Delta Green d20 is coming!

[Jürgen Hubert]

Incidentally, on the Delta Green Mailing List there's currently a discussion on how to best distribute the first batch of the new books to the most deserving hands who don't have the book yet.

Currently one possible solution is to come up with a short scenario contest. Join the group and read the recent messages on Yahoo! before entering the debate.

But be polite until you have learned the ropes - the list does not suffer fools lightly (though that's part of its charm - and it helps to keep the signal-to-noise ration high). If some old-timer is shouting at you, at least consider the possibility that you might have done something wrong...


Other good resources on Delta Green are, of course, the Delta Green Website, which might not have updated in some time, but has still a large number of useful scenarios, short stories, and even dark humor, and the Fairfield Project, a Wiki which has collected a fair amount of DG List wisdom as well as a large number of appropriate links.


EDIT: Here is another bit of news from an RPGNet Thread:

Countdown is NOT out of print, yet. Scott (at Pagan) says he has about 150 copies left.

But 150 copies are not much, especially now that interest in Delta Green will probably rekindle.

And this is a book you can order right now - so don't hesitate! Don't worry, most of this book is perfectly useable without the Delta Green core book - you can use the groups described in it in any modern-day horror game (and with some alterations even in fantasy campaigns, as I have said above...).

 

[Nebulous]

Yeah, i'm pretty stoked about this. I remember a few years back i was looking for used copies of DG and it sold for $100! That could only mean it was such high quality and so rare that someone out there was willing to pay that much for it. I do run a d20 CoC campaign though, but even if this book were BRP i'd still get it. I don't think the stats matter too much. It's the descriptive text is this thing that sounds so awesome.

 

[Anthraxus]

Finally!!! I still remember asking Scott Glancy at Gencon 2001 or 2002, "Hey, are you making a d20 version of Delta Green?"

 

[Jürgen Hubert]

Yeah, i'm pretty stoked about this. I remember a few years back i was looking for used copies of DG and it sold for $100!

I'm still kicking myself for not grabbing the lone copy in a local game store and selling it on Ebay... I mean, imagine the profit I could have made with it!

 

[Falkus]

Delta Green used to be a US government agency that was originally created during WWII for "occult-related psychological warfare" as a part of the OSS

I thought it was founded after the raid on Innsmouth in 1928, or am I mistaken?

 

[Jürgen Hubert]

I thought it was founded after the raid on Innsmouth in 1928, or am I mistaken?

Technically, what was founded back then was "P Division", its precedessor. The "Delta Green clearance" only became official in WWII.

 

[EditorBFG]

I have tried and failed to understand the exact reasons for the delay. But I tell you what, if it was a matter of costs, they should've "ransomed" it, Greg Stolze style. They would've made a good amount pretty quickly. I know I would would've coughed up the dough.

 

[Jürgen Hubert]

I have tried and failed to understand the exact reasons for the delay. But I tell you what, if it was a matter of costs, they should've "ransomed" it, Greg Stolze style. They would've made a good amount pretty quickly. I know I would would've coughed up the dough.

Initially, it was a matter of costs. Later on, it apparently was a matter of the printer moving through strange, non-euclidian dimensions, or so I understand.

 

[Joshua Randall]

This is what me a Delta Green fanboy.

It's a cut'n'paste of a game conducted via chatroom... which is a pretty boring thing to read, normally. But not in this case. Once the plot gets going, it totally rocks.

 

[Erik Mona]

Hilarious.

I "previewed" this in Polyhedron, even running a d20 Delta Green adventure, way back in 2002. I suppose five years late isn't so bad in this "industry". Sort of makes me feel good about all my blown deadlines over the years.

Congrats to the Delta Green guys. It's a great setting, and I hope this gives it an even larger audience. Here's hoping that momentum from "PX Poker Night" (Dungeon #96) carries them over the top!

--Erik Mona