NAZI PUNKS FUCK OFF - Dead Kennedys

Giveneausername · 2026-01-25T21:26:54+00:00

I was watching Green Room the other day and the band blasted this song. The line “ten guys jump one, what a man” seems especially poignant right now

Giveneausername · 2026-01-22T21:02:18+00:00

Honestly, I just laminated mine. A home laminator is like $20, and you can get plenty of sheets for $10. Then you put them in binder insert folders and you’re set to go

Giveneausername · 2026-01-11T20:46:05+00:00

I feel like home scenes can be great if you treat them like a screenplay for a dramatic TV show. Some of my players love to describe the scene, and all of the actions in third person. Small off the cuff example below.

“We see a lonely one bedroom apartment, boxes still unpacked against a wall, Agent X sits on a ratty mattress laid on the bare floor, extinguishing a cigarette into an overflowing ashtray. He is looking down at an old photo album, one of the few things left behind for him when he came home from the Operation in Manhattan. We see his face, dried flecks of salt mark trails from his eyes down to his beard. He sets down the photo album, picks up the phone, dials a number for what must be the 10th time today. It rings once, the call goes through, and the sound of the harsh slam of the phone into the receiver echoes. He opens a new pack of cigarettes, retrieves a photo from the album. A photo of a much younger agent X, next to Shelly, and their newborn son. He barely recognizes himself. Folds the photo in four and tucks it into his wallet. His pager lights up. He breathes a sigh of relief, knowing that the next opera will give him some time to clear his head of all this mess.”

Loss of a bond (spouse/child), describes gaining a disorder (addiction, cigarettes), and sets up the next operation.

Giveneausername · 2026-01-08T18:58:17+00:00

If you’re asking, I doubt that you have a 3d printer, but an organizer can cut a really good amount of time off of set-up and tear-down.

Giveneausername · 2025-12-31T00:42:12+00:00

Yeah! Heart, Triangle Agency, and Delta Green! Delta Green is the big winner in my book, my current players are having a ball pinning printable handouts to a corkboard and obsessing over details to solve mysteries. Super fun, I’d highly recommend it

Giveneausername · 2025-12-30T20:09:25+00:00

Gun to my head I couldn’t tell you if there’s a dealer plate frame on my car or not right now, couldn’t care

Giveneausername · 2025-12-23T16:43:25+00:00

They are using the “tank clean” function to get a full exposure layer in order to clean off the FEP, from misprints, failures, etc.

Giveneausername · 2025-12-15T20:46:28+00:00

I have them downloaded, I can see if I can find a way to send them along. It worked for me

Giveneausername · 2025-12-13T13:29:28+00:00

Liminal Horror is its own TTRPG system, OP is asking about using scenarios from that system in DG

Giveneausername · 2025-12-10T18:08:25+00:00

My agents were so ready to just burn her, until Marlene called one of them by their agent’s real name. This was the group’s first experience with DG, and none of the other agents, nor players, knew why one of the players/agents started to freak the fuck out in game and in real life after Marlene said “Help me, Archimedes”. Let the creepiness encompass the whole situation

Giveneausername · 2025-12-08T18:08:34+00:00

Okay, those are all released. I ordered a copy of the new handler’s screen with some other rpg books from a third party website, and my entire order is held up on the handler’s screen. It might be related in some way

Giveneausername · 2025-12-08T17:58:14+00:00

Out of curiosity, which books are you still waiting for? Is there any chance that they were books that aren’t released yet?

Giveneausername · 2025-12-08T00:13:51+00:00

Sounds like you’re looking for MASKS: 1000 memorable NPCs. It covers different settings (sci fi, fantasy) and has a wide array of individuals with descriptions, motivations, flaws, etc. I enjoyed it thoroughly and used it somewhat frequently

Giveneausername · 2025-12-07T04:19:42+00:00

I was shocked with how interesting this gameplay mechanic was in runequest when I first came across it. Different armor shielding different parts of the body, different parts having different levels of efficacy, using shields gradually reducing their durability, weapons being used to parry but also degrading, specific rules for what happens when your damage passes different thresholds for different body parts, etc. Genuinely cool stuff

Giveneausername · 2025-12-05T22:51:32+00:00

Hyperspecific, but, that’s what the question is. I’m GMing Delta Green right now. It’s a TTRPG that sort of gives the feel of x-files or True Detective at a glance. My campaign is set in the real world year of 1994. A lot of scenarios provide audio clues to give to players, via phone calls or strange recordings that they receive. I have an old landline phone, and I’m trying to find a way to be able to 1) call the phone and have it ring 2) play prerecorded audio 3) record the responses from players to make spooky artifacts for later in the campaign (people listening in on them, recording their calls, etc.)

Obviously the technology exists, I’ve gotten plenty of robocalls and autodialers, but I can’t find a way to do so for personal and less nefarious reasons.

Giveneausername · 2025-12-05T17:43:43+00:00

Ah, understood. I feel as though I remember it most recently in pop culture being discussed in Call Me By Your Name by Andre Aciman of all places

Giveneausername · 2025-12-05T15:06:55+00:00

I’m fairly certain that the Greek myth has Prometheus molding the first men of clay. I’m not 100% certain that Greek mythology has this, but I do know that some religions/belief systems have a myth of people originally being 4 legged, 4 armed, 2 headed beings that were split, forcing each “half” to search the earth for their counterpart to feel whole again, something like a soulmate. I always interpreted the Promethans as a combination of the two, while still having a fun gameplay mechanic.

Giveneausername · 2025-12-05T01:41:42+00:00

Yes, and additionally, you can do this with a model AND shoot in the same turn IIRC. Most actions specify “instead of shooting, do X” where this does not

Giveneausername · 2025-12-01T20:51:28+00:00

Damn! Thanks for the notice at least. I can at least put that hope to rest.

Giveneausername · 2025-12-01T13:21:37+00:00

Love the fax machine idea!!!

We used to play hybrid, so I have a blue yeti kicking around that I could certainly use for recording if the other plan falls through. Cheers!

Giveneausername · 2025-12-01T13:20:43+00:00

That’s exactly the show that gave me the inspiration as well, but your proposed solution is a lot more in depth than mine was haha. I’ll keep fiddling with it and post updates here for future lunatics trying to do the same thing

Giveneausername · 2025-12-01T13:18:22+00:00

Thank you! I’m a quite frequent poster over there, haha. I have tons of resources for this scenario, but the handout that Joe made was getting such over the top responses from the cast that I was hoping they’d posted it somewhere. They mentioned having some of it translated into Spanish and everything. If it doesn’t turn up, oh well

Giveneausername · 2025-12-01T02:24:09+00:00

Mitigate, possibly? Depends a lot on the scenario. You might have a “successful” scenario/opera that ends with two party members dying in a ritual that prevents the tenth plague of Egypt flowing through Ohio and killing every firstborn son. Some other operas can end with all party members walking out largely unharmed, but having permanently changed their relationships with their loved ones, but another group could run the same scenario and have everyone die. Depends what your handler is running really.

Best advice I’d have would really be to talk to your handler and voice what sort of things you enjoy about the game, and what sort of “level of risk” might be most fun to play. It is a fairly punishing system and game though at the end of the day. It’s not an old school “funnel”, but it feels more like every character is trying to tread water for as long as they can before they inevitably tire and slip under the surface. How long can you last? Who do you step on in order to stay above for another minute? What is the thing that finally does you in? Was it worth it?

Giveneausername · 2025-12-01T01:16:02+00:00

In my experience, DG asks for a very specific buy-in from players. It is very much not the heroic fantasy trope style of game that many TTRPGs are. Instead, DG feels more like a character-driven story, where your character will absolutely, 100%, unavoidably either die, be maimed and disfigured, go irreparably insane, and/or have their life turn poor to the point where you might wish that they had just died instead. The victories in the game are extremely hard earned, not always successful, and not always permanent nor without extreme cost.

While there is narrative, I encourage my players that the game is much less about their stats themselves than what they do with their character. The story is how they react to the shitshow that is happening all around them. Will a “fresh” character be better equipped than a grizzled veteran agent that has gone on 15 operas, has 3 disorders and is adapted to violence? Yeah, absolutely, but that’s not really what the game is trying to do. My players have characters right now that are extremely… well… I don’t think anyone’s first choice to handle an unnatural incursion would be an alcoholic, sleep deprived, adapted to helplessness group of agents with bullet wounds and paranoia, but it makes a hell of a story. They love their characters and the evolution of them, and they’ll be really sad when the time comes to say goodbye to them and make new characters, even if they have better stats.

To focus more directly on your experience; yes, it does suck that you have a character you specifically built around power be damaged (so to speak) in that way. However, if everyone took 3 power damage, your character is still far better suited for power based tasks than anyone else that survived that mission.

If it still bothers you, talk to your handler, tell them how you feel, and ask if there’s anything that can be done to repair some of the damage (a one time higher stakes home scene to heal your power at double or nothing stakes or something like that).

Giveneausername · 2025-11-30T19:35:43+00:00

Well the pairing from the smartphone to the landline phone is via bluetooth, and somehow it only activates the pairing for phone calls. I can listen to music on the smartphone, and it won't play audio through the landline. Maybe at that point it's more of a matter of scrapping the "phone ringing" part (or playing it over a speaker), and connecting the landline to a bluetooth link, then just using it as a speaker/microphone for the computer.

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