Hi there, I'm James H, long time DG fan. I'm taking part to expand an old campaign sketch into a proper campaign. The factions I'm thinking of using are the Disciples of the Worm, and the Deep Ones.
As well as finally fleshing out the War on Dregs, I have a few other design aims for this campaign:
- To create a campaign suitable for beginners/beginning Handlers. This campaign is designed to have explicit lead-ins from Last Things Last, Operation Fulminate, and The New Age - the three most likely scenarios for a starting group.
- To create a campaign which gradually exposes groups to some of the deeper DG lore: the Program/Outlaw split, the hidden motivations of A Cell and the Director, the fate of N Cell; without drowning them in it. Currently there aren't many scenarios in which this lore makes its way to the table.
- To give some of my and others' old scenarios a new spin, because I'm egotistical and nostalgic like that :-)
Those are the aims. The theme of the War On Dregs is revenge - revenge and consequences. The Director and A Cell are both driven by their own pasts to want revenge on the Unnatural. As they get older, as their grip on the reins of power slips, the drive becomes an obsession. They know, in their bones, that they can't hope to destroy the Unnatural. But maybe they can use it to get revenge on a part of it (the Deep Ones for the Director, the Disciples of the Worm and Majestic/the Program itself for A-cell) that they hate the most. As the clock ticks, they will take more and more risks, and cross more and more boundaries, to bring the temple of their enemies down, even if it comes down on their own heads - or, more likely, on the heads of the agents they've selected to be their eyes and hands. Those agents, by the end of the campaign, will be all too familiar with the consequences of revenge on the Unnatural - will they turn away from the old men's nemeses, or see it through to the end?
DELTA GREEN: WAR ON DREGS
Awake, awake! Rise up, O Jerusalem, You who have drunk the cup of His fury from the hand of the LORD; You have drunk the dregs of the cup of terror, and drained it out. Isaiah 51:17