So, now you need to decide. Do you close your eyes to what you've seen and go back to sleep? Or do you come with this psycho burnout and do the impossible against the unbelievable and keep the future at bay for another day? What's it going to be? In or out?Yeah? You dumb shit.>Thread Question:What was your cell's biggest fuckup or loss?>Previous thread:>>96688323>Unofficial Resources:https://delta-green.neocities.org
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Is this thing as good as people say?
>>96805498Oh nice, someone made a new thread. Meant to reply to the last one but had personal issues crop up before I could. As for the TQ, we haven't started yet, but my players are somehow under the expectation that Delta Green isn't an illegal conspiracy, so that will be one of the major revelations when I run Convergence.
>>96806292Eh. Starts strong, but you can see it start to fall off in real-time as it really starts to focus more and more on the author's political views that are as subtle as a brick to the face.
Where can I steal the Dead Channels playtest APs from?
>>96806556Look in the Media folder in TheGreenBox for a link to actual plays.
>>96806292Is it "True Detective" dark, or edgelord dark?
>>96806982Cheers lad.>>96806315>my players are somehow under the expectation that Delta Green isn't an illegal conspiracyIs that the game you want to play?Or are you doing some weird OOC adversarial GM gotcha?Or are they thinking in Program world and you want to run Outlaw country?I could see it being fun/funny to do the classical MICE recruitment by telling them they have Official Delta Green clearance to do something hideously illegal, and then using the evidence of that act to forcibly induct them into secret conspiracy DG.
>>96808470No, this is the 90s and they don't really know shit about the setting lol. Like, very new to this setting in general. I'm assuming they think that since they have someone higher up ordering them (from the one time I ran Last Things Last for them a while back to see if they liked the system in general) that must mean it's a legit organization that just has to stay secret from the rest of the world.So currently they are going to be doing the The Klickitat County Fire shotgun scenario as their first and intro into the conspiracy, then 3 more that I have yet to really decide before capping off the "Year 1" of their DG careers with Convergence. At that's where (depending on how they do) they'll get one of the Majestic-12 goons at the end kinda using it to taunt them that they are against an enemy that actually DOES have the gov backing them while they have precious little to use to fight them.
>>96808572Actually know that I think about it, I think I know exactly how the wires got crossed. My party started with the 40k TTRPGs, mainly Dark Heresy, (and our DM for that is actually a player in this campaign) so that could easily explain why the might have that idea in their heads. But only the old DM remembers any of the Lovecraft stories and he was explicit in his not wanting reread any of the Mythos cause he wants to go in and be surprised, so I should count myself lucky that I get a party like this.
>>96808572>>96808635That's a p cool scenario.I would be somewhat amazed if you can go 3-4 full ops before the players call the boss and ask for legit government backing, be it police or logistics or whatever - if you give them that government support and then rugpull them later, I'd be surprised if they weren't at least a little pissed.Were I in your shoes, that conversation is happening in-character with their Handler at the wrap up of the first scenario, or the first time they go running to him for help with something they can't handle, or perhaps when that help arrives and instead of a full SWAT ream it's two guys too old for this shit carrying chinese AKs.
>>96808716Funnily enough, the original intro scenario we were going to use was PX Poker Night, which I think would have made things a bit worse since the ending stuff kinda comes across as "this is official Gov business now". Planning on using the rules that one person did for Outlaws, just reflavoring it as Cowboys and they'll start off a bit mistrusted but the more their Cell does good-ish then A-Cell will be more helpful if things go south or they just need help in general. Either way, the second one is gonna be a retooled Last Things Last but with Metamorphosis as the actual monster encounter since I'm thinking of using Clyde to show someone who went off the deep end and his wife really is just a corpse in the septic tank. Still trying to think of 2 other good smaller scenarios to put between that and Convergeance, since that's the Op that'll bring the Majestic War to the fore and be a running theme through the further campaign.
>>96805885I want a bunker like Poe's
Had the idea to use "flashbacks" in order to run stuff like Jack Frost in the middle of my campaign or such. Have it be like that and end with the party having been reading or listening to an after report. Possibly even getting a reward based on how they did and what scenario. Could serve as a good way to tie into the setting history and all as well.
>>96806292Like the others have said, it's a mixed quality with Caleb's politics largely in the fore.
So are the later parts of Future/Perfect good or do they have some major issues that aren't quite readily apparent? Part 1 looks good, but haven't seen anyone talk about 2 and haven't gotten around to read them myself yet.
>>96817712I've only heard bad things about it after the first 2 parts. Apparently Detwiller is rewriting it for the Yith book they're putting out.
>>96817712I don't understand why people think part one is good, it's a display of all of Detwiler's worst traits as a scenario writer.
>>96818156Oh, so in like 5 years?
>>96821715More like 10, unless that guy they hired specifically to make sure they actually produce content does his job.
>>96820816I like it. The premise is great for a one or two shot game. A one-way gate that let a dinosaur murder people in the desert rules.
>>96806292Mixed feelings. Has a good start but for some reason does the same retarded 20 year skip that Impossible Landscapes also does. The concept for Bast and it's relationship with Nyarlathotep is good but there is a 99% chance your players will never figure it out. Caleb's seething at the orange man and ICE is just the tip of the iceberg.
>>96824594It's a cool idea, it's a dumb game session.>>96824713>20 year skipI hate that too - if you want to do that, you pretty much have to explain to to your players ahead of time, and then none of the before feels real, even though that should be the part(s) that inform the development of the character.Having said that, as someone able to just ignore the politics sperging, the scenarios are good and the campaign is decent.
>>96824844I don't like that the political sperging leaks into almost all the characters, to the point that a bunch of them don't just feel like strawmen that Caleb has been winging about, but are just massive stereotypes with not even the slightest depth.Also I'm wondering how Bast in DG will tie in with Dreamlands stuff like the Cats of Ulthar? Actually now that I think about it, has DG even done anything with the Dreamlands in a long while?
Do you use Delta Green for your own setting/homebrew or something more generic?
