OSR Review & Commentary On The Black Protocol By Mark Brooks For The Darker Rpg & Red Rpg System

 "Welcome to the Sentinel Initiative.

"The reasons for your being here are not important. What is important is that you understand that from the moment you read the following excerpts from our case files, you can never turn back. You can never pretend you do not know. You can never tell what you know. This isn’t just a matter of our security. This is a matter of your survival. We are not the only watchers. "

"And not all watchers are human. The information that follows is an addendum to threats you studied in your orientation. It should be treated as Eyes Only. Do not share it with anyone. If you find a copy without a Security cover, report it immediately to your Counterintelligence and Internal Security Unit officer."

The Black Protocol By Mark Brooks is a thirty four page campaign setting, faction book and background for the Darker rpg. The Black Protocol is definitely a product of our era for OSR DM's and players who want to run a full on SCP style Darker rpg campaign; "THE BLACK PROTOCOL: Invoked by Sentinel Initiative field agents when facing a potential Level IIIE+-0 arcanohazard, and approved by a quorum of the Inner Circle, or by the Director. This requires a full assembly of 13 trusted occultists with CSU tracking numbers to assist in containing the hazard, along with whatever banal resources — armed interdiction agents, researchers, support staff — are needed to assist. This is a very expensive and very dangerous exercise, and is rarely granted. Use of CSU-tracked field specialists is also granted on a case-bycase basis."
We are taken deeply into the Darker Protocal's organization and set up as well as a number of threats for the PC's. Some of these horrors are straight up terrors that can take up a whole cloth campaign. 

The PC's are brought into a super secret government organization that tackles these supernatural threats & dark forces that threaten to destroy our world. But is The Black Protocol  worth the free download?! If your into the Red Room Red rpg system then by all means get it! 
The scope of this campaign is impressive and for the Darker rpg presents a horror rpg campaign perfect to hit the ground running and then some! The scope is global with a micro approach that works for the material. 
For New Flesh this campaign could easily be modified to work on a global level. The Black Protocols's threats could easily take over Avilidad 's Earth in spades. As a governmental body the organizations of the Black Protocols fit into it's own dark corner of Earth. They might be able to hold back the darkness for a while but it's going overwhelm them eventually.  The Black Protocol  is a well done and well thought out supplement for  the Red Rpg system. Easily integrated into your own Darker rpg & OSR horror campaigns.