Caleb Stokes' horrifying scenario of monstrosities infesting a storm-crippled Midwestern city. It is brutal and great. We hope you enjoy inflicting it on your players.

Lover In the Ice
over 8 years ago – Wed, Oct 28, 2015 at 12:21:20 AM

Thank you for backing Delta Green: The Role-Playing Game! And thank you for helping to spread the word in our social media campaign. 

As a reward (one of many!), here's a download link for "Lover In the Ice," Caleb Stokes' scenario of modern horror customized for Delta Green: The Role-Playing Game.

https://www.dropbox.com/s/7nadyc1zpg8tbg4/Lover%20in%20the%20Ice%20for%20Delta%20Green.zip?dl=0

Enjoy.

The final goal: PISCES
over 8 years ago – Sun, Oct 25, 2015 at 11:31:11 PM

Backers of Delta Green: The Role-Playing Game have unlocked Delta Green: Deep State, a sourcebook dedicated to the top-secret government programs and private-sector contractors that evolved out of the Majestic-12 Special Studies Group. Deep State will be filled with allies, assets, and threats that surround Delta Green.

Now we announce our final goal.

If we hit $300,000 in backing, we will publish Delta Green: PISCES, a sourcebook dedicated to Delta Green’s allies (and often rivals) in Great Britain.

PISCES is a secret British security program that began with explorations of the supernatural and was soon corrupted and infiltrated by the forces it uncovered. Delta Green: PISCES will detail that organization, particularly its history since the War on Terror when close contact with Delta Green changed it forever. The book will present PISCES as an option for player characters in alliance with Delta Green agents—or trying to avoid Delta Green altogether. It will examine Delta Green’s broader operations overseas and how Delta Green agents must sometimes recruit agents of their own in foreign theaters. And it will include starter scenarios to help launch PISCES campaigns.

To get Delta Green: PISCES as an add-on reward, add $20 to your pledge for the PDF or $50 to get it in full-color hardback plus the PDF version free. Or if you take a “One of Everything” reward tier like RISING THREATS or A NEW AGE, you’ll get PISCES at NO ADDITIONAL COST.

Now is the time.

Three days to go.

Unlocked: "Beltway Bandits." Next: DEEP STATE
over 8 years ago – Sat, Oct 24, 2015 at 11:37:00 PM

We just crossed $250K, which unlocks the next bonus download. "Redacted: Beltway Bandits" will provide detailed write-ups of some of the major private-sector organizations that Delta Green agents often encounter. 

We're about to send "I Have Seen the Yellow Sign," a look at how Delta Green confronted the phenomenon known as the King in Yellow in the old days and what that means for agents today. Watch for a backers-only update.

Delta Green: Deep State

We're less than $10K away from DEEP STATE. This massive sourcebook will detail the secret government and industrial programs that surround Delta Green. These are the remnants and inheritors of old Majestic-12 projects that splintered off in the early years of the War on Terror, when Delta Green agents orchestrated the restructuring of the Majestic group and ended the alien Accord. Some of these organizations are active rivals to Delta Green. Some are wary partners in the field. Some are Delta Green operations waiting to happen. Many are all of those at once. All are potentially lethal threats to agents who ask too many questions.

Another day, maybe two, and perhaps we'll unlock DEEP STATE. 

Soon we'll announce what comes after that.