Godlike: Superhero Roleplaying in a World on Fire, 1936-1946

Released in 2002 to critical acclaim, GODLIKE is a superhero roleplaying game like no other. There is no bright spandex, no pulp machismo. In the face of the greatest conflict in history, ordinary men and women emerge with the Talents their times demand, but who are still as vulnerable -- and eventually as expendable -- as the ordinary troops in the foxholes. 
GODLIKE features an intensively researched alternate history of World War II, the depth of setting and character for which award-winning author Dennis Detwiller (Delta Green) is famous, an innovative rules set by Greg Stolze (Unknown Armies), and a complete "D20" rules conversion by Mike Mearls. GODLIKE: You are larger than life... but the War is larger than you.

Godlike: Superhero Roleplaying in a World on Fire 1936-1946

History

Detwiller, Dennis

Stolze, Greg

Military

Impressions Advertising & marketing

Wild Talents: Superhero Roleplaying

Arc Dream Publishing

Wild Talents Essential Edition is a black-and-white paperback book, 176 pages, which includes complete rules for creating characters and running Wild Talents games.The Essential Edition does not include several chapters that appear in the full-size, hardcover Wild Talents Second Edition book (such as the chapter on building new settings and the history of the world of Godlike).The Essential Edition is built for those who just want the rules, in a compact, portable format and at a price that every gamer can love.

Wild Talents Essential Edition

Science Fiction & Fantasy

Greg Stolze

Ivey, Shane

Gaming

"Born of the U.S. government's 1928 raid on the degenerate coastal town of Innsmouth, Massachusetts, the covert agency known as Delta Green spent four decades opposing the forces of darkness with honor, but without glory. Stripped of sanction after a disastrous 1969 operation in Cambodia, Delta Green's leaders made a secret pact: to continue their work without authority, without support, and without fear. Delta Green agents slip through the system, manipulating the federal bureaucracy while pushing the darkness back for another day—but often at a shattering personal cost."
Ten years ago, everything changed. It's time you found out how.
It's January 2001. The Delta Green agents code-named Cyrus and Charlie get the call: A young boy dead and buried for years has reappeared, healthy and happy, as if no time at all had passed and the disease that killed him had never been. The family thinks it's a miracle, but Delta Green has seen too many miracles turn to madness. Cyrus and Charlie must discover what horrors lurk behind this one. The mission brings them to the brink of apocalypse -- to the edge of the revelation and destruction of Delta Green -- to secrets and terrors at the heart of reality itself.
Written by Delta Green co-creator Dennis Detwiller, Delta Green: Through a Glass, Darkly is a sequel to the stories of Delta Green: Strange Authorities, available from Arc Dream Publishing.

Delta Green: Through a Glass, Darkly

Literature & Fiction

Contemporary

"Wild Talents" is a complete superhero roleplaying game built for fast, thrilling action. The "Wild Talents" game system-the "One-Roll Engine" made famous by such games as "Reign," "Godlike" and "Monsters and Other Childish Things"-is fast-paced yet detailed, with an emphasis on the dangers of heroism and the importance of willpower and motivations. The rules for creating superpowers from scratch offer tremendous flexibility, with enough simplicity to make it easy to play and enough depth to suit any gamer, and make the game eminently easy to customize. "Wild Talents" includes an in-depth alternate version of modern history, which builds on the acclaimed setting of the World War II game "Godlike" and extends it to the present day and to Talent-influenced events that reach into the depths of government secrecy and beyond the stars. Kenneth Hite's analysis of superhero campaign worlds guides you through the construction of wholly unique superhero settings, worlds whose history fits perfectly your vision for your setting and style of play. "Wild Talents (Second Edition)" is a full-color hardcover book which includes: Complete rules for creating characters, creating new powers, and running the game. Guidelines for building alternate superheroic histories that fit your characters and style of play. An extensive history of a "World Gone Mad," from the first appearance of Talents in World War II to the present day, more and more warped by human beings who have superhuman powers.

Wild Talents (Second Edition)

Hite, Kenneth

Cubicle 7 Entertainment Ltd.

Welcome to the Land of DreamsFrom a squalid New York drug den to the spectral ruins of Sarkomand . . .From the horrors of the Underworld to the zoog-haunted Enchanted Wood . . .From the twilight city of Inquanok to the endless sunset of Ilek-Vad . . .All the wonders of dream await—and all the terrors of nightmare, too.The Sense of the Sleight-of-Hand Man is a 294-page Call of Cthulhu (Sixth Edition) campaign of adventure, cosmic mystery, and deepest fear set in the Dreamlands of H.P. Lovecraft. The player characters—the Dreamers—explore the breadth of the otherworldly Dreamlands seeking a way back to the lives that they left behind. But can they survive the countless dangers of a world of dream—and the strange emnity of Nyarlathotep, the messenger and soul of the Outer Gods, when they fall under his capricious gaze?Contents:ForewordChapter One: Character CreationChapter Two: Mr. LaoChapter Three: Life In a DreamChapter Four: SarkomandChapter Five: Travel by SeaChapter Six: WanderingChapter Seven: The UnderworldChapter Eight: InquanokChapter Nine: LhoskChapter Ten: Ilek-VadChapter Eleven: SarnathChapter Twelve: UltharChapter Thirteen: Return to EarthAppendix A: New SpellsAppendix B: Prisoners of the Ebony TempleIndexThe Sense of the Sleight-of-Hand Man is written and illustrated by Origins Award-winning author and artist Dennis Detwiller, with editing and page design by Ennie Award-winning editor Shane Ivey.Steady your nerves, if you can, and close your eyes to the waking world. Sarkomand awaits.

The Sense of the Sleight-of-Hand Man: A Dreamlands Campaign for Call of Cthulhu

Delta Green: Tales from Failed Anatomies is a collection of stories by award-winning author and game designer Dennis Detwiller.
These tales of cosmic terror and personal horror span the life of Delta Green, the desperate organization that Detwiller helped create: a group of men and women who have seen the awful truths of reality and struggle to keep those realities at bay as long as they can.
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<li>Introduction (by John Scott Tynes)</li>
<li>Foreword: The Alien Thoughts, Part 1 (by Robin D. Laws)</li>
<li>Intelligences (1928)</li>
<li>The File (1942)</li>
<li>Night and Water (1944)</li>
<li>Dead, Death, Dying (1955)</li>
<li>Punching (1964)</li>
<li>The Secrets No One Knows (1968)</li>
<li>Coming Home (1974)</li>
<li>The Thing in the Pit (1977)</li>
<li>Drowning in Sand (1981)</li>
<li>Contingencies (1984)</li>
<li>Philosophy (1993)</li>
<li>Witch Hunt (2015)</li>
<li>After Math (20XX)</li>
<li>Afterword: The Alien Thoughts, Part 2 (by Robin D. Laws)</li>
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Delta Green: Tales from Failed Anatomies

Genre Fiction

“Godlike in their abilities, let us hope this new breed of man will carry the burden of a suffering world to our ultimate and unwavering goal — freedom for all the people of the Earth.” Franklin D. Roosevelt November 10, 1941 At the dawn of World War II, a handful of people called "Talents" manifested strange powers that set them apart from the rest of humanity. With these powers man took to the air without mechanical aid, explored the depths of the sea without life support, and touched the rim of space. To others, Talents seemed godlike in their power. Only the Talents themselves, pushed to the front lines of every battle, knew the truth — that these newfound powers seemed pointless in the face of death. That their power set them apart from family, friends and enemies. That it made them more, and yet somehow less. These fears, like the power that feeds them, are godlike in their scope. “The world is richly super [yet] delightfully bleak and war-torn…. Look, up in the sky — and take cover.” —Kenneth Hite, Out of the Box A GAME LIKE NO OTHER GODLIKE is a role-playing game in which the players take the roles of superhuman Talents fighting in World War II. No bright spandex, no pulp machismo. In the grimmest conflict in history, ordinary men and women emerge who have the Talents their times demand — but who are still as vulnerable, and ultimately as expendable, as the ordinary troops in the foxholes. The core book includes everything you need to play in a wartime setting ripe with intrigue and combat. “An excellent game with many roleplaying opportunities and chances to be real heroes.” —Jody Harkavy, About.com GODLIKE features an amazing, intensively researched alternate history by award-winning author Dennis Detwiller (Delta Green). There's a full list of ready-to-play powers, and easy rules for creating your own from scratch. A huge "field manual" of weapons and vehicles covers all sides of the war. And Greg Stolze (Unknown Armies) presents the innovative "One-Roll Engine," built for lightning-fast superpowered action. A WORLD ON FIRE GODLIKE features an intensively researched alternate history, the depth of setting and character for which award-winning author Dennis Detwiller (Delta Green) is famous, an innovative rules set by Greg Stolze (Unknown Armies), and a complete "D20" rules conversion by Mike Mearls. “Slick production values, and a simple and clever system with an eye toward punching through tanks and German machine gun nests, make this a great superhero game.” —Mark Finn, RevolutionSF REVISED EDITION This new edition of GODLIKE includes corrections and revisions throughout the book based directly on the feedback of gamers over the years since GODLIKE first appeared. It also includes a new appendix with further rules options adapted from GODLIKE sourcebooks and campaign books by Dennis Detwiller, Allan Goodall and Shane Ivey: squad combat rules, bombardments, minefields, the One-Roll Patrol generator, new powers and more. “GODLIKE ultimately succeeds because it successfully and believably integrates superheroes into the war…. Our Pick: ‘A’.” —Kenneth Newquist, Science Fiction Weekly GODLIKE: You are larger than life . . . but the War is larger than you!

PLACES, LIKE PEOPLE, GO WRONG They turn off the path and head into the shadows, becoming something other than normal. Black places filled with blank rooms, closed doors, and empty hallways lined with dust. In these places your voice catches in your throat, the air seems to hum, and bad things happen. People get hurt. Objects vanish. Misery flows like the water from the loose faucet in the bathroom. Hate hangs in the air like old paint. It smells of time and circumstance, and something just a little beyond the world. It smells like surrender. The house at 1206 Spooner Avenue is a place gone wrong. In the last 50 years, 18 people have died there, and you can feel it. Doors in 1206 Spooner Avenue stay shut, and no one ever hears a child’s laughter at night. In the hours that stretch like taffy after two, no one ever hears music from a darkened room. “Music From a Darkened Room” is a scenario playable with Delta Green: Need to Know or Delta Green: Agent’s Handbook, available from Arc Dream Publishing. Good luck.

Delta Green: Music From a Darkened Room

Even Death Has a Half-LifeTwo days ago, a newspaper delivery driver found retired geneticist Tibalt Grieves dead outside his suburban home. Police found Grieves’ girlfriend dead in the house. A detective discovered a hidden lab, outfitted with bio-hazard scrubbers. A CDC specialist found unidentifiable samples—samples that indicated that something had gotten loose. When the sun rose, Grieves’ body began to smolder and disintegrate.It was another five hours before Delta Green got involved.In Viscid, the Agents must keep a lid on a story that threatens to spin out into the public in all its unnatural detail. They must delve into the secrets of strange and lethal forces acting in secrecy all around them. They must follow a trail of carnage to a horrifying communion.As far as Delta Green is concerned, staying alive is the last of their priorities.Viscid is playable with the quickstart rulebook, Delta Green: Need to Know, or with the core rulebooks of Delta Green: the Agent’s Handbook and the Hand;ler's Guide, available from Arc Dream Publishing.

Delta Green: Viscid

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