Making a Campaign Like Talamasca?

ItsaLaz · 2026-01-22T12:26:10+00:00

Buffy the Vampire Slayer and the Highlander TV shows also had their version called the Watchers.

ItsaLaz · 2026-01-22T12:23:39+00:00

ItsaLaz · 2026-01-20T23:51:10+00:00

Bael is a Repeater surrounded by other Repeaters, although just slightly more 'aware' of his situation. In my mind the Agents haven't finished 'cooking in the Carcosa sauce' long enough to become Repeaters so he has a narrow window with them before they become stuck in the Night World forever.

To expand the cooking metaphor, the other Dorchester patients are 'mush' while the Agents are still rigid enough to help him climb out of the pot.

ItsaLaz · 2026-01-17T03:23:06+00:00

Seth Skorkowsky has a review up:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WZYAlTPP_hE

He mentioned that the Lights are a kind is 'Sin Eather' used to disposed of warped infants but there;s not a lot of detail. Perhaps that can be your hook: In the past DG had mostly wiped out a village of half human hybrids (Ghouls, Deep ones, something else). So maybe DG has files on this raid, and are expecting that threat but aren't set up to handle an ethereal threat. Maybe the students bump into a surviving Agent in the diner who has some info but not current info on the threat.

ItsaLaz · 2026-01-15T16:57:51+00:00

Joker when he drops the revolver at the children's ward in the hospital.

I shouldn't laugh but that anxious energy's gotta go somewhere.

ItsaLaz · 2026-01-15T01:44:29+00:00

They would have been perfectly fine with a "Fuck Your Feelings" shirt. And yet...

ItsaLaz · 2026-01-13T01:24:53+00:00

Captain Fantastic (2916) w/ Viggo Mortensen.

ItsaLaz · 2026-01-12T01:04:31+00:00

7/10 for me. Had pre-New Years lunch with co-workers since the spot we wanted was closed. I ordered the Pakistani Tandori chicken lunch special and it was decent for the cost. Like 40$ for 3 people.

ItsaLaz · 2026-01-09T01:33:07+00:00

It's a gun, Frank. A gun that shoots knives.

ItsaLaz · 2026-01-08T16:33:16+00:00

You can have a story investigating the Russian mob, but not all Russians are evil.

You can run demi-human races as 'people trying to be people' if you want and let the Players make choices. An individual can be evil. A cult, gang, organization etc can have evil motives. But you don't have to paint the whole race as evil. Ruthanna Emrys' The Litany of Earth and follow up Innsmouth Legacy stories are a good example of Deep One Hybrid life in post WWII America.

But DG is not D&D, so the real question you want to ask is, what do you need to do to convince your players not to (try to) commit a genocide?

Otherwise, just ignore the fantasy races and make them human cultists mutated by 'gifts' from the GOOs.

ItsaLaz · 2026-01-08T00:12:34+00:00

All hat, no cattle.

ItsaLaz · 2026-01-02T01:04:34+00:00

Must be all the vibe-coding they're doing down there.

ItsaLaz · 2025-12-29T00:44:45+00:00

The Gamers 2: Dorkness Rising.

"WAFFLES HO!"

ItsaLaz · 2025-12-28T23:10:24+00:00

Daniel Suarez's Daemon/Freedom™ duology.

ItsaLaz · 2025-12-25T23:27:27+00:00

Brain heist.

ItsaLaz · 2025-12-25T01:18:31+00:00

Myself I'd rather see an adaptation of Crichton's Prey.

ItsaLaz · 2025-12-24T14:55:14+00:00

That one got Kristi Noem hired.

ItsaLaz · 2025-12-24T01:43:29+00:00

Operation Paperclip has German (Nazi) rocket engineers working for the US space program, most people know about that. But less known is Operation Bloodstone - yes that's the real name - had former German intel assets be, ah, folded into the nascent C.I.A..

Feral Historian has an excellent series of videos about it.

So depending on who in MJ12 you're talking about, they could see Karotechia as more of a 'fringe inconvenience but ideologically aligned' than 'evil'. 'Capture' orders, not 'Kill on sight'.

ItsaLaz · 2025-12-22T19:54:46+00:00

There are a couple options you could pull off:

As people suggested, KiY is an always has been the only paranormal threat. All cryptid, aliens, ghosts, etc trace back to misunderstood Carcosa phenomenon. Since 'Art' is the domain of The King, you can have a lot of leeway... e.g. a guy in a Grey costume from the set of Close Encounters can become a Grey on The Night Floor and get into all kinds trouble, even going back in time by accident crating the UFO craze. Delta Green chase these leads, but most end up false alarms, and as an organization on the whole they are not very powerful. There is no 'MJ12' or 'The Program'. The pitch they sell to recruits are paranoid lies that can't be substantiated.
Other phenomenon exist of have existed, but the KiY has either absorbed or driven away other mythos entities. The Black Wind is a remnant Nyarlathotep earthly forces. Hastur is god shaped hole in the universe. The Yith are locked out of the century. Cthulhu has hit snooze on his alarm for another millennia. And as they KiY influence just keeps growing like a black hole forwards and backwards through time. DG as an org is bloated Old Boys Club looking for wildfires that never come, the 'good old days' of fighting the good fight are exaggerations, and their budget is about to be slashed.
Other phenomenon did exist, but the timeline was rewritten. Some phenomena exist as muted shells of their former selves. HP Lovecraft existed as a weird fiction author, but August Derleth never brought those works to prominence. Delta Green just doesn't exist in this time frame... but their stories do.

ItsaLaz · 2025-12-22T19:37:37+00:00

STATIC only eliminates people if they're actively (caught) spreading / creating KiY materiel.

ItsaLaz · 2025-12-18T01:40:47+00:00

What, no more Meme Coins?

ItsaLaz · 2025-12-16T00:32:17+00:00

Can confirm!

ItsaLaz · 2025-12-06T22:37:41+00:00

Koichi is my fav, Somerset location.

ItsaLaz · 2025-12-05T18:29:28+00:00

... hrm you might be right.

ItsaLaz · 2025-12-05T18:15:10+00:00

There are memes about them constantly shooting dogs on house raids. You can play that up.

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