S2:E2 – Impossible Landscapes - Dissection, Pt 1. Prologue

About this episode

The episode begins a detailed review and advice session for the campaign Impossible Landscapes, discussing its elements, challenges for GMs, and preparation tips.

Episode 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…

People in this episode

Host: RPG Reanimators

Topics covered

• campaign review
• GM advice
• session preparation
• character death
• media inspiration

Keywords

• Impossible Landscapes
• Delta Green
• GM advice
• campaign difficulty
• session preparation

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Delta Green, Arc Dream, DrivethruRPG, Bud's RPG Review, YouTube

Books & works: Impossible Landscapes

Places: Google Drive

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