On Tue, May 1, 2012 at 01:03, james_haughton2002 ... The SAN loss induced may cause incidents as well ... there are certain things Mankind is just not ready to...
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David P
gaidaigoji
May 1, 2012 11:39 am
Sweet! It'll be like those read along books I used to have as a kid. ... [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]...
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Shane A. Caraker
s.caraker@...
May 1, 2012 12:17 pm
Eegads! I've been trying to get a regular/weekly game of DG going, so I put up a meetup group invite deal for it. Due to a lack of admin rights, I couldn't...
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Martin Tulloch
macmonkey1
May 1, 2012 1:25 pm
You could always run Project Obsidian, the DG Vietnam OP that went south(east asia) with a bang. I know Ross (Payton) ran it and the actual play audio is...
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Martin Tulloch
macmonkey1
May 1, 2012 1:30 pm
And of course 'New Age' from the core book starts with a big multi-agency investigation, has enough seriously nasty bad guys in it to challenge groups of any...
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casper@...
wootfuxor
May 1, 2012 2:06 pm
You really have two issues here: A) What story do you want to tell? and B) How do you keep 7 players engaged? The advice I'd give you is to leverage A to help...
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PirateLawyer
dasewh
May 1, 2012 4:04 pm
... This is an excellent suggestion; I just recently listened to the AP. Depending on the time block you'll have available, you might not need to invent Parts...
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s.caraker@...
May 1, 2012 4:39 pm
These are all great suggestions. Now I've got some ideas on things to look at and review. I do (sometimes inadvertantly) have a tendency to put players into...
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Shane A. Caraker
s.caraker@...
May 1, 2012 6:05 pm
But why does everything seem to involve things hidden in peoples pants?!?! And actually, if the media had just been on his person, instead of in his pants,...
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Giles Hill
giles632
May 1, 2012 6:27 pm
Its derived from the After action report for Operation Obsidian which Mr Glancy wrote for The Black Seal Vietnam Special*. Giles *...for which I am...
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PirateLawyer
dasewh
May 1, 2012 6:51 pm
... I'm glad to hear this long-rumored project will see the light of day ... will it have a print run, or be a pdf-only release? Will it be out by GenCon? -PL...
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terb_remark
May 1, 2012 7:15 pm
It's not purely DG, but my monograph Machine Tractor Station Kharkov-37 can handle 7; it may go over 1 night though. Ditto that for Escape from Innsmouths...
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Shane A. Caraker
s.caraker@...
May 1, 2012 7:31 pm
Oh, the goal is to have a weekly recurring game, so going more than 1 night isn't a big deal. OOP makes things difficult though. =P ... [Non-text portions of...
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committed_hero
May 1, 2012 7:31 pm
I was going to post this, just figured the friendly brought the toys back....
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Adam Crossingham
bad_or_mad
May 1, 2012 7:38 pm
... It will be available in dead tree format and PDF. It is unlikely to be out by Gen-Con, as it can take up to three months to print and we're not even ready...
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Gil Trevizo
furrylogic2
May 1, 2012 7:40 pm
Split the group into two bi-weekly games, one with 3 players, the other with 4. Run the scenarios with one and then the other gets the benefit of that...
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Shane Ivey
hzgshane
May 1, 2012 8:05 pm
... In my experience with big groups the players usually split into two or even three teams to handle different parts of the case. Your challenge then is ...
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Randall Padilla
wisewolf_cr
May 1, 2012 8:50 pm
Interesting. Time to undust and start cracking my Ginger collection...you never know what you may find hidden. ... [Non-text portions of this message have been...
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festusdirk
May 1, 2012 9:08 pm
... how do you explain a stamp collection during a strip search?...
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Ilan Rosenstein
deepone6
May 2, 2012 6:02 pm
Has anyone used Cthulhu Dark to run Delta Green? Did you mod it at all to reflect DG, such as adding some sort of combat mechanic?...
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Hans-Christian Vortisch
greytiger@...
May 2, 2012 6:49 pm
Some SPOILERS for this book below. Tim Powers' DECLARE (2001) is basically a fictionalised version of the history of SIS traitor Kim Philby, covering a period...
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The Man in Black
mib_dg
May 2, 2012 8:41 pm
... Switching systems requires unnecessary work to convert everything from published material. That's why I stopped using GURPS, and don't use d20, Trail of...
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Gil Trevizo
furrylogic2
May 2, 2012 8:54 pm
... I've played it in a classic-era CoC game, and, even there, we ended up having to resort to a hand-waving combat mechanic. The game was fun, but I was very...
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Gil Trevizo
furrylogic2
May 2, 2012 9:10 pm
An American treasure hunter claims to have identified the area where the US Navy dumped bin Laden's body and is gathering the resources to go get the corpse: ...
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PirateLawyer
dasewh
May 2, 2012 9:13 pm
... Charles Stross, in his 2003 afterward to The Atrocity Archives, which I highly recommend, comments that he forced himself not to read Declare - which had...
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Gil Trevizo
furrylogic2
May 2, 2012 9:32 pm
On Wed, May 2, 2012 at 11:49 AM, Hans-Christian Vortisch ... Powers just mentions an "American derringer" (lower-case "derringer") never explicitly as the...
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Shane Ivey
hzgshane
May 2, 2012 9:40 pm
... I agree. I love the book and think it has a staggering number of ingredients that could be appropriated for period DG -- but it ultimately is far more...
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umlauthuth
May 3, 2012 1:17 am
It's a novel about people performing human sacrifices to prehuman aliens (who live in a dreamlike-half death in Irem) who recontextualize the consciousnesses...
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Gil Trevizo
furrylogic2
May 3, 2012 1:43 am
... In my reading, that came off as just background, and a rather minute and vague part of the background to what was essentially a secret history first, a...
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umlauthuth
May 3, 2012 1:49 am
In that Derleth wrote pulp fiction and Lovecraft usually was going for atmosphere over plot, yes....
