Thursday, June 20, 2024

Types of Threats in Delta Green Scenarios

I looked at every official Delta Green scenario and tried to identify the main threat that the scenario is centered on and what "type" of threat it is. Why? I don't know. It could be useful for a random scenario generator, like Agent Obtuse's. Or maybe this sort of classification could be integrated in my scenario database and help with finding specific types of scenarios.

In any case, I identified the following types of threats in the scenarios I looked at:

  • Great Old One (GOO): Great Old Ones are name-dropped in almost all scenarios, but this category is only meant for those scenarios that feature a GOO more or less directly.
  • Mythos Faction: groups of Mythos creatures, like the Great Race of Yith, the Mi-go, etc.
  • Human Faction: a large organization or cult, like the Karotechia, New Life Fertility, Majestic-12, etc.
  • Creature: a single unnatural creature or maybe a group too small for the Mythos Faction label.
  • Sorcerer: a human with access to hypergeometry or otherwise touched or transformed by the unnatural. Includes small cults.
  • Weird Science: experiments gone wrong, sci-fi technology, etc.
  • Haunted Place: your typical haunted house would fall in this category.
  • Artifact: any item with unnatural properties, stuff you would find in ARCHINT.

Obviously a scenario can have more than one threat, either from the same or different categories. Feel free to leave a comment if you can think of any other categories that I missed.

I did not include campaigns in my categorization attempt (unless you count Iconoclasts). Also, I have not read all scenarios in detail and some of them I read a long time ago, so I might have forgotten some things. Anyway, here are the categories for all officially published scenarios, in alphabetical order:

A Night on Owlshead Mountain: Mythos Faction (Mi-go), Sorcerer (Cooter McGee), Creature (Dark Young)

Artifact Zero: Weird Science (Tillinghast Resonator)

A Victim of the Art: Creature (Byakhee), Artifact (the Ai-apa amulet)

BLACKSAT: Creature (Derivatives)

Convergence: Mythos Faction (Mi-go), Human Faction (Majestic-12)

Dead Letter: Human faction (Karotechia), Weird Science (the Sapphire chemical compound), Creature (Zombies)

Ex Oblivione: Sorcerer/Creature (the ghost of Albert Marsh)

Extremophilia: Weird Science (Fungus infection), Human Faction (March Tech)

From the Dust: Haunted Place (Gerritsen Mansion), GOO (Lilith), Creature (Favored Ones)

Holy War: GOO (Y'golonac, Glaaki), Sorcerer (Robert Hubert)

Hourglass: Sorcerer (Sons of Cernunnos), Creature (Shoggoth)

Iconoclasts: GOO (Nyarlathotep/the Father of War), Human Faction (Sons of War)

Jack Frost: GOO (Itla-shua), Creature (Wendigo)

Kali Ghati: GOO (the God-Priest)

Last Things Last: Creature (Marlene)

Lover in the Ice: Creature (Amante)

Meridian: Sorcerer (Carpark Kattie)

Music from a Darkened Room: Haunted place (Spooner Avenue 1206), GOO (Nyarlathotep)

Night Floors: Haunted Place (Maccallistar Building), GOO (King in Yellow)

Night Visions: Creature (Teuthan)

Observer Effect: Weird Science (Holobeam Array, Dee), GOO (Azathoth)

Presence: Sorcerer (Karen and Sidney Valdez)

Puppet Shows: Creature (the Traveller)

PX Poker Night: Mythos Faction (Mi-go), Human Faction (Majestic-12)

Reverberations: Mythos Faction (Tcho-Tcho)

Sick Again: Weird Science (Tillinghast Resonator)

Sweetness: Artifact (Stone of Yos), Creature (Shadowman)

The Last Equation: Weird Science (Laqueus equation)

The New Age: Mythos Faction (Mi-go), Human Faction (Enolsis)

The Sentinels of Twilight: Mythos Faction (K'n-Yani)

The Star Chamber: Mythos Faction (Tcho-Tcho)

Viscid: Weird Science (ARD15), Human Faction (March Tech), Creature (the Ulee Things)

Wormwood Arena: Creature (Kaughrhun Kaal)

I hope this is somehow useful for someone. Please let me know if you think I got something wrong.

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