twilight 2000

March 24, 2021

Free League’s 2021 Game Lineup (So Far)

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Free League Publishing has a lot in store for tabletop enthusiasts in the year 2021, and they mailed us a list of upcoming releases just this morning. For starters, there’s The One Ring, the RPG devoted to all things Tolkien. We’ve been covering the revised game’s Kickstarter campaign these past few months, and now that it’s complete, over two million dollars have been raised. Look for it to arrive this fall. n the world of THE ONE RING™, the year is 2965 of the Third Age and the players create a Company of heroes seeking adventure in the Lone-lands of Eriador. It is a desolate country, yet it sees the presence of many adventurous folk – Hobbits, Dwarves, Elves and Men. It is here that the One Ring lies, a seed of the past that will one day lead the world to open war against the returning Shadow. The Enemy is moving, and smoke issues once more from Mount Doom, in the land of Mordor… Also coming this year is a reboot

August 14, 2020

Twilight 2000 Revival Launches Kickstarter Campaign

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Back in 1984, Game Designers’ Workshop introduced the apocalyptic role-playing game Twilight 2000 to the tabletop market. The game was set in the future year of 2000, during a raging World War III. Now GDW and Amargosa Press are looking into producing a new version of the game, twenty years past the sell-by date in the title. How can one possibly release a game set in a future war that never happened? Easy…you just re-classify the story. The new Twilight 2000 is billed as a “retro-futuristic” tabletop RPG set in a world where the events that led to the game’s conflict actually happened. It’s a Y2K where the Soviet Union never collapsed and the tensions between the superpowers escalated beyond their early-80s height. In the game, players take roles of survivors in the aftermath of World War III – soldiers or civilians. Their goal, beyond surviving for another day, can be to find a way back home, to carve out their own fiefdom where they are, to find out more