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The flow is tapering off a bit. I've been playing and running other games instead of a constant stream of Delta Green. I have stuff in the hopper I'll be able to playtest and post some time in the coming weeks. For now Love the Skin You're In - M EPIC investigates a medical anomaly in rural Manitoba Operation CARRION SHELLAC - The FBI inadvertently seizes Delta Green's porn folder
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Odd question but does anyone know what kind of paper Chaosium uses for the investigator sheets in the 7th edition box set?
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Delta Green: The Complex available now! https://www.drivethrurpg.com/product/270434  quote:FROM BIG DATA TO BELTWAY BANDITS
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Oh neat. I need to check on my kickstarter I sprung for everything so I think they'll be mailing me a copy.
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Owlbear Camus posted:Oh neat. I need to check on my kickstarter I sprung for everything so I think they'll be mailing me a copy. The Complex ended up growing out of a pdf series promised in the kickstarter. So you'll get the pdf for sure but a hardcopy will cost extra. The update also includes the fact that Control Group is almost ready to come out in pdf and go to the printer - so you will be getting that in hardcopy, probably sometime over the summer. I'm jazzed for it - I've played one scenario (BLACKSAT) and ran the playtest for another (Wormwood Arena), but the other two scenarios are new to me.
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I had a hand in both The Complex and Control Group so it's exciting to see them come out. Control Group looks goooooooood. I am still not convinced that Detwiller didn't turn a botched Princess Leia painting into the Complex cover though.
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Elendil004 posted:I am still not convinced that Detwiller didn't turn a botched Princess Leia painting into the Complex cover though.  Cannot Unsee!
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Just had session 0 for Masks. This group did The Two-Headed Serpent so I am confident we can finish this as well. Has anyone played the 7th Edition update?
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What do you get when you mix Lovecraft with Terminator 2 Judgement Day? Fate of Cthulhu evidently.  https://www.evilhat.com/home/fate-of-cthulhu/ quote:FATE OF CTHULHU
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Delta Green: Control Group PDFs going out to Backers today.
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Elendil004 posted:Delta Green: Control Group PDFs going out to Backers today. I'm definitely excited for them, I ran the draft version of BLACKSAT from Detwiller's Patreon and had a great time though the space shuttle certainly didn't, and the others I read through have some really neat stuff going on though the twist in Sick Again was kinda lame. Didn't back the Kickstarter, unfortunately, so I'll have to pick it up on Drive thru.
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Acebuckeye13 posted:I'm definitely excited for them, I ran the draft version of BLACKSAT from Detwiller's Patreon and had a great time though the space shuttle certainly didn't, and the others I read through have some really neat stuff going on though the twist in Sick Again was kinda lame. Didn't back the Kickstarter, unfortunately, so I'll have to pick it up on Drive thru. I thought it was a neat twist, especially the glimpse into humanity's (possible) future.
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Night at the opera's next contest is live! https://docs.google.com/document/d/1DczAajCkUMh5U_VEv8NiyaILZ8j8JicyaE9RCZU3eaI/edit?usp=drivesdk
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Got three groups finished so far. Not sure which ones I'll enter. The submission limit is two, and I'll probably have more done by the end. The Fraternal Order of King Vold Talking Dog Club Moss Covered Arrowhead
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Don't skip this
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Yeah you have to enter that one just for the hell of it.
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This one really feels like an overwrought Scooby Doo reference, and I can't tell if that's the intent or not.
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moths posted:This one really feels like an overwrought Scooby Doo reference, and I can't tell if that's the intent or not. Vox Valentine fucked around with this message at 05:18 on May 24, 2019 |
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That was my take too, but then the kids don't really align with the scooby gang and I thought I was missing something.
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The line of inspiration is a lot more direct than that. Peep the first paragraph under "PROGRESSION OF TALKING DOG CLUB"
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SCENARIOS WALNUT CAKES - Parapsychologists, an anomalous meteorite, and a cursed orb Preacher - A Priest in rural Texas gets a message from Heaven GROUPS Inner Life - A mantra to promote mindfulness and positive psychology The Robard Family - A rogue Delta Green Case Officer descends into a sea of love Moss Covered Arrowhead now has expanded character creation rules, important NPCs, and a sample adventure
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mellonbread posted:Two more scenarios because I like you You don't have PMs, but I am getting ready to run this one soon. I am very excited. I think I am going to put together a playlist for WLDR The Sign! radio. I just grabbed 5 songs for each DJ since we will probably only hear snippets of songs. Actually, maybe I should add more so that I can having it playing as long as the players are at the radio station... Hmm... Anyway, here is a link to what I threw together: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/3sdB5IG0pCeGRbZBG73ZIY?si=-QDYu_YkT-WN7CJdZ1A6Ig alpha_destroy fucked around with this message at 03:13 on Jun 18, 2019 |
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alpha_destroy posted:You don't have PMs, but I am getting ready to run this one soon. I am very excited. I think I am going to put together a playlist for WLDR The Sign! radio. WLDR The Sign! is a good enough name that I might retroactively add it to the scenario text. In my experience, having enough music for the whole session is a good idea. I never quite have enough and I always end up repeating something. Let me know how it goes when you run it. You can always hit me up on the Night at the Opera discord mellonbread fucked around with this message at 23:36 on Jun 18, 2019 |
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The 2nd r/NightAtTheOpera Summer Contest just wrapped up, we should have a winner shortly but I encourage y'all to read through some of the entries. Mellonbread and I co-wrote one, he wrote two, and I encourage y'all to check out Project Big Wheel, and the Stormchasers, personal favorites. https://docs.google.com/document/d/1DczAajCkUMh5U_VEv8NiyaILZ8j8JicyaE9RCZU3eaI/edit?usp=sharing
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Elendil004 posted:Mellonbread and I co-wrote one, he wrote two The Fraternal Order of King Vold - Monster hunters become the hunted Talking Dog Club - High school kids rescue an ugly dog on the side of the road Moss Covered Arrowhead - Choose one last Night at the Bunga Inner Life - A mantra to promote mindfulness and positive psychology The Robard Family - A rogue Delta Green Case Officer descends into a sea of love Sons of the Great Devourer - Temporal refugees from the Cruel Empire of Tsan Chan Project BEEHIVE - Glue for broken people Sladosti - The Dining Club More commentary when I finish reading everyone else's entries.
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Voting has concluded. Entries were graded by other submitters based on theming, novelty, playability, and interactivity, with a bonus category for whatever other factor the reviewer thought was important. Winners of the contest: 1st Place: Project Big Wheel by Agent Obtuse 2nd Place: The Stormchasers by Lithobraker 3rd Place: The Orne Library by Kevin Ham and mellonbread* *As sponsors of the contest, not eligible to win. Therefore: 3rd Place again: Tie between Throughline News by Michael Fox and Project Praise by WillWrite Compiled feedback document here
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Played a fantastic game of CoC an hour or so ago about some teens spending the night in an abandoned school house called Double Dare. It was published in the first issue of Bayt Al Azif (phone posting so no link) on drivethru and was run by the author. I seriously recommend it.
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So I'm finally listening to Mike Bennett's excellent reading of Shadow Over Insmouth. Why does some random ticket-taker at a train station know this much about a hick-rear end village when he isn't even from the area?
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Because Lovecraft loved exposition but didn't know how to do it without being clunky. Just like how in Beyond the Mountains of Madness they are able to understand Aliens art to learn their entire history in like, five minutes.
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neaden posted:Because Lovecraft loved exposition but didn't know how to do it without being clunky. Just like how in Beyond the Mountains of Madness they are able to understand Aliens art to learn their entire history in like, five minutes. And he even goes to the loving historical society 5 minutes later. Just have him read it there or have the antiquarian lady tell him. I mean, he's in the area doing genealogical research: it's not a narrative stretch to get him to go to the society. Just have his interest be piqued by seeing it on a map or some poo poo? E: "Innsmouth is right between (wherever I am now) and Arkham, and yet no railways go through it anymore. I wonder why?" (Insert info dump from plot device antiquarian lady who at least has a reason to know this). He could even folksy it up by talking about how it "lies directly on the crow-line-path" or some poo poo. Schadenboner fucked around with this message at 16:00 on Aug 28, 2019 |
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Serious question: is "Less is more" in horror/suspense writing a contemporary notion? Shadow over Innsmouth just falls the gently caress apart in the last few pages which is a pity because it was p.deece until the ZOMG HE'S AN FISHY MAN TOO "twist".
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That ending is what makes "Innsmouth" my favorite Lovecraft story. Not because I find it all that scary - the escape scene holds up well, but there's an awful lot of exposition leading up to it - but because I like stories about sympathetic monsters. "The Deep Ones are the good guys" probably isn't the reading the author intended, but it's supported by the text and I dig it. But yes, Lovecraft is long-winded and even I, a filthy stan, can't blame people for not liking him because of that. (Also because of the racism.)
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Schadenboner posted:Serious question: is "Less is more" in horror/suspense writing a contemporary notion? Shadow over Innsmouth just falls the gently caress apart in the last few pages which is a pity because it was p.deece until the ZOMG HE'S AN FISHY MAN TOO "twist". absolutely not, no, Shakespeare was out saying 'brevity is the soul of wit' and all. Lovecraft was just extremely longwinded.
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sexpig by night posted:absolutely not, no, Shakespeare was out saying 'brevity is the soul of wit' and all. Lovecraft was just extremely longwinded. Yeah, I didn't think so. But sometimes narrative stuff we just take for granted is much more recent than we realize. I didn't want to be the guy who sits down to watch Casablanca and turns it off halfway through complaining about how it's just a Barb Wire rip-off, you know?
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Was Lovecraft paid by the word like Victor Hugo with Les Mis?
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He did write for the pulps, so yes. Also he was a reactionary who hated the contemporary literary trend towards sparse language. His T.S. Eliot parody, "Waste Paper: A Poem of Profound Insignificance," is a good example of his attitude towards early 20th-century literature.
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What do you do when the old scenario submission you were working on gets copied by current events
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JK Fresco posted:What do you do when the old scenario submission you were working on gets copied by current events The Delta Green adventure where turning on the LHC catapults us all into hellworld?
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JK Fresco posted:What do you do when the old scenario submission you were working on gets copied by current events accuse current events of plagiarism
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Not gonna lie the appeal of running a game where flawed and damaged but heroic federal agents take on horrific conspiracies has dried up in light of the past two years.
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