Follow the Devil’s Highway in “Puppet Shows & Shadow Plays”

The classic Delta Green scenario Puppet Shows and Shadow Plays is available in PDF and full-color paperback. Fully adapted to play with Delta Green: The Role-Playing Game, Puppet Shows and Shadow Plays features new art and design to hold its place on the stage set by Nineties sourcebook Delta Green: The Conspiracy.

Puppet Shows and Shadow Plays is written by Adam Scott Glancy and illustrated by Dennis Detwiller.

Thirteen people have vanished along Highway 70 in the Arizona desert. That stretch of road—the press already calls it the “Devil’s Highway”—runs through the San Carlos Apache Indian Reservation. Tribal police and state investigators are at a loss. Now the FBI steps in. It sends your agents. They may find a trail of terror that leads far from Arizona and a deeper evil than they can hope to overcome.

Set in the late 1990s, “Puppet Shows and Shadow Plays” is an introductory scenario for Delta Green: The Role-Playing Game. It accompanies the Nineties sourcebook Delta Green: The Conspiracy. The players’ Agents can be members of the Delta Green conspiracy or newcomers who have no idea what to expect. The Devil’s Highway may drive survivors to a grim initiation. Once they see the unnatural threats that Delta Green confronts, can they ever turn away?

Puppet Shows and Shadow Plays is shipping now to pre-order customers and Kickstarter backers. It will be available in stores in April 2024.

The cover of "Puppet Shows & Shadow Plays." An Apache man smiles, impossibly alive with a horrifying head injury.

Shane Ivey runs Arc Dream Publishing and is lead editor for Delta Green.