History TabletopGame / DeltaGreen

* MindScrew: The Hastur Mythos.

* SurrealHorror: The Hastur Mythos.

* XMeetsY: ''Call of Cthulhu'' meets ''TheXFiles'' before The X-Files even started; Delta Green predates the show by more than a year.

For the ''other'', ''slightly'' less depressing, ''slightly'' funnier Lovecraft-meets-spy-fiction setting, see TheLaundrySeries.

** [[spoiler: And even then we managed to do it. Earth is gone but Humanity has spread amongst the stars.]]

* CosmicHorrorStory: Even without all the human cultists, sorcerers and others dealing with Mythos forces, humanity would be pretty much done for. ''With'' them around, ItGetsWorse.

* BroadStrokes: According to the offical site, nothing in Delta Green is canon. instead, they encourage players to use whatever works for their game.

An acclaimed sourcebook for the famous CallOfCthulhu tabletop roleplaying game, Delta Green tells the story of the eponymous organization, a secret United States agency born of the Federal raid on [[TownWithADarkSecret Innsmouth, Massachusetts]] in 1929 and tasked to protect the country from paranormal threats. After an operation gone horribly wrong in Cambodia in the '60s, Delta Green was officially shut down - but its leaders, aware of the things lurking in the cracks of reality, continued the fight illegally, stealing resources from the government, carefully picking new members from the federal agents community, and generally acting like rightfully pissed off {{Cowboy Cop}}s in their battle against the supernatural. It would not be until the 1994 assassination of Major General Reginald Fairfield, Delta Green's ''de facto'' leader, than DG would take up their current incarnation: a deeply hidden conspiracy in the labyrinthine world of the United States federal agencies, structured in semi-independent cells.

->''[[{{Trainspotting}} Choose]] federal law enforcement. Choose the military. Choose NASA or the CDC. Choose lying to your superiors. Choose to ruin your career. Choose no friends. Choose divorce. Choose life through the bottom of a bottle. Choose destroying evidence and executing innocent people because they know too fucking much. Choose black fatigues and matching gas masks. Choose an [=MP5=] stolen from the CIA loaded with glasers, with a wide range of fucking attachments. Choose blazing away at mind numbing, sanity crushing things from beyond the stars, wondering whether you'd be better off stuffing the barrel in your own mouth. Choose The King In Yellow and waking up wondering who you are. Choose a 9mm retirement plan. Choose going out with a bang at the end of it all, PGP encrypting your last message down a securely laid cable as an NRO Delta wetworks squad busts through your door. Choose one last Night at the Opera. Choose Delta Green.''

* DownerEnding: Delta Green fights the fires it sees, but it's all going downhill. Some modern CoC material hints at possible evacuation to space habitats or the Dreamlands, but nothing positive or canonical.

* DownerEnding: Surprisingly averted: according to the setting's official works, although Earth is eventually wiped out and all life on it eradicated, a substantial amount of humans manage to escape to Mars, various outer-orbit moons, outside the solar system altogether, and into the Dreamlands. There are even supplements and rules for playing a game [[AfterTheEnd post-destruction of Earth]].

* TheSociopath: Adolph Lepus, litterally, as he has an antisocial personality disorder.

* TheVietnamWar: An unsanctionned operation in that time and its disastrous aftermath is what made the US government dissolve Delta Green.

* XMeetsY: ''Call of Cthulhu'' meets ''TheXFiles.''
** Despite this, however, Delta Green actually predates the show by more than a year.

An acclaimed sourcebook for the famous CallOfCthulhu tabletop roleplaying game, Delta Green tells the story of the eponymous organization, a secret United States agency born of the Federal raid on [[TownWithADarkSecret Innsmouth]] in 1929 and tasked to protect the country from paranormal threats. After an operation gone horribly wrong in Cambodia in the '60s, Delta Green was officially shut down - but its leaders, aware of the things lurking in the cracks of reality, continued the fight illegally, stealing resources from the government, carefully picking new members from the federal agents community, and generally acting like rightfully pissed off {{Cowboy Cop}}s in their battle against the supernatural. It would not be until the 1994 assassination of Major General Reginald Fairfield, Delta Green's ''de facto'' leader, than DG would take up their current incarnation: a deeply hidden conspiracy in the labyrinthine world of the United States federal agencies, structured in semi-independent cells.

* AliensAndMonsters: And not all of them are [[NaughtyTentacles betentacled.]]

* WellIntentionnedExtremist: The Army of the Third Eye are mostly crazed fanatics, but what they fight against is much worse. Delta Green itself can come off as this at times.

* PuppetteerParasite: The Shan, of course.

* BroadStrokes: According to the offical site, nothing in Delta Green is canon. instead, they encourage players to usewhatever works for their game.

* DownerEnding: Surprisingly averted: according to the setting's official works, although Earth is eventually wiped out and all life on it eradicated, a substantial amount of humans manage to escape to Mars, various outer-orbit moons, outside the solar system altogether, and into the Dreamworld. There are even supplements and rules for playing a game [[AfterTheEnd post-destruction of Earth]].
* {{Ghostapo}}: The Karotechia -- at least, what remains of it. An eldery worshipper of Yog-Sothoth, a [[ImAHumanitarian humanitarian]] ubermensch who gets immortality and invincibility in the bargain, and the "ascended" spirit of Adolf Hitler (at least, they ''think'' it's Hitler...).

* LaResistance: The Army of The Third Eye, against the Shan.

* TheMasquerade: Delta Green fights to keep the existence of the paranormal a secret from the public at large. Sometimes, that involves [[HeKnowsTooMuch ''neutralizing'' innocents.]]
* TheNineties
* TheGovernment: Many real-life US Federal agencies are provided for [=PCs=] to be part of, from familiar ones like the FBI and the DEA to the more obscure like [=FinCEN=] or the National Security Council.
* TheGreys: The high-tech aliens cutting secret deals with MJ-12 for fun and profit. Of course, [[spoiler:they are not what they seem.]]

Delta Green is heavily based on classical conspiracy/UFO theories, meshing them with the CthulhuMythos milieu: DG themselves are a spin on the {{MIB}}, but there are also other shadow agencies involved, including the now famous Majestic 12 group that deals with the Greys (actually Mi-Go in disguise). Other players are the Karotechia, [[{{Ghostapo}} occultist Nazis serving an "ascended" Hitler]]; the Fate, a criminal organization that makes heavy use of Mythos creatures and spells for fun and profit; [=SaucerWatch=], a naïve yet well-funded UFO research group that may be closer to the truth than they know; and the [[AncientConspiracy Cult of Transcendence]], among others.

* SacrificialLamb: "Friendlies" are those people that support DG's cause but are not fully inducted into the conspiracy. Delta Green maintains a database with full information on each and every one, so that they can be properly "taken care of" if the need arises.
* ShownTheirWork: The bibliography shows a respectable collection of material regarding world history, UFO folklore, and the praxis of the US intelligence community.

Delta Green is heavily based on classical conspiracy/UFO theories, meshing them with the CthulhuMythos milieu: DG themselves are a spin on the {{MIB}}, but there are also other shadow agencies involved, including the now famous Majestic 12 group that deals with the Greys (actually Mi-Go in disguise). Other players are the Karotechia, [[{{Ghostapo}} occultist Nazis serving an "ascended" Hitler]]; the Fate, a criminal organization that makes heavy use of Mythos creatures and spells for fun and profit; [=SaucerWatch=], a naïve yet well-funded UFO research group that may be closer to the truth than they know; and the [[AncientConspiracy Cult of Trascendence]], among others.

Delta Green is heavily based on classical conspiracy/UFO theories, meshing them with the CthulhuMythos milieu: DG themselves are a spin on the {{MIB}}, but there are also other shadow agencies involved, including the now famous Majestic 12 group that deals with the Greys (actually Mi-Go in disguise). Other players are the Karotechia, [[{{Ghostapo}} occultist Nazis serving an "ascended" Hitler]]; the Fate, a criminal organization that makes heavy use of Mythos creatures and spells for fun and profit; [=SaucerWatch=], a naïve yet well-funded UFO research groupthat may be closer to the truth than they know; and the [[AncientConspiracy Cult of Trascendence]], among others.

* [[spoiler: SacrificialLamb]]"Friendlies" are those people that support DG's cause but are not fully inducted into the conspiracy (the game's excuse to have non-Fed [=PCs=] in a cell)[[spoiler: Delta Green maintains a database with full information on each and everyone of their friendlies: if the conspiracy is uncovered, they will expose the database and their friendlies in order to buy time for escaping.]]

* XMeetsY: ''Call of Cthulhu'' meets ''TheXFiles.'' (Even though DG actually predates the show for a year or so)

** [[spoiler: And even then we managed to do it. Earth is gone but Humanity has spread amongst the starts.]]