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Thanks to backers' tremendous support for Delta Green: The Role-Playing Game, today we unlocked two more stretch goals.
“REDACTED: THE COLLECTORS": Detailed player-facing write-ups of organizations that were only summarized in the core rules: DIA, NSA/CSS, NRO, ONI, NGA, NCTC. "Redacted: The Collectors" will be available FREE to all backers.
"REDACTED: BIG DATA": Detailed player-facing write-ups of organizations that were only mentioned or summarized in the core rules: DARPA, Nuclear Security Administration (NEST), NASA (Dryden AFRC). "Redacted: Big Data" will be available FREE to all backers.
Big things are imminent.
AT $250K — "REDACTED: BELTWAY BANDITS": Detailed player-facing write-ups of organizations that were only mentioned or summarized in the Agent’s Handbook: Constellis Group, CACI, RAND, Booz Allen Hamilton, Lockheed Martin. "Redacted: Beltway Bandits" will be available FREE to all backers.
AT $260K — DEEP STATE IN PDF AND FULL-COLOR HARDBACK: A sourcebook detailing the diaspora of secret MAJESTIC-12 programs. Built around an alien threat that seemed to vanish, these projects failed, changed, evolved and in some cases grew throughout the Global War on Terror and as a consequence of conflicts with Delta Green. ADD-ON COST: $50 for hardback plus free PDF; $20 for just the PDF. The PDF will be included in tiers that get "All New PDFs Funded by This Project."
The Redacted Files interviewed me (Shane Ivey) about Delta Green: The Role-Playing Game. Read it here.
And the Plot Points Podcast just posted an audio interview they recorded with me and Dennis Detwiller. Listen here.
We are thrilled to see that we have hit TWO more stretch goals since yesterday!
A new scenario by Greg Stolze in which Delta Green agents must go undercover to learn the true goals of a cult with ties to the unnatural. ADD-ON COST: $5, PDF only. The PDF is included in tiers that get "All New PDFs Funded by This Project."
An introductory campaign by Greg Stolze, written to teach new players the rules and to create a team of Agents out of those who survive along the way. It will be available in PDF and full-color hardback. ADD-ON COST: $50 for hardback plus free PDF; all backers get the PDF free.
We're less than $1,700 from unlocking the next goal, another "Redacted" installment. And if people keep upgrading to the NEW AGE reward tier ($300 for EVERYTHING) it's very likely that we'll hit the next big book, Deep State. If that happens soon, we may open up another big goal before the end.
Thank you for supporting Delta Green!
Yesterday at $200K we unlocked the first of our planned "REDACTED" features. Those are write-ups of organizations that aren't given as much detail in the core Delta Green rulebooks but which may come up in play. The first installment will be "Fusion Centers," covering U.S. agencies such as the ATF, the Secret Service, FEMA, and more.
Now, the big news.
Since the first day of this project people have wanted a single reward tier that would provide everything this project funds. We didn't set those up at the beginning because we didn't have any way of knowing how few or how many books that would be. If we set the tier's cost too low, we'd lose money. Set it too high and backers would not get enough value.
But now we're in the last week of the project.
Now we know what's been unlocked and what remains to be unlocked.
Now we're opening those tiers.
THE NEW AGE: With the NEW AGE reward tier ($300), you get:
No picking and choosing necessary. No add-ons unless you want extra physical copies. You get everything.
If we unlock new books and PDFs in upcoming stretch goals, you get those too.
Each publication will be shipped as it is available. See the main project description for details on getting additional books and downloads, and notes about international shipping. In the book's acknowledgements we'll thank you by the name you choose.
THE OLD WAYS: The OLD WAYS reward tier ($350) is the same as The New Age, plus you get all the ebooks and PDFs listed under "Previously Published" in the Add-On Rewards table in the main project description. (Delta Green, Countdown, Eyes Only, etc.) This is the tier to get everything new for Delta Green and everything old.
Here are a couple of additional wrinkles to combine this offer with other reward tiers. These are the versions we're going with as this update gets too old to edit. If we need to tweak them, we'll say so in comments and on the main project description.
ADDING THIS TO ANOTHER REWARD TIER: What if you have a limited reward tier and don't want to give that up, but you want to add the big package of books and PDFs? Easy. Add $250 to your current reward tier's pledge. You get all the physical books (except the Agent's Handbook, which probably already comes with your base tier) and all the new PDFs. Examples: Operation Madrigal, Operation Fulminate, Operation Tidal, Operation Crucis.
ADDING JUST THE PHYSICAL BOOKS TO ANOTHER REWARD TIER: Your reward tier already comes with all the new PDFs? Add $220 to your current reward tier's pledge. You get all the physical books, including a copy of the Agent's Handbook and The Fall of Delta Green. Examples: Rising Threats, Every Single PDF, Every Single New PDF, Operator With Every Single PDF.
A week is more than enough time for most Delta Green operations. That's what we have left. Thanks to your support, we can relaunch Delta Green as a new game line with core rulebooks, adventures, a GM Screen, and at least one big sourcebook—maybe more than one before we're done.
Have you been following the Delta Green: The Role-Playing Game series at RPPR?
You should listen.
Thanks again for backing Delta Green.
THE NEW AGE and THE OLD WAYS are available now.
Thank you for supporting Delta Green: The Role-Playing Game. Over the weekend we hit $190K, which unlocks Dennis Detwiller's story of The King in Yellow, "The Last Show." We'll send it to all backers this afternoon. Watch your inbox.
Now we're closing in on the next few goals:
"Redacted: Fusion Centers," a set of write-ups on organizations that come up in many Delta Green games.
"Wormwood Arena," a scenario by Greg Stolze that requires Delta Green agents to go undercover in what may be a very dangerous cult.
And Delta Green: Control Group, Greg Stolze's massive campaign of introductory adventures. Control Group is built not only to build suspense and horror but to teach Delta Green's rules and setting to newcomers, one piece at a time. It will be available for playtesting in January. (Maybe sooner, but after this Kickstarter project we'll all have a lot on our plate!)
And that brings us to the big news.
If Delta Green: Control Group gets funded, every single backer will get it in PDF, free.
You can still order its hardback edition for $50, of course. But if you're a backer you'll get the PDF.
So here's the message to take to all the gamers you know:
If you're interested in playing Delta Green but don't have a budget for one of the big tiers, you can back us at the AGENT'S PDF level for $20 and get:
That's enough material for many months of game-play for only $20.
We hope this will entice gamers who were on the fence. We hope it will entice so many that we'll hit Control Group soon and Deep State before we're done.
You can spread the word and help us make that happen.
Be seeing you.