2025 Monster Mash

A sequel to Aqualung’s 2021 Monster Mash, this event’s all about making cool new monsters for Delta Green.

Submissions

• Sexually Transmitted Werewolves by Tairbaz - Unnatural tumorous infection, transforming Agents over the four stages.
• Mr. Deeds by Fee Fi Fo Fin - A cybernetic abomination wrought by the malicious Shan.
• Spawn of the Daughter by Erwin_the_German - An organoid parasite that bursts out of a recently deceased corpse. It's eager to find a new host.
• Nightmare Crawler by Kevin Dent - A Dreamlands predator crosses the thin barrier between dreams and reality.
• Lethal Pursuer by Kribry - March Tech Mi-Go terminator.
• Mantegiosa by Emil Meriranta - A half-soundwave half-humanoid-mantis race brought forward by the Serpent People as old as Pangea.
• Dream Marauder by funnyname - Post-human larger-than-life barbarians long lost to the dreamlands.
• The Teeth of Astom-Niot by Deathgriffin - A swarm of tooth-dwelling parasites, spawned in the wake of the Crawling Chaos.
• Scrapbook Surgeon by Sammy J - A Dreamer’s creative frustrations, manifested in two-dimensions.

Rules

• Deadline. Monsters are due by Sunday, October 26th at 11:59pm EDT (UTC-4).
  • You can submit as many monsters as you want.

• No AI. I want to see what you come up with, not what a chatbot or image generator spits out.

• Originality. Your submitted monster must be entirely of your own design.
  • You can take inspiration from existing monsters, but you can’t just convert them.

• Features. Your submission must include:
  • Description of the monster (eg. physiology, goals, behavior, history).
  • Stats for the monster (for D100 DG or Fall of Delta Green).
  • (optional) Scenario hooks, suggestions for how Handlers use the monster in-game, and anything else you think would be useful.

• Fairfield. All submitted monsters will be uploaded to the Fairfield Project.

How to Submit

Email your monsters to Sammy J at @ EMAIL REDACTED.

• Subject: [Monster name(s)]
• Body:
  • Link to the monster
  • A teaser/one-sentence summary of the monster
  • How you want to be credited

Advice

• Start with an evocative, central idea.
  • Take your real-life fears and anxieties, then compress and warp them into a physical entity.
    • If you’re struggling: think about something in your life you depend on (electricity). Then imagine a monster that corrupts or takes that away (like a monster that nullifies all voltages) and its consequences/manifestations (the electrical impulses in your brain stop firing).
  • Alternatively, combine bits from two or three other monsters/creatures together and try to make it cohesive (or scarily incohesive).
  • Alternatively-alternatively: roll for monsters from FIST: Ultra Edition, Silent Legions, or The Metamorphica.

• Make sure the monster does something cool.
  • Give its abilities and attacks side-effects. An attack doesn’t just deal damage, it also turns the ribs in an Agent into taffy, or dissolves the floor the Agents stand on.
  • The monster should “break” 1-3 rules of Delta Green. Enough to be scary, but not enough to overwhelm a Handler.

• Keep the monster simple, straightforward.
  • Simpler monsters are easier to deploy and run in-game.
  • Give it only a few powers, each only a sentence or two long.
  • Avoid making another Lloigor.

Original Contest Doc Link: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1NnHw75eircJauux5L42rgeB99aGUncAWYiBrWx5yYk4/edit?tab=t.0#heading=h.8m6qlxi361gf