Gold Top 1971
A downloadable game
The Suffolk Coast, Spring, 1971.
Behind the bucolic rural façade of the Suffolk coast, something is wrong. Very. Wrong. This isolated part of England is home to massive nuclear power stations, nuclear weapons research facilities, Anglo-Saxon burial sites, ancient capitals now lost to the sea, and iconoclastic communities trying to carve out their own place in the sun.
A force is stirring, a network of cultists long dormant have been prodded into action, and something terrible is being called.
Gold Top 1971, The Suffolk Secrets is a Mythos centric Tabletop Roleplaying Game Campaign for use with the Delta Green ruleset. It is easily adjustable; however, for other Mythos based games, such as Fall of Delta Green, Call of Cthulhu, Trail of Cthulhu, Cthulhu Hack and Cthulhu Dark. In it, Agents will be drawn into web of intrigue and that will challenge their wits and their sanity.
The Campaign includes extensive period appropriate background details, an innovative node-based system to help the Handler maintain Player agency, and a compelling narrative. It involves Seven scenarios which can be traversed in different orders, and not all scenarios need to be completed to reach the appalling conclusion.
If you want a printed copy, then please download the Print-Files version and visit Lulu or another PoD server (in the UK a Lulu print will cost £14.86 including shipping).
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Development log
- Update on Print-on-Demand!Feb 02, 2024
- Gold Top now with Print-on-Demand optionFeb 02, 2024
- Minor update to v1.1 - typos and clarificationsAug 25, 2022
- Printer Friendly Version now included!Jul 15, 2022
- It's out!Jul 14, 2022
- Gold Top 1971 - coming soonJul 07, 2022
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Read through it and I love it! Will be running this with my players in the next few weeks.
Thinking of other spooky things in East Anglia, I'd like to write more scenarios for this campaign, inspired by the Ladybird Plague of 1976 and the Rendlesham Forest UFO incident. Do you have any pointers as to where I might fit these into the campaign relative to the other missions?
Great! Please report back here and let us know how you found it! Feedback is always appreciated.
On the Ladybird Plague and Rendlesham Forest... hmm.
I had toyed with including Rendlesham forest in Gold Top, but the timing didn't work (Orford Ness was closed by then). KARTAS recently did a piece on the Rendlesham Forest incident where they gave advice on including it in play. Worth a listen: https://www.kenandrobintalkaboutstuff.com/index.php/episode-632-an-american-is-b...
The Ladybird plague is very obviously a mythos incursion - the Antagonist in Gold Top could have been trying to summon you-know-who and been given the bounty of insect life as a side effect? Perhaps the locus is at the, then abandoned, Snape Maltings, or perhaps Bawdsey Hall? There might be some giant aphid monster ranging about?
This sounds great. Suffolk is my favourite part of Eastern England. I've visited many of the locations and was living just next door in 1971.
Excellent - I could have used you for research purposes! The Suffolk Coast is amazing - so much more isolated than Norfolk and Essex and just a beautiful place to be.
Just FYI: the first entry in the Table of Contents for v1.2 and the Lulu version is “_Toc157355697Table of Contents.” Might want to trim the “_Toc157355697.”
Thanks for the heads-up SMM! That's rather annoying. I'm away at the moment, but when I get back I'll fix it and reply here. Thanks!
Ok, now updated to v1.2a for the PDF and the Print-Ready files, which removes the error. If you have any issues, then please let me know!
This is the gold standard which all scenario layout should follow, meticulous and clear without being rigid and stifling. It feels like cheating to get it for free.
Thanks for the feedback! Hope you find the material useful :) If you like this stuff, check out my other content as it is largely in a similar vein.
This looks really great - waiting (not very) patiently now!
I'll see what I can do! Just waiting for proofreading to be complete. Nearly there!
Looking forward to this... It sounds great!
Hopefully you will like it!