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Iconoclasts: A Delta Green Briefing
Excerpted from Delta Green: Iconoclasts by Adam Scott Glancy. Coming soon.The date is 1 APR 2016, some 7 days after the event at the Rassam estate. The Agents are in a SCIF or secure meeting room at Panzer Kaserne, "Tank Barracks", a U.S. Marine Corps and special forces facility in southern Germany, originally built by the Nazis back in 1938 as "Ludendorff Barracks."The Agents have just finished watching a video that showed the fi...
Delta Green: The Office of Special Investigations (OSI)
Written by V.A. Kaufman with Shane Ivey. © 2021 The Delta Green Partnership.Established in 1948, the Office of Special Investigations is the primary criminal investigative organization of the Department of the Air Force. Its counterparts include the Army’s Criminal Investigation Command and the Naval Criminal Investigative Service. Formerly known as the Air Force Office of Special Investigations (or AFOSI), the organization dropped “Air Forc...
Samuel David Dee, Delta Green Case Officer
The Yellow Sign. The appalling artistry of K'n-Yan. The revenants of the Karotechia. The sorceries of the Fate. The killers and the scientific servitude of MAJESTIC. The sprawling Cult of Transcendence. Ghouls and Deep Ones. The regard of the world’s looming king. Sam Dee's life encompasses the horrors of Delta Green itself. If something so carefully scripted and constructed was truly a life at all.Some of those horrors have vanished fr...
Delta Green: Bonds and Home
I'm going to experiment with this revision in my DG games. Try it and let me know what happens. It is meant to remove the need to distinguish DG Bonds from non-DG Bonds. It intends to simplify a couple of facets of gaining new Bonds and resolving home pursuits. It encourages players to play out Bond drama in a little more detail during Home scenes. And it causes DG-related Bonds to deteriorate over time unless you take risky steps to maintain...
Delta Green Designer Notes: Disorders in the Agent's Handbook
We have sent the Agent's Handbook and the Handler's Guide to press for new printings. I took that as an opportunity for a task that's long overdue: improving the descriptions and rules for long-term mental disorders in Delta Green. These corrections have been made in the PDF edition at DriveThruRPG so update your Agent's Handbook now. Other changes are listed at a new, comprehensive Delta Green Errata page.STEP 1: COMMITMENTDisord...
Quiet Nights and Peaceful Days
Like most of us, I have been enjoying this recent period of peace* and tranquility** as that wonderful*** year we call 2020**** has moved into the new and shining hopes of 2021.*****I've been lax on updating Patreon lately for sheer lack of time.Wrestlenomicon has shipped to backers and is now available to everyone.We're putting the final touches on Delta Green: Impossible Landscapes and aim to release it in PDF next week and in hardback ...
Delta Green: Coalescent, a Flow Chart
This weekend I'll run a private Delta Green game for a few volunteers who GM'd tons of games for us in Gen Con Online this year. I've prepped a new scenario for them and I thought you might enjoy seeing it in in its rawest form, a single page of notes with events and possible discoveries.THIS IS CLASSIFIED MATERIAL. Do not look if you will be a player in my game.Everyone else can see it here from Dropbox in all its tumescent spoilerag...
"Sultan World": Arabic Magic in Dungeon World
I recently wrapped up an immensely satisfying campaign with a couple of friends set in a slightly fantastic version of medieval Cairo under the Mamluks. Initially the GM had in mind a Burning Wheel game expecting the other player and I would play soldiers or adventurers. But once the three of us began to talk we went in the entirely opposite direction. We played half-siblings in a family of converts that traded in exotic silks from some far, fant...
Swords & Sorceries: The Cold Elves from "Fane of the Frost Giant"
My sixth Swords & Sorceries adventure is "The Fane of the Frost Giant." It sees fifth-level 5E D&D adventurers far from the warmth of the Broken Empire, trapped by winter ice in the remote and fractious kingdom of Kiavalka. Characteristic sights indicate the land's nature: "Ritualistic reminders of the desperation of the living to keep death at bay: arcane symbols and the shapes of humanoids and animals, carved from wood and bone;...
Godlike: "Hell for Breakfast" Revisions
Late last year I posted "Hell for Breakfast," a scenario about a Talent team in the wrong part of Normandy the night before D-Day. I just wrapped up another run of "Hell for Breakfast" and found some useful improvements to make. You can find a new PDF version ("V5") at that post.SPOILER ALERT. If you expect to be a player, send this link to your GM and quit reading.The biggest set piece in "Hell for Breakfast" is b...
Help proofread BLACK SITES
We're prepping Delta Green: Black Sites for PDF release and to send it to the printer for hardcover. Some of its scenarios required a bit of nudging to make everything fit together right. I would love to get corrections if you catch any between now and Tuesday.By the way, this is a somewhat low-res export so some of the art may be a little fuzzy. And especially text that is part of art. No need to point those out.Thank you!
Introduction to "Delta Green: Black Sites"
Now in indexing and final review, Delta Green: Black Sites is due to be released in PDF in October and in hardback in February.Secrets hunger. They feed and grow. They corrupt. The burden of them makes their keepers alien and strange.Every secret is a temptation to profit from the power of its keeping. Sometimes the temptation is not profit but conscience. That very risk demands ever more secrecy. Secrets eat away at trust. They metastasize like ...
Swords & Sorceries: The Death Speaker Conclave for 5E Rangers
Among the oldest of our heroic tales is the story of Odysseus, the scheming Greek warrior of the Trojan war who spent years finding his way home under Poseidon's curse. Odysseus was a sailor who survived years on the sea despite the wrath of the sea god. He sailed out of mortal seas to the shores of Hades to make sacrifices and question the dead. He blinded and tricked Poseidon's son, Polyphemus the Cyclops. That mix of underworld inspira...
"Delta Green: Jack Frost" Bonus: The Maps
The area map that shows the submerged hill is for the Handler. The other is for players.
Delta Green: Inside the "Jack Frost" Revisions
Sometimes a scenario unfolds pretty much the way you want it to. You see it all in your head and you get it on paper (on the screen, anyway) and playtesting helps to smooth over the rough spots and reassure you, yes, this is good.And sometimes a scenario is a gigantic pain the ass.I wrote "Jack Frost" over 20 years ago and it sat on my hard drive ever since. I announced a revised edition, converted to the Delta Green RPG, as a reward in t...
"Lover in the Ice" for proofing help
Hi gang, I have put together a new edition of Caleb Stokes' Delta Green scenario "Lover in the Ice," complete with art by Dennis Detwiller that makes it even more distressing and disgusting. If you have time to read the text and send me a list of typos and other errors, I would love the help. The attached version includes pages 1–24. It does not include the covers or the handouts.The final version will be available soon. An updated ...
The Temple of Lost Prayers: A 4th-Level 5E Adventure
The Temple of Lost Prayers is the fifth adventure I wrote for the Swords & Sorceries line for 5E. The first three are available: The Sea Demon's Gold, The Song of the Sun Queens, and The Tomb of Fire. Finishing others in the line will probably need a Kickstarter fundraiser to cover the substantial costs of editing, art, and layout. Try this one for yourself in the meantime and tell me how it goes!INTRODUCTIONThe adventurers have come to Sindu...
Inside Operation BLUE FLY
My upcoming Delta Green scenario Jack Frost has players taking the roles of MAJESTIC researchers investigating a terrifying incursion in late 1998. With enough players, one or two could play pararescue operatives from Operation BLUE FLY, the rescue-and-recovery unit that secretly secures extraterrestrial artifacts. Here's what that looks like for the players. The first passage is reprinted from an earlier Patreon post about Jack Frost.ABOUT O...
The God-King's Curse: A 3rd-Level 5E Adventure
The God-King's Curse is the fourth adventure I wrote for the Swords & Sorceries line for 5E. The first three are available: The Sea Demon's Gold, The Song of the Sun Queens, and The Tomb of Fire. Finishing God-King and the others in the line will probably need a Kickstarter fundraiser to cover the substantial costs of editing, art, and layout. Try this one for yourself in the meantime and tell me how it goes!INTRODUCTIONZyirra, the City o...
Arc Dream Presents: Swords & Sorceries Actual Play: Hearts of Iron, Episode 4 – The Sea Demon’s Gold
Previously: Session ThreeIn The Sea Demon’s Gold, the adventurers journey through a deadly storm to the isle of the Sea Demon, where rumors say a forgotten temple holds riches. They find the island rising like a living thing from the sea, surrounded by and filled with dangers.Session Four is the finale of The Sea Demon's Gold. The adventurers reach the haunted heart of the island and face curses and deadly dangers.This 5E campaign brings to...
The Labyrinth's arrival and a Gunslinger preview
Hi gang! I've been head-down for a while now on projects. Our best news at Arc Dream is the arrival of advance copies of Delta Green: The Labyrinth. The full print run is wending its way to victims' homes, due in July.And see a preview of Delta Green: God's Teeth at today's Kickstarter update.I've also been working here and there on Jack Frost, which is close to completion. I have a new collection of Dennis Detwiller's mic...
5E Game Opening TONIGHT
I know this is crazy short notice but we have a seat available in our Hearts of Iron campaign tonight. (We have three players definitely and a fourth maybe.)WHOI'm the DM. The other players are Mark Finn of the Monty Haul zine, Chris Spivey of Darker Hue Studios, and Aser and Megan Tolentino of The Redacted Files podcast.WHATThe Song of the Sun Queens, a 2nd-level Swords & Sorceries adventure for D&D 5th Edition. I'm looking for a player ...
Arc Dream Presents: Swords & Sorceries Actual Play: Hearts of Iron, Episode 3 – The Sea Demon’s Gold
Previously: Session TwoIn The Sea Demon’s Gold, the adventurers journey through a deadly storm to the isle of the Sea Demon, where rumors say a forgotten temple holds riches. They find the island rising like a living thing from the sea, surrounded by and filled with dangers.In Session Three, they venture deeper into the caverns of the Temple of the Sea Demon and confront curses and monstrosities.This 5E campaign brings together Shane Ivey from ...
Jack Frost: MAJESTIC From the Inside
I first published Delta Green: Jack Frost in Pyramid Online in the last two weeks of 1999. Republishing it as a stretch goal from the big Delta Green Kickstarter means a lot more work than just slapping new art on the old text. For one thing, I'm a better writer and scenario designer than I was 20 years ago. The whole scenario needed restructuring and in many parts a completely new vision.A large part of that rework has been dropping the orig...
Swords & Sorceries: Hearts of Iron, Episode 2 - The Sea Demon's Gold
Previously: Session OneIn The Sea Demon's Gold, the adventurers journey through a deadly storm to the isle of the Sea Demon, where rumors say a forgotten temple holds riches. They find the island rising like a living thing from the sea, surrounded by and filled with dangers.In Session Two, they press on past the first danger and find threats far more lethal.This 5E campaign brings together Shane Ivey from Arc Dream Publishing, Mark Finn from ...
Swords & Sorceries: Hearts of Iron, Episode 1 - The Sea Demon's Gold
Previously: Session ZeroThis 5E campaign brings together Shane Ivey from Arc Dream Publishing, Mark Finn from the Monty Haul zine, Chris Spivey from Darker Hue Studios, and Aser and Megan Tolentino from The Redacted Files.Shane, the Dungeon Master, introduces the Heart of Iron, a trading ship from the crumbling, devil-haunted city-state of Zyirra. Among its crew are four adventurers: Baldo Vandalerius (Mark), Zyirran human rogue with a heart of g...
Ill-Advised Combat Options in Delta Green
Combat in Delta Green is almost always a bad idea. The Delta Green rules are built to make violence ugly, fast, and dangerous. Players have a much stronger chance of survival if they gather information and plan carefully before the guns come out. But this is a tabletop RPG. Players are notorious for shooting first and planning later.Here are some tweaks and clarifications that have come up in my games.HOW MANY BULLETS?The number of shots fired in...
Swords & Sorceries: The Love Domain for 5E Clerics
Open a grimoire from any point in history and you'll find a love spell, imploring the gods and goddesses of the heart for favor. One of the oldest known deities of history was Inanna of the Sumerians, who became mighty Ishtar of the Akkadians, goddess of sex, war, justice, and rulership. Ishtar was worshipped among the Phoenecians and the Levantines as Astoreth and Astarte. Aspects of her drifted to Egypt and the cult of Isis, to Greece's...
Arc Dream Presents: Swords and Sorceries Actual Play: The Heart of Iron, Session Zero
Listen to the audio edition in the Arc Dream Presents podcast.This is “Session Zero” for a new 5E campaign that brings together Shane Ivey from Arc Dream Publishing, Mark Finn from the Monty Haul zine, Chris Spivey from Darker Hue Studios, and Aser and Megan Tolentino from The Redacted Files.Shane, the Dungeon Master, introduces the Broken Empire setting for the campaign, introduces the Roll20 interface and gives a quick tutorial to help unfa...
Early Access Video: A Look Ahead to 2020 for Delta Green, Wrestlenomicon, Swords & Sorceries, and More
It’s a new year and time to look ahead to all the great Arc Dream Publishing projects that will be coming out this year and next. Rachel K. Ivey talks to Dennis Detwiller and Shane Ivey about the status and estimated arrival dates of the many Delta Green projects in the works: The Labyrinth (in PDF now), Impossible Landscapes, Hourglass, Jack Frost, Iconoclasts, ARCHINT, Black Sites, The Way It Went Down Vol. 2, Impossible Landscapes, Deep Stat...
