New "I want everything!" tier options: The New Age and The Old Ways
about 9 years ago – Wed, Oct 21, 2015 at 09:30:12 PM

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:

• All the new physical books funded by this project. (Presently that's the Agent's Handbook, the Case Officer's Handbook, The Fall of Delta Green, the Handler's Screen and Quickstart Guide, and Impossible Landscapes.)
• A PDF version of each new physical book.
• All the PDFs funded by this project. (Presently that's "VISCID," "Observer Effect," "Operational History," "Down in the Delta," "ARCHINT," "The Children of Atlach-Nacha," "Protocols: The Unripened Fruit," "Making Horror Scenarios," "Iconoclasts," "The Star Chamber," "In the Court of the Yellow King," "Kali Ghati," "I Have Seen the Yellow Sign," "The Last Show," and "Redacted: Fusion Centers.")

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.

Seven Days

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.

God's Teeth

Have you been following the Delta Green: The Role-Playing Game series at RPPR? 

• God's Teeth: Go Forth (Episode 1)
• God's Teeth: Red Thoughts (Episode 2)

You should listen.

Thanks again for backing Delta Green.

THE NEW AGE and THE OLD WAYS are available now.

"Delta Green: Control Group" PDF to be FREE to all backers!
about 9 years ago – Mon, Oct 19, 2015 at 08:57:15 PM

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.

Control Group PDF free for all backers

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:

• Delta Green: Agent's Handbook in PDF, all the rules you need to play.
• The Delta Green quickstart guide in PDF with pregenerated characters and the scenario "Last Things Last."
• "Kali Ghati" in PDF, a scenario with pregenerated characters.
• Delta Green: Control Group in PDF, a campaign of five scenarios with pregenerated characters, at least 256 pages long.
• "The Children of Atlach-Nacha" in PDF, a new threat to confront your agents.
• "Down in the Delta" in PDF, a short story.
• "Protocols: The Unripened Fruit" in PDF, a feature about the challenges of agents dealing with corpses.
• "Making Horror Scenarios" in PDF, a guide to creating your own terrors.
• In the Court of the Yellow King in PDF, a short play.
• "I Have Seen the Yellow Sign" in PDF, a feature about the perils posed by the King in Yellow in the Information Age.
• "The Last Show" in PDF, a short story.

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.

"The Last Show" backer download
about 9 years ago – Mon, Oct 19, 2015 at 01:15:26 PM

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The cloud waves break (as do shipping rates)
about 9 years ago – Fri, Oct 16, 2015 at 07:46:35 PM

This morning we passed $180K. That makes Delta Green: Impossible Landscapes a reality. Your players will thank you, but their Agents never will.

Investigation and Aftermath

Warning: This brief excerpt reveals a spoiler for the way player-characters fit into this campaign.

Impossible Landscapes features a unique structure. Each player portrays a single agent in two time frames simultaneously: in THE INVESTIGATION, they are agents of Delta Green; in THE AFTERMATH, they are those same agents, sometime later, committed as inmates in a mental hospital seemingly controlled by Delta Green.

They play both timeframes, jumping back and forth at the Handler's whim, one affecting the other. Somewhere between these two points is the unresolved mystery of the campaign, the things they did to end up in the mental hospital, and the horror of connecting all the dots.

This structure is challenging, but it pays huge dividends in increasing the terror players feel, and reinforces the surreal horror that is the King In Yellow.

—Dennis Detwiller, Delta Green: Impossible Landscapes, © 2015

Good news for the UK and Canada

We've worked out arrangements with fulfillment services to reduce delivery costs sharply to backers in Canada and the UK. We have updated the "International Shipping" table on the main project page accordingly. See it here:

https://www.dropbox.com/s/f46jzh6iai7pmz1/International%20Shipping.jpg?dl=0

In a nutshell: The built-in shipping and handling cost for each physical book now accounts for most of the delivery costs for the UK and Canada. You'll only need to add a small amount to get each book.

Inspiration for your games

You might have heard us encourage you to run Delta Green: The Role-Playing Game and talk about it everywhere in flagrant violation of secrecy protocols. Here are a few recent links to give you ideas.

• "God's Teeth," actual play audio of Delta Green: The Role-Playing Game from RPPR
• The Drone Papers, inside the secret world of the White House assassination program
• Why Delta Green doesn't trust encryption to keep the unnatural secret
• Inside an FBI hostage crisis
• If you can see this baby, you're more likely to suffer psychosis
• Hypnotized students die, one by one

Keep Fighting

We have two weeks left. If we keep adding backers we can close in on two more massive Delta Green books: Control Group, a campaign of starter scenarios by Greg Stolze, and Deep State, a detailed look at the secret government programs surrounding Delta Green and the diaspora of the Majestic-12 Special Studies Project. If those are funded in this project, Control Group goes into playtesting in January and goes to press in June, and Deep State goes to press in September. Help us make them happen. Keep up the momentum. Keep fighting.

***

Evil never dies. Darkness never retreats. In the cracks and the crevices of our society there are monsters undreamed of by the rank and file of humanity. I’ve been there. I’ve seen them. They exist in the spaces between things, in the folds of existence where we can’t find them. Sometimes they cross over, sometimes they manifest, and all Hell breaks loose. Only this is not Hell, nor Heaven. This is like nothing anyone has ever understood. This is pure evil, pure destruction. This is the apocalypse, and I’ve been fighting it tooth and nail since 1961. They made me retire in 1970 when Cambodia blew up in their faces and they blamed us, but I didn’t stop then and I’m not stopping now. They think I gave it all up that day in the Pentagon when they told me the choice–the only choice–I would be allowed. I took it, and then, like most of us, I made the decision to continue the fight. They thought we were washed up.

They know nothing.

—Maj. Gen. Reginald Fairfield, U.S. Army (ret.), Final Report

All rewards unlocked! More coming
about 9 years ago – Thu, Oct 15, 2015 at 10:25:31 PM

Shane Ivey here from Arc Dream. Thanks to today's push you've unlocked all the rewards we penciled in for our recruiting drive! We're putting more plans together now, including a few that I personally am going to LOVE if they come together. 

Here are some of the interviews that have gone online in the last few days:

• The Drunk & The Ugly interview with Dennis Detwiller
• Illuminerdery Q&A with Greg Stolze and Shane Ivey
• Kenneth Hite on The Fall of Delta Green
• Shane Ivey on Delta Green: The Role-Playing Game

Keep pushing!

I'm getting the last couple of pieces in place to announce updated and much better shipping estimates for the UK and Canada. If all goes well I can announce those tomorrow. 

In the meantime we're less than $3K away from funding Delta Green: Impossible Landscapes. Can we get there before I have time to compose the next update? The answers lie on the cloud-swept shores of Hali.