This rambling post is about modifying and extending my 2024 mini-campaign The Lynchburg Cluster to turn it more into a sandbox. Do not read this if you don't want to be spoiled. And if you don't care about spoilers you should probably read or skim the campaign first.
This post is part of a series about a pointcrawl across the Plateau of Leng. See the Masterpost for more details and links to the other points of interest.
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| Lengite, by KingsOfEvilArt |
This post is part of a series about a pointcrawl across the Plateau of Leng. See the Masterpost for more details and links to the other points of interest.
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| Photo by da-phil |
This post is part of a series about a pointcrawl across the Plateau of Leng. See the Masterpost for more details and links to the other points of interest.
The campaign I am currently working on will take the Agents to the Plateau of Leng and from there further into the Dreamlands. To make the travel over the infamous plateau interesting I am turning it into a pointcrawl. This masterpost contains links to all the points of interest that the Agents can explore while they make their way across the icy wastes of Leng.
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| Leng Revealed, by Armand Cabrera |
My last post was about the Weird Science Scenario Generator, which is essentially just a bunch of random tables to generate biology-themed Weird Science scenarios for Delta Green. In this post I use the scenario generator to come up with an outline for a scenario, just to see if we get something sensible and interesting.
The following collection of random tables is my submission to the 2024 N@tO Tech Start-Up Jam. These tables can be used to create scenarios with a Weird Science theme, specifically ones that deal with biology, biotech and medicine. You won't get a fully playable scenario, but hopefully it's enough to get started or to serve as inspiration.
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.
Over the past few months the 2024 Delta Green Mini Campaign Jam has taken place, where participants could submit a campaign of no longer than 30000 words. This jam was a good opportunity to finally work on my modern-day Karotechia campaign.
Over the last few months the 7th annual r/nightattheopera scenario contest took place. SirLordBaron's All Good Things won the people's choice vote, whereas my submission won the judges' vote!
My scenario is called The Sound of Doom, after a line in Gojira's The Chant. You can find the scenario here. Also, check out the other submissions in the contest document, they were all great.
It's a new year, which means that the 2023 Shotgun Scenario Contest has concluded. This year's winning scenario was Apoptosis by Dragoleaf, with runner-up Ideasthesia by Erik Ahlin. The people's choice award goes to Operation CHOLLIMA BLACK by Agent HOPKINS. Congrats to the winners! There were 71 submissions this year, so the 2020 record of 75 scenarios was almost broken. You can check out all the entries here.
Recently, I submitted a scenario to the r/nightattheopera Alphabet Contest and to my surprise it actually won!
| This was the second Alphabet contest, the first time it took place was in 2019. It works like this: every contestant gets assigned a random letter. The contestant then has to think of a word that starts with that letter and write a scenario inspired by that word. |
I was assigned the letter V and after looking through an online dictionary for inspiration I chose Vorarephilia as my word. So be warned, this scenario contains sexual content, strange fetishes, furries, and an avatar of Y'golonac (depicted above). If none of these things scare you off, you can find click here to get to the scenario. Have fun!
For my current Delta Green campaign I had two goals in mind:
The 2023 Scenario Contest of the Night At The Opera Discord community has concluded. The winner was ChiefMcClane with his scenario Operation RAGTIME GAL or Size Matters. The People's Choice winners were Point in Time by Rowan and Gnash The Teeth by Dragoleaf. The full list of scenarios can be found here.
I also submitted a scenario, which I called Iron Curtain Call. The following contains spoilers, so don't read further if you want to experience the scenario as a player.
The 2022 Shotgun Scenario Contest has concluded. The winner scenario was Take The A Train by Bird, the second place and people's choice winner was Saturnalia by mellonbread. Two great scenarios that deserved to win, both were also among my votes.
There were a lot of other cool scenarios among the 53 entries. You can find all of them in the contest document or in the Fairfield 2 wiki.
I did not have time to playtest them, but I also wrote and submitted two entries to the contest, Applied Hypergeometry and Biodynamics. In this blog post I want to talk a bit about them and how I came up with them.