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Delta Green: Impossible Landscapes
by Robert H. [Verified Purchaser] Date Added: 03/23/2021 23:06:27

Just finished reading the PDF. This book is fantastic and it feels like a thoroughly encompassing way to get your players mired in a frightening mess. The NPC art is superb and frankly even the normal people have an unsettling look about them. It's clear that even with the deadliness of violent situations, most of the threats to sanity will lose only 1 SAN at a time, making the slip into madness feel slow but inexorable. The linking of curiosity to danger has never been more direct in a COC/Delta Green book.

The plot really shines in a section where players think they have escaped the surreal locations for a second time, only to find themselves still hallucinating under the influence of the King - the example hallucinations are just chilling. Also, the way the author has found to deal with the narrative problem of the players being wanted and caught by mundane law enforcement (not exactly supernaturally scary in their own right) is very clever. The callbacks between different times and places, and spaghetti of connections between NPCs, is incredible.

The only thing it could use but doesn't have is a bibliography or list of influences/references, would be nice to see the recommended stories by Chambers, Borges, etc. in addition to the clear recommendation of a classic public domain demonology text.

There is an appendix of side-character NPC encounters that is worth the price of admission and would fit right into any modern horror/magic setting such as Unknown Armies.

(I reviewed this a couple weeks ago but it was turned into a "Discussion" so here is the review again)



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Delta Green: Impossible Landscapes
by Fabio P. d. S. S. [Verified Purchaser] Date Added: 03/19/2021 17:34:17

Amazing campaign, truly horrific and mind-bending, different from anything I have seen in either Call of Cthulhu or Delta Green for that matter. Don't think twice about grabbing a copy of this!!



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Better Angels
by Joshua W. [Verified Purchaser] Date Added: 03/12/2021 08:28:57

Angel's Citadel just reviewed this title. Go check it out!

https://angelscitadel.com/2021/03/12/review-better-angels/



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Delta Green: Impossible Landscapes
by Harold B. [Verified Purchaser] Date Added: 03/09/2021 14:26:52

Impossible Landscapes is an excellent addition to the new edition of Delta Green. The book itself is gorgeous, packed with evocative illustrations and creepy annotations that really add to a dense and complex campaign. The campaign is superbly crafted. It builds on a revised version of the scenario Night Floors, that first appeared in 1999 Delta Green: Countdown. The three other parts of the campaign revisit the agents involved in that opera years later, in what becomes an inexorable escalation in surreal horror that eventually brings them to the heart of Carcosa. The four scenarios are quite detailed, and Night Floors has been revised and expanded to fit perfectly with the rest of the campaign. I suspect that this campaign will ask a lot of preparation from the GM, if he really wants to do justice to the tone and atmosphere proposed, and if she wants to tie everything up in a creepily effective way (there are a lot of exquisite occasions to do so, with various call backs to other parts of the campaign). The good news is that the GM will have many tools at his or her disposal, with an excellent index, loads of handouts and Static Protocol, a companion to the campaign that assembles in a single, well-structured document, a lot of the background that the Agents will want to explore in the course of the campaign. By the end of it all, you’ll most certainly see the Yellow Sign (and loose a bit of SAN).



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Delta Green: Impossible Landscapes
by GREGORY C. [Verified Purchaser] Date Added: 02/23/2021 11:43:31

I thoroughly enjoyed reading through this campaign. I don't know when I'll ever get to run it, or if my brain/SAN rating could even handle doing so. I'm looking forward to the day when I can try my hand at putting some unsuspecting players through it. Definitely not a "pick up the book and start playing"-type campaign. It is too deep for that. But the work you put into running and playing it will pay off.

And either way, Impossible Landscapes is worth getting just for the joy of reading it. Dennis and Arc Dream have put years of work into this campaign, and it shows. From the artwork to the evocative, reality-bending writing and scenario design. If you and your group are up for it, I'm sure it would be a terrifying ride.



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Delta Green: Impossible Landscapes
by Lars S. [Verified Purchaser] Date Added: 02/08/2021 18:54:24

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Delta Green: Impossible Landscapes
by Anders V. [Verified Purchaser] Date Added: 02/07/2021 11:37:15

This is a monster of art. It is pure art, and at the same time a highly playable scenario, or rather, campaign. It is superbly written, illustrated and presented. I have played most of the great old ones; Masks, Fungi, Azathoth, The Orient Express. They cannot compare to this behemoth. Even as a GM, I get to experience the horror I am about to unleash on my players, because the book also gives me a kaleidoscopic view of the world behind the stage. At times I forget this is fiction. It is the best gaming material I have ever touched, and brings Call of Cthulhu, that I played for the first time in 1987, into a contemporary and frankly even more sickening future. I strongly suggest you buy this, and should you like to use it for another rule set, it works well everywhere. The stage is set, and madness knows no bounds.



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Delta Green: Impossible Landscapes
by Drew H. [Verified Purchaser] Date Added: 02/05/2021 10:09:42

Running this was an absolute delight. Mindbending stuff that will send your players down a rabbit hole of self doubt, creeping dread and the feeling that the King's influence is deep in the very seams of everything they do. Wonderful writing, Mr. Detwiller is great when he's trying to unsettle the players, but he's at his absolute peak when he's trying to haunt them.



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Delta Green: Impossible Landscapes
by Jordan E. [Verified Purchaser] Date Added: 02/04/2021 19:43:05

This book was so great to read that even if I were to never run or play in a King in Yellow game, it was worth the cost. Some of the scenes were so atmospheric and creative that I had to show my friends just cause they made me so excited. The art was top notch and really added to the mood as well. BUY IT BUY IT BUY IT!



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Delta Green: Impossible Landscapes
by Tim S. [Verified Purchaser] Date Added: 02/01/2021 21:15:33

Arc Dream has completely subsumed old White Wolf for me as my favorite publisher. They just don't miss with Delta Green, and Impossible Landscapes proves it. Buy this book!



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Delta Green: Impossible Landscapes
by Guillem G. d. V. [Verified Purchaser] Date Added: 01/29/2021 13:42:30

This Dennis Detwiller's creation has become the best modern horror campaign I've ever read. An instant classic.



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Delta Green: Impossible Landscapes
by Robert S. [Verified Purchaser] Date Added: 01/29/2021 11:07:13

The Arc Dream team never disappoints, but this is truly an instant classic. King in Yellow adventures are notoriously difficult to run because of the mind-bending atmosphere required to authentically represent this aspect of the Mythos. And yet, Dennis Detwiller has managed to make an entire KiY campaign not only accessible to Handlers, but one that gives them all of the grounding and resources needed for them to excel in building the necessary tension, paranoia, and otherworldliness. I'm truly impressed.

As if this wasn't enough, the presentation is gorgeous and the formatting makes the book a pleasure to explore. Like "House of Leaves," reading it is an experience unto itself. The NPC portraits, handouts, and other supporting images are top notch as well.

Kudos to Dennis and the rest of the team! I cannot wait to run this campaign.



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Delta Green: Impossible Landscapes
by A customer [Verified Purchaser] Date Added: 01/29/2021 02:16:01

Baked it duiring Kikstarter. As i see now it absolutle worth it. I where quite surprised to resive all the handouts as separate PNG archive for usage with VTT, now no need to cut all of them from book. I`ll update my review as run game with group. Because after reading i fully satisfied.



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Delta Green: Impossible Landscapes
by Eric M. [Verified Purchaser] Date Added: 01/28/2021 10:18:26

Different types of horror can evoke different emotions - discomfort, disgust, fear, dread, despair. Personally, that's why I love the genre: it gives one a place to safely experience and, yes, even enjoy these emotions. But my favourite type of horror is the kind that bends reality about five degrees to the left, leaving you feeling uncertain about the world you're inhabiting and your place in it. It's not exactly scary, per se - but along with a feeling of wonder, it also gives you a deep-seated dread that reaches down into the pit of your stomach. It's the feeling you experience when you have deja vu, or when you turn a corner in your hometown and suddenly there's a new store where there was once an empty lot. That gut feeling that there is some hidden secret or truth to the world and, if only for a moment, if you try hard enough, you can get a glimpse behind the curtain. The momentary conviction that somehow, something is just wrong.

And like a frog in a pot of lukewarm water that is turned up to boiling so slowly that by the time it notices, it's too late, Impossible Landscapes begins with a gentle dip into the surreal. Moment by moment, the surreality grows, almost unnoticeably. But for your players - and perhaps for you, dear Handler - this campaign inexorably slides into an unstoppable plunge, where only by luck and force of will can one rise to catch their breath, before they are pulled down, beneath the cloud lake, to the hidden city of Carcosa where all secrets are laid bare.

It's no exaggeration to say that I've been waiting for this campaign to come to fruition for many years. Since first playing the original Night Floors campaign perhaps five years ago, I've been enamoured by this aspect of the Cthulhu Mythos. The King in Yellow is a mystery that leaves you hungry for more but uncertain where to look - or even what the mystery is. The original Chambers' stories are but an amuse-bouche, a stage setting for all that was to come. And if contemporary stories like True Detective were the appetizers, Impossible Landscapes is the main course. You will eat the entire meal, and only then will you understand the true secret: That the meal is you and you are the meal. Consume, and be consumed.

While the original Night Floors was atmospheric and reality-bending - and in fact was one of my favourites - it always felt it somewhat unfinished, with no satisfying conclusion. And because the Agents never saw the full behind-the-scenes picture of the operation, they were inevitably left feeling a bit confused. Thankfully, Impossible Landscapes slots Night Floors neatly in place as the opening act to a much larger campaign, and even if you've run Night Floors before for your Agents, by running it again you'll find an expanded story, new clues and horrors for your Agents, and - perhaps most crucially - new meaning behind what already existed in the campaign.

Moving on to the second stage of the campaign, A Volume of Secret Faces, you'll find an operation for your Agents that is both wide and deep. In some campaigns or operations, a lot of the peripheral details are left for the Handler to flesh out. Happily, such is not the case here - especially because some of those fringe details will turn out to be some of the most goosebump-raising, spine-tingling moments for your Agents. This campaign is both linear and nonlinear; you'll see what I mean upon reading it. As a result, it will require some flexibility and on-the-spot improvisation by the Handler to adapt to your players' choices, as well as a deep and thorough knowledge of the campaign (DEFINITELY re-read it at least two or three times before running a game); but such GM-gymnastics will be well rewarded when your players have that "aha!" moment that we all live for as Handlers.

In the third stage of the campaign, Like a Map Made of Skin, the action rises and things go all-out surreal. I really enjoy when a Delta Green operation has a good mix of unnatural horror and the "mundane" terror of mortal combat, and this section of the campaign leans on that mix very hard to push your players forward. This section is the shortest of the four parts of the campaign, and - if you so desire it, though it's not by any means necessary - would be best served by Handlers who like to expand on the campaign material with their own side-quests, maps, etc. But since this part of the campaign sort of becomes a bit of a rest stop for the players, you may wish to play it as-is so that they can continue in good time to the climax, in part four.

In my own, original run of the Night Floors operation years ago, I built a climax very similar to what ends up comprising the end of this book. That my own creation turned out to be similar was satisfying indeed, but in this section, The End of the World of the End, the details build out a world that feels both real and unknowable. And the underlying corruption mechanics that have both hindered and guided the Agents this far will lead to a different personal revelation, ending, or understanding for each of them.

The layout and graphics of the book lend it an air of mystery, as if the campaign book itself has come under the corrupting influence of the King in Yellow. It's almost a pity that your players won't get to see it, because it provides a lot of dressing for the horror of the words written within. The handouts are exhaustive and detailed, including maps, clues of all sorts, NPC portraits that feel like real people, and all sorts of things to confound and illuminate your players. The organization of the campaign is particularly satisfying; it is a very long book at more than 350 pages, and very dense, so as mentioned it does require re-reading to really understand all the details. But reading it, I never felt lost or confused about what was happening or where. It's a very easy campaign for a Handler to follow, as long as they read it enough to absorb everything, like a poison you must take in through the skin.

The way that Agent corruption is built or reduced via the game mechanics throughout the campaign is both subtle and, at the same time, a critical part of what makes this campaign work so well. Instead of being a Handler "inflicting" weird things on the Agents (who, in the original Night Floors, had very little personal agency as a result), the Agents' own actions and decisions guide what they see, hear, and experience. They decide how strong the pull of Carcosa is on them - do they dare turn another page and continue on to that cursed, beautiful, horrible Act II, Scene I?

I think you will find that they cannot resist. And so you, dear Handler, are given the pleasure of watching as they seal their own doom and proceed down that dark corridor searching for answers - just a little farther, a little farther - until the darkness envelopes them.

Now, unmask.



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Delta Green: Impossible Landscapes
by Euan G. [Verified Purchaser] Date Added: 01/28/2021 08:23:36

An incredible piece of writing with a countless number of chilling sections. All I could have wanted and more for running a King in Yellow campaign. Arc Dream should be proud of the work they have produced. Also... Have you seen the Yellow Sign?



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