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What are you running this on? Delta Green or WoD with Hunter: the Vigil?

>>28237394
I'm not sure yet. Those are definitely options, as are systems like Savage Worlds and GURPS. Hell, even Phoenix Command if I really want to focus on the military side of things.
But for now, I'm more interested in fluff.

>>28237464

I would just rip off Stargate, mountain base, have a general in charge of the dam thing and your players are a bunch of specialist cherry-picked to be in the unit from various military branches.

As far as antagonists go, I would just go onto the SCP wiki and pick a couple of things from them and supplement that with the typical popular supernatural stuff, werewolves, ghosts, etc.

>>28237688

>As far as antagonists go, I would just go onto the SCP wiki and pick a couple of things from them and supplement that with the typical popular supernatural stuff, werewolves, ghosts, etc.

How pedestrian.

The correct answer is aufhockers, aufhockers everywhere.

>>28237688
Pretty much what I had in mind. I was also planning on having it as part of an international organization, just to give the players the option of playing something other than Americans.

OP here. Here's a little something to get things started off.

On paper, where it appears at all, SCS stands for Special Countermeasure Service. Very few people know the truth; that the first S stands for 'Supernatural'.

Things like werewolves, vampires and sorcerers exist. For how long, nobody is quite sure, but it is only in the last few decades that any hard evidence has been found.*
Perhaps these things only recently came to exist. Maybe they've been in hiding. Nobody is quite sure.

All over the world, isolated incidents alerted governments to the presence of the occult.
Bizzare ritualistic murders in Germany; a team of British soldiers killed on a training excercise with the only survivor reporting werewolves; A sudden spike in campers reported missing in America's national parks, some turning up drained of blood.

As these incidents stacked up, nations gradually realised that they weren't facing isolated incidents, but a golbal problem.

*And carefully covered up, of course.

>>28237118
Only semi related, but Damn, Dog Soldiers is the best werewolf movie ever

If you want to try for a different feel, there's always Conspiracy X. It uses Unisystem, which makes it compatible with All Flesh Must Be Eaten and Witchcraft.

http://www.amazon.com/Conspiracy-X-2-0-Corebook-Various/dp/1891153536

Sounds a lot like Laundry or DG.

Are you familiar with the Blue Planet Project, OP?
http://www.ivantic.net/Ostale_knjiige/BluePlanetProject.pdf

>>28237920

Give yourself some leeway by also stating that creatures from myth and old folk tales are also roaming around now, Chupacabras? yeah, there's a slightly humanoid lizard-like thing eating goats all over South America now, Bigfoot? He exist, it was one of the first captures of the recently founded SCS.

Mostly so that it remains interesting and your players don't just go "Oh, another Vampire, woop-tee-doo"

>>28237118
I should watch Dogsoldiers again.

This thread is relevant to my interests.

I will be monitoring it.

>>28237118
Suggestion from /tg/
Pick up World of Darkness and Hunter

Its got exactly what you're looking for and hell of a flexible and interesting rules set to back it up. It has one of the easiest character creation systems I know of to get you going quickly.

The main thing is you, as the GM, need to have your shit together.

>>28238314
>suggestion from /tg/
>i thought i was on /k/

>>28237118
Ask /k/ about skinwalkers. They have some ideas you might like.

>>28237118
Sounds like a plan!

Whatever you do, it needs to include this scene.

>>28237118
Night's Black Agents, it runs in GUMSHOE and is exactly what you're looking for.

>>28238361
Delete it and I post the real one.

Ideas for the base:

Well, a Stargate/X-Com style underground base is pretty much a must.
Inside, I'm imagining a strange mix of technology and mysticism. The comms room holds satellite uplinks, radios and telepaths.
Seers have their own chambers from which they conduct survailance operations just as important as any satelite.
Storage vaults for recovered artifacts and labs for studying them.

If you want to give it a real global feel, I'd suggest creating several hooks/encounters set in different parts of the globe that you can expand on later. Maybe let the players pick which ones to respond to.

Like, maybe one day they're tracking down a penanggalan in Malaysia, a week later they're fighting a Whowie in the outback of Australia, and then you take them back to Germany to shoot ogres in the Black Forest.

>>28238296
You, sir, just made my new campaign concept. My next BBEG is Dr. Mobius.

>>28238484
It's not just monsters I have planned. There will be several cults and mystic groups out to get hold of artifacts for various reasons.
Some simply don't trust the government with them, others want to take over the world. (of course!)

>>28238463
>Well, a Stargate/X-Com style underground base is pretty much a must.

Good.

>Inside, I'm imagining a strange mix of technology and mysticism. The comms room holds satellite uplinks, radios and telepaths.

Depending on how grimdark and morally grey you want this campaign to be, those telepaths may or may not be doing this voluntarily. They may also may or may not be people this organization has kidnapped from around the world, lobotomized, and crammed Beyond Top Secret Cold War-era cybernetics in to basically turn them into human comms networks.

>Seers have their own chambers from which they conduct survailance operations just as important as any satelite.

See above. This may or may not be voluntary, depending.

>Storage vaults for recovered artifacts and labs for studying them.

Always a must.

>>28238527

And now you have your BBEG, a Freemasons/Illuminaty-like organization that keeps competing/interfering with your team on the field.

"Oh, you guys where coming to this Mayan temple in the middle of a Guatemalan rainforest in order to get that ancient sacrificial dagger that radiates actual bloodlust? we got to it first, bai dudes" *gets on chopper and flies away*

>>28238619
I concur. Ancient conspiracies are always a good choice.

>>28238538
>>Inside, I'm imagining a strange mix of technology and mysticism. The comms room holds satellite uplinks, radios and telepaths.
>Depending on how grimdark and morally grey you want this campaign to be, those telepaths may or may not be doing this voluntarily. They may also may or may not be people this organization has kidnapped from around the world, lobotomized, and crammed Beyond Top Secret Cold War-era cybernetics in to basically turn them into human comms networks.

Well, that's a tricky one. Kidnapping civilians would cause problems for secrecy, so I'm picturing the unit recruiting talented individuals from within the armed forces. To begin with at least.
As need increases, things might change, rogue elements might decide that things like ethics take a back seat, a decision that comes back to bite the unit in the ass when the masquerade is broken.

Seems to me you'd need some sort of multi-purpose monster hunting/anti-magic kit. Nobody wants to pull the trigger and find he's shooting mere lead bullets at the werewolf, or whip out the wrong religious symbol to hold off the vampire.

>>28238660
>As need increases, things might change, rogue elements might decide that things like ethics take a back seat

Right. Which is why I mentioned this was solely based upon how dark you wanted this game to be. Me? Whenever I run games like this one of the big themes is always how, in the words of Nietzsche, "he who fights with monsters might take care lest he thereby become a monster." What horrible, reprehensible acts are not only expedient but REQUIRED for the continued survival of the human race?

In other words, it always turns into pic related.

Do you feel like a hero yet?

>>28238690
Well I mean you could just bring it into the near-future and give our agents robotic holy charm augmentations.

Rolled 2

>>28237118
Delta Green time

>>28238230
I'm currently running something like this and my solution to the problem of various creatures from different folklore is the following.

You have something called Dark Energy. This Dark Energy is a sentient being. The only way this Energy can manifest itself is by using the beliefs of people. Beliefs in the folklore kind of way, not whether they believe in it or not. For example, if a culture has stories about werewolves the energy will be changed by the story and will appear as a werewolf (With all advantages and weaknesses of the kind of werewolf defined in the story.). With this you can have all kinds of creatures, even the ones based in different religions without contradicting yourself.

>You will never storm a vampire den in the sewers under paris with a squad armed with power armor, uv grenades, and laser miniguns

>The vamps are strong enough to dent and crumple your armor but it also gives you the strength to crush their skulls

>Implying the supernatural are a match for the power of science

>>28238727
Perhaps letting the PCs choose their side of the conflict?
Also, there's only so long things can be kept under wraps. When the Masquerade is broken, the public becomes aware of the kidnapped seers/telepaths, causing much outcry in political circles, possibly resulting in an anti-SCS president being elected...

>Rogue faction has been kidnapping people
>Journalist has evidence and is planning to publish it
>Several figures in Washington are just itching for an excuse to dissolve the unit, including non-rogues.
>Is it really worth kidnapping or possibly killing an innocent journalist who was exposing something that really deserved to be exposed?
>Can they find another solution?

>>28238991
We know the answer

>>28238883
>>28238991
>>28239023

Also OP, here: http://www.palinola.com/projects/lab/greenbox/

Even if you don't use Delta Green for this, this will help.

>>28238784

Well, yes, you COULD go for the most boring option.

If you're basing the shit the PCs run into off of super natural in popular culture ala werewolves and vampires, change up the weaknesses or how they work

IE: silver does hurt werewolves, but its nowhere near the one hit kill/Oh god it burns thats shown in movies

Or for vampires, sunlight doesnt kill them, but makes them revert to a more beastial, primal form thats dumber and easier to trap/kill, but no less dangerous

So, specific NPCs...

>A slightly creepy child seer who came to the unit on her own. Something of a problem. On one hand, she's a threat to security and a very powerful mystic. Besides, she volunteered her services. On the other hand though, the fact remains that you are having a child serve in a military outfit.

>Soldier with a supernatural bond with animals. Expert dog handler and goes into combat with a German Shepherd. (Yes, I'm using CoD here.)

Please feel free to chime in witha any ideas you may have.

>>28239540
>>Soldier with a supernatural bond with animals. Expert dog handler and goes into combat with a German Shepherd. (Yes, I'm using CoD here.)

My advice for this NPC? Play up the "supernatural bond with animals" angle. There's something about this guy that's not quite...right. Oh, he's friendly enough. But he doesn't just fight alongside that dog. No, he does fucking everything with it.

He takes a bath with the dog. He sleeps in the fucking kennel with the dog. Actually inside the thing if he can get away with it, just outside the fence with a sleeping bag if he can't. Some people swear to God they've seen him eat dog food too.

This dog is his best fucking friend. He connects more with this dog than with people. It isn't threatening. It's only mildly creepy. It's mainly just...fucking weird.

I would play up that angle with your NPCs. This is a weird-ass unit, and everyone here is not quite right in some obvious or subtle way.

>>28239627
Good advice, thanks.
And with demons now turning out to be real, I could have a lot of fun with the Chaplain's office...
And just for fun, have the Vatican set up a semi-autonomous team of combat excorcists...

>>28239938
Combat excorcists? Maybe they use bibles for close combat?

>>28240042
>Maybe they use bibles for close combat?

Pic related.

>>28240057
Oh god, my sides. Give me a minute, I can't breathe.

>>28239627
the man is the dog. the dog is an awakened animal with a psychic puppet.

Wait, what about other groups getting in with supernatural stuff?

Isreali cabalists working on combat golems?
Middle-eastern terror groups harnessing Djinn?
IRA leprechauns?

skinwalkers confirmed for chrysalids.

>>28240780
Annual Japanese Yokai parade?

>>28240780
>IRA leprechauns

Pic related.

>>28240780
>The O'Shannon facility for the militarization of magical wee men.

>>28239540

A couple ideas for you OP

>This one guy who never seems to sleep. He isn't the fastest or strongest, but he always takes sentry position and night watchman. When pressed about his talents he just shrugged and said "I just don't feel tired is all."

>He always walks around barefoot. No kidding- no matter where we are he always goes without any kind of boots. But that doesn't seem to stop him. He'll run straight through a field of barbed wire and will get all cut up on his legs- but nothing on his feet. I've seen him kick straight through a plank of wood too. One time he figured out that the hostiles we were looking for were underneath our position- it must be the vibrations or something.

>We all call him "Mr.Lucky". It's one thing to get lucky on the job, but that's nothing compared to this guy. When you manage to find some ammo for your specific weapon just laying around in some random witch's creepy house in the woods, or just so happen to need to take a piss and stumble across the nearly dead body of our comrade we'd been looking for for the last few hours and almost given up hope, to even having the enemy's weapon suddenly jam and not fire right when it was about to bust a cap in you, you've got some serious luck right there. Just wish it would rub off on me sometimes.

>>28238055
To be fair, there really aren't a lot of good Werewolf movies.

>>28238333
A bunch of Skinwalker Stories. Let me know if any interest you.

>>28242016
I've always enjoyed the Howling movies.

>>28238690
Gattling Gun, or a gun that shoots four bullets at once. Lead, Silver, Cold Iron, Wood.

>>28238055
I liked it, but it did that thing I notice a lot of British movies do, where the volume of the audio is all over the place. There'd be a couple minutes of very...quiet...dialogue...AND THEN THE SCORE COMES IN LOUD AS FUCK!

Had to keep one hand on the volume control for the entire run-time to catch the exposition without getting my head blown off. I'd recommend the movie, but I'd recommend not watching it with headphones.

>>28242044
Got a pastebin or something? Id love to read the first one.

>>28242185

Seconded.

DC did a short run called Human Defence Corps. President Lex Luthor made essentially an X-Com like project so the world wouldn't be reliant on supers as much. The series was pretty good and they fought TONS of occult shit, infact one of the characters even comments that for a unit designed to fight aliens all they really did was rumble with the supernatural.

Anyways, the bad news is there is no trade but you could probably find a copy online, it has some neat characters and stuff.

>>28239540
>Every once in a while when you're in a bind, a scientist will slip out for a couple of hours. Within the next day or so, she'll have whatever you need, but she'll look guilty. There will usually be a string of robberies, or an arson, or someone will be found dead. Follow her and you'll find she has a contact sitting in a booth at the end of a cafe who can get you anything...for a price. He doesn't explain why, and if you try to hound him too much, he'll just slip away.

>>28242185
>>28242245

As someone who has read that story (least I think it's the same one)...

...You may or may not need a cold shower and a stiff drink. You may also develop a fear of the woods at night.

Like a sane, rational human being.

>>28242245
>>28242185
Nope, although I oughta get one.

>>28242285
That's the one.

I will admit that I will never go into the woods at night. Not ever.

>>28242302
I'll be in the woods at night, but I won't walk through them at night. I'd have to be -quite- heavily armed and with a group of friends. And not split the party.

>>28242285
Nope, nope, nope. What would happen if you shot one of these things? I always wonder why no one does.

>>28242420
On a good day they scream and run away. On a bad day they scream and run towards.

>>28242257
Ironically this is being storytimed on /co/ right now.

Check it out.
>>55950835

>>28242420
In my reading experience, they'll just walk it off.

>>28242420

>>28242465
Goddammit, last time I read these, there was something involving something -huge- with -red fucking eyes- that they magdumped and they -saw it die-, walked away, came back, and the fucking thing was gone.

Which story was that?

>>28242465
>>28242285
>>28242044

Post more stories

>>28238493
So he's secretly the senile good-guy?

>>28242044
Please, I need MORE

>>28242568
>>28242969
>>28243832
It's dangerous to go alone - take these.

>http://suptg.thisisnotatrueending.com/archive.html?tags=Skinwalker