Delta Green

2 History

Delta Green is a setting for the Call of Cthulhu roleplaying game created by Adam Scott Glancy, Dennis Detwiller, and John Tynes, a.k.a. the Delta Green Partnership, of the Seattle gaming house Pagan Publishing.
In August 2011, Arc Dream Publishing and the Delta
Green Partnership announced development of a standalone Delta Green role-playing game.[1]

In 1998, Delta Green won the Origins Award for Best

Roleplaying Supplement of 1997. The setting also won
two awards in 2000: Best Game-Related Novel of 1999
for Delta Green: The Rules of Engagement and Best Roleplaying Supplement of 1999 for Delta Green: Countdown.

On May 1, 2006, the Pagan Publishing homepage was

updated with an announcement describing the reasons for
the delay of the new release of Delta Green, and stating
that the d20 edition of the game should be available in
time for Gen Con Indy. While there were a few show
copies available there were no copies available for sale to
1 Premise
the public as most of them were still being shipped from
China.[3] As of May 2007 the book, which is a reprint of
the 1997 book with the addition of D20 stats, was nally
[3]
Delta Green is a contemporary setting, starting in the mid- reprinted and was available in stores.
1990s with intermittent updates thereafter. The game A hardback compilation of the three Delta Green Eyes
revolves around a ctitious secret organization, created Only chapbooks, along with additional material, was reby the U.S. Government following the covert raid on the leased in November 2007. The book was published in cotown of Innsmouth, Massachusetts mentioned in H.P. operation with Arc Dream Publishing. The entire 1,000
Lovecrafts The Shadow Over Innsmouth. The organiza- copy print run was sold out by February 2008.[4] The
tion takes its name from its World War II era codename. hardback edition of Delta Green: Eyes Only was a nalist for the Origins Award for Best Roleplaying Supplement of 2007. A softback version of the compilation
followed in September 2008 and is available to retail distribution.

Delta Green agents work undercover through other U.S.

government agencies, recruiting across a wide range including the FBI, ATF, CDC, and DEA. It appears to
have gone rogue somewhere between the 1960s and the
1980s, following a disastrous operation in Cambodia and
a deal struck by Reagan-era rivals in Majestic-12, ostensibly with "Greys".

Pagan Publishing and Arc Dream Publishing began work

in mid-2008 on a new sourcebook, Delta Green: Targets
of Opportunity, which was released as a limited-edition
hardback in June 2010, to be followed by a softcover retail edition.[5][6] As of August 2011 the entire 1,000-copy
print run of the hardback limited edition was sold out. In
August 2011, Delta Green: Targets of Opportunity won
silver (2nd place) Ennie Awards for Best Writing and Best
Adventure.[7]

The group was introduced in the seventh issue of The Unspeakable Oath, a Call of Cthulhu fanzine created by Pagan Publishing, in early 1993. Four years later, the Delta
Green supplement appeared and spawned a number of its
own supplements and novels. The premise is frequently
compared to The X-Files, although the original incarnation of Delta Green preceded The X-Files by almost a Arc Dream Publishing released an ebook edition of the
year[2] ). Both draw on federal alphabet soup folklore, novel Delta Green: Denied to the Enemy in January
UFO conspiracy theories and other modern legends.
2011.[8]
The Delta Green supplement lays the groundwork for organized investigations into paranormal crime and horror,
setting up the initial plot and providing players with their
motivations and the resources they need to carry out their
tasks. It also provides a source of replacements for char- 3 Publications
acters who go mad or are killed. Canonical materials revolve around threats from the Cthulhu Mythos, but the
framework is very exible. Delta Green agents typically As of April 2011, the following Delta Green books have
been published:
know little about the Mythos.
1

3 PUBLICATIONS

3.1

Pagan Publishing game books

Dubious Shards by Kenneth Hite (2006).

Delta Green (February 1, 1997), the basic sourcePyramid Magazine:

book; ISBN 1-887797-08-4.
Delta Green: Countdown (1999), the 2000s sourcebook, by John Tynes, Dennis Detwiller and Adam
Scott Glancy, ISBN 1-887797-12-2.
Delta Green Eyes Only Volume 1: Machinations of
the Mi-go ISBN 1-887797-13-0.
Delta Green Eyes Only Volume 2: The Fate.
Delta Green Eyes Only Volume 3: Project Rainbow
ISBN 1-887797-21-1.

Green Box (8/21/02 & 10/9/02), with d20 stats.

Jack Frost by Shane Ivey (12/24/99 & 12/31/99), a
scenario.
Dungeon Magazine:
PX Poker Night (issue 96), scenario with d20 stats.

Delta Green (May 2007), the basic sourcebook with Shadis:

dual BRP/D20 stats; ISBN 1-887797-23-8.
Delta Green: Eyes Only (November 2007), a compilation of the Eyes Only chapbooks with additional
material; ISBN 1-887797-27-0.

Dia de Los Muertos, issue 52.

Delta Green: Targets of Opportunity (2010), a 3.4 Fiction

sourcebook detailing ve new evils, by Warren
Delta Green: Alien Intelligence (Tynes Cowan Corp,
Banks, Dennis Detwiller, Adam Scott Glancy, KenMarch 1998), short stories collection, ISBN 1neth Hite, Shane Ivey, and Greg Stolze, illustrated
887797-09-2.
by Todd Shearer; ISBN 1-887797-31-9.

3.2

Additional material by the original creators

Scenarios by Dennis Detwiller, published online:

Music from a Darkened Room
Future Perfect (parts 1 through 4 as of 2012)
The Last Equation
Adam Scott Glancy wrote a regular column titled Directives from A-Cell in the rst six issues of Worlds of
Cthulhu magazine. The column was then transferred to
The Unspeakable Oath from Arc Dream Publishing, starting with issue 20. The latter magazine has featured a lot
of Delta Green-related articles since 1993.

3.3

Other publishers

Fantasy Flight Games Live Action RPG supplements:

Cthulhu Live: Shades of Gray (2000); ISBN 1887911-92-8.
Cthulhu Live: Delta Green (2000); ISBN 1-88791143-X.
Ronin Arts:

Delta Green: Dark Theatres (Armitage House,

1999), short stories collection, ISBN 1-887797-173.
Delta Green: The Rules of Engagement (Tynes
Cowan Corp, 2000), novel by John Tynes, ISBN 1887797-16-5.
Delta Green: Denied to the Enemy (Tynes Cowan
Corp, distributed by Impressions, 2003), novel by
Dennis Detwiller, ISBN 1-887797-24-6.
Ebook edition (Arc Dream Publishing, 2011),
ISBN 978-0-9832313-0-1.
Delta Green: Through a Glass, Darkly ebook edition
(Arc Dream Publishing, 2011), novel by Dennis Detwiller, ISBN 978-0-9832313-6-3.
Delta Green: Strange Authorities (Arc Dream Publishing, 2012), collection of previously published
stories by John Tynes, ISBN 978-0-9853175-0-8.
Delta Green: Tales from Failed Anatomies (Arc
Dream Publishing, 2014), collection of short stories by Dennis Detwiller. ISBN 978-1-940410-08-1
(hardback edition).
Paperback edition, ISBN 978-1-940410-07-4.
Ebook edition, ISBN 978-1-940410-09-8.

See also

The following novels and short stories share similar backgrounds to Delta Green:
The Atrocity Archives and its sequels by Charles
Stross
The Spiraling Worm by David Conyers and John
Sunseri

References

[1] Unspeakable! Special Presentation: The Unspeakable

Oath and the Delta Green RPG. Unspeakable! Special
Presentation: The Unspeakable Oath and the Delta Green
RPG.
[2] Delta Green/Frequently Asked Questions
[3] Pagan Publishing
[4] Delta Green Eyes Only
[5] http://www.arcdream.com/upcoming.php
Upcoming Page

ArcDreams

[6] http://www.arcdream.com/store/product.php?id=9999
Arc Dream Publishing Online Store
[7] 2011 Ennie Awards (PDF). 2011 Ennie Awards.
[8] http://www.amazon.com/
Delta-Green-Denied-Enemy-ebook/dp/B004JKNQD0/
ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&m=AG56TWVU5XWC2&s=
digital-text&qid=1295454769&sr=8-2 Amazon.com

External links
Delta Green, ocial site.

7 TEXT AND IMAGE SOURCES, CONTRIBUTORS, AND LICENSES

Text and image sources, contributors, and licenses

7.1

Text

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7.2

Images

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It is believed that the cover art can or could be obtained from Pagan Publishing.
Original artist: ?

7.3

Content license

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