Multi-Interest Thread (Potterverse, Judge Dredd, Delta Green/Call of Cthulu)

[RegretNot]

Hello all,

Thanks for stopping in and taking a look first off.  I am currently finding myself wanting to GM a game again and am not too sure what to pursue but instead have multiple ideas that interest me so I wanted to put them all on the table and see what generates the most interest on E, maybe even the top two if I am feeling ambitious or get some Co-GM help. 

I have a poll set up for voting or you can ask questions about the games in comments and I will try to respond in a timely rate. 

Potterverse - Salem Raise Your Wand (Withdrawn)

A continuation but much more focused version of the Salem series of games done in the American Potterverse.  The story takes place in the new capital of MACUSA (Magical Congress of the United States of America) in Chicago as a new major threat has made himself known in a Dark Wizard known as Carl Limerk.  His reign of terror from 2010 to 2013 was marked with his capture and imprisonment in Damocles Spine.  In 2017 there was an escape for the Spine which saw his death along with six other dark wizards.  This was proven to be false with the appearance of Limerk in front of crowd of people at a wizarding Event in Dearborn Center (Magical Area in Chicago) and his terrorizing it leading to three deaths and many injured.  MACUSA did not capture him in the ensuing chaos and has had to admit to his continued threat of the Magical world.  There are concerns at the continued deception inside the government as a rogue group known as the Council of Black has learned that Limerk’s release was part of a plot by MACUSA, they are trying to find hard evidence and what they are up to.  They have agents inside and out of the government as well as sympathizers to recruit to their cause as well as going after Limerk as if they released him how hard could they be trying to capture the man who had proven to be a danger to anyone he finds himself near.  Where will they find proof of the corruption inside MACUSA, what will they do with it, and who can they trust? 

A game of magic, suspense, and mystery focused on stop the next Voldemort that sadly resides on American soil. 

Dredd - Broad Block Blues

“Mega-City 1... 800 million people and every one of them a potential criminal. The most violent, evil city on earth... but, God help me, I love it." - Judge Dredd

Set in the backdrop of Mega-City 1 where all that lies beyond is the Cursed Earth, the Judges are the only extension of law and order left.  Robots do most jobs in the city and that leads to a malaise that falls over the population that turns into many things from boredom to lawlessness.  This is where the Judges come in as serving both role of Judge and Police Officer able to sentence people on the spot and held to a higher standard.   Judges are recruited at the age of 5 or made from clones of existing judges trained and psychologically conditioned in the Academy of Law.  Their training and conviction behind them makes them the last line in defense to full out anarchy in their eyes. 

The story will take place following a group of Judges in the Broad Block and consists of a Street Division stationed there and perhaps a few specialty division Judges placed there.  Ultra violent at times and an unforgiving dystopian future are major themes of this game that is tongue and cheek on the idea of morality. 

Call of Cthulu/ Delta Green - We Are Definitely Not Alone

"So what is Delta Green? 

Well you are starting off with the right question the problem is that answer isn't so cut and dry, then again with what you saw you already understand that.  I could give you the answer that I give anyone who asks me when they suddenly appear on the street on my walk from my car to my house or maybe in the stacks at the library looking at books people forgot about a long time ago, but that would a lie and I haven't started doing that just yet.  The thing about us is that eventually someone is going to lie to you or just not tell you something that you need to know as the don't deem it mission critical and it's going to cost you dearly, whether it be lives or just the stability someone needs to run their life.  It's a very real problem with the kinds of things we do here, it's why I take a cocktail of REM-suppressing pills and a few shots of whiskey to get even a semblance of a night's sleep and I wouldn't even quantify it as good. 

I know you are likely thinking that the way I am talking about it that Delta Green is a covert government agency, that is again not so cut and dry, yes and no.  Well sort of.  It was years ago, see back when it was made up of a group of men that knew what needed to get done.  They understood that there were things that couldn't be out there in the open but someone had to try to take action against them.  Well they did what needed to be done but they did it wrong so Delta Green doesn't exist anymore, well not officially.  Now if you do what needs to be done and you get caught, you will be doing what the world thinks needs to get done, hard time.  If you plead your case honestly you might not be doing time in prison though, they might ship you right to the looney bin and throw the key away, upside right?

So how about I answer an easier question for you.  I am Agent Deacon Moore, forensic pathologist for the FBI, barely passed my last psychological fitness review and I swear I tried like hell to sound sane too.  I am your cell leader and frankly I am going to do my best to explain everything I can but some of the things I say won't make sense and sadly you are just going to have to give me some trust and you will know them when you see them.  My file has three professional reviews for suspected unprofessional acts in the line of duty as well as a thrown out charge for evidence tampering.  Eventually they are going to throw me out of the field and that's where you come in, as like I said Delta Green needs people who know what needs to be done and what can't happen. 

So you are asking yourself what needs to get done?  Well that's a pretty simple answer actually believe it or not.  Things can't be seen, evidence of things that can't be explained needs to be burned or destroyed, even witnesses to such horrible things can't be heard. 

You are going to hear rumors about people with Delta Green clearance or working officially for the organization, their missions no one else is allowed to know about.  If you get asked about it, you don't know anything, you haven't heard anything, it's bad news trust me.  Anybody that you meet who describes themselves this way is either out to turn you into an asset, which is as bad as it sounds, or looking to put you in the morgue or some six foot deep unmarked grave.  These people think they are doing the right thing and serving God's work and think we are only renegades and outlaws and they are only right about that last part. 

The big point is to keep all these horrible things out of the hands of humanity.  When you are told that this is an official mission you are on or that word from the higher ups is to capture or collect artifacts that's when it's going to get even worse.  You are looking at me like you aren't sure how it could get worse.  Well when these things get into a big lab or facility to be studied and used they never go right, people die, bad shit happens, the cover up eventually rolls out and no matter how many times this happens they will keep trying.  They don't learn, so don't make their mistakes over and over.  Look they will tell themselves what they did was for the betterment of humanity and it will work next time, it won't trust me on that. 

So what does Delta Green want from you?   The real skinny is the rest of your life.  Sounds like a steep kind of ask doesn't it?  The real Delta Green not the fancy code names or Department of Homeland Security badges they try to pass off, wants you to help me and eventually pick up whereever I am forced to leave off.  You see I have lied under oath, destroyed evidence, planted evidence, run illegal wiretaps, burglary, aggravated assault, arson, the list goes on.  In four of those instances it was straight up cold blooded murder out of necessity.  This makes me sound Teflon doesn't it?  Well all it really does it make me covet that first drink or makes me really wish I could have a cigarette about every ten minutes.  I did all these things so save lives that no one else could save.  Remember what I said, things that have to be done and people who know what has to be done to complete the mission.  The thing that is even scarier for me is when I eventually am forced to retire or put on a desk permanently that just will give me more time to devote to all of this.  More end briefs I don't want to write, more memories I want to forget.

Once you are in you are in for life.  I watched a woman who hadn't caught a case in over sixteen years, seemed like a mild mannered psychiatrist.  She got the call for one more tango and just packed her shit and kissed her kids goodbye and went with me, not one bat of her eyelash at it. 

She was good woman too.  Professional, brave, she fucking got it.  She was the best kind of example of us. 

Don't look at me like that, this is all your fault.  If you hadn't handled yourself so well with the "weird shit of the week" we wouldn't we talking.  You figured out that what was happening wasn't right, you knew what needed to be done and did it.  You wrote the report perfectly too, obviously disposing of what would pull too many red flags, concocted a story that fit with what they would find at the scene.  Most importantly we figured out you didn't say one word, you kept it out of public consumption because you knew no one was going to believe you anyway.  This is the kind of things we look for, this is why you got that call and you are here now. 

So now comes the decision to do you try to close your eyes tight and forget about what you saw and hope one day you can get the thoughts out of your head or do you join this unhinged agent try to do the impossible against things that people wouldn't believe in anyway and keep the present from becoming the future for a little longer?  So is it going to be a yes or fuck off? 

You're sure?  I would have thought you were smarter than that too.  Welcome to Delta Green."

Delta Green will focus on the formation of a cell of new agents to take over cases in the Call of Cthulu universe of mystery and extreme horror.  Setting will start in Charleston, South Carolina and the world will likely expand with investigators going on investigations in areas across the US or even world. 

[RegretNot]

Early lead for Delta Green, if anyone has any questions about it or the others feel free to leave it here. 

[Crash]

I am looking for a potterverse game but more school focused.  I don’t care which school.

[RegretNot]

Delta Green Sample Sheet

Delta Green Character Sheet

Investigator Sheet:

The Basics

Full Name:

Nickname:

Age:

Nationality:

Affiliation:

Profession:

Schools & Degrees:

Sanity/ Mental Health:

Exposure/ Cthlulu Mythos:

Physical Appearance

Description:

Distinguishing Features:

Delving Deeper

Personality: [At least a paragraph][Also you may list traits - Suggestion would be a mixture of positive, negative and neutral traits] [http://ideonomy.mit.edu/essays/traits.html]

History: [Tell me about your character, his/her family, details. At least 3  paragraphs. We want to have an idea on where your character came from, and what they've done to get where they are now.]

A Little More

Likes:

Dislikes:

Habits | Mannerisms: [At least three]

Strengths:

Weaknesses:

Fears: (None is NOT an acceptable answer)

Extras:

Theme Song:[Optional]

Character Goals:[At least two]

Character Metrics [Optional, makes things easier for characters involved in conflicts, using streamlined GUMSHOE stats]

[Arcanist]

Hi RegretNot,
With regards to the Delta a Green Campaign, are you looking at free form or one of the Cthulhu systems?
Ant abilities accepted such as empathy?
Regards,
Arcanist

[RegretNot]

I made the sheet as a free form game with an optional addition of gumshoe for those that like stats and mechanics to help them figure out what they can and cannot do.  This is more a mix of Nights Black Agents and Trail of Cthulu so empathy is more something like Reassurance in that system.