By Jason Kraus The late 1960s were a heady time for society. Classified, compartmented military and intelligence programs on both sides of the Iron Curtain experimented with previously unutilized chemical compounds to gain advantage over their adversaries and insight into the human mind. In the shadowy corridors of Langley and Lubyanka, the competition to win […]
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By Jason Kraus Manipulating an opponent’s mind from within is much more difficult than lashing out with a telekinetic punch or willing the evidence in an interrogator’s hands to burst into flame. It is the dream of every special agent, spy, and clandestine operator to control the way an opponent thinks and feels, experiences reality, […]
In the latest episode of their orgulous podcast, Ken and Robin talk prelude scenes in scenarios, rare words, 60s fantasy films, and tulpa describer Alexandra David-Néel.
In the latest episode of their precisely coined podcast, Ken and Robin talk the double meaning of roleplaying, surrealist occultist Ithell Colquhoun, early 50s fantasy films, and using the time machine to change a critical term.
By Jason Kraus What follows are alternative rules for psychics in Fall of Delta Green that strain Health instead of Stability. Psychics use Paranormal Ability Points, which are a General Ability that can be improved and refreshed the same way. Using Paranormal Powers does not damage Stability when used, though the outcome of their effect […]
In the latest episode of their high and dry podcast, Ken and Robin talk urban fantasy university, Dayton’s Great Flood, late 30s fantasy films, and occult 60s rocker Graham Bond.
The Borellus Connection’s designed as a relatively linear set of adventures. The player characters have a supervisor (Boiler o’Riordan, aka CARSTAIRS) who gives them assignments; these assignments are all part of DELTA GREEN’s ongoing investigation into the Unione Corse’s ties to the Unnatural. The campaign can be played as a series of missions of the […]
Recorded live at Gen Con, Ken and Robin talk the US-UK intergalactic financial war, game book info presentation, what we drink in Indy, and investigating the cult in your real-life neighborhood.
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“I have anticipated my narrative because I do not wish to recur to the horror more than is necessary.” —Theodore Roosevelt, Through the Brazilian Wilderness (1914) In 1914, former President Theodore Roosevelt and his son Kermit, along with the Brazilian Colonel Cândido Rondon and the naturalist George Cherrie, descended the unmapped Rio da Dúvida, the […]
In the latest installment of their bibliomaniacal podcast, Ken and Robin talk Bookhounds of Timewatch, Peter Adkison, the Borellus Connection, and astronomer George Ellery Hale’s elf adviser.