Announcement from Free League Publishing

[Raellus]

I Want

I have to admit to being a sucker for the marketing too. I want the deluxe edition in the tin box because... umm... because... "reasons"...

Ha ha! Me too. I showed my wife the deluxe box set, and the $40 price difference, and her response was, "so the only difference is the metal box"

I stammered, "Um, yeah, doesn't it look cool And it's sturdier!"

She was behind me but I could almost feel her eyes roll.

[sellanraa]

Sheesh, you all are making me want to upgrade to the metal box!

[StainlessSteelCynic]

And I'll tell you, the desire to buy it has not diminished. Talking with other people who have been long term fans of certain GDW RPGs, they want the deluxe set as well.

SO...
I'm not just a victim of marketing, it seems I'll be a victim of peer group pressure as well haha!

[kcdusk]

Has anyone used the Alien RPG rules set, thoughts

[Raellus]

I splurged on the deluxe box. My thinking is that it won't be available after the Kickstarter closes, so now's the time or I'm going to miss out. Most of my regrets in life -thankfully, not a long list- are things I haven't done. Is a metal box worth $40 more than a cardboard one Probably not, but it's cooler, and a bit more special, so I just thought, "why not treat yo' self" I can always pick up the regular box set later, but the same isn't true of the deluxe edition.

Next stretch goal is an expanded gear list; I really hope it gets unlocked. After that, it's base-building rules. Color me intrigued.

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[Olefin]

went in on the kickstarter too - now lets see if they will add some of things Raellus and I published as sourcebooks for V4 as add ons

[Spartan-117]

I'm actually gonna down grade from the metal tin and get two sets of the regular RPG, plus Ref screen. Extra maps, tokens, another player's manual to hand out, and more dice, seem like they will be very useful when it comes time to run an actual F2F game (once this COVID thing is sorted out).

Most of my D&D 5e players haven't played TW2K, so having an extra boxed set to kick things off and help get TW2K into the rotation will be good. Once they play a few sessions and get into it, they can order a set for themselves if they want.

I've run two 5e campaigns for new 'don't even own a PHB' interested D&D players and the first few sessions require lots of PHB passing, dice sharing, and token/avatar imagination (so your PC is the green six sided die and Bob's PC is the Red d8, correct)...

After the third session, things typically shift with shiny new PHBs, Wyrmwood dice towers, D&D Beyond on iPads, and Hero Forge minis suddenly in abundance...

Speaking of Hero Forged miniatures - have they mentioned what scale the maps will be

[wolffhound79]

I finally know what to give to myself for my birthday today!!! Im excited to see the base guide and various items. Im debating between the tin or not. LOL

[StainlessSteelCynic]

Has anyone used the Alien RPG rules set, thoughts

My gaming group is not a fan of the Year Zero rules, mostly because they're a bit too lightweight for some of the games we enjoy. Plus most of us are not fans of gimmicky dice sets (of which, Year Zero makes us of).
One of the group is a mad Alien fanboy, has been since the first time he saw the first movie. Bought the first Alien RPG, didn't like the Phoenix Command rules system it used so he made his own rules system inspired by some other games he'd played.

He wanted the Free League edition of Alien from the moment he heard about it, so much so that he got the special version or whatever it was.
When it finally arrived, he phoned me to talk about it because he was dead keen on running an Aliens game.
He told me the book was gorgeous to look at but the rules... the rules system was... lacklustre... he described them as "a hot mess".
He decided to run a Call of Cthulhu game instead.

[Tekrat04]

Found this on the comments from the Kickstarter.

Do you have questions about the edition of Twlight:2000 Join me tomorrow at 1PM EDT/10 AM PDT as I chat with Tomas from Free League and answer viewer questions! https://youtu.be/gq8aXbdMHtI
(This is will be available for viewing after if you cant join us live.)

[Raellus]

More Gear!

Pleased to see the Expanded Gear stretch goal was unlocked. I'm curious to see what the Base Building rules look like. It seems like something that doesn't really require rules, per se, but I'd like to see what they come up with.

[comped]

Pleased to see the Expanded Gear stretch goal was unlocked. I'm curious to see what the Base Building rules look like. It seems like something that doesn't really require rules, per se, but I'd like to see what they come up with.

Considering they need a little bit over $35,000 more, and they have well over two weeks left oh, I suspect that they definitely will hit that goal. Now if they smash through the remaining goal is anyone's guess, but given the amount of money they continue to get per day I don't think it's out of the question.

[Olefin]

Question will be will they start to engage people like me and Alf to write or adapt our modules for the new system so they will have some quick releases to add to what has already been promised with what has been raised. And will the extra gear be a new book or added to existing base information release

[comped]

Question will be will they start to engage people like me and Alf to write or adapt our modules for the new system so they will have some quick releases to add to what has already been promised with what has been raised. And will the extra gear be a new book or added to existing base information release

From what they said about the gear, it's going to be simply added to the base book. As for their plans with the system... I can't answer because I don't know the answer. But they seem to have not a hell of a lot of material for their previous books, even years after they publish the core. I doubt they have much of a plan to release additional material immediately, although it would be nice if it was. With their plans to make this version of Twilight able to have community-written and sold modules and expansions for money, I suppose that might be a more cost-effective way to do so.

[Olefin]

I know he is open to fan releases but the question is would those be considered canon that others could build on Or are they only planning to release the original material for print and after that the only releases would be pdf's written by fans - which could make things a little chaotic to say the least.

i.e. so you would have a baseline timeline - and after that its up for grabs