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Spycraft: the d20 system Espionage Role-Playing Game published by Alderac Entertainment Group.
Modus Operandi: Dave McAlister's website for modern and espionage role-playing games.
Delta Green: is one of the best treatments of intelligence and covert operations in a role-playing game. Pagan Publishing's Delta Green is an award-winning setting of modern conspiracy and Lovecraftian horror.
d20 Reviews THE hub for anything d20-related.
Uncle Bear: has news and resources for roleplayers, gamemasters and game designers. A most excellent on-line springboard into the world of geekdom.
Real Life
Federation of American Scientists An invaluable real-life resource. Updated Daily. The FAS "conducts analysis and advocacy on science, technology and public policy, including national security, nuclear weapons, arms sales, biological hazards, secrecy, education technology, information technology, energy and the environment."
CIA World Factbook 2001: US government profiles of countries and territories around the world.
Though less known than the CIA World Factbook, the Country Studies/Area Studies Handbook might be of interest to espionage role-playing gamers. Published by the Federal Research Division of the United States' Library of Congress it was intended to supply some information on areas where U.S. forces might be deployed. No longer updated as the program was terminated due to lack of funding.
Special Operations provides "a glimpse inside the world of elite military and civilian units tasked with unconventional and oftentimes very hazardous duties. [The site] does not deal EXCLUSIVELY with Special Operations Forces, as defined by the Department of Defense. Instead, it is intended to provide an overview of SOF, CT, Hostage Rescue and scores of issues related to Low Intensity Conflict. Of course, the emphasis of this site is geared toward SOF, and that remains its primary goal."
Broadcast Media
Alias Episode Guide: femme-fatale chop-sockin' goodness. Very addictive TV series.
Print Media
Sure, his novels aren't the ultimate examples of high-browed literature, but Matthew Reilly's books have that fun, thrilling popcorn flick quality. James Bond meets Michael Crichton.
Move over Mulder and Scully, Repairman Jack is in town. Written by F. Paul Wilson, the Repairman Jack series takes the hard-boiled detective sub-genre of mystery, turns it on its head and blends in a good dose of horror and conspiracy. Ack. I'll be honest, that was a pathetic description of the novels. Its not too much of a stretch to say that the Repairman Jack series of books cannot be easily categorized. When I went to the bookstore to search for these books, I found Repairman Jack books the fiction-literature, mystery, horror and science fiction. If Delta Green and Shadowforce Archer are more your speed, then check out Repairman Jack.
Primary Sources
Spycraft: the d20 system Espionage Role-Playing Game published by Alderac Entertainment Group.
Modus Operandi: Dave McAlister's website for modern and espionage role-playing games.
Delta Green: is one of the best treatments of intelligence and covert operations in a role-playing game. Pagan Publishing's Delta Green is an award-winning setting of modern conspiracy and Lovecraftian horror.
d20 Reviews THE hub for anything d20-related.
Uncle Bear: has news and resources for roleplayers, gamemasters and game designers. A most excellent on-line springboard into the world of geekdom.
Real Life
Federation of American Scientists An invaluable real-life resource. Updated Daily. The FAS "conducts analysis and advocacy on science, technology and public policy, including national security, nuclear weapons, arms sales, biological hazards, secrecy, education technology, information technology, energy and the environment."
CIA World Factbook 2001: US government profiles of countries and territories around the world.
Though less known than the CIA World Factbook, the Country Studies/Area Studies Handbook might be of interest to espionage role-playing gamers. Published by the Federal Research Division of the United States' Library of Congress it was intended to supply some information on areas where U.S. forces might be deployed. No longer updated as the program was terminated due to lack of funding.
Special Operations provides "a glimpse inside the world of elite military and civilian units tasked with unconventional and oftentimes very hazardous duties. [The site] does not deal EXCLUSIVELY with Special Operations Forces, as defined by the Department of Defense. Instead, it is intended to provide an overview of SOF, CT, Hostage Rescue and scores of issues related to Low Intensity Conflict. Of course, the emphasis of this site is geared toward SOF, and that remains its primary goal."
Broadcast Media
Alias Episode Guide: femme-fatale chop-sockin' goodness. Very addictive TV series.
Print Media
Sure, his novels aren't the ultimate examples of high-browed literature, but Matthew Reilly's books have that fun, thrilling popcorn flick quality. James Bond meets Michael Crichton.
Move over Mulder and Scully, Repairman Jack is in town. Written by F. Paul Wilson, the Repairman Jack series takes the hard-boiled detective sub-genre of mystery, turns it on its head and blends in a good dose of horror and conspiracy. Ack. I'll be honest, that was a pathetic description of the novels. Its not too much of a stretch to say that the Repairman Jack series of books cannot be easily categorized. When I went to the bookstore to search for these books, I found Repairman Jack books the fiction-literature, mystery, horror and science fiction. If Delta Green and Shadowforce Archer are more your speed, then check out Repairman Jack.