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Latest Updates from Our Project:
Impossible Landscapes and Iconoclasts and Jack Frost approach
over 4 years ago
– Sat, Jul 11, 2020 at 08:00:24 PM
Help Delta Green: TheLabyrinth Win an ENnie!
John Scott Tynes’ Delta Green: The Labyrinth is nominated for the ENnie Award for Best Supplement. And Arc Dream Publishing is up for Fan Favorite Publisher. Voting ends Sunday, 12 JUL 2020. We hope you’ll join us in voting “1” for The Labyrinth and Arc Dream. And we urge you to do it right away. Time bends in on itself and leaves missed opportunities forever lost in whorls of causality, unobserved, indeterminate, meaningless in the unwatching and unthinking gaze of Azathoth.
Then watch the ENnie Awards show online Friday night, 31 JUL 2020, and see what miracles you have wrought!
Status of the Delta Green RPG Kickstarter
The last elements are falling into place. Falling, falling. Dennis Detwiller’s massive King in Yellow campaign Impossible Landscapes is in its final round of editing now and goes to layout next week. We expect to see it in PDF in the fall and in hardback in winter.
Shane Ivey’s scenario “Jack Frost” has been fully revised and rewritten and edited. Its revised version is in playtest now and we may to see it in PDF and paperback in September. Dennis Detwiller is building ARCHINT.
Gil Trevizo withdrew from developing Operational History for personal reasons but it is now in the eminently qualified hands of Chris Spivey of Darker Hue Studios (Harlem Unbound, Haunted West).
Adam Scott Glancy turned in a comprehensive post-playtest revision of “Iconoclasts” a long while back and it waits on Ivey’s desk for review and final editing. We likewise have a first pass of PISCES in hand for team review.
Chris Gunning is developing Deep State. Ivey’s campaign Falling Towers will be the last to come together. Elements of it have been coagulating for 22 years. It will ripen quickly.
The dice sing a tune to which the false people dance
over 4 years ago
– Wed, May 20, 2020 at 05:31:02 AM
The dice sing a tune to which the false people dance while the book leads you all on. And whether you want it or not, you dance.
We dance.
We all dance this way, hand in hand, until the end of the world.
Impossible Landscapes still occupies most of our labor. Presently 156,418 words, it will likely be 320 pages long. It has undergone three rounds of editing and revisions and has at least one still to go before layout. It is possible that we send it to layout in July and have a PDF in August and a hardback in December.
A family of three still “lives” here: Aneate, Lemark, and Besar Barré—mother, father, and child. Each has a blood-stained pillowcase over their head, marked by a bullet hole and muzzle burn, slick with blood and brains. Their features are hidden beneath the cloth. But they go about their daily lives, unperturbed.
Other rewards linger. We present them in order of hypothetical nearness to publication. Quantum mechanics and Delta Green deal in probabilities, never certainties until observation fixes an object into a final state. Some of the projects could come sooner but I prefer to remain conservative in my equivocation.
ARCHINT: PDF, about 32 pages. Needs its first draft completed. Then review, revisions, art, maps, copy editing, layout. ETA: Maybe July.
Iconoclasts: PDF, about 64 pages. Needs a final review to see if it needs further playtesting. Then copy editing and layout. ETA: Maybe August.
Jack Frost: PDF, about 32 pages. Needs final revisions and probably a round of playtesting. Then further revisions, copy editing, layout. ETA: Maybe September.
PISCES: Hardback and PDF, about 192 pages. Needs first-draft review and revisions. Then playtesting, final revisions, art and maps, copy editing, layout. ETA: Maybe January 2021 in PDF and May 2021 in hardback.
Deep State: Hardback and PDF, about 192 pages. Needs its first draft completed. Then review, revisions, playtesting, revisions, art, maps, copy editing, layout. ETA: Maybe March 2021 in PDF and July 2021 in hardback.
Operational History: PDF, about 80 pages. Needs its first draft completed. Then review, revisions, art, maps, copy editing, layout. ETA: Maybe April 2021.
Falling Towers: Hardback and PDF, about 192 pages. Needs its first draft completed. Then review, revisions, playtesting, revisions, art, maps, copy editing, layout. ETA: Maybe May 2021 in PDF and September 2021 in hardback.
Recording 10: A teenage boy is heard running a sink full-blast while chanting, “Show me more, show me more, show me more.” Occasionally a squeaking sound is heard. Eventually, a second voice speaks in a low, slow, croaking voice. It sounds like a very old and sickman speaking between bellowing gasps for air. Over the course of 2 minutes and 24 seconds, it says:“And so we come to our end, of sorts. A play that contains multitudes.All who died.All who live.All who yet shall.Upon this stage with us forever.”
What impossible landscapes wait beyond the cracked corners of this false world?
almost 5 years ago
– Thu, Mar 12, 2020 at 12:54:59 AM
Delta Green: Impossible Landscapes is nearly complete. Not entirely. Perhaps never entirely. What is the concept of completion to those who have imagined the King in Yellow? The Stranger at the inescapable masquerade? The shifting streets of Carcosa? The twin suns sinking behind the lake? All those haunting thoughts give the mind the comfort of despair, played out on stages in acts of desperate pareidolia. By what hubris speak we of completion?
Abigail W., a regional manager for Seere, Inc., fails to show up to work for two weeks. When she finally arrives, she claims to have traveled to a foreign country to marry a king. But her demeanor is disheveled, and many say she is not herself. Should you report this to mental health services? (Y/N)
Impossible Landscapes is nearly ready for you. It still has a few editorial passes to go. It still could benefit from feedback by readers not daunted by its scope and its distressing intimations. We conceived it as a campaign about 160 pages long, perhaps up to 192, no longer than the Agent's Handbook. Its manuscript's page count is 333. That number has no occult significance. No more than any other number, at any rate. It is merely a number. An imaginary object by which to focus thought into a pattern or structure for the deeper understanding of reality. It would be better for the number to have no significance.
Say the things we cannot say elsewhere. Find ourselves and know ourselves. Become the rulers of our own lives. Say what you will.
Those of you who have the PDF or hardback edition of Impossible Landscapes as a reward or pre-order can find its current manuscript in BackerKit.
*Three* rewards are out today: Future/Perfect 3, Future/Perfect 4, and Ex Oblivione
about 5 years ago
– Fri, Oct 18, 2019 at 10:36:08 PM
Today we've sent three rewards out to backers.
Future/Perfect, Part 3
Duxbury, Pennsylvania, is shrouded in secrets. For decades, it has been virtually a company town, run by a subsidiary of Hunt Electronics, Inc. Hunt Electronics came to Delta Green's attention in deadly encounters in Death Valley (Future/Perfect, Part 1) and amid the Ohio serpent mounds (Future/Perfect, Part 2). Now the Agents must look deeper into Hunt Electronics' most secretive and suspicious project. It lurks in the depths of Duxbury, where the whole town enthusiastically supports its largest employer, and the employees work with the dedication that comes only with a mission that's larger than any of them. Arthur Hunt is long dead, but it seems his dream to change the face of the Earth is alive and well.
If you backed Delta Green: The Role-Playing Game at one of the "All the PDFs" levels, you can find Future/Perfect, Part 3 in your Digital Downloads on BackerKit.
Future/Perfect, Part 3 is also available in the Delta Green Operations Bundle, running until 28 OCT 2019 at Bundle of Holding. It will go on sale separately on Halloween.
Future/Perfect, Part 4
From Death Valley to the Ohio serpent mounds to a cultish industrial plant, the Agents have pursued the secrets of long-dead inventor Arthur Hunt and his legacy of unnatural power and danger. Now they face the ultimate revelations. A culture all but extinct, fallen before humanity learned to record its history, struggles to rise and conquer from the distant past. And a force beyond space-time itself looks on, turning the Agents' desperate struggles and sacrifices to its own inconceivable ends. If the Agents survive, it may only be to see a world changed and traumatized even more drastically than themselves.
If you backed Delta Green: The Role-Playing Game at one of the "All the PDFs" levels, you can find Future/Perfect, Part 4 in your Digital Downloads on BackerKit.
Future/Perfect, Part 4 is also available in the Delta Green Operations Bundle, running until 28 OCT 2019 at Bundle of Holding. It will go on sale separately on Halloween.
Ex Oblivione
A gruesome crime draws Delta Green to the haunted desert. Bodies have been ritualistically mutilated. Bizarre words carved into the drywall speak to the insanity of the killer -- and, to Delta Green, the urgency of the investigation: HOME DAGON HOME HOME YHANTHLEI SEA TO THE SEA.
Ex Oblivione replaces Wormwood Arena as a backer reward and preorder. If you backed Delta Green: The Role-Playing Game at one of the "All the PDFs" levels, or if you pre-ordered Wormwood Arena, you can find Ex Oblivione in your Digital Downloads on BackerKit. It will go on sale separately on Halloween.
Two Delta Green Bundles of Holding
Tell your friends, this is the time to turn their curiosity about Delta Green into action. Until 28 OCT 2019, Delta Green is featured in two Bundles of Holding. The Delta Green Operations Bundle features dozens of Delta Green scenarios and other resources, starting at $7.95. The Delta Green RPG Bundle features the core rules, fiction, and more scenarios, starting at only $12.95. Spread the word and help us recruit more Agents.
The past is bloody teeth…which still hunger
over 5 years ago
– Wed, Sep 11, 2019 at 01:40:42 AM
Coming all too soon from Arc Dream Publishing
A gruesome crime draws Delta Green to the haunted desert. Bodies have been ritualistically mutilated. Bizarre words carved into the drywall speak to the insanity of the killer—and, to Delta Green, the urgency of the investigation: HOME DAGON HOME HOME YHANTHLEI SEA TO THE SEA.
Dennis Detwiller's scenario "Delta Green: Ex Oblivione" is coming later this month. For Kickstarter backers, "Ex Oblivione" replaces the stretch goal "Wormwood Arena," which wound up as part of the book Control Group. If you paid for the PDF of "Wormwood Arena" as a reward, you can find it in Control Group and you'll also get the PDF of "Ex Oblivione." "Ex Oblivione" will be available separately in print.
Recently on Patreon
Shane Ivey here. I’ve finally launched my own Patreon program! Sign up to get inside access to my personal work in Delta Green, D&D, historical RPGs, adaptations of the DG rules to other genres and settings, early-access videos and podcasts, and more. (This is not the still-developing Patreon for The Unspeakable Oath. When that launches, it will have its own slate of material by all kinds of contributors.) And of course, Dennis Detwiller's Patreon is going strong with excerpts of his amazing work.
