BE NOT AFRAID

BE NOT AFRAID is a mini-campaign for the TTRPG Delta Green. It's set in England, the author's home, and hopefully that's easy to see in its writing - the campaign explores the melancholy of watching the rot of your birthplace through a specific time-period, the mid-to-late 1990s.

What starts as an investigation into a serial killer quickly spirals into crashing against the rocks of a national, century-spanning conspiracy, and the entire metaphysical framework of the United Kingdom. Part 1 is granular, grounded, hot, intense, impatient. Part 2 is cold, but grandiose, a twilight hour exploration into the rotting heart of a spiritually sterile nation, and the cowards who run the show - both in this world, and the next.

While the campaign is quite ambitious in its scope, it is fully intended as a campaign for beginners to Delta Green. The features/characteristics of the campaign that compliment this are:

- More granular detail of gameflow, how to structure events, how to get PCs into certain ways of thinking. An example is with NPC interrogations, I give a detailed breakdown of how NPCs will answer certain questions so handlers aren't concerned about tipping their hat too soon.

- The UK setting means that firearms are less prevalent than in a campaign based in the US, meaning lower lethality.

- While the difficulty spikes in Part 2, this comes at the end, and is intended to introduce players to the core conceit of Delta Green: you are a fragile, defiant human being screaming at cosmic entities and substrates.

- Unusually strong cover identities for the agents - they are to be interacting with police, politicians and government institutions, and their fake credentials reflect that. This gives players wriggle-room in taking big-swings, but is also not treated as an all-access pass.