Pyramid Pick: Delta Green: Countdown

Pyramid Pick

Delta Green: Countdown

Published by Pagan Publishing

Written by Dennis Detwiller, Adam Scott Glancy, and John Tynes

$39.95

Pagan Publishing is one of the great enigmas of our industry. When everybody else is consolidating operations, buying or selling companies, updating business models, and generally running around like chickens with their heads cut off trying to thrive and survive into the next millennium, The little Seattle-based game company keeps doing things the way they've always done them, a way that hardly anyone in the industry does things anymore.

Deadlines? Release schedules? Piffle. This is roleplaying as art; it will be ready when it's ready, and not before. They had a quarterly magazine, The Unspeakable Oath -- but after four times a year became three, then two, then sometimes one, it stopped being a magazine and instead became another book in their support line for the Call of Cthulhu RPG. Nobody does business like this today.

And it works for them. Beautifully.

That's because the fans, and the retailers, and the distributors, all know. Pagan does what they want, when they want it. And it is always, always worth the wait. The same goes for their latest release, Delta Green: Countdown.

The original Delta Green sourcebook was an Origins-award winning supplement two years ago, and in the interim, Pagan has put out a fiction anthology and a couple of small digest-sized books concentrating on very specific elements of the modern-day . . .

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



Article publication date: August 20, 1999

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