Saturday, October 12, 2019

help i accidentally made an urban fantasy setting

Despite all the words I've thrown around about them, none of my settings have actually seen play yet. The group I run games for has an... incompatible tone for something like Sunless Horizon. Instead, we've been doing some urban fantasy stuff in a vague setting mashed together from Delta Green, Second Sight, Control, and any other psychics/cthulhu/whatever vs. the United States Government sort of thing I can find.

We've been using this setting for a few months, and it looks like we'll be using it for a while longer. It's really sketched-in, along with mostly being stolen, but it makes a good example of how little setting you really need to run a game.

Delta Green

Delta Green is a non-governmental organization focused on containment and control of supernatural entities and objects. They are organized in a cell system, with each cell made up of 3-6 agents. These cells are largely autonomous, only communicating with each other to deliver mission assignments.

Much of their funding comes from private research institutions hoping to get access to Delta Green's recovered objects. However, a lot of it comes from an unknown entity only known as друг.

OSIRIS (Official Scientific Institute for Research Into the Supernatural)


OSIRIS is a government organization created in 1962 after reports of unnatural events in Vietnam were finally confirmed. Currently, OSIRIS's largest project is the Aries Program, focused on inducing psychic powers in baseline humans.

The Aries Program revolves around Compound G5e, a volatile liquid that cannot be found on Earth. It can only be found in...

The Gardens of Ynn

Ynn is basically unchanged from how it is as written. The only differences are that OSIRIS is intruding into the Gardens to mine G5e, and that the Sidhe are moving outward into the world, hoping to reclaim it.

Magic is created by putting an area in connection with Ynn and its strange metaphysics, allowing unnatural events to happen.

друг (Friend)

друг is a complete unknown - they send messages, assignments, and information to both Delta Green and OSIRIS, with knowledge that seems impossible for anyone to have. These messages often bring DG and OSIRIS into conflict (such as друг sending both of them a message about an artifact at the same time).

4 comments:

  1. Ahahahahaha YES! FRIEND rides again!

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  2. This is the funniest line I've read in a few nearby days.

    Do you plan to integrate Esoteric Enterprise as well?

    ("если друг оказался вдруг
    и не друг, и не враг, а так...")

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    1. I haven't read EE - I didn't know that it had much of a setting.

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    2. It is modern time/occult time setting, but it has a lot of materials that might be useful to your game, maybe.
      It is also by Emmy Allen, so you can bridge it to Gardens and/or Library and/or Deep Morphean Transmissions.

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