Go Bag

Go Bag is about modern-day tabletop RPGs packed with bullets, backstories, and bad decisions. From tactical espionage to over-the-top action, we dive into games that have an element of tradecraft like Delta Green, Outgunned, Nights Black Agents, White Lies, James Bond/Classified, Top Secret, and beyond. Whether you’re a game master, a rules junkie, or just here for the subterfuge, we’ve got what you need when the mission goes loud.

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Delta Green Without BRP: 3 Alt Systems
4d ago · 1:11:32
Harrigan digs into three games that run Delta Green without Arc Dream's BRP: Fall of Delta Green (Pelgrane's licensed Gumshoe take), Black Light (a lean ICRPG d20 riff), and Cthulhu Deep Green (built on Graham Wamsley's Cthulhu Dark 2e) — plus honorable mentions from Liminal Horror to Fate and Savage Worlds. The verdict: it's easy to graft Bonds and Home Scenes onto almost anything, but none of them quite replace the original. ⚠️ SPOILER WARNING: our opening catch-up includes an Impossible Landscapes actual-play recap. It's tagged in the chapter markers — skip that chapter if you're a player.
The Long Game: Running Delta Green Campaigns
11d ago · 1:38:03
Most Delta Green campaigns are built to end badly — so what does it take to run one that lasts? Sean runs point on the long game: planning homebrew versus published campaigns, why continuity belongs to the conspiracy and not the Agents, giving players more than one character, Bonds and home scenes as the only real recovery, varying the intensity so the horror still lands, and how to actually finish a campaign. Plus a listener comm from M. on covert action games set in the World Wars. S02E10 SITREP Spybrary Podcast - https://spybrary.com/ Casting Shadows episode w/Jason Connerley - https://cast
Delta Green Call-In: Bonds, Home Scenes & Hackmaster
1mo ago · 1:02:43
Season 2 goes to the mailbag: Sean and Harrigan dig into listener calls and write-ins — Delta Green home scenes, Hackmaster and skill vs. the dice, and how bonds turn agents into people you actually care about. S02E09 SITREP 007 First Light (new James Bond game) - https://ioi.dk/007firstlightgame 2026 Delta Green Mini Campaign Jam - https://itch.io/jam/2026-dg-mini-campaign-jam Encrypted Comms This week's transmissions: Hoos via Discord, Laramy via Voicemail, and Anthony (Runeslinger) via Voicemail. Email: Grenade@GoBagPod.com Phone: 929.BIG.DICE (244.3423) Website: https://gobagpod.com For mo
Delta Green: Anatomy of an Operation
2mo ago · 1:38:45
Sean and Harrigan break down how to build a Delta Green operation, straight from the Handler's Guide scenario-design chapter. Scoping the op, hooking the Agents, designing the investigation, planting leads and dead ends, working in Green Boxes and the program-versus-outlaws schism, landing the creepy moments — and the part most Handlers skip, the cover-up. Plus hard-won advice on running BRP without burying players in skill checks. S02E08 SITREP US Army in Berlin video - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FI3Ty9x_96s Encrypted Comms This week's transmission: Agent Hoos (audio call-in). Email: Gre
Two Shades of Green: Delta Green’s Schism
2mo ago · 1:30:10
Sean and Harrigan map the two Delta Greens — the 2002 schism between "The Program," the official government arm, and "The Outlaws," the off-the-books old guard — and how the faction you choose reshapes a whole campaign's tone. Plus the wider web of factions (Majestic offshoots, March Technologies, the Quiet Children, Persistent Vigil) you can pull into your game. S02E07 SITREP Bridge of Spies (Glienicke Bridge), Berlin – Atlas Obscura - https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/bridge-of-spies Encrypted Comms This week's transmission: acrylic, who dropped a trove of real-world spy locations in the G
Handlers Guide: Running the Game
2mo ago · 1:25:34
Sean and Harrigan slide into the Handler's chair, breaking down Delta Green's Handler's Guide and the craft of running the game — building dread, drip-feeding information, and keeping the table bleak, paranoid, and afraid. S02E06 SITREP Operation Mincemeat (2021) - https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1879016/ Archive 81 (Netflix) - https://www.netflix.com/title/80222802 The Outsider (HBO) - https://www.imdb.com/title/tt8550800/ Encrypted Comms Email: Grenade@GoBagPod.com Phone: 929.BIG.DICE (244.3423) Website: https://gobagpod.com For more Go Bag content visit: https://gobagpod.com Become an agent of
Lethal Force and Tradecraft
2mo ago · 1:23:18
Delta Green combat is fast and final — initiative on Dexterity, one action a turn, and a lethality rating that can drop an Agent before they ever roll to dodge. Then Harrigan flips to the other half of staying alive: tradecraft — sanitizing the scene, disposing of the body, funding the cover-up, and lying to the locals so the conspiracy stays buried. S02E05 SITREP Dark Conspiracy (RPG — reported comeback) - https://www.belloflostsouls.net/2025/04/mongoose-publishing-to-produce-new-dark-conspiracy-rpg-in-2026.html Encrypted Comms Email: Grenade@GoBagPod.com Phone: 929.BIG.DICE (244.3423) Websit
The Downward Spiral (Sanity and Bonds)
2mo ago · 1:25:21
A deep dive into Delta Green’s most devastating mechanic: the Sanity system. We'll cover how Agents slowly lose their minds to violence, helplessness, and the Unnatural, and how they project that trauma onto their "Bonds" (family and friends) to stay in the fight. S02E04 SITREP Delta Green Fiction (MrWhite) - https://www.delta-green.com/reading-order-delta-green-fiction/ Black Project Gaming DG resources - https://www.blackprojectgaming.com/ Gamehole Con - http://gameholecon.com Encrypted Comms Grenade@GoBagPod.com -or- 929.BIG.DICE Zortic1 from Youtube Vince Kaufman For more Go Bag content vi
The Agent’s Toolkit
3mo ago · 1:15:21
Walking through the Agent's Handbook to build a character. We will focus on how a character's day job (FBI, CDC, Special Forces) drives their skills, and why being a forensic accountant is often more useful than being a sniper. S02E03 SITREP N@TO Contest - https://docs.google.com/document/d/1vEi08neC-nHiUmNSrFUJkC1aJ0s2q1LZSfneistvMoM/edit?tab=t.0#heading=h.oos4c7o5nfyk Delta Green Briefing Doc - https://www.drivethrurpg.com/en/product/184104/delta-green-briefing-documents?affiliate_id=457476 Ten Commandments of DG - https://www.patreon.com/posts/ten-commandments-102021267 (paywall) Vince Kauf
Delta Green Overview
3mo ago · 1:12:51
High level overview of the game - skills, abilities, san, pow, bonds, firearms S02E02 SITREP List of Delta Green publications - https://www.delta-green.com/publications/ Docs to help run Delta Green - https://theunspeakableoath.com/home/2017/03/free-documents-to-help-you-run-delta-green/ Encrypted Comms Grenade@GoBagPod.com -or- 929.BIG.DICE For more Go Bag content visit: https://gobagpod.com Become an agent of Go Bag: https://gobagpod.com/patreon For more... Sean – https://youtube.com/@rpgsean Harrigan – https://harriganshearth.substack.com Some links may be affiliate links, which means I ear

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Delta Green Without BRP: 3 Alt Systems

The Long Game: Running Delta Green Campaigns

Delta Green Call-In: Bonds, Home Scenes & Hackmaster

Delta Green: Anatomy of an Operation

Two Shades of Green: Delta Green’s Schism

Handlers Guide: Running the Game

Lethal Force and Tradecraft

The Downward Spiral (Sanity and Bonds)

The Agent’s Toolkit

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Episodes 10

Delta Green Without BRP: 3 Alt Systems

The Long Game: Running Delta Green Campaigns

Delta Green Call-In: Bonds, Home Scenes & Hackmaster

Delta Green: Anatomy of an Operation

Two Shades of Green: Delta Green’s Schism

Handlers Guide: Running the Game

Lethal Force and Tradecraft

The Downward Spiral (Sanity and Bonds)

The Agent’s Toolkit

Delta Green Overview