Them That Chase

Photo by Philip Greenspun . It was 4 pm on a weekday in the city of Boston, MA, and the Agents' case officer had directed them to Government Center—or rather, to a dead drop in the parking garage across the street from Government Center. In a stairwell out of sight from parked cars and security cameras, the members of this new Delta Green task force held their first mission briefing. Special Agent Wren Harris of the FBI, flown in from [DATA REDACTED] Dr. Malachi Danielson, a field botanist with the Massachusetts Division of Fish and Wildlife Dr. Rex Marianetti, the best medical examiner at the worst hospital in Denver, CO The dead drop was a broken guardrail: someone had stuffed a manila envelope inside the hollow tube, concealing a burner phone, a key, and two documents written in code. Rex, a man of many hobbies, decoded their mission objectives and a profile of a former agent codenamed BEAN COUNTER. It turned out BEAN COUNTER's body had been removed from his apartment the pr...

My first two RPGs were Fiasco and Delta Green , which is a perfect summary of my tastes. I like games that center the characters and spiral into chaos, danger, and the thrill of seeing how I get fucked over this time. I've exclusively been a player for a few years now. I used to run Delta Green on and off but never felt I had the skills to provide the kind of game I wanted to, and I ultimately dropped it for other games. Except now, having played those other games and learned much from them, I'm starting to try again.   My plan for this blog is to post once a week, alternating between play reports and "tools of the trade;" those will be breakdowns of ideas I love in other games and how and why I'm applying them to my current campaign. GMing is a thing you can only learn by doing, but writing down what I'm doing helps sort out my thoughts. So, thank you for being my rubber duck.