"Reliquary" will probably be a coda in Falling Towers, counting coup and costs after the main campaign. I ran an early version for Dead Channels. That found many things to improve. I'll probably post a fuller version here sometime. This is the opening scene. —Shane Ivey
July 04, 2025
The DG stay-behind operation of Caleb Stokes, Ross Payton, and Kenneth Hite will be in attendance at GenCon 2025. For all who want to hear the annual Arc Dream update face-to-face, bring your questions July 31st @ 8pm EDT in ICC: 244. For those who can't be there, we
May 06, 2025
New readers often wonder what is the best order to follow the many books of Delta Green fiction, for lack of a better word. Here's the order we recommend. DENIED TO THE ENEMY Delta Green's early days in WW2. TALES FROM FAILED ANATOMIES Short stories that
April 10, 2025
A DELTA GREEN HUMBLE BUNDLE goes live today at 11am PDT The bundle will launch Thursday, 3/20 at 11am Pacific and end on Thursday, 4/10 at 11am Pacific PDT. https://www.humblebundle.com/books/delta-green-rpg-vtt-fiction-collection-books It will have EVERYTHING from the modern game in ZIP and PDF. All
March 20, 2025
Delta Green: Extremophilia is now available for FOUNDRY and ROLL20. DO YOU WANT TO LIVE FOREVER? A secretive research company has developed a miracle drug, only to learn that every miracle has its price. Delta Green agents may be the ones to pay it. Extremophilia brings the agents to Helena,
March 12, 2025
WELCOME TO THE APOCALYPSE Born of the U.S. government’s 1928 raid on the degenerate coastal town of Innsmouth, Massachusetts, the covert agency known as Delta Green spent four decades opposing the forces of darkness with honor, but without glory. Stripped of sanction after a disastrous 1969 operation in
March 07, 2025
A chalk mark on a sidewalk. A cloth hanging in a window. A crumple of bright green paper left in a certain waste basket. The signal is unmistakeable. Gather your Agents. Delta Green is calling. Delta Green: Dead Drops is available now in PDF and hardback. OPERATIONS AND REVELATIONS Terrors
March 01, 2025
Delta Green: God's Light is now available in PDF and in full-color paperback. WHERE LIES THE LINE BETWEEN MADNESS AND EVIL? It is madness to cross the threshold. It is evil not to seek the threshold. Which do you choose? A seemingly ordinary American mass shooting draws the
February 27, 2025
Directive From A-Cell 102, “Conspiracy with a Little c,” provided advice on how to create Delta Green-style campaigns set in other countries. Part of that directive addressed developing foreign government agencies into campaign settings by building unnatural-aware conspiracies around local law enforcement agencies. Certainly the most likely point of contact
December 31, 2024
Editor's note: This column was written in 2013, long before Russia's disastrous 2022 invasion of Ukraine revealed how badly corruption had hollowed out the strength and effectiveness of the Russian military. When I wrote about GRU Spetsialni Viedotstvo 8 for Delta Green: Countdown, the world was
December 28, 2024
A vicious gang in the country's most notorious sheriff's department runs into a conspiracy even more dangerous: Delta Green. The Delta Green scenario God's Law is now available in PDF and paperback. God's Law will eventually be included in the hardback collection
December 27, 2024
During the French and Indian War, 25-year-old Robert Rogers of the American colonial militia organized a unit to engage in wilderness guerilla warfare against the enemies of Britain. In 1757 he wrote “Rogers’ Rules for Ranging,” a list of 28 guidelines to help turn frontiersmen into infantry specialized in reconnaissance
December 25, 2024
Writing this Directive I'm taking a break from the Delta Green post-9/11 update, our new Delta Green book that will cover the changes to the fictional Delta Green universe caused by such real-world events as the 9/11 attacks and the War on Terror, Hurricane Katrina, the
December 21, 2024
Editor's note: This 2012 column deals with rules from before the publication of Delta Green: The Role-Playing Game. The DGRPG rules explicitly use Stealth in conjunction with other skills to represent the needs of tradecraft. One of the beauties of Delta Green's percentile system is the
December 16, 2024
And you may say to yourself: My God! What have I done? FOR PAID SUBSCRIBERS First looks at art for upcoming books. Hours of actual play with Delta Green authors. Nearly 100 pages of scenarios and Delta Green background. Is that worth a paid subscription? Just like the outcome of
December 13, 2024
Editor's note: This column from 2009 considers the Delta Green conspiracy before the advent of the Program and the Outlaws as described in the Handler's Guide. The 9/11 terrorist attacks didn’t just change our world. It also changed our fictional worlds. No fiction set
December 12, 2024
Apollo 20 is a hoax that's been on the internet since 2007. Here's how to use it in your Delta Green game. For those who have never heard of it, the story of "William Rutledge" is interesting and ultimately completely unbelievable. Still, it has
December 10, 2024
Written about the Delta Green conspiracy before the Program. Delta Green is an odd organization. It employs a sort of Orwellian double-think when it comes to science, intel on unnatural creatures and “hyper-geometry” — the science of “magic”. When something anomalous is recovered, there is a limited inquiry by the group,
December 07, 2024
Editor's note: This dispatch is from 2007. Some things have changed. The 21st century opened with America ‘discovering’ an enemy that had been making no attempt to hide itself for the past decade. Radical Islamists had been blowing up western interests around the world for the better part
December 05, 2024
I receive a lot of email about my gaming methods in Delta Green. It’s nice to be known as a heartless killing machine; I take it as a compliment. Many people have praised/complained about my style of scenario creation as well. In any case people are talking about
December 04, 2024
Much has been written about how new Agents and Friendlies are brought into the [1990s] Delta Green conspiracy. It’s all laid out in The Conspiracy. What was left out of the discussion is how someone gets out of the conspiracy. This has led to a fair amount of speculation,
December 02, 2024
Something is wrong with Indian Hill, Vermont. It’s been wrong a long, long time. The Indians knew it. The Pennacook cursed the land and told people not to settle there, even after they were treated as squatters in their own country. They called the one bald peak “Gizos ndeb”
November 30, 2024
One of the main reasons I wanted to write about the U.S. government’s interest in the unnatural was that Lovecraft himself gave me the opening with the government raid against the Esoteric Order of Dagon in his story “The Shadow Over Innsmouth.” With that one opening my co-authors
November 29, 2024
In an earlier directive I briefly discussed the appetite that Delta Green’s foreign audience has for inventing Delta Green-style agencies for their home countries so that local players feel more at ease. I can certainly understand why foreign players intrigued by Delta Green’s contemporary setting would prefer a
November 26, 2024
Dr. Hawthorne was forced to abandon vital intel in Stockholm a decade ago: intel that could unlock the mystery behind the Wolves of Erik.
November 25, 2024
1997 analysis. Gulf War Veterans’ Syndrome is a hotly debated malady that the Pentagon largely denies. A DG friendly claims to have inside information that relates GWVS to Majestic-12, and needs help from outside the chain of command. Extremely Low Frequency transmissions–sonics–can be used as disabling weapons. They’
November 24, 2024
Editor's note: This Directive was written in 2004. It touches on elements of the Delta Green setting that have evolved since then. In the first Delta Green sourcebook we came up with a number of organizations for Delta Green to grapple with. Chief among these was Majestic-12, a
November 24, 2024
People get hurt. Objects vanish. Misery flows like the water from the loose faucet in the bathroom. Hate hangs in the air like old paint.
November 12, 2024
DATE: September 13, 1996 AGENTS: Marcus, Marion SUMMARY: Investigation into the disappearance and death of agent Ivan. CASE STATUS: Closed. Forwarded to us by I cell, this routine case uncovered some deeply disturbing evidence. Ivan, an agent of good repute with the organization, was reported missing by his cell leader
November 03, 2024
Errata lists here.
October 30, 2024
1997 analysis. Prior to 1969, Delta Green monitored the activities of governmental agencies whose charters included investigation or study of paranormal phenomena. This program was to ensure that Delta Green would not have to again face an enemy like the Karotechia: a foreign intelligence agency proficient in, or dedicated to
October 26, 2024
Good question, my friend. Very good question, indeed. A long time ago, I asked that very same question of a fellow at the Library of Congress. I’ve been asked that same question maybe a dozen times since then. I’d like to tell you differently, but I handed those
October 24, 2024
Folki Tyrsson died the leader of the Wolves of Erik, a "neo-völkist" biker gang and pagan cult that once terrorized the country.
October 22, 2024
A deputy gang met the unnatural and began twisting older, deeper laws towards the tired avarice of police corruption. They expect the usual complicity at every level of government. They find Delta Green.
October 10, 2024
Delta Green: God's Breath, written by Caleb Stokes and illustrated by Dennis Detwiller, is now available in paperback and PDF. AVALON STRONG! When Colorado legalized marijuana, ambitious entrepreneurs rushed to meet a public demand. Some were more ambitious than others. A few cared not at all for the
September 10, 2024
Five Delta Green gamers spent two years playing DELTA GREEN: IMPOSSIBLE LANDSCAPES to incredible effect, and ran the finale in a rented bar. This is not to be missed. BUY A HARDCOPY OF DELTA GREEN: IMPOSSIBLE LANDSCAPES NOW...
September 03, 2024
We often get messages asking about the various iterations of Delta Green Patreons and subscription sites. These sites developed naturally to support different needs for the property over time. But Delta Green is bigger and more vibrant than it's ever been, with a ton more waiting in the
August 30, 2024
IMPORTANT: I AM POSTING THIS ON GHOST.IO TO KEEP USERS UP TO DATE ON THE ONGOING CHANGES AT THE DELTA GREEN PATREON. THOSE SUBSCRIBED HERE...THERE ARE NO CHANGES NEEDED ON YOUR PART AT GHOST.IO. Due to Patreon changes (yet again), creators are being forced to switch from
August 21, 2024
For those catching up, I've launched a second site for Delta Green subscribers, now available at both https://delta-green.ghost.io and www.patreon.com/detwiller. Both sites will be maintained identically and indefinitely. For the second time in as many years, and despite previous assurances, Patreon now
August 18, 2024
Crowdfunding has always been a strange beast. And when you marry that concept with tech (like Patreon), it requires careful consideration of the rising and falling of the market, the ongoing costs, the technical risks, as well as a million other things on a day to day basis. It is
August 15, 2024
