Questions tagged [delta-green-for-call-of-cthulhu]

Delta Green is a setting for the Call of Cthulhu role-playing game created by Adam Scott Glancy, Dennis Detwiller, and John Tynes, a.k.a. the Delta Green Partnership

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How to find the line between an investigation and railroading

I'm a fairly experienced GM creating and running a series of Delta Green games (a modern supplement for Call of Cthulhu). While my players and I enjoy the game, there are parts that bog down and get ...
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Metafictional Lovecraft in a Call of Cthulhu campaign

Is there an official stance - expressed in the publications of Chaosium and/or its licensees - on how Lovecraft and his works are incorporated metafictionally into the universe of Call of Cthulhu, if ...
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Lovecraft's Deep Ones and co. in the 21st century

Are there any official (ie. published by Chaosium or its licensees) sources on what the Deep Ones (and, secondarily, similarly "human-scoped" creatures: ghouls, Mi-Go etc) of the Cthulhu Mythos are up ...
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Which Delta Green books do I need to get started?

Following on from Which Call of Cthulhu books do I need to get started?, I would also like to get into Delta Green. Similar questions, then: How useful will the core book be on its own? Are any ...
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How to execute horror when there is safety in numbers

Questions such as this one and this one cover how to execute horror in a role-playing game fairly thoroughly. This process must be modified, however, when the traditional trappings of a game session ...
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How many GMs is enough to run a Mega-Game?

My two friends and I are going to spend quite a bit of time preparing a mega-game. It will be a weekend long gaming session with around 20 players, and the three of us as GMs. We are trying to figure ...
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Compatability of Dread and Delta Green

I don't play a lot of RPGs any more, and they're all one-shot games: my days of playing long term, regular campaigns are long behind me. However, one of the few regrets I have about my role-playing ...
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