#dennis detwiller

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Scavenger Folk

String, weapons, wax, or jewels—it makes no difference. Leave nothing unguarded in Scarwood.

Artist: Dennis Detwiller

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Sketch from yesterday

Interpretation of The Silent One from Dennis Detwiller's Victim of the Art (Delta Green system)

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Feast of the Unicorn {3}{B}

Enchantment — Aura

Enchant creature

Enchanted creature gets +4/+0.

“Could there be a fouler act? No doubt the Baron knows of one.” —Autumn Willow

Illustrated by Dennis Detwiller

1995

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Have you played DELTA GREEN ?

By Adam Scott Glancy, Dennis Detwiller and John Scott Tynes

Call of Cthulhu style threats are real, and deadly. You are part of a secret government conspiracy to stop the threat. X-Files meets Call of Cthulhu meets CSI. Set in the 2010s or 1990s or even Vietnam end of the Summer of Love era

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A Victim of the Art (2018) was originally a Call of Cthulhu scenario, included in the Pagan Publishing sourcebook, Delta Green: Countdown. This version has been retooled for the Delta Green RPG. I am pretty sure it has only been published as a stand-alone booklet and hasn’t been included in any of the adventure anthology hardcovers.

Anyway, it’s great, a story of a serial killer stalking a seaside town. As with most Delta Green scenarios, the way through is neither clear nor comfortable. The source of the supernatural troubles isn’t a maniacal sorcerer; rather, there is a lack of intention behind all the key players that makes the mystery a real tragedy in the end. Delta Green is about costs, for the player characters, and for everyone they meet.

I enjoy Dennis Detwiller’s cover for this one, it is one of the covers that really enticed me into trying out Delta Green in the first place.

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God’s Law, a Delta Green scenario currently out for playtesting via Dennis Detwiller’s patreon, has what i believe to be the first reference to a funko pop in DG 

Realising this causes 0/1 san loss against helplessness 

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Hastur Propaganda: Hastur has been written by many different authors. First by Ambrose Bierce, then (and most famously) by Robert W. Chambers, then by August Derleth, and more recently by John Tynes and Dennis Detwiller.

THE HASTUR MYTHOS, Written by Tynes in 1999, predating The House of Leaves by a few months and TMA by almost 17 years depicts Hastur's manifestations in a manner remarkably similar to the Distortion. Not to mention, the association of the spiral with Yellow is certainly a reference to the King.

Here's an excerpt:

"When Hastur affects someone, the very world around that person begins to break down in surreal ways. In particular, houses, apartments, and other living spaces seem particularly vulnerable, because we have such strong psychological attachments to the places we dwell in. A writer's house may contain more rooms than it could possibly hold. A madman's garret may have walls upon which

the text of conversations held in their presence appear in oversized, typewritten letters.

A pet goldfish may be made of solid gold and yet still live.

Stairs

may

lead

nowhere.

Doors may open onto pastures.

Typically, these physical abnormalities will have strong symbolic or literal connections with the mind of the affected individual: scenes from his life may play out, ghost-like, inside closets, items lost across the course of his life may suddenly reappear; the text of MAGAZINES may change to articles analyzing the subject's failed relationship with his wife."

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Season's strangeness! For the holidays, I'll feature one of my writings a day. Today, we'll look at MADNESS ON THE ORIENT EXPRESS, a Call Of Cthulhu roleplaying game companion anthology featuring my story "Stained Windows."

A gentleman thief struts his way into cosmic horror.

The anthology can be purchased here:

And you, DEAR READER, can read my story (FOR FREE!) here:

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Feast of the Unicorn (Ver 2) by Dennis Detwiller

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RPPR Episode 183: Delta Green Impossible Landscapes and Dead Channels

RPPR Episode 183: Delta Green Impossible Landscapes and Dead Channels

The first full Delta Green campaign, Impossible Landscapes, is finally out. I’ve long awaited this book, as I have been fascinated with Carcosa and surreal horror since I first read Night Floors years ago. I caught up with Dennis Detwiller and Shane Ivey of Arc Dream Publishing to learn more about the book.  Read the essay that began it all, the Road to Hali. Caleb also joined us to talk about…

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The Lloigor are great antagonists. Genius Loci by Clark Ashton Smith is a really good story that explores how They operate but has absolutely nothing about Their nature or origins in true Weird fashion.

Genius Loci by Clark Ashton Smith (eldritchdark.com)

I keep thinking about this section from the new The Conspiracy release. Naturally they leave the door open to be used on whatever way the Handler wishes, but they otherwise really leave the Lloigor untouched to the point of implying they are on the decline or falling dormant. Then they immediately in the next section directly state that the Mi-Go are for all purposes the major antagonist for The Conspiracy. They picked a faction they really wanted to flesh out, dedicate the bulk of the text to them, but leave a lot of room for you to figure out the rest.

Which just gets me thinking about the amount of freedom I actually have in rewriting and recontextualizing everything about the Lloigor if I wanted to use them as the major antagonists in an 80s guide. I've always maintained that an 80s setting should be all about immiseration, alienation, and decay-- and honestly the Lloigor are kind of the perfect entities to serve as the major antagonists for those themes.

Hell, maybe *something about the events of the 80s* in Delta Green's forgotten cowboy era history is responsible for the Lloigors relative decline.

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Delta Green PX Poker Night | Review and Page-Through

Jeff shares his thoughts about the revised edition of the Delta Green adventure PX Poker Night, from Arc Dream Publishing.

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This is the Lovecraftian horror game De Profundis, by Michal Oracz (fun fact: he also worked on the Neuroshima RPG). This is the original New Style version of the released in 2001 by Hogshead Publishing, the first English language edition (and the final New Style game). It was previously issued in Polish by Portal Publishing. I’ve previously posted about the 2010 reprint by Cubicle 7, this is essentially the same text as that, because it is essentially the same game!

There is no game master in De Profundis, no combat, no dice, no stats. The rules are minimal – most of the book is advice on structure and atmosphere. The game requires two or more players to write each other letters (or emails, or blog posts, but ideally letters – otherwise it might veer to far into creepypasta territory, though no such thing existed in 2001), mimicking the epistolary style of Lovecraft’s “The Whisperer in the Darkness” to create a horror narrative revealed by reading. Players control all aspects of the action and mystery by writing. As such, the game is almost entirely free form and improvisational.

I have never played De Profundis, despite very much wanting to – writing for a living makes writing not the most ideal leisure pursuit. Still, despite the game’s perhaps limited appeal, it is noteworthy for completely reinventing roleplaying for an entirely new form. It reminds me a bit of a Ouija Board, in some ways. Everyone at the board knows that someone is moving the pointer; the fun is pretending that isn’t the case, then acting scared in the hopes that the experience will become ACTUALLY scary.  

Here’s another connection with Pagan Publishing (following John Tynes’ Puppetland) — Dennis Detwiller did the cover art.

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July the 12th, 2019 Gravity is always waiting. Happy Birthday to: Amanda TimberMoon Dennis Detwiller