S2:E2 – Impossible Landscapes - Dissection, Pt 1. Prologue
Show notes
This episode marks the beginning of our dissection review and reanimation advice for the campaign Impossible Landscapes written by Dennis Detwiller for Delta Green. In this episode, we briefly summarize the campaign, discuss elements we like and dislike as written, address how difficult we think this campaign is for GMs to run, cover our personal philosophies on how we run this campaign, provide some GM advice for preparation and Session 0 before running, and media suggestions for extra inspiration.
Since this is a lot to cover in roughly 2 hours, timestamps for various sections are listed below, in case you'd like to skip around to only the sections you're interested in:
- 7:00 - Overview summary over, covering Likes & Dislikes as written
- 38:34 - Beating Heart, key themes we want to emphasize
- 40:47 - Campaign difficulty to run
- 53:34 - Beginning of our theses for how the IL world works in our runs
- 1:21:20 - Practical prep advice, GM Note & file organization, etc.
- 1:32:44 - Session 0 advice, seeding ideas in Agent backstories
- 1:57:22 - Dealing with character death in this campaign
- 2:05:23 - Extra references and resources for inspiration
Links:
- You can find the campaign at: Arc Dream's Store and DrivethruRPG
- Bud's RPG Review IL Campaign overview and background episodes for more thorough by-the-book summaries (rest in peace, Bud)
- Campaign handouts and resources we can share on our lab's Google Drive .
- Our YouTube channel for Actual Play videos (soon to be releasing an IL campaign)
- An invite link to our Discord Server where we have a dedicated channel to discuss IL campaign questions & advice
- Our free-to-follow Patreon where you can support us and get early access to episodes
- And an invite link to the IL Handler's Discord Server for more advice, discussion, and fan-made handouts
Intro & outro music: "In the Mouth of Madness" by Karl Casey @ White Bat Audio. All other music and sound effects are sourced under attribution free creative commons licensing from FreeSound.org.
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