Delta Green: Countdown
Second Printing Corrections
©2001 The Delta Green Partnership

The long-awaited second printing of the award-winning Delta Green: Countdown will be in stores August, 2001. This printing features a number of corrections and additions.

Special Note: The second printing of DG:CD would not have been possible without the generosity of Cell L Case Officer Edward Lipsett. Many thanks and watch your back, Edward!

Errata finders: The following people contributed corrections that we implemented in the second printing.

Martin Andersson
Ben Bell
Ricardo J. Méndez
Don Fougere
Björn Hellqvist
Eckhard Huelshoff
Don Juneau
James King
James Palmer
John Petherick
Graeme Price
Charles Ripper
Hans-Christian Vortisch

p. 10 "British Aerospace" changed to "British aerospace" to avoid confusion with a company of the same name; the term was meant generically.

p. 14 "Ill health took Sir Cummings' life two months later." corrected to"Ill health took Sir Mansfield¹s life two months later."

p. 16 "Reichsfuhrer Rudolph Hess" corrected to "Reichsminister Rudolph Hess"

p. 16 "Werhmacht" corrected to "Wehrmacht"

p. 16 "Air Marshal Herman Goering" changed to "Reichsmarschall Hermann Goering"

p. 17 "Reichsmarshal Himmler" corrected to "Reichsführer-SS Himmler"

p. 17 "Sicherheitdienst" corrected to "Sicherheitsdienst"

p. 31 "Education: Cambridge University, B.A. Archæology" corrected to "Education: Cambridge University, M.A. Archæology and Anthropology"

p. 31-32 "Lady Marjorie Rittingham" corrected to "The Duchess of Staffordshire". "Lady Rittingham" corrected to "Rittingham"

p. 37-39 "Zembregi" corrected to "Zegrembi"

p. 39 "Shadow Cabinet" corrected to "shadow cabinet"

p. 52 "Education: BSc Economic History, Cambridge University" corrected to "Education: M.A. Economic History, Cambridge University"

GRU SV-8

"Laverti Beria" corrected to "Lavrenti Beria" throughout

p. 72 "Dr. Edward Peis" corrected to "Dr. Edwin Peis"

p. 76 "Direccion General de la Intelligencia" corrected to "Dirección General de la Inteligencia"

p. 81 "Marakov" corrected to "Makarov"

Phenomen-X

p. 133 "video editors an `d directors" corrected to "video editors and directors"

Tiger Transit

p. 142 "Quite often Berg and Toddhunter took advantage" corrected to "Quite often Bisagne and Toddhunter took advantage"

p. 144 "Meo, Hmoung, and Montanyards" corrected to "Hmong and Montanyards"

The D Stacks

p. 173 "first-generation" corrected to "second-generation"

p. 174 Eye of Horus ring entry: added final sentence, "Its powers are unknown."

p. 175 "Zhao Zheng Wu" corrected to "Wu Zhaozheng"

p. 175 APP 11 added to stats list

p. 175 Spell list properly alphabetized. "Fist of Yog-Sothoth" added to spell list

p. 181 "Fist of Yog-Sothoth" added to spell list

p. 179 Added sidebar with "Covenant" spell. This new spell was left out of COUNTDOWN, though it did appear in the Fate chapbook. This spell is used by Dr. Jensen Wu and the text follows.

COVENANT: This is a method to train a specifc entity of a summoned race to perform the operator's bidding without the necessity of the Bind spell. The operator must know the Summon spell for the creature in question as well as the Covenant ritual. This spell is cast on a singular member of the species, and if it dies, the Covenant must once more be re-cast on another. To form a Covenant with a creature the operator repeatedly summons the beast from the safety of a complex geometric ward. This sigil acts as a barrier preventing the creature from attacking the operator. A live human "token" must be offered each time the ritual is enacted. The victim is consumed by the entity as a means of assuaging its urges to consume the operator, and to win its favor. Each time a victim is offered and the Covenant ritual is enacted, the operator loses 1D8 SAN (plus the SAN loss for the creature) and must expend 5 Magic Points. After the creature arrives and consumes the token,the operator gains a 10% chance of calling that speciÞc creature again with the use of a simple mental summons. This summon score can never be higher than 80%.

When the operator wishes to call the creature he shares the Covenant with, he simply mentally summons it. The creature appears in 1D4 minutes after the summons is enacted. The operator then indicates a token for the creature to take; often this is the equivalent of summoning/binding a creature and ordering it to attack a foe. If there is no token there or the target indicated is too diffcult to kill, the creature attacks the operator.

The Hastur Mythos

p. 217 "XXI: Le Roi en Jaune (The King in Yellow [The Hierophant])" corrected to "XXI: Le Roi en Jaune (The King in Yellow [The Emperor])"

Agency Templates

p. 326 "Lance Corporal" corrected to "Corporal"

p. 348 "Bundesamtes fur Verfassungsschutz" corrected to "Bundesamt fuer Verfassungsschutz"

p. 349 "Grenshutzgruppe 9" corrected to "Grenzschutzgruppe 9". Reference to assassination of a RAF member deleted.

p. 378-79 Hindi language skills improved for both NPCs

p. 396 "Vaxolm" corrected to "Vaxholm"

p. 396 Sten Hård's "DEX 1" corrected to "DEX 12". (Yes, "Sten Hård" means "Rock Hard," but it's also an entirely plausible name.)

p. 396 "Tore Modèn" corrected to "Tore Modén"

p. 396 "Swiss 96%" corrected to "Swedish 96%"

p. 400 Sentence about water pistols deleted.

p. 400 "Ian Hamilton" corrected to "Thomas Hamilton" various British agencies: "Minister of..." changed to "Ministry of..."

p. 412 "Able-Seaman Bruce Joseph, age 20" corrected to "Marine Bruce Joseph, age 20"

p. 417 "Chief Petty-Officer Steven Phillips, age 24" corrected to "Colour Sergeant Steven Phillips, age 24"