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Mycroft Holmes posted:What would be the effect of a pc getting the elder sign tattooed all over themselves be? Are they trying to trap something within their skin? I'd recommend the documentary The Autopsy of Jane Doe.
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Voting for the 2021 shotgun scenario contest has been shut down due to rampant ballot stuffing. No winner this year. You can read the submissions here.
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I believe that branding yourself with an Elder sign permanently costs POW most of the time, but, y'know, investments.
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Exact effects of the elder sign depend on the system, edition, and in the case of Delta Green, the level of spell. In DG, a top tier Elder Sign tattoo (which costs a whopping 100 POW worth of sacrifices) gives you an antimagic field with a radius of kilometers, in which spellcasting is impossible. Supernatural creatures caught in the radius have to either flee or die from the sign's POW damage effect. There's a lower level casting that costs less POW and has weaker powers, making it more realistic to tattoo on the body. The radius of protection forces mythos creatures to retreat, but doesn't counteract spells. The wearer is fair game for ranged attacks, meaning a deep one with a gun can just shoot them.
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Starting to think that firearms themselves must be some kind of Mythos technology at this rate.
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What's the ratio of magic to purely natural sci-fi? Why can my magic book teach me to call aliens from Pluto?
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Beerdeer posted:What's the ratio of magic to purely natural sci-fi? Why can my magic book teach me to call aliens from Pluto?
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E: better responses above to the elder sign tattoo Q
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I'm trying to find an exact scenario mellonbread wrote, it was about a navy intelligence officer married to four Deep Ones? I remember having fun playing it, and would love running it as a one-shot for a few friends interesting in CoC. Does anyone remember what it was called?
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mellonbread posted:My Big Fat Deep One Wedding - A Delta Green Agent is unwittingly betrothed to a clan of aquatic humanoids
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NutritiousSnack posted:I'm trying to find an exact scenario mellonbread wrote, it was about a navy intelligence officer married to four Deep Ones? I remember having fun playing it, and would love running it as a one-shot for a few friends interesting in CoC. Does anyone remember what it was called? All my Delta Green content is linked in a central document for easy reference.
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Siivola posted:Do you mean this one? It's not a polygamous thing. Mellon linked it, but no. The entire series is hilarious and a good ice breaker from stuff like Lover in the Ice though
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Hey Mellon, would you mind terribly if I grabbed the statblocks for those deep one soldiers in Home Fires? I've got a thematically similar idea rock-tumblering around in my head and can already tell Deep Ones calling in backup is probably going to be part of it.
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Go ahead. The Deep One commando team is only a couple lines of text removed from the base Deep One stat block anyway. The Gracious Ones are a more interesting spin on the concept, though they might not fit the use case you're looking for.
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I mentioned it on the last page, basically, the more I think about Operation Somersault, and the more I think about the kind of culture HPL considered 'good' and the kinds he considered 'evil' the more I'm thinking maybe some of the mythos has the moral high ground. Anyway, if they got called in it would be sort of as a civil defense force scrambling, not so much as a high tier operator waiting around just off the exact right beach. What interests me more is the guns & equipment more than the stats per se. Thanks though!
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After public outcry, Chaosium will no long be producing or participating in NFTs
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Very lol at the non-apology aspect of it though. "We heard you and your points, and here's a breakdown of why they're all wrong, but lol sorry we'll put this idea on pause for now until you've calmed down and we can quietly re-introduce this ponzi scheme."
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Given the scope of the thing, 0.01% doesn't seem like it's 'nearly no' impact, electricity-use-wise.
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Proliferation of blockchain only increases its consumption as time goes on and the receipt grows longer. Either way, they got pretty hounded by the Cult of Chaos organized play keepers as well as the public at large, mostly echoing the pyramid scheme and environmental impact issues. Surprisingly, we’re here.
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Nessus posted:Given the scope of the thing, 0.01% doesn't seem like it's 'nearly no' impact, electricity-use-wise. For real. Personally, I love the 'carbon neutral' scam that everyone has seen through since like, 5 years after they introduced that in the 90s. "We care a lot about the environment, so we're going to pay a Palm Oil Plantation owner in Indonesia to stop slash-and-burning long enough to sign an official certificate double super promising he won't wreck a couple hectares. We will do precisely zero follow up." Got to say the villains in Captain Planet building a massive fleet of robots with no other goal than to have them open and upend big toxic chemical barrels into the ocean seemed a little far fetched even as a kid. And now I can put my finger on it. They could articulate a desire that this was clearly satisfying, and they seemed to have fun doing it. Neither is true of crypto folks.
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PipHelix posted:For real.
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I like how Lovecraft was such a racist, sheltered baby that his horrifying idea of the apocalypse was New York City on New Year's.
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Final temptation, that drove the protagonist to abandon his humanity and live among the deep ones, in Shadow Over Innsmouth was the prospect of a family that would love him unconditionally.
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Terrible Opinions posted:Final temptation, that drove the protagonist to abandon his humanity and live among the deep ones, in Shadow Over Innsmouth was the prospect of a family that would love him unconditionally. I mean, to be fair
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Some people over at the Delta Green discord (Night @ The Opera) have put together a Delta Green fanzine. It is pretty cool. In particular I like the Throne of Want ritual and the Machine Men antagonists from Issue #1. The Machine Men is a different take on the theme of a self aware AI and killer robots that fits neatly into the Mythos thanks to it's unusual backstory. It could wake up some jaded Delta Green players as they wonder what type of threat they are facing. https://www.reddit.com/r/DeltaGreenRPG/comments/tbdmch/whispers_of_the_dead_the_free_delta_green_fanzine/ quote:Whispers of the Dead, the free Delta Green Fanzine, is available now and open to submissions
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https://twitter.com/ArcDreamLLC/status/1502455039792607233 https://twitter.com/shaneivey/status/1502456700451753987?cxt=HHwWhsCojZSa5tkpAAAA
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I have an idea for a scenario to flesh out. In 1934, Investigators are given the cover of being workers for the Census Bureau and told to go to the town of Innsmouth where about six years ago the government conducted a raid to root out the Esoteric Order of Dagon. Their mission is to find out the whereabouts of the Esoteric Orders strange artifacts and tablets. They wind up finding out clues leading them to a secret underground concentration camp near the warehouses at the old Marsh refinery by the bay where they find out that the government has been keeping the Deep One Hybrids and other Innsmouth townsfolk captive. For the past six years the government under the auspices of the P4 Office of Naval Intelligence has been performing hideous and cruel vivisection and breeding experiments on the Deep Ones, and the artifacts are in the hands of P4, classified with the top-secret clearance heading Delta Green...
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Helical Nightmares posted:https://twitter.com/ArcDreamLLC/status/1502455039792607233 But I already have basically all the Arc Dream products I want! Hmm... maybe I could give some to friends?
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LatwPIAT posted:But I already have basically all the Arc Dream products I want! Pre-buy multiple copies of Iconoclasts?
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Helical Nightmares posted:https://twitter.com/ArcDreamLLC/status/1502455039792607233 Got four of the Delta Green fiction books, since I only had Rules fo Engagement and Dark Theatres from when I wound them used for 2 bucks each a decade ago.
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The vision of the Delta Green world presented in the short stories is more exciting than both the old and new settings for the game itself. The protagonist from Fast Track would have been a thousand times more interesting than Forest James as the new head of the Delta Green conspiracy.
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I still love the short story about not-Kurt Cobain channeling the Yellow King.
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I've suddenly got a hideous idea for a scene, but not a scenario to go with it. What do you guys think of this:quote:Player's character is looking through a keyhole. DrSunshine fucked around with this message at 00:47 on Mar 26, 2022 |
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Maybe it’s the same creature that was Saint Batholomew
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DrSunshine posted:I have an idea for a scenario to flesh out. Ruthanna Emrys has two novels that touch on these themes, Winter Tide and Deep Roots. They subvert Lovecraft’s racism by making his monsters, often thinly veiled stand-ins for people of color, sympathetic protagonists. The books are fairly well written and not as on the nose as my one sentence summary implies.
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DrSunshine posted:I have an idea for a scenario to flesh out. Census Bureau would be a strange cover in 1934, because the U.S. didn’t conduct a census that year. You could move it to 1930, pick some New Deal agency as a cover (WPA photographers?), or have Innsmouth folk be very skeptical.
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Afriscipio posted:Ruthanna Emrys has two novels that touch on these themes, Winter Tide and Deep Roots. They subvert Lovecraft’s racism by making his monsters, often thinly veiled stand-ins for people of color, sympathetic protagonists. The books are fairly well written and not as on the nose as my one sentence summary implies. Her first work in that vein, The Litany of Earth, is available for free online, and I would definitely recommend it. Read it several times myself.
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The first time I read The Litany of Earth was in an anthology that IMMEDIATELY followed it with a short story about a guy who rapes a bunch of women because he learns he's a Deep One. Behold, the duality of Lovecraftiana.
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sasha_d3ath posted:The first time I read The Litany of Earth was in an anthology that IMMEDIATELY followed it with a short story about a guy who rapes a bunch of women because he learns he's a Deep One. 
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