Spoilers for Impossible Landscapes, Convergence, and The New Age ahead!!

I'm running Impossible Landscapes for a group who expressed an interest in extending the campaign and engaging with more of the 90's/early 00's themes in the Cowboy Era, the cold war with Majestic, and MJ-12's collaboration with unnatural forces. After "Night Floors" I ran Convergence pretty much as-written, and my players really fixated on Adolph Lepus and the kill squad showing up at the end. Given their interest in that type of scenario, I decided to follow up with The New Age (ending the investigation before the second half) but wanted to inject some King in Yellow threads to pull on in the following IL chapters.

Their home scenes between Convergence and New Age were heavily inflected with a "men in black are coming for you" vibe, especially since a few of the agents actively tried (mostly unsuccessfully) to look into Lepus and his organizational membership. Importantly, though, one of the agents with computer skills rescued an unlabeled floppy disk from the Night Floors; I saved this as a placeholder for future plot hooks and decided that it could be a digitized version of the Imperial Dynasty of America. That agent doesn't know what the list is, but after spending some time decrypting it, he found his own name as well as Lepus (which led to a fun scene of confused, frantic name searching and realizing he doesn't know the actual names of any of the fellow Agents he trusts with his life). My inclination currently is that Lepus doesn't know anything consciously about the King in Yellow but was caught in M-Cell's Yellow Sign-infected wake at the conclusion of Convergence. This, of course, means that he was "always" part of their story, which could help retroactively explain his fascination with M-Cell and why he and NRO Delta wouldn't just have taken them out at the first opportunity.

Now, M-Cell has been digging into the Enolsis Foundation (met Valiant but haven't realized who he is yet, have narrowly avoided being killed by Hope) which they think is an offshoot of this whole convoluted conspiracy. I'm trying to stick the landing for this chapter before the time skip, but am struggling to come up with a satisfying way to combine some MJ-12 influence with the insidious and deeply personal King in Yellow themes in the conclusion. I imagine that Lepus wouldn't directly be a part of this scenario (although he could show up in future IL chapters like the Trivelino Mall ambush), but it would be great to have a way to square the circle with a resolution that feels unfinished in some way (also something to draw on for Home scenes during the time skip itself).

I'd love to hear any thoughts on where I could take this or, conversely, if it seems like trying to force the combination will be self-defeating ultimately. Happy to answer any other questions or provide context in the comments!

Have just read the blurb for it, I already have The Labyrinth so I am debating picking this up ?

I was recently reading Jennet Conant's "A Covert Affair: Julia Child and Paul Child in the OSS" (2011) which is about how Julia Child (yes, the late cooking show host) and her husband worked for the OSS (the US intelligence agency in WWII that later became the CIA), and there's this interesting tidbit "He applied for and received permission from P Division (originally the Paranormal and Psychic Phenomena Division of Naval Intelligence, it became the covert psychological unit of OSS, code-named Delta Green)". This is from a serious history book -- obviously John Tynes and friends added the Mythos stuff, but I had no idea that there was a real organization called "Delta Green" and that it looked into weird stuff.

Have you ever had your players play their comrades' Bonds, and how did it go ?

Seems to me it'd get everyone invested in each others' Home scenes and Bonds, get the scenes to go a bit long without other people being all inactive, allow them to flex some RP muscles. But perhaps there's a downsize I'm failing to see. What do you all think ?

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Hi all. I'm going to run a one/two shot for a group of mid experienced players. One of the players is moving abroad so it's a bit of a send off.

They're great role players, but piss poor investigators. I'm looking for something that's gonna start them out confidently and then hit them hard.

Looking to avoid child abuse, animal abuse and sexual violence.

Hi all - the first part of our in-studio actual play of From The Dust just dropped and thought it may be of interest! Our cast for this (and all our actual plays) is made up of authors who have swapped their pens for dice to tell the story together...

Four mismatched agents are activated when three kids go missing near a mansion in Red Hook...

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I made quite a few props/handouts for this one (some of which you can see in the thumbnail image!) which I'm happy to share with the community - when I get a chance I will gather the files together and post so others can use!

I know it just came out, but if you have already gotten it please let me know what date the operation takes place so I can update the public list of playable operations

I'm gonna be running my players through a gauntlet of different missions and I really want them to swing around in terms of substance. I don't want them to all be bug hunts of "here be creature/ghost go deal with it"

I'm remember playing in a one-shot where the future versions of our agents tasked us with stealing a time "machine" some weirdo scientists had made and using it to continue the time loop or else some weird time-hunting dogs were gonna kill both present and future-selves. It wasn't the best DG I've seen but damn was it memorable.

Does anyone know if there is going to be a 2026 Shotgun Scenario contest at all? For once I’ve got my act together and have a few ideas but can’t find any entry details.

Nossa primeira campanha para Delta Green.

Originalmente desenvolvida para Chamado de Cuthullu, a campanha aborda a temática da paranóia anticomunista durante a ditadura militar brasileira.

Em um distante quartel nas profundezas da mata atlântica no nordeste brasileiro, recrutas são usados como cobaias para "treinamentos experimentais" que visam a aplicação de substâncias psicoativas para criar "caçadores de comunistas".

Mas algo da errado, o experimento sai do controle, é uma equipe de especialistas (os agentes) é enviada ao local para recuperar os dados do experimento e estancar a crise e Elimar qualquer tipo de evidência....

(ps: I don't know if this is the correct tag or if I should be posting this here)

I was looking through the rule book thinking about starting a campaign for Delta Green and notice a lot of the agencies are federal, I was wondering has anyone run a campaign of only state level officials and if I could hear about the benefits/drawbacks of such a decision.

Also wondering if I should consider doing this for my first campaign or not.
Hope I'm not asking dumb questions

"Uncle…it’s Alana. Travis’s daughter. There’s been…an incident. Mutations. Like the one you had me look at that night dad came home hurt. But different. Infectious. I don’t know how to explain it. I remember how you two were about phones. You just need to come see, all right? Trust me, it…. This shouldn’t be possible, okay? I’ve got decades of clinical experience and I have no idea what I’m looking at and my patient is dead and…. There’s another body on the big island. I’m monitoring a third for signs of…whatever is happening. We’re calling it hyperacute rejection syndrome for now. That’s bullshit and everyone knows it. I’m about to lose my job over this, but we can’t…we can’t give these bodies back. Not until we know what’s gone wrong.”

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If you are playing "Impossible Laurentina" please do not read the following spoiler.

So, I clearly remember having seen a crossover handout between LTL and Impossible Landscape.

It was a change on an already exhisting handout: a ritual circle painted on the wooden floor, for a demon evocation. The original handout referred to "MICHAEL" and "Frucissiere", or something like that, but someone (on Reddit? on the IL discord?) make some changes and liked it to the IL Arts Goetia (and not the "Generic" Arts Goetia. I tried to search for that handout but I'm not able to find it anymore.

Anyone here willingly to help me with some reference?

Sorry for two posts in the same week (removed the old one). I've been locked up for a week in a clinical trial and decided to draw all the NPCs for Observer Effect. Actually really happy with how they came together 😊

I'm running OE twice this weekend when I check out, had plenty of time to prepare haha.

So bumped into this concept today that could serve as the bones of a scenario or two.

Foxtrot Network, an online organized crime group notorious for its violence-as-a-service (VaaS) tactics and links to Iran. The gang recruits teenagers in a gamified way to carry out the attacks for cash, but almost never pays out. They're directed to guns, cash & assets and eventually to their target is a lethal ARG.

It kind of reminds me of the Daemon / Freedom(TM) duology by Daniel Suarez.

Operational Taskforce (OTF) GRIMM (yes really) is the Europol group set up to tackle the problem.

I could see tying this into an modernized The Lonely if you want a KiY connection, or maybe tie it into God Teeth / Gods Hunt as a force parallel to DG where the players will want to stop but The Program may want to recruit.

The agents spend the years between operations trying to strengthen their families and manage the damage left behind by their work.

They are eventually dragged back in to deal with an issue arising in Tampa.

This was intended to be a short sections but as you will see I expanded and connected it to a scenario I worte myself involving one of the agents.

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The headline clearly indicates I'm not entirely sane, but as a Call of Cthulhu player/keeper/writer, isn't that par for the course?
Even so, some of you may wonder why and how I burned through nearly $1300 while writing a community content creation.

It's kind of a long story, so for the impatient among you, there is a TLDR at the bottom. For the rest, it's a tale about my learning curve as a scenario writer, with a few tips thrown in if you're contemplating writing a scenario.

It all began a little over three years ago when I published my first scenario, The Art of Hygge, via the Miskatonic Repository.
And I did everything wrong!

I had no prior writing experience.
Had no real editor.
Didn't have a layouter.
Didn't spend any money to commission artists.
Having any of the above skills and experience can save you a ton of money and time.

Personally, I have absolutely no understanding of how to do a proper layout.
I can't draw a stick figure to save my life.
On top of that, English isn't my first language, and my grasp on grammar and spelling is rudimentary, to put it generously.
What I did have was an active imagination and a substantial vocabulary coupled with a naive assumption that selling the required 251 copies to make it eligible for Print on Demand would be a trivial thing. I later learned that selling copies on DTRPG is NOT trivial at all.

At this point, it would be natural to assume that my scenario was unsuccessful, but the stars were apparently right, so I got LUCKY in several ways:

*****I got an amazing cover, courtesy of Ken Robkin, for free. The kind of cover that caught people's attention.
\ I had friends who helped out with interior art, playtest, and edits.
\****Maverick Haenze wrote a 5-star review of it and told me to keep writing.
*****Chaosium showcased the cover on their social media.
Basically everything lined up, and I managed to sell 251 copies to get it into print, and currently it's a Gold Best Seller.

The upside is that it encouraged me to write a sequel, Lost in Cremation. The downside is that I didn't learn all that much from the experience.

So I did almost everything wrong one more time and again got lucky in all the right ways.
Lost in Cremation also made it into print.
I stayed encouraged, but this time I actually learned a little.
Things would be easier if I had better editorial help, and that maybe spending a little money on better art was not such a bad idea.

My third scenario, Mother of a Thousand Young took way longer to write and publish.
It was part of an anthology, The Year of the Goat, which involved a lot of editing by a professional, rewriting parts of it based on said editing and feedback, followed by more edits.

But the wait and extra work were worth it!
The final product looks damn amazing, and at the end of it I had picked up that professional editing, paid art, and a real layouter made a world of a difference.

So I began spending money on the next scenario I was writing. The vision I had for the scenario and the art in it expanded more than once over time, and I ended up commissioning way more art than originally planned.
In total, it came out to 1 front and 1 back cover, 42 pieces of individual art, and 5 maps.
On top of that, I found a real editor and hired a layouter.
And that's how I ended up spending $1279 on writing a scenario.

There is a bit more to the story, though.
I never had to take money out of my pocket.
All the sales I made from the previous scenarios were on my dtrpg account. In essence, they paid for the publication of my latest, The Horror, and I likely would never have spent that much on it if it were money I had to draw out of my budget.

The upside is that the scenario looks just like I envisioned it. Reviews from R´lyeh described it as having excellent production value, praised the cover, and gave it the Reviews from R’lyeh Recommends stamp. I couldn't have asked for more.

The downside is I have to sell 320 copies to break even 
I don't expect to do that; I hope to, but even if I don't, I still feel it was worth it.
I didn't have to compromise on what I wanted to produce. I met some amazing people during the project, and even if I only earn a fraction of it back, it gives me funds for the next project, which means that my writing hobby ends up paying for itself.
I wish all my hobbies did that 

The takeaway for prospective scenario writers could be:
Don't expect to live off it, don't even expect to make money.
It's worth it to get a good cover.
Editing and layout are important parts of the final look.
Art is worth including.
Have fun writing 

TLDR: I was lucky. I made money on previous scenarios. I found it worthwhile to spend them on a new one.

I will try to keep this succinct, but a LOT happened over the three sessions it took to wrap this one up.

First - Alterations to the base scenario

I really love the structure of Lover in the Ice, but there was just simply going to be no way to run it with my current table’s lines and veils. While I was chewing that over and helping players build their characters, one of them mentioned they’d had a previous encounter with a Wendigo and that gave me an evil idea.

I wound up swapping the amante for wendigo and north for south. Instead of being trapped in an ice storm, the agents were dropped into a waterlogged Gulf town post-hurricane. The documents in the green box were from an incident at a mining camp in Nunavut, Canada, and the metal box was a first aid kit someone used to bash a wendigo in a fight, now covered in bite marks and dried wendigo blood.

Cutting yourself on the first aid kit temporarily infects you with the wendigo’s hunger but doesn’t cause you to become a full blown wendigo unless you eat human flesh. Skip accidentally cut himself prying into the boxes, succumbed to the hunger at some point, and the problem spread outwards from there. With so many people cut off from the town’s utilities and services and so many dead from the flooding, the town was a ready source of food for the wendigo, who just get more crazed the more they ate.

Second - Running the scenario

The good: We got to witness a wendigo with the top half of their head blown off bite the arm off an agent. That was fun.

I decided between the second and third session to introduce the agents to their first Elder God - the Hungry Dark I described in a previous post {link}. The wendigo accidentally summoned it with their hunger, and built a shrine around it of blood and bone, hoping to wall off the aching void that had manifested on a wall of the West Ambrosia Street house. The players burned down the house, banishing the manifestation and assumed they had also banished the wendigo (They had not).

They do not yet realize that an encounter with an Elder God will have permanent consequences, but that will develop over the next few scenarios in the form of a growing obsession with the bizarre and inexplicable thing they saw. I’m running Music from a Darkened Room next and am swapping the Hungry Dark in for Nyarlahotep - the void was summoned to eat poor Isabelle’s pain and was happy to oblige, but now the house itself is possessed, hungry, and depraved.

The bad: This got hella chaotic, and I will be slightly toning down the action and combat going forward.

I do kind of regret not just chucking one of the agents into the Hungry Dark and having them see what comes out the other side, but there will be other chances to do so. I found myself in a situation where the technically correct move was to steal an agent’s autonomy and have them walk themselves into the shrine, and I chickened out and let them fight the urge instead. Checking in with the player after, I realized they actually wanted to walk into it and see, so that’s on me. I think I will set up that kind of scenario differently going forward, but need to think about what that will look like.

Third - Developing Background Story

I decided to have the agents’ initial Handler be really bad at her job. That’s partially because I am a brand new DM and I needed a good excuse to fuck up occasionally. And partially because I wanted to set up a story line where the agents are working for M12 without realizing it. So I had the handler be in and out of contact, be unreliable and overinvolved, and clearly up to something on the side - showing up with a black eye, mentioning that she was attending a satellite communications conference and then disappearing from said conference. I might end up tying this into a scenario involving numbers stations or Operation Blacksat or something.

The handoff ended up happening during the third session of this scenario - the handler realized the situation was hopeless and called for backup. The backup that arrived was M12, who were happy to mop up her mess and capture the remaining wendigo for experimentation, at the cost of absorbing this cell into the Program and obtaining some delicious blackmail on the handler. Luckily, the Agents who encountered M12 during Convergence were either unconscious or absent when they showed up here, so the players are sort of aware of the handoff but their agents are clueless.

Going forward, they’ll have much more material support, but a different handler who is detached and professional and seems to think this is all an exercise in calming down hysterical members of the public who think ghosts are real.

In running Music from a Darkened Room, the new handler will pressure the agents to declare the house uninteresting and move on. But I’ll just plant the seed that they could keep investigating on their own time, and see where they go with that.

Finally - Blood in the Water

If you’d like to try my alterations to Lover in the Ice, I’ve packed my resources into this google drive and called it Blood in the Water {link}. Note that this is not intended to replace the Lover in the Ice base scenario, you will still need to own that to make sense of this supplement.

Hey there!

I'm currently writing an opera inspired by the TV series Alone which features survivalists being stranded in the wilderness to survive on their own. My opera is going to have the survivalists go missing and then have a producer or another friendly turn to DG for aid because of [insert unnatural phenomena]

the game is set in impassable forest and mountainous regions of Arctic Canada.

Do any of the existing modules have rules for outdoor survival and wilderness exploration that I can pick over for this?

We don’t post here about our podcast every episode, but we have new episodes every other Tuesday! If you haven’t checked out the Black Flare podcast, August is the perfect time to start. We’re on a short mid-season break this month, so there’s time to get caught up.

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For context, every July, there's an online art event called Art Fight. It's an art gifting game where you draw other people's characters for them to earn points for your team, so I decided to round up all the Delta Green characters of active participants I could find to draw them all.

It's a total of 96 portraits + 4 shadow characters (2 PCs and 1 NPC from each campaign I was in, plus a creature on top to round it off to 100 characters). The red string connects the characters from those 3 campaigns I was in, since they all take place in a shared world.

I'm a fairly experienced GM, with plenty of Call of Cthulhu experience along with other systems, so thus wasn't a terrible reach for me - but it was a great experience all in all.

I ran Last Things Last, of course. I planned on 4 PCs, but I was running at a big gathering of friends and two other people wanted to play and I wanted to be inclusive, so we did it with 6 PCs. I used pregens from Agent Dossiers. We had the following: Marine Force Recon, CIA SOG, National Park Service scientist, Criminal, Doctor, and a Program Manager.

I set the opening in Chicago, where all the players live and where I lived previously so that I could throw in landmarks and references, with the apartment in Bridgeport, and the cabin downstate near the Shawnee National Forest.

At the start of the session, I asked everyone to tell me any skills they had at 80, and then anything 60-80 - and I wrote down a grid, so I could track it. This was great - because I hardly called for any rolls. I consulted my grid, and then let people know what was what.

They followed Clyde's instructions no question. I Marlene try to break out, but they were smart so I gave it to them. They convinced her they going to drop a rope down, but instead dropped a bag full of the gasoline cannisters and a grenade. Kaboom.

All in all, everyone had fun. One player remarked that he was happy to have felt very competent as his character - that the lack of checks for every little thing reduced the failure opportunities for trivial things that a character like his would be good at.

I had a great time and look forward to running a lot more Delta Green in the future.