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Adapting Arc Dream's Delta Green scenarios for #FallOfDELTAGREEN presents more challenges than adapting Call of Cthulhu ones to Trail of...

Adapting Arc Dream's Delta Green scenarios for #FallOfDELTAGREEN presents more challenges than adapting Call of Cthulhu ones to Trail of Cthulhu.

I've laid out a proof-of-concept chart of what this project might entail: A Day at the Races Scenario Adaptations

With GRU SV-8’s lore spread out over multiple supplements (just like PISCES’), I decided to aggregate what I could from Countdown,...

With GRU SV-8’s lore spread out over multiple supplements (just like PISCES’), I decided to aggregate what I could from Countdown, Directives from A-Cell, The Fall of DELTA GREEN, The Handler’s Guide, and The Labyrinth. This century-long timeline begins with the GRU’s foundation in 1918 and takes us up to 2018, although much has taken place since then, of course. (#DeltaGreen Spoilers)

For no good reason, I mocked up a cover for the light TTRPG Skool Rules—"Also nowen as KLASSROOMS & MATRONS, the roll-playing...

For no good reason, I mocked up a cover for the light TTRPG Skool Rules—"Also nowen as KLASSROOMS & MATRONS, the roll-playing game of british educashun."—by Phil Masters, inspired by the Nigel Molesworth books of Geoffrey Willans and Ronald Searle. #chizchizchiz

http://philmasters.org.uk/RPGs/Skool_Rools.html

😯Steve Jackson Games announces, “We are thrilled to announce that Possum Creek, the award-winning independent game publisher, has...

😯

Steve Jackson Games announces, “We are thrilled to announce that Possum Creek, the award-winning independent game publisher, has joined Steve Jackson Games as an imprint.”

#TTRPG

https://www.sjgames.com/ill/archive/2025-02-11

And who is this clown? It turns out this megalomaniacal techbro is the former creative director at Roblox, a company famous for <checks...

And who is this clown? It turns out this megalomaniacal techbro is the former creative director at Roblox, a company famous for <checks notes> its exploitative business practices and targeting children.

Lately, I've been thinking lately about how Tales from the Loop and The Electric State (Simon Stålenhag, Free League) are a response to...

Lately, I've been thinking lately about how Tales from the Loop and The Electric State (Simon Stålenhag, Free League) are a response to the Gernsbeck SF tradition, not so much Golden Age space opera sci-fi, but rather "scientifiction" in a landscape of new technologies and inventions.

And here’s one for a file “Extract” report:

And here’s one for a file “Extract” report:

From recently declassified files from the UK's National Archives, here's a handout template for an MI-13/PISCES campaign.#DeltaGreen...

From recently declassified files from the UK's National Archives, here's a handout template for an MI-13/PISCES campaign.

#DeltaGreen / #FallofDELTAGREEN

Thinking of ways to gamify this theoretical genetic study about “ghost ancestors” for a cosmic horror TTRPG. Maybe updating The Case of...

Thinking of ways to gamify this theoretical genetic study about “ghost ancestors” for a cosmic horror TTRPG. Maybe updating The Case of Charles Dexter Ward, flipping the Gothic obsession with inheritance that Lovecraft embraced.

Fox News and Facebook did to our parents and grandparents what they said Dungeons & Dragons and Mortal Kombat would do to us

Fox News and Facebook did to our parents and grandparents what they said Dungeons & Dragons and Mortal Kombat would do to us

A contemporary classic from Steve Jackson’s Illuminati card game.

A contemporary classic from Steve Jackson’s Illuminati card game.

New playtesting announcement for Edgar Allan Poe's The Raven's Ars Magica from @lumpley...

New playtesting announcement for Edgar Allan Poe's The Raven's Ars Magica from @lumpley

https://lumpley.games/edgar-allan-poes-the-ravens-ars-magica-playtest-hq/

Going over my old files that I posted That Hellsite, I found this cover mock-up for The Fall of DELTA GREEN based on art by Bob Peak.

Going over my old files that I posted That Hellsite, I found this cover mock-up for The Fall of DELTA GREEN based on art by Bob Peak.

Great news (for a niche), Pelgrane has released a new version of the Gumshoe SRD that includes Sources of Stability, a mechanic vital for...

Great news (for a niche), Pelgrane has released a new version of the Gumshoe SRD that includes Sources of Stability, a mechanic vital for horror RPGing.

https://pelgranepress.com/2013/10/24/the-gumshoe-system-reference-document/

Here’s my cover mock-up for the alternate #DeltaGreen timeline supplement to Glavnoye Razvedyvatelnoye Upravlenie Osoboyy Otdel 8...

Here’s my cover mock-up for the alternate #DeltaGreen timeline supplement to Glavnoye Razvedyvatelnoye Upravlenie Osoboyy Otdel 8 (“Chief Intelligence Directorate of the General Staff, Special Department 8”), with art remixed from Dennis Detwiller’s Sic Semper Tyrannis illustration. The GRU-OO8 motto in the logo reads Выше нас только ночь ("Above Us Only the Night").

And free typo correction to boot!

And free typo correction to boot!

Gotta say, I’m loving the latest update of the Mastodon app, which continues to leave Bluesky’s in the dust (I use Graysky as a...

Gotta say, I’m loving the latest update of the Mastodon app, which continues to leave Bluesky’s in the dust (I use Graysky as a substitute). And that’s not even addressing how Mastodon is a feature-complete platform while Bluesky is stuck in a glorified open beta.

The tip-off is that Games Global tweeted an announcement about the partnership, linking to a press release on its website, but Hasbro...

The tip-off is that Games Global tweeted an announcement about the partnership, linking to a press release on its website, but Hasbro hasn’t even mentioned it on their official X-Twitter account.

Y’all, Bluesky is *crawling* with bots and trolls now. Dice.camp may be getting by on “security through obscurity” for the moment, but...

Y’all, Bluesky is *crawling* with bots and trolls now. Dice.camp may be getting by on “security through obscurity” for the moment, but the difference in the mood on my timeline is palpable.

Chris Cocks is steering Hasbro/WotC into a partnership with a shifty gambling company. Surely nothing bad could happen to the #DnD brand...

Chris Cocks is steering Hasbro/WotC into a partnership with a shifty gambling company. Surely nothing bad could happen to the #DnD brand with this association.