Pyramid Pick

Delta Green Eyes Only, Vol. 2: The Fate

Published by Pagan Publishing

Written by Dennis Detwiller with Shane Ivey

$15.00

The folks at Pagan Publishing have done it again. The second volume of their Delta Green Eyes Only series, The Fate, is every bit as good as their first one (Machinations of the Mi-Go, a Pyramid Pick from a couple months ago). Maybe even better.

It's certainly more extensive. The Fate is twice as thick as the first volume, but not twice as expensive (bless you, boys!). This makes it even more of a bargain. Like the first volume, there is no interior art, but a snazzy graphic design and the smaller digest size of the book keep that from being a problem.

No, when you buy books from Pagan Publishing, you get all meat for your Call of Cthulhu roleplaying campaign. And The Fate is meat at its most visceral.

Detwiller pulls no punches in this book. The Fate is one nasty group, and any sane player-character would think several times before tangling with them. (Of course, who says the bad guys are the only insane ones in Call of Cthulhu?) The thing that make The Fate so dangerous is the way they can affect so much of the area they control (basically, all of New York City), and not for the better. In many Call of Cthulhu scenarios, the bad guys are a small group in some obscure isolated place, perhaps powerful but only concerned with their bizarre occult goal (summoning some awful beastie, or completing a big spell or something) and will . . .

This article originally appeared in the second volume of Pyramid. See the current Pyramid website for more information.



Article publication date: February 12, 1999

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