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I've finished reading Sutra of Pale Leaves and promised my group I'd run it for them. It seems like a fun campaign to run, but it lacks a certain grit and horror that I love to add to my CoC games.
The way the Pale Prince (King in Yellow) actively pursues its goals like some supervillain feels almost cartoonesque, while the Sutra itself is hardly more than just a mind control book.

To explore how other campaigns tackle the King in Yelow, I recently started reading the Delta Green sourcebooks. I completely fell in love with them. Impossible Landscapes fleshes out the exact reality-bending setting and depth I'm looking for in a King in Yellow campaign and Delta Green's systems are very gritty in a way that beautifully complements that.

I really feel that IL fills the exact gaps where SoPL is lacking, while SoPL slightly fleshes out some concepts that could be super interesting in a KiY setting, like an organization (APL) that intently spreads the KiY and uses it to shape the world. (I haven't read the entirety of IL yet though!)

Eventually I came to the conclusion I would love to run Impossible Landscapes in Delta Green and add some of the SoPL scenarios and the APL as some form of villain, while adding a touch of the IL horror to make it fit together better.

There's some hurdles to overcome, for example the KiY is fundamentally different in IL and SoPL.

I'm posting this here to see if anybody has any ideas for a combined Impossible Landscapes / Sutra of Pale Leaves campaign. But also feel free to convince me not to combine them! My biggest fear would be to create something much worse than the sum of the two campaigns separate, and spoil both for my players.

I've finished reading Sutra of Pale Leaves and promised my group I'd run it for them. It seems like a fun campaign to run, but it lacks a certain grit and horror that I love to add to my CoC games.
The way the Pale Prince (King in Yellow) actively pursues its goals like some supervillain feels almost cartoonesque, while the Sutra itself is hardly more than just a mind control book.

To explore how other campaigns tackle the King in Yelow, I recently started reading the Delta Green sourcebooks. I completely fell in love with them. Impossible Landscapes fleshes out the exact reality-bending setting and depth I'm looking for in a King in Yellow campaign and Delta Green's systems are very gritty in a way that beautifully complements that.

I really feel that IL fills the exact gaps where SoPL is lacking, while SoPL slightly fleshes out some concepts that could be super interesting in a KiY setting, like an organization (APL) that intently spreads the KiY and uses it to shape the world. (I haven't read the entirety of IL yet though!)

Eventually I came to the conclusion I would love to run Impossible Landscapes in Delta Green and add some of the SoPL scenarios and the APL as some form of villain, while adding a touch of the IL horror to make it fit together better.

There's some hurdles to overcome, for example the KiY is fundamentally different in IL and SoPL.

I'm posting this here to see if anybody has any ideas for a combined Impossible Landscapes / Sutra of Pale Leaves campaign. But also feel free to convince me not to combine them! My biggest fear would be to create something much worse than the sum of the two campaigns separate, and spoil both for my players.