#delta green

[nights-at-the-opera]

Top Disaster Response Official Claims He Teleported to a Waffle House

FEMA disaster response official Gregg Phillips claims he has experienced episodes of teleportation, including once to a Waffle House in Geor

FEMA's Director of Response and Recovery believes he was "teleported against his will" to a Waffle House 50 miles away.

Evil Waffle House Teleportation Victim

[xantdee]

Apparently it's a good idea to outright tell players how to investigate stuff in rpgs (especially in modern ones like Delta Green).

Some players tend to ask witnesses the right questions ("Who did you see? When was it? What did they do? Did you notice anyone new? Anything suspicious?"), others not so much ("Did you see X? No? Well, okay then, goodbye"). I feel like some players have very little clue about how investigations work. Maybe it depends on how many detective tv shows one has watched, I dunno.

Anyway, I'll try making a short "manual" about detective work for the next game. It will brief players on which questions to ask, how to gather evidence, how to conduct an arrest and when they have the right to use lethal force.

The difficult part is making it short and concise for the game's sake. Actual books about this stuff are 300+ pages long.

[velvetvexations]

Wilum Hopfrog Pugmire was a queer writer of weird fiction and it's a tragedy that he was underappreciated in life. S. T Joshi, the world's leading expert on the history of Lovecraftian fiction, said "he may be the best prose-poet we have." I really, really suggest you seek out his work.

[jonnywaistcoat]

Final chance to back THE BAD YEAR

We're approaching the 24 hours of the crowdfunder for The Bad Year - the latest book from MacGuffin & Co. (mine and Sasha Sienna's tabletop RPG company).

It's a collection of 53 one-page Horror investigation adventures - one for each week of the year (and one extra to cap it off if you're playing the campaign). You can use them as standalone adventures, drop them into an on-going campaign, or play through them as one particularly bad year!

You can play it with any system you like, but a few suggestions include, Monster of the Week, Call of Cthulhu, Delta Green and The Cthulhu Hack. Or, y'know... It is also compatible with The Magnus Archives RPG

If you haven't backed it yet, now's the time. We're hoping to hit our final stretch goal before the end: one that would allow us to give everyone (our artist, our composer, our map maker, our social media helper and ourselves!) a nice bonus, and we really want to reward everyone for all their hard work!

Check it out here!

[thetygre]

I think another common misstep people make with cosmic horror is an overreliance on secular nihilism and extraterrestrial theosophy (idk what else to call Ancient Aliens/Chariots of the Gods stuff). Part of the actual horror of cosmic horror comes from the twisting of the characters’ world view, the fundamental understanding of the universe being turned upside down, which is something entirely relative to the characters themselves.

But so many half-hearted attempts at cosmic horror just drop ‘There is no God, it was always space squids’ like it’s some kind of universal maxim on the characters and then just… leaves it, regardless of how it actually affects the characters or setting. (It’s particularly jarring when it’s ham-fisted into high fantasy or sci-fi where it’s like yeah, man; no duh there’s space squids. You tried to make-out with one last week.)

The revelation of cosmic truth has to be meaningful to the characters. If your character believes in a fundamentally good and reasonable universe, then you can hit them with the old-fashioned cosmic nihilism. But if they’re already cynical and skeptical, then you need to show them something else, like that there is, in fact, a God, but she’s actually a giant cat that feeds off of children’s tears, and that everything in the characters’ lives that they attributed to free will and chance were actually her grand design. Something like that.

[wire-digitalorchid]

Δ Delta Green'd my Deltarune

[unfailingeagle]

The air is oppressive. The wallpaper, the dry wall and even the bricks are stained with the tinge of rotten yellow. Mold, water damage, cigarette smoke all but the waves of entropy besieging this fragile place. I see it, The King in Yellow, Hastur is here.

“Is this AI generated?” I ask him.

For such a statement Hastur forces me to experience ten thousand years of torment in an instant. Each neuron burns with the suffering of a dying sun.

[punkitt-is-here]

playing delta green and we met some gleep glorps. im obessed with them.