Aaron Ross Powell ☸️I'm running an #UnknownArmies #TTRPG campaign, and was looking at my #DeltaGreen books as I was thinking about what I'd run next. And I was struck by how uninterested I've become in the existential hopelessness of the latter's setting. Unknown Armies is dark and grimy and has plenty of bad people doing bad things, but its core is quite human and hopeful. There was a time I loved the cosmic nihilism of Call of Cthulhu and Delta Green, but, for a lot of reasons, I now very much bounce off of it.
David Westbrook@arossp Agree that #Cthulhu nihilism has gotten dull. But are "nihilism" and "human-centric hope" the only options? When a biologist looks at wriggly things, they don't go mad from the insignificance of human existence. They expand their understanding of the nonhuman. I like the 60's setting of #TheFallOfDeltaGreen by #PelgranePress because the "consciousness revolution" of 60s counterculture can tie in to the theme of the alien as mind-expanding. But, yes, this is spin on the original material