Looking Upon the Face of a Dead God: the aftermath of a 1D10/1D100 SAN test

art from Lovecraft: The Blasphemously Large First Issue by Daniel Govar and Mat Lopes

In Delta Green, if a Great Old One makes a big enough appearance in the game for you to have to make a SAN roll, the game's usually over. But sometimes it's not the end. Maybe a Shan only briefly exposed your mind to Azathoth as a punishment, or like Johansen, you ram Cthulhu in the face with a steamboat, who understandably decides to go back to sleep. You've still lost 1D10, 1D20, or 1D100 SAN, which is an awful lot. Just because Yog-Sothoth didn't let the Old Ones break through and trample all over the earth doesn't mean you survived. There's a good chance you're babbling at 0 SAN or some other number low enough for an exit from field work. In this post, I'm going to crunch the numbers to find the probabilities of the different results of a 1D10/1D100 or 1D20/1D100 SAN test.

Whispers of the Dead (Y'golonac)

 

The Ritual

You don't contact the Defiler like you do other Great Old Ones. There's no set of steps to follow. Instead, each transcription of the ritual is a different story of how an individual sank into depravity before eventually meeting the infamous Great Old One. When reading a tome, Occult and Unnatural indicate that this narrative is the ritual.

Permanent Injuries and Prosthetics in Delta Green

The Surgery skill doesn’t get enough love in Delta Green so I wrote this house rule for it.

Permanent injuries can be prevented with a Surgery test. This must take place before minutes equal to the victim’s CON score have passed since they were reduced to 2 HP or less. Success prevents the victim from developing a permanent injury. A critical success also restores 1D4 HP. If the Surgery test fails, the victim rolls CONx5 as normal. A fumble imposes a -20% penalty.

TOE-FAT COUNTRYSIDE: Session Six

Picking up right where we left off, the group parked their truck outside the quiet zone's perimeter and proceeded on foot. Soon, they had entered a strange world of fog and distorted sounds. Thanks to the Taylor's wilderness survival skills, the team was able to evade four Leng Spiders disguised as men and riding a fifth Leng Spider as a "horse" long enough to brace themselves for the arachnid cavalry charge. It was harrowing and chaotic, but everyone kept their cool and somehow no one got bit or hurt.