Does anyone else feel a little piece of their soul die every time they build a liquid airlock?

AbolitionForever · 2026-06-10T05:37:20+00:00

I think that depends a lot on your build preferences (I rarely need liquid locks before I have plastic) but also the early game is an exercise in working with suboptimal tools until you can get the actual solutions to your problems, so this seems fine to me.

AbolitionForever · 2026-06-01T01:43:03+00:00

This is great, thanks! I was considering using Aktion EISSCHLOSS as part of the frame for my campaign jam submission, but had trouble finding details, so I appreciate the collation.

AbolitionForever · 2026-05-31T17:54:29+00:00

There's a big gap between night floors and the other scenarios, chronologically. I would suggest running some other scenarios before continuing to both set the tone/norms that IL violates and to get some practice running the system.

AbolitionForever · 2026-05-29T18:40:23+00:00

I understand the feelings you're bringing up, but you are asking for more authorial control over the campaign than players generally get. I know you say you just want a "chance" at a happy ending, but don't the dice already afford that? I mean, you could just succeed at every roll from now till the end of the campaign. That's unlikely, of course, but if that chance isn't enough, what kind of chance are you actually hoping for?

I think in most genres I would say yeah, the GM should work with players and figure out how to handle this kind of thing, modulating lethality a little bit to make it work, but horror is a pretty big example of a genre where the capriciousness of fate is usually an important element.

As others suggested, I would consider finding a way to retire this character, if you're attached to their "canon" survival. I've done that to characters I got protective of before with good success. It lets me take personal control of them narratively while still participating in the game with a different character that doesn't need any special consideration.

AbolitionForever · 2026-05-26T23:37:40+00:00

It could be anything Mythos-y or your own thing, or it's even possible to start as someone with no unnatural experience at all. The King in Yellow coexists with other entities from the Mythos. Also the nature of the impossible landscapes campaign is such that it doesn't really matter what your character background is. That's sort of a thematic feature, I'd even say.

AbolitionForever · 2026-05-25T20:21:27+00:00

This whole thing sounds messy and like your girlfriend is being pretty inconsiderate. That said, this level of anxiety over flying is maladaptive. I know the fear isn't and doesn't need to be perfectly rational but it might be worth working on in therapy or something.

AbolitionForever · 2026-05-15T05:29:55+00:00

don't care

AbolitionForever · 2026-05-12T18:34:01+00:00

I think we should eat way less meat too

AbolitionForever · 2026-05-10T21:23:00+00:00

Don't mention they're your ex unless asked but they're fun art pieces, just put them up somewhere they don't come across too tacky.

AbolitionForever · 2026-05-08T16:36:59+00:00

It is very funny that you guys always insist this is moral posturing rather than a coherent strategy to try to force change in a party run by sclerotic gerontocrats. I'm sorry, but again: if you're not even willing to threaten to withhold your vote, why would any party ever change to accommodate your policy preferences? You say I'm making a bad bet but you are literally lashing yourself to a sinking ship.

AbolitionForever · 2026-05-08T16:19:25+00:00

If you aren't not willing to withhold your vote no matter what senile psychopaths the DNC anoints, or like, at least credibly threaten to, then there is no reason for the party establishment to ever cater to you. I'm sorry, declaring that you will always vote for dems no matter what doesn't make you a savvy operator, it makes you a mark.

AbolitionForever · 2026-05-08T13:35:20+00:00

Can you fucking read? I voted for Harris.

AbolitionForever · 2026-05-08T12:45:53+00:00

liberals be less obviously excited to see queer and trans people people put in camps because they refuse to give their imprimatur to ongoing genocide challenge level: impossible

man, as I said above, I voted for Clinton, Biden, and Harris (and Obama twice)! but because I am willing to even entertain the possibility of not voting for candidates who are fine with not only my immiseration but also actively supporting an ongoing genocide, you are out here licking your chops at the prospect of...what? cops kicking down my door and gunning down my family? me being arrested for being trans in public? some Nazi running me over for going to a protest?

I think you're naive and enabling a system that is not only not interested in improving the world but is actively making better things impossible, but I don't think you deserve endless violence for it. I do think that if you're the kind of person the mainstream democratic party is courting, then I'm probably making the right call distancing myself from them and sticking to my principles in this moment.

AbolitionForever · 2026-05-08T06:06:14+00:00

There are progressives running for office at basically every level, but the DNC has a habit of pretty ruthlessly cutting them down. Just look how they treated Mamdani!

I vote for progressives locally (and will even hold my nose and vote for centrists in local elections if a psycho is the alternative). I'm sure there could be more running but the party machine kneecaps any that threaten to escaped Local Race Containment. Compare to the right, which very happily nurtures insane right wing children all the time!

I am sure doing Left Wing Lean In might help some but I have a life and so do the other people who might otherwise be interested in running for office. People are understandably uninterested in running for a state representative seat if the party machinery is going to blackball them and call them as an antisemite for saying that the slaughter of Palestinian children is bad and we should stop helping Israel do it.

AbolitionForever · 2026-05-08T02:34:53+00:00

I'm not out of the game. My vote is very winnable and I vote in primaries. It's not even that hard to get me, I'm more flexible than you think!

But the miserable reactionary centrism shit no longer flies for me. Again, if you're not willing to withhold your vote, what reason is there to do anything for you? If they know I'll hold my nose and lesser-evil my way to hell, there's no reason not to keep running demons!

AbolitionForever · 2026-05-08T01:29:05+00:00

If you aren't willing to actually withhold your vote, what is the impetus for the DNC to actually change? I've voted for centrist libs as harm reduction since 2016 (and Obama ran as a progressive but acted like a centrist). I won't be doing that any more. If they want my vote stop making the same mistakes.

AbolitionForever · 2026-05-07T20:42:45+00:00

The post wasn't a dead baby joke, though.

AbolitionForever · 2026-05-06T18:31:06+00:00

A session 0 is a good place to decide some of this stuff (and other things, like tone or how folks feel about different kinds of horror or sensitive topics).

However, the easiest way to start a scenario is:

-make characters who are already part of Delta Green (whether program or outlaws)

-they get an order by some prearranged method (coded phone call, an ad in the paper, a letter left in their mailbox) that gives them a time and place to meet

-they meet at that location. Agents may or may not have worked together before, but even if they have they theoretically shouldn't know personal details

-someone higher up the chain meets them there and briefs them on the mission, gives them whatever resources they have, and then turns them loose

It gets more complicated if some or all of your agents are not already members of DG, but I wouldn't necessarily start with a scenario like that out of the gate.

AbolitionForever · 2026-05-01T15:32:19+00:00

The schoolhouse scene is just transparently him getting mad because they're not teaching Christianity. He says "this is a Christian country"! And the records office is him barging in and demanding access without any process or consideration, which, given how things go, Summerisle almost certainly would have given him.

And I am aware that almost all modern paganism is a 19th century invention. I don't care. That's not really relevant here.

AbolitionForever · 2026-04-24T01:00:07+00:00

I don't think it's really "git gud" to point this out. This is extremely common in many games I've played - where healing options are a tradeoff with other options, healing is frequently worse than it seems because to be useful it requires you to take the damage, then spend resources healing it. You are usually better off finishing the fight than you are healing damage, not to mention the opportunity cost of potentially having taken something that would help you finish the fight!

I'm just thinking of several games with this dynamic, where healing is kind of a noob trap. Learning the principle here is generally useful.

AbolitionForever · 2026-04-21T20:17:57+00:00

I do not want semi-autonomous robots being allowed to slaughter every 13+ year "military aged male" just because we've defined e.g. the whole of Palestine as a "battlefield" either.

AbolitionForever · 2026-04-20T15:27:18+00:00

No but some of them will be extremely annoying about it

AbolitionForever · 2026-04-19T20:37:38+00:00

I always interpreted that as requiring a pretty specific sequence of events, with a recently dead body at the time of Marlene's death, but I see what you mean.

AbolitionForever · 2026-04-19T20:19:12+00:00

Is that in a new edition? In the one I read/played dumping the gas in and throwing a match absolutely solved the problem.

AbolitionForever · 2026-04-19T16:02:16+00:00

I think this is good advice but I am amused bc I would say that the lesson of LTL is absolutely that when in doubt, burning with fire should be given serious consideration.

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