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Godlike: The War From Here, Part 1 -- Hell for Breakfast
"Hell for Breakfast" is a scenario for GODLIKE, our RPG of superpowered commandos in World War II. You are larger than life...but the war is larger than you. The players’ troops are a hodge-podge of misplaced Talent soldiers. Transport planes carry the 82nd and 101st airborne divisions to the Contentin peninsula, along with 115 Talents in two-man or three-man teams as support. The All Am...
Swords & Sorceries: Origins, Inspirations, Destiny
This year, Arc Dream Publishing launched the Swords & Sorceries line of fantasy adventures for Fifth Edition. Swords & Sorceries began as a fun side project. I was reading a lot of ancient history and mythology, and having my imagination sparked by the evolution of the West’s most enduring myths and beliefs from theorized prehistoric origins. And after playing every version of D&D for 40 years n...
Delta Green: Researching the Pnakotic Manuscripts
Excerpted from a passage I wrote for the forthcoming Iconoclasts.When the Agents seek a ritual or some other piece of unnatural lore, a Program or friendly researcher sends a nearly indecipherable scan from some esoteric source, adding a handwritten note: “Original in Athens. Nat’l Library of Greece. Pnakotika in restricted holdings.”An Agent (or a friendly consultant) with 50% or greater sk...
"Hourglass": A New Scenario for Delta Green
BRIEFINGIn an Internet video, already viral, a middle-aged, dark-haired, harried-looking woman stands on a park bench in a small-town park. She is crying and shouting at a handful of befuddled people. She says they live with a place that does awful things. They accept it into their community. They take its money. And it takes women and children. “It takes them and it—it—”Suddenly she vanis...
(Early Access Video) The King in Yellow: Origins, Influences, & Lineage
Recorded at NecronomiCon Providence, August 24, 2019.Where did black stars rise before they hung over Carcosa? What inspired the King in Yellow, whom emperors have served? Whither syphilis?Robert W. Chambers’ The King in Yellow has inspired horror authors from Lovecraft to the present darkening day. Arc Dream Publishing's new The King in Yellow: Annotated Edition features exhaustive research...
Delta Green: Finding the Elder Sign
Excerpted from a passage I wrote for the forthcoming Iconoclasts.The ritual to create the Elder Sign is described in the Handler’s Guide. Any Agent who learns of it is likely to want to master it. But first, they have to find a source for it.RESEARCHING THE RITUALIdentifying reliable sources for the Elder Sign requires a successful Unnatural roll to search occult and weird sources and sift valua...
Less-Lethal Options in Delta Green
I posted this article a while ago on the Delta Green website and thought it would be a fun as a free teaser here. You like weird Delta Green variants? I SHALL GIVE THEM TO YOU.“Law enforcement officers and correctional officers of the Department of Justice may use deadly force only when necessary, that is, when the officer has a reasonable belief that the subject of such force poses an imminent ...
Delta Green: Playing an Analyst
In my home Delta Green campaign, I gave a longtime Agent the option to retire from the field. There’s no real retirement from Delta Green, of course. But her case officer, growing perhaps ill-advisedly sympathetic to her traumas over the years, pulled strings to have her transferred from operations to intelligence. She is now an analyst, which means she reviews possible unnatural incidents befor...
Delta Green: Agent Motivations
In Delta Green, Agent motivations are role-playing tools and a valuable resource. They give you ideas to shape your Agent's behavior and get into your Agent's head. And they let you regain Willpower Points when you start burning WP too quickly due to failure, exhaustion, and the overwhelming stress of Sanity loss and projection. But choosing motivations out of thin air can be daunting. Whe...
What Brought Your Agent to Delta Green?
I wrote this tool up as a lark a while back, and it proved popular enough that I added it to the Delta Green Briefing Documents download. I built the incursion possibilities to give players and Handlers hooks on which to hang details, gradually developing and exploring why an Agent faces the horrors of Delta Green. And it's not a bad scenario seed generator.Beyond the edges of reality are unna...
