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"I have all the DG books, but what to do now?"
Written by kinnygraham   
Wednesday, 12 December 2007

So, you have the new Delta Green book, DG: Countdown, and DG: Eyes Only.  You've now got what could be considered the three main books, so you're pretty set to go. After that you get into obsessive completist territory ; welcome to my world. 

OK here goes:

The entry for Delta Green on Wikipedia should give you an idea.

Your first port of call should be Dennis Detwiller's site, where you will find freely downloadable DG scenarios of excellent quality - 'Music From a Darkened Room' and the first 3 parts of 'Future / Perfect'.

Next up would be the official Delta Green site which is worth a root about for ideas / scenario write-ups / mini-campaign ideas etc etc.

Then there's this site - Project Nemesis - which has lots of good material - specifically the famous 'Green Box generator' which is a very handy tool for DG Gms..........There's also plenty of scenario seeds and 'shotgun scenarios'.

Also very worth joining is the Delta Green Yahoo Group; lots of fan created files / handouts / support material.

Other stuff:

The online 'mag' Pyramid, has 'Jack Frost', a DG scenario, and a write-up of a Green Box. You need to pay to get on to that though.

Yog-sothoth.com has a free DG Scenario called 'A Handful of Dust' by David Conyers (author of 'Secrets of Kenya')In paper format, there's 'See No Evil', a DG scenario, in The Unspeakable Oath # 16/17.

'The Black Seal'. It's a British fanzine with a specific modern Cthulhu / DG / PISCES focus. Think there's been 3 or so issues so far - but unfortunately they are rather hard to track down........Naturally, there's plenty of good stuff in them - particularly if a PISCES campaign grabs your interest. The next issue is due out *sometime* ie subject to the editor (Adam Crossingham) being able to balance his private commitments - and there's talk of a DG in Nam 'special' issue sometime too...

There's a back issue of 'Dungeon' magazine - # 96 - which has a nice DG scenario (statted for d20 though) called 'PX Poker Night'. You SHOULD also get a (non-artworked etc) copy of that if you join the Pagan Publishing mailing list - though you might have to chase up for it. The maps for it are available online.

Ken Hite's 'Dubious Shards' has a DG scenario in it (featuring an enemy fleetingly mentiioned in the DG main book who are supposedly due their own sourcebook sometime)....

The Chaosium monograph 'Machine Tractor Station Kharkov 37' features an organisation which is detailed in DG: Countdown. It could therefore be classified as part of the 'history' of the DG mileu (it's set in Soviet Russia in 1934 or thereabouts).

it's also worth noting that some of the 'Cthulhu Now' stuff is a good fit for DG. In fact 'Unseen Masters' has an appendix with notes on how to adapt the scenarios for DG. I've also got a lot of mileage out of 'The Stars Are Right' 2nd edition (be sure to get the second edition as it has two extra scenarios). IMO the other 'NOW' collections are of lesser quality, but YMMV; Scott Glancy has said that he is particulary fond of 'A Cult of One' scenario in the 'Secrets' collection
Adam Scott Glancy has been writing 'Directives from A-Cell' for ''Worlds of Cthulhu' magazine - mostly just 'game advice' and speculation on other types of 'mythos-aware' organisations in the world of DG. Worlds of Cthulhu also published 'Voice of the Animals', another PISCES scenario set in the UK.

John Tynes wrote a scenario called 'The Day of the Dead' (actually 'Dia dos les Muertos') which appeared as the last part of a 'horror trilogy' of scenarios (the prequels - in the same issue - are intended to be played with Vampire and Con X) in the mag 'Shadis' (issue # 52). Hard to obtain.

And (nearly done) there was a 2 part British/PISCES scenario called 'A Walk in the Forest' which appeared in the UK 'version' of Polyhedron (issues #7 & 8).

Of course there are other fan-sites with other material, campaign ideas etc etc....

Oh, and check out this recruitment poster, these hand-outs and game-aids for 'Puppet Shows and Shadow Plays' and this Actual Play thread. 

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Glewellyn - And then there's the novels     | 65.173.228.60 | 2007-12-13 13:35:05
Apart from all the books and articles mentioned above there is quite a few novels out as well that provide lots of background information.
This is in no way a complete list, but just the ones I have read or heard of:

Delta Green: The Rules of Engagement (2000, John Tynes)
Delta Green: Dark Theatres (2001, Benjamin Adams, Martin Cirulis, Arinn Dembo, and Dennis Detwiller)
Delta Green: Denied to the Enemy (2003, Dennis Detwiller)
The Atrocity Archives (2006, Charles Stross)
The Jennifer Morgue (2006, Charles Stross)
Agent Donald     | 217.194.110.131 | 2007-12-13 13:38:07
> The Atrocity Archives (2006, Charles Stross)
> The Jennifer Morgue (2006, Charles Stross)

These are not "official" DG novels but the setting is a bit like Pratchett meets DG.
Shane Ivey     | 24.178.185.128 | 2007-12-18 03:20:44
Stross has kind things to say about DG in the afterword of Atrocity Archives. And, entertainingly, a story in The Jennifer Morgue has a DG cameo: A programmer draws the attention of the occult-policing "Laundry" when he adds a Delta Green mod to the Neverwinter Nights MMORPG.
SecretMaster   | Registered | 2008-01-22 21:24:18
Dennis Detwiller's page doesn't take me to anything useful. Has his webpage changed to something else since this was written?
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