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Delta Green The Role-Playing Game v.1.2

DELTA GREEN THE ROLE-PLAYING GAME

ARC DREAM PUBLISHING PRESENTS

DELTA GREEN: THE ROLE-PLAYING GAME

DENNIS DETWILLER, ADAM SCOTT GLANCY, KENNETH HITE, SHANE IVEY & GREG

STOLZE with GIL TREVIZO 

DEVELOPERS & EDITORS

DENNIS DETWILLER & SHANE IVEY

ART DIRECTOR &

ILLUSTRATOR

DENNIS DETWILLER

GRAPHIC DESIGNER

SIMEON COGSWELL

COPY

EDITOR

LISA PADOL

DELTA GREEN CREATED BY

DENNIS DETWILLER, ADAM SCOTT

GLANCY & JOHN TYNES

“That cult would never die till the stars came right again, and the secret priests would take great

Cthulhu from His tomb to revive His subjects and resume His rule of earth. The time would be

easy to know, for then mankind would have become as the Great Old Ones; free and wild and

beyond good and evil, with laws and morals thrown aside and all men shouting and killing and

reveling in joy.” 

—H.P. Lovecraft,

The Call of Cthulhu

"On Edward Teller’s blackboard at Los Alamos I once saw a list of weapons—ideas for weapons

—with their abilities and properties displayed. For the last one on the list, the largest, the

method of delivery was listed as 'Backyard.' Since that particular design would kill everyone on

Earth, there was no use carting it elsewhere." 

—Robert Serber, about Edward Teller

“Blessed be the torch.” 

—Máximo Gómez

AGENTS READ NO FURTHER

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THE FIRST REPORT

When Chilton took his shot, I jumped into the mirror room with the laptop bag, thinking,

anywhere is better than here.

Right at that moment, it seemed like a good play. Guns were out

and people were already dead. What did I have to lose?

Don’t answer yet.

The old McTeague luck is holding up great, pops. Trust me, you’d be proud.

From the lab at San Francisco university, the mirror room inexplicably opened onto a

shallow sea beneath a wall of diamond hard pinpoints of light. I goggled and stumbled and

laughed. I don’t know why. It was so surprising, I guess. The water was tropic, the low rock

islands steaming, and I could taste metal in my mouth. Then the mirror room folded in on itself

like an origami in a way which felt like someone had grabbed both sides of my brain and was

twisting them; pulling them apart…

Before it was gone, I was gone.

I woke sometime later, head in the mud, soaked in warm water, the lone occupant of this

place. World. I stood. I shouted. Knee deep clear water, low rock islands. Nothing. No mirrors.

No people. No life. When I breathed too fast, I began to feel happy and stupid. The computer

was ruined. Shorted out in the water, but there was some damp paper. A pen. Some M&Ms.

I sat for a time trying to catch up with what the world had become, for me. I took off my

shoes and soaked my feet.

Then, one last indignity. The moon rose; crazy-close. Huge and unblemished as a child’s

face. Its surface white and perfect and empty, like the eons and epochs ahead of me, that will

toil on without me, forward, until my birth again.

I’ll write my last report here. Hell, the ﬁrst report. I’ll write the ﬁrst one. I am the ﬁrst agent,

now. It’s all I have so don’t deny it to me, okay? Hello?

Dear V-Cell, do not enter the mirror room. Do not let John enter the mirror room. Destroy the

mirror room. Destroy Auroratech. Destroy John. Destroy the world. Dear V-Cell, nothing is real

and everything is alive. The end has come and will come and come again.

Find my bones here and see. Know. Wait for me. I’m coming. But time moves so slowly…

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INTRODUCTION

Welcome to Delta Green, a role-playing game of horror, wonder, and conspiracy. By opening

this book, you have chosen to become the

Handler.

It’s the Handler’s job to keep the players—

who take the role of Delta Green Agents—engaged. You are the creator, host, and judge of all

things that occur in the ﬁctional world of Delta Green. You ﬁll it with secrets, take the role of non

player characters (NPCs) the Agents interact with, and create the threats they face. You roll the

dice and make the calls. In Delta Green only the Handler understands the absolute truth.

Delta Green is about truths that

kill.

The ultimate truth is this: mankind was not the ﬁrst, nor

will it be the last of the Earth’s masters. In remote places, through rends in space/time, and

beyond the veil of our limited, four-dimensional existence,

things

await release. When they are

free, humanity will burn. An isolated few in the know—Delta Green—struggle to resist this ﬁnal

conﬂagration.

Being a Handler requires preparation, imagination, and an unwavering vision of where the

game is headed. In Delta Green, it also requires an indifference to outcome. It might seem like a

good idea to alter a die roll to save an Agent, or drop a vital clue when the team is on the wrong

path. Resist these urges. Delta Green is not about victory, it’s about the

ﬁght.

Delta Green is about man’s urge to survive, understand, and overcome, in a universe wholly

antithetical to these concepts. Agents of Delta Green struggle to defeat threats that outstrip

even the human mind, as the world rushes towards inevitable destruction. Agents live their lives

—what of them they can maintain—and keep the ultimate secret from their loved ones. No

matter what they do, they know, eventually, the apocalypse is coming.

Congratulations, Handler; you’ve just been promoted to the apocalypse.

RUNNING DELTA GREEN

To run a Delta Green game as a Handler, gather friends, rulebooks and dice, and describe

what's happening to their Agents. The players react as their Agents might react in the situations

you describe, and attempt to solve the mystery, without losing their Agents to insanity or death.

A single unit of Delta Green play is called a

session.

A single Delta Green mystery is called

operation

(some operations take many sessions to resolve). Multiple operations strung

together are called a

campaign.

Delta Green agents sometimes call an operation a “night at the opera,” or a “psychotic

opera”. Operations have code-names for the sake of secrecy, like Operation BLACK FLAG,

Operation PUZZLEBOX, or Operation OBSIDIAN.

Delta Green has existed since 1942 as an arm of the secretive Ofﬁce of Strategic Services,

exploiting the Nazis’ obsession with the "occult" in the Second World War. In reality, it fought

actual

unnatural horrors uncovered by Nazi research.

Since the Second World War, Delta Green has existed in many forms. First, as a commando

operation, then as a psychological warfare unit, then an investigation service, then a conspiracy

within the federal government.

In 2017, it is both a conspiracy

as well as

a sanctioned program, working independently—

and sometimes at odds—with one another. Most importantly, very few people in either group

understand this schism.

WHAT A DELTA GREEN AGENT DOES

Delta Green agents locate, destroy and keep secret the unnatural forces that threaten American

interests. Of course, unnatural threats exist outside the United States, but Delta Green does not

have the resources or will to police the world. Larger world governments have similar programs,

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like Britain’s PISCES, Canada’s M-EPIC and Russia’s GRU SV-8. These groups operate in a

similar manner to Delta Green within their own sovereign territories.

Delta Green agents operate in secret, and often hold a normal Federal job, such as FBI

agent, Postal Inspector or USAMRIID Specialist. Their actual employer—a government agency,

the armed forces or some private company—never understand Delta Green’s

real

mission.

Delta Green operations routinely require agents to lie, cheat, steal, and commit crimes for

the greater good. Violence, insanity and death surround Delta Green operations, and all who

serve the group eventually pay a physical or mental price. But almost any action is justiﬁable in

the face of human extinction.

The forces of the unnatural they put down are real and relentless. Long ago, the group came

to the conclusion that there is no ultimate solution, only an endless holding action against the

forces from outside. Of course, Delta Green never tells its recruits

that.

If they live long enough,

they’ll ﬁnd out. They always do.

THE GROUP AND THE PROGRAM

Delta Green has existed in many forms over the decades—and it exists in many forms today.

Like any covert agency, there are parts which operate in the absolute black, just as there are

splinter groups, defectors and worse.

Are your Agents members of the ofﬁcial U.S. government special access program special

access program known colloquially as “the Program”? Or are they in a conspiracy that colludes

to use government resources for unsanctioned missions, known as “the Group”? Or are they

outsiders—canaries in a coal-mine—who have never even

heard

the name Delta Green?

The real nature of Delta Green in the game remains up to the Handler to decide. And it’s a

separate question from what the Agents

believe

they understand. The Agents might think they’re

part of an ofﬁcial program when they work for conspirators. They might think they’re outsiders,

but answer to people in the reactivated program.

The truth is they may never know their position

in the hierarchy of the group and this should be a central theme in the game.

The only thing Delta Green agents should know for certain is that their mission, even at its

most odious, saves lives and can

never

be revealed to the public.

TOOLS PRESENTED WITHIN

You’ll see headings in this book which indicate the

type

of information which might be found in

that section. These are scattered throughout the text as asides, and are there to provide both

experienced and ﬂedgling Handlers a ready set of tools to choose from to make their game run

smoothly.

∆

ASSETS:

A description of a book, item, location or character ready for use in a Delta Green

game.

∆

DISINFORMATION:

A summary of a concept in the world of Delta Green, along with options

on how to use it in your Delta Green campaign. The information presented here is there to

mine, modify or correlate with other contents in any way you wish.

∆

IN THE FIELD:

A summary of a campaign background for a Delta Green game: be it the

Second World War, the Cold War, the “Cowboy Years” or even playing as MAJESTIC

personnel. Along with clear guidelines to get the “feel” right.

∆

OPINT:

Rule modiﬁcations, notes on how to run the game mechanically, and other rules-

intensive notes.

∆

THREAT MATRIX:

A summary on

how to portray

a particular threat in-game.

∆

THREAT PROFILE:

A summary of a particular threat in the world of Delta Green.

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DISINFORMATION: “Agent” OR “agent”?

Any time you see the word “Agent” capitalized in this game, it refers to a Delta Green player

character. Delta Green has many agents; the ones sitting at your table are Agents.

DISINFORMATION: EARLIER WORKS

Delta Green has existed since 1992, when it ﬁrst appeared in issue 7 of

The Unspeakable Oath.

Created by Dennis Detwiller, Adam Scott Glancy and John Tynes, Delta Green has supported a

large number of successful books and supplements which will

all

be useful in running

Delta

Green: The Role-Playing Game.

They are all still available and are highly recommended as a

resource to mine for game material. With very few exceptions, nearly all stats, spells and items

are easily transferred to this rule set.

∆

Delta Green

Delta Green: COUNTDOWN

Delta Green: Alien Intelligence

(ﬁction)

Delta Green: Dark Theaters

(ﬁction)

Delta Green: The Rules of Engagement

(ﬁction)

Delta Green: Denied to the Enemy

(ﬁction)

Delta Green: EYES ONLY

Delta Green: Through a Glass, Darkly

(ﬁction)

Delta Green: Targets of Opportunity

Delta Green: Strange Authorities

(ﬁction)

Delta Green: Tales From Failed Anatomies

(ﬁction)

Delta Green: Extraordinary Renditions

(ﬁction)

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