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OPERATIONAL HISTORY: HITTING THE RIGHT NOTES

When we talk about the "we shall serve no wine before its time" philosophy of creating books for Delta Green, here's an example.

I've written tens of thousands of words for Delta Green: Operational History (up to the 1980s), a big, horkin' book of history left out of Delta Green: Handler's Guide due to lack of space. New content that fills in gaps about Delta Green's timeline, and more ( just history of Delta Green, mind you, we have no room for much else). Also, in the process, I ma...

ROBERT MARTIN OLMSTEAD (b. 1906 d. 1930?)

Robert Martin Olmstead was born in Toledo, Ohio, in 1906 and led a conventional life until the age of 21. He attended Oberlin College and spent the summer of his third year break researching his family genealogy in New England, where he had relatives in Arkham, Boston, and Newburyport.

In JUL 1927, after visiting a cousin in Newburyport and attempting to travel to Arkham via train, Olmstead stumbled upon the strange, secluded town of Innsmouth. Innsmouth was notorious in the region for ...

AS REQUESTED: BLACKSAT ART

(As requested by Richard Watt). Here is the art from BLACKSAT (found in DELTA GREEN: CONTROL GROUP).

Enjoy!

RESEARCH AND LIBRARY USE IN DELTA GREEN

We get this question a lot, and it's definitely something which will go in the next edition of Delta Green: how do I roll the Delta Green equivalent of Library Use? It's actually something so simple we never even considered writing much of it out. But the long and the short of it is this:

• When researching a subject, roll the appropriate skill

• Looking into public records? (Bureaucracy)

• Looking into Taxes/Fina...

  2024-05-10 14:20:16 +0000 UTC View Post

DELTA GREEN: THE GOOD LIFE, FOR REVIEW

Hi guys! Here's the layout version of John Tynes's marvellous THE GOOD LIFE. We're looking for people to review the text for layout, spelling and content errors. If you want to participate, please follow the instructions below:

• Submit your feedback to acell@me.com (do not submit it here in comments as it will be lost).

• We need the feedback by Sunday May 12.

• We're aware of some repeatin...

  2024-05-05 13:39:15 +0000 UTC View Post

DELTA GREEN FICTION BUNDLE FOR ONLY $9.95

I know I'm likely preaching to the choir with this one, but we’re using this as a bellwether for future Delta Green fiction. If you love DG fiction, jump in and let us know.

Share and repost!

"For just US$9.95 you get all eleven complete stories and anthologies in our DG Fiction Library (retail value $61) as DRM-free ebooks, including Alien Intelligence, Dark Theatres, Denied to t...

ART FROM GOD'S HUNT

I've wrapped all the art on GOD'S HUNT, the upcoming expansion book for GOD'S TEETH. It is edited, the art is done. It goes to layout shortly. FOUR new scenarios for your Agents as they work through the horrors of GOD'S TEETH...coming soon.

THE WAY IT WENT DOWN: STRESS TESTING

When DEA agent Michael Dace vanished, of course, the response from the agency was significant. He was listed as on vacation, but even a cursory examination of his spending and mobile internet usage revealed he was nowhere near where he said he was supposed to be (Merrick, Long Island, New York), when he disappeared. Or on vacation; from his point of view, at least.

Day one after his vacation return date, he doesn't come in. Day two. Day three. It wasn't until the Monday after that someo...

REQUESTED BY A PATRON: OPENER IMAGES FOR IMPOSSIBLE LANDSCAPES

Here you go, Sabreman777!

THE TEN COMMANDMENTS OF DELTA GREEN

THOU SHALT EMBRACE ATMOSPHERE

The world of Delta Green is our own...except... The Agents are among those few that have even the vaguest inkling of what is really going on. That secret horror should permeate everywhere in the game. This atmosphere: cosmic horror and government conspiracy, should be the backdrop for everything that comes after.

THOU SHALT FOSTER TENSION AND PARANOIA

This arrives by throwing observations, questions and even answers...

STREAMLINING LETHALITY IN THE DELTA GREEN RPG

Years of playing the Delta Green RPG rules have led me to adopt the following in my games (note, this is a modification of how Lethality rolls are resolved, it doesn't much change the underlying mechanics). We created Lethality to streamline the otherwise tedious task of rolling endless damage dice, but over the years I've realized it can be further streamlined...

Usually, when a weapon has a Lethality rating (like a Hand Grenade with Lethality 15%), you roll the Skill to hit, ...

THE COVER FOR DELTA GREEN: DEEP STATE

Dr. Gregory Tapham, Ph.D, Director of Research for the Program/Director of March Technologies.

DEAD LETTER FINAL FOR REVIEW

Greetings Agents. Here's DELTA GREEN DEAD LETTER, an operation for Delta Green for proofreading.

We're looking to fix any typos or errors as we head towards final. That's where you come in.

Please submit all feedback to acell@me.com before April 10 (please don't post it in comments...it'll be lost).

Happy hunting.

NEW ART FOR THE GOOD LIFE

Here's the art for John Tynes's new operation, THE GOOD LIFE.

(Give it a run, here!)

THE WAY IT WENT DOWN: THE THINGS WE CANNOT CHANGE

The things we cannot change, change us.

This is what my father taught me, though I had reason  to doubt it. He said, we smash the world, or we are smashed to bits across it, like an icicle thrown upon the pavement. My father is gone now. Smashed. I knew it was coming, and likewise knew there was nothing to be done about it. Such is life.

I was his Anna. His world. And when the world was good to us, we did not change, much. Despite the turmoil (at first) and then the bother an...

DELTA GREEN: THE STATE OF THE ONION, 2024

Hey guys, just thought I'd take a few to give you some insight on the dark machinations behind the scenes of Arc Dream Publishing and all things Delta Green. Well maybe not dark machinations. More like fun shenanigans. 

First off, 2023-2024 has been the biggest year for Delta Green ever. Several of our books have gone to reprint (IMPOSSIBLE LANDSCAPES and the core rules come to mind, but others too!) I can't stress how incredible this is. In the 1990s, we would struggle to...

THE COVER IMAGES FOR THE INDIVIDUAL OPERATIONS OF GOD'S HUNT

GOD'S EYE
GOD'S LAW
GOD'S BREATH
GOD'S LIGHT

These are in progress, and will be released individually in PDF, and in softcover, and gathered together in a hardcover. Keep your eyes peeled. 

MORE FROM THE CANCELLED 2001 DELTA GREEN VIDEO GAME

Since the last article on the cancelled 2001 Delta Green video game garnered significant interest, John Tynes was nice enough to dead drop a bunch of old materials from it for you guys to look at, including:

-Game promo

-Final concept storyboard Powerpoint

-Final concept presentation Powerpoint

-And a few videos

Keep in mind, it WAS 2001, and computer graphics still had a long way to go!

THE MEN IN BLACK

"In the summer of 1967 an oddball character wandered into that restaurant. He was tall

and awkward, dressed in an ill-fitting black suit that seemed out of style. His chin came

to a sharp point and his eyes bulged slightly like "thyroid eyes." He sat down in a booth

and gestured to the waitress with his long, tapering fingers.

'Something to eat,' he mumbled. The waitress handed him a menu. He stared at it

2024-02-14 18:26:28 +0000 UTC View Post

DELTA GREEN MERIDIAN

Greetings Agents. Here's DELTA GREEN MERIDIAN, a new operation for Delta Green for proofreading.

We're looking to fix any typos or errors as we head towards final. That's where you come in.

Please submit all feedback to acell@me.com before March 1 (please don't post it in comments...it'll be lost).

Happy hunting.

THE SHAN X-RAY

Someone requested a better copy of the Shan X-Ray from the Delta Green video game presentation.

Here it is!

THE COVER IMAGE TO JOHN TYNES'S THE GOOD LIFE

The secret to the ghouls' design is this: a goat head, dog teeth, Aye-Aye fingers, Polar Bear fur and colouring, and searching for "butchered human meat" (DO NOT DO THIS LAST PART IF YOU ARE SQUEAMISH). 

I knew I was on the "big list of questionable internet searches" but now I'm certain I'm at the TOP of that list.

THE ABORTED DELTA GREEN VIDEO GAME FROM 2000

Someone posted about this on Reddit, so I figured I could share the presentation kit produced for Flying Lab's 2000 attempt to make an X-Com style Delta Green video game 24 years ago. (Keep in mind in 2000, these graphics were pretty darn good...it was a LONG time ago).

Flying Lab were wonderful partners with great ideas, and the game was a fantastic mix of X-Com and distorted sanity mechanics (kind of like Eternal Darkness).  But alas, no publishers bit, and the project was canc...

THE WAY IT WENT DOWN: FATA MORGANA

A Fata Morgana (Italian: [ˌfata morˈɡaːna]) is a complex form of superior mirage visible in a narrow band right above the horizon.

I tell my antarctic ghost story now, at the end of my career, when I'm dru...