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WE DIDN'T GREEN THE DELTA

Anonymous Sun 25 Oct 2015 07:59:44 No.43273133 View Reply Report Delete

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IT WAS ALWAYS BURNING
SINCE THE WORLD'S BEEN TURNING

>Quickstart kit (incl. adventure)
https://www.dropbox.com/s/uen96o0fj9ytswm/Delta%20Green%20RPG%20Quickstart%20Kit.zip?dl=0

>New game rules official beta
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1OogZHpifybUFvdSi9lCpttF50hkiRPGw3J-Efiax-YQ/edit?usp=sharing

>Podcast
http://theunspeakableoath.com/home/category/unspeakable/

>Shotgun scenarios
http://fairfieldproject.wikidot.com/shotgun-scenarios

>KS ends Oct. 29th
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/arcdream/delta-green-the-role-playing-game/

>Fiction (audio)

http://theunspeakableoath.com/home/2014/10/unspeakable-episode-14-the-thing-in-the-pit-a-story-by-dennis-detwiller/

http://theunspeakableoath.com/home/2014/10/unspeakable-episode-15-drowning-in-sand-a-story-by-dennis-detwiller/

http://theunspeakableoath.com/home/2014/11/unspeakable-episode-16-intelligences-a-story-by-dennis-detwiller/

http://theunspeakableoath.com/home/2014/12/unspeakable-episode-17-philosophy-a-story-by-dennis-detwiller/

http://theunspeakableoath.com/home/2014/12/unspeakable-episode-18-punching-a-story-by-dennis-detwiller/

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Anonymous Thu 29 Oct 2015 22:18:42 No.43361475 Report Delete

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>>43361438
"We fucked up and offered this too cheap. Please consider changing to the pledge level we intended. But if you don't we'll still honor the incorrect level."

How is this a scam?

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 29 Oct 2015 22:18:58 No.43361480 Report Delete

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>>43360181
>>43360790
>>43361342
>>43361438
Didn't everyone try to tell you idiots not to give money to kickstarter? This is possibly the fastest I've ever seen anyone get fucked. You got fucked the instant the kickstarter ended! That's like a crazy new record.

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Anonymous Thu 29 Oct 2015 22:20:49 No.43361520 Report Delete

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Anonymous Thu 29 Oct 2015 22:29:39 No.43361687 Report Delete

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>>43361475
It isn't. That's just Virt being a cuck faggot.

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 29 Oct 2015 22:33:02 No.43361757 Report Delete

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>>43361520
>>43361687
Hey shitposter, took you long enough. What's the matter, have you been banned?

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 29 Oct 2015 22:38:58 No.43361846 Report Delete

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Haha wow I wasn't say that the KS was a scam, just that if a lot of ppl took advantage of the $1 + $220 exploit it may affect the final quality of the product.

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 29 Oct 2015 22:41:34 No.43361892 Report Delete

Quoted By: >>43361947 >>43361949

>>43361846
Pledge $1 or more
118 backers

(300-221)*118=$9322

Not exactly going to destroy them. And that's a WORST CASE SCENARIO where every single person who pledged $1 did it.

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 29 Oct 2015 22:44:42 No.43361947 Report Delete

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>>43361892
Assuming there will be 5 people working on the project for a year (it will probably be more and longer) they would have to take a weekly cut of $36. Less pizza will be good for them.

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 29 Oct 2015 22:45:06 No.43361949 Report Delete

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>>43361892
Yeah makes sense. All is well then.

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 29 Oct 2015 23:55:22 No.43362976 Report Delete

Quoted By: >>43363317

Ok so I've got a party of five on board for an M-EPIC campaign. Thinking 3 as investigators types (1 or 2 RCMP types, and an academic). And two former military who get called in once things get rough. What's the preference with starting in the organization vs joining it. Or having one character already in, or having a shadowy helper npc show up to guide them?

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 30 Oct 2015 00:16:17 No.43363317 Report Delete

Quoted By: >>43364902

>>43362976
I prefer just making all my PCs agents. But then I mostly run one shots or loosely connected "campaigns" which are just a series of one shots with characters that lucked out and didn't die last time.

But if you want to do an intro scenario of their first mission: select one of your players to be a full Agent (either randomly or whichever is the most familiar with DG and CoC). The rest are friendlies.

Either before the session proper or first thing give the Agent PC an info dump (in chracter if you like) and have him call in a team of friendlies and brief them.

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Anonymous Fri 30 Oct 2015 02:06:44 No.43364902 Report Delete

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>>43363317
Thanks! That seems like a good way to ease everyone in

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Anonymous Fri 30 Oct 2015 06:04:09 No.43367508 Report Delete

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Anonymous Fri 30 Oct 2015 06:08:57 No.43367538 Report Delete

Quoted By: >>43367582

>>43357154
You know that Ken Hite, the guy who wrote Trail, really likes Call too, right?

I know that's not how some of the early marketing came across, but it's its own game, not a "fix". Both have merits depending on the style you run.

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Anonymous Fri 30 Oct 2015 06:10:10 No.43367551 Report Delete

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Anonymous Fri 30 Oct 2015 06:15:47 No.43367582 Report Delete

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>>43367538
>Have friends who love console shooters? This is the tabletop RPG for them!
Yes, they seem to have made those more accurate.

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 30 Oct 2015 06:32:53 No.43367740 Report Delete

Quoted By: >>43368362

>>43367582
>>>/v/

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 30 Oct 2015 07:34:38 No.43368193 Report Delete

Quoted By: >>43368308

I have no idea how pledging works. There'll be another survey getting sent out later, right? I just wanted the Case Officer's Handbook in hardback. So I put down a $50 pledge, and bumped it up to $70- that's what I had to do, right?

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 30 Oct 2015 07:34:44 No.43368195 Report Delete

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>>43367551
>Skip Mills?

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Anonymous Fri 30 Oct 2015 07:49:18 No.43368308 Report Delete

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>>43368193
Yes, you're good.
You can go on Backerkit and confirm. But I don't think you have to. They might survey by mail, so make sure to answer that.

If the release schedule holds you can download the Agent's Handbook PDF in March and will receive the Case Officer's Handbook in the mail around July.

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 30 Oct 2015 07:58:12 No.43368362 Report Delete

Quoted By: >>43370355

>>43367740
It's a quote from Pelgrane's page, you ditz.

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 30 Oct 2015 07:58:55 No.43368370 Report Delete

Quoted By: >>43368400

Anyone have a recommendation for a shotgun scenario? I like how "I Hate My Job" sounds, but I'm unsure how it'll play out.

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Anonymous Fri 30 Oct 2015 08:02:27 No.43368400 Report Delete

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>>43368370
http://fairfieldproject.wikidot.com/i-hate-my-job

I like that one as well. t invokes the right preconceptions and then breaks them in a great way.

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 30 Oct 2015 08:51:48 No.43368740 Report Delete

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thank you /tg/ I did not know about this and managed to get a book a few mins before Kickstarter closed

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 30 Oct 2015 08:56:24 No.43368769 Report Delete

Quoted By: >>43369421

I really hope we get a more regular DG thing going now. These threads were fun.

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 30 Oct 2015 10:10:15 No.43369421 Report Delete

Quoted By: >>43369492

>>43368769
We might as well have started calling it Delta Green General like three threads ago

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Anonymous Fri 30 Oct 2015 10:17:42 No.43369492 Report Delete

Quoted By: >>43369546

>>43369421
Hm. I don't like that label. It's where threads go to become pointless repetitions.

Threads develop better when they have a concrete question in the OP concerning a real game. Sure, it functions as a /DGg/, put the links in the OP and all. But that label just invites apathy.

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 30 Oct 2015 10:22:18 No.43369546 Report Delete

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>>43369492
So do what a lot of generals do, and ask a question in the OP. Honestly, I'd rather a general over random question threads any day of the week, I like just shooting the shit about a system with people interested in it.

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Anonymous Fri 30 Oct 2015 10:37:42 No.43369705 Report Delete

Quoted By: >>43369763 >>43369794

Can I be this guy?

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 30 Oct 2015 10:43:05 No.43369763 Report Delete

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>>43369705
You can be whoever you want, Anon. Delta Green agents aren't always Feds, or military personnel, or even employed, really.

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Anonymous Fri 30 Oct 2015 10:45:54 No.43369794 Report Delete

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>>43369705
DG doesn't do 'one of them, one of us'
DG does three of us.

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Anonymous Fri 30 Oct 2015 10:48:52 No.43369831 Report Delete

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>>43369794

You know you could easily tweak Last Things Last so the undying abomination in the septic tank is his cheerleader daughter instead of his wife...

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 30 Oct 2015 10:49:20 No.43369838 Report Delete

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>>43369763

The Best Delta Green assets are unemployed army veterans who they keep around to throw at problems that are too much for normal people to handle.

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Anonymous Fri 30 Oct 2015 10:52:36 No.43369874 Report Delete

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>>43369831

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Anonymous Fri 30 Oct 2015 11:40:32 No.43370355 Report Delete

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>>43368362

Huh, so it is. I suppose they're referring to NBA's tacticool gunwanking techno-thriller stuff, rather than it being a console shooter of an rpg.

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 30 Oct 2015 13:21:45 No.43371811 Report Delete

Quoted By: >>43372042 >>43372462 >>43374070

Question: if I did the $150 hardback agent's handbook and "every" PDF, does that mean I get a pdf of the stretch goal books like PISCES or Falling Towers? Shit's confusing as fuck with how they worded everything.

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 30 Oct 2015 13:39:20 No.43372042 Report Delete

Quoted By: >>43374270

>>43371811
Yep, you get all the PDFs with that one.

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 30 Oct 2015 14:08:20 No.43372462 Report Delete

Quoted By: >>43373855 >>43374070

>>43371811
Bad wording makes it easier to get people to pledge thinking they'll get something that they don't actually get. Pretty standard for kickstarter con artists.

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Anonymous Fri 30 Oct 2015 15:39:37 No.43373855 Report Delete

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>>43372462
Fuck off you cunt.

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 30 Oct 2015 15:51:09 No.43374070 Report Delete

Quoted By: >>43374270

>>43371811
AGENT'S HARDBACK AND EVERY PDF: The Agent's Handbook in full-color hardback, its PDF, and all the books and downloads funded by this project in PDF, delivered as they are available.

>>43372462
It's worded perfectly clear to me. Pledge this level and you get every PDF funded by the project.

The only part that could be confusing is Fall of Delta Green because Pelgrane wasn't going to let them do the PDF unpaired with a hardcopy at first. By the time Pelgrane changed their minds the KS had already started and pledge descriptions can't be edited.

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 30 Oct 2015 16:03:39 No.43374270 Report Delete

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>>43372042
>>43374070
Thanks. It was my first KS so I wasn't sure how the stretch goals applied.

Anyone have suggestions on shit I should brush up on if I was running a game? Been playing other systems for a couple years, and this is the first time I've been excited enough to want to run a game.

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Anonymous Fri 30 Oct 2015 16:07:31 No.43374341 Report Delete

Quoted By: >>43374591

>>43297610
You could always run it as a lighthearted game of Top Green.

>Tonight! James joins a cult! Richard reads some books! And the stars are right in our reasonably-priced car!

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 30 Oct 2015 16:20:25 No.43374591 Report Delete

Quoted By: >>43376536

>>43374341
We could totally put them into an adventure.

Like what if they went to South America and someone happened to work some numbers magic on their license plates. Now they travel around through the wilderness to Patagonia, all the while laying massive psychic conduits with their 3 hero cars. When they arrive at the cape, local warlocks are enraged about the intrusion and mobilize the populace.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KMiUUkmV5cA

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Anonymous Fri 30 Oct 2015 18:04:57 No.43376536 Report Delete

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>>43374591
It must have been a way for PISCES to connect their R'lyeh listening post. Only why would a listening post need such a strong connection? Maybe the Argentinians had good reason to want those vehicles gone?

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 30 Oct 2015 18:48:24 No.43377418 Report Delete

Quoted By: >>43377439 >>43378032 >>43378052 >>43379224

So, since I'm a talentless hack who can only steal other people's ideas, and have a habit for coming up with campaigns I'll never run, because the Kickstarter got me on a Delta Green kick, I had the beginnings of an idea that listening to the RPPR lot playing Iconoclasts helped me formalise. So, I want to type it up and see if there's any obvious holes I've missed.

The idea is to take the format of the Final Revalation, which is a series of interlinked adventures for Trail, which are grim, "purist" affairs where there's even less hope than in Cthulhu normally and the player characters are inevitably doomed. The connecting thread is a group of people called the Friday Group who meet every Friday to read up on an incident, which are the materials for the iindividual scenarios, with a plan to find out what's happening and stave off the apocalypse. The "Final Revalation" in question is that the apocalypse has already happened and they're stuck in the degrading afterimage as reality slowly fades into Yog-sothoth.

So, the setup for Delta Green would work for either the Program or the Group. The idea is that the player characters are a group brought together to investigate records/contents of Green Boxes, to determine whether the Group/Program should allocate resources to deal with them. If it's the Program, it's as part of the effort to collate together Green Box network, and the work probably takes place in some secure facility somewhere. If it's the Group, it's probably just a desparate effort to keep some secrets out of the hands of the Program and probably takes place in a stinking shack in the middle of nowhere.

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Anonymous Fri 30 Oct 2015 18:49:37 No.43377439 Report Delete

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>>43377418

So the Cell gets a call whenever there's some new intelligence to be gone over. They appear, get handed a box full of maps, dossiers, artifacts, photographs, whatever, and then go into the room to investigate it. Then we play out that scenario (with appropriate one-shot characters) and then play goes back to that office and the agents have to decide what they'll tell their bosses and what they recommend be done.

My thoughts are to have the scenarios connected by the Cult of Transcendence, which strikes me as a good way to build up paranoia as the players realise that the stuff they found out about in one session was linked to the cult they found in a later one ("So that's who those corporate suits were working for! I wondered what they were doing out on the Somalian pirate coast!"). And the CoT's objective of degrading humanity to the point where they can transcend their humanity and become part of Azathoth's court explains reality slowly breaking down around the agents.

One thing I'm still not sure about is how to play out the aftermath of their recommendations. If they recommend DG go out and try to solve whatever problem they just dealt with, should we then play out the resulting operation? Or have it kept vague and unclear as to what happened? Maybe it's just the final operation they get sent out on themselves, when it all comes down to raiding the mansion in Sweden.

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Anonymous Fri 30 Oct 2015 18:53:53 No.43377533 Report Delete

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>>43377439
I think it's a great structure well deserving its own thread. Why don't you take four posts' time to formulate a catchy OP and drop us a link when this one autosages?

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Anonymous Fri 30 Oct 2015 19:23:00 No.43378032 Report Delete

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>>43377418
>>43377439
I honestly think this would work really well. And as for the aftermaths, vary it up. Some of them you play out but the rest should be vague. Anything they don't personally do shouldn't be confirmed.

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Anonymous Fri 30 Oct 2015 19:24:14 No.43378052 Report Delete

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>>43377418
How long will this be? How many flashback episodes are you planning for?

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Anonymous Fri 30 Oct 2015 20:35:52 No.43379224 Report Delete

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>>43377533
>>43377439
>>43377418
So should I make a new thread, or will you?

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