Gentlemen (and possibly Ladies?),
A few years back I emailed the guys at farfuture.net just to say "thank you" for their efforts at keeping .PDFs of T2k materials in print.
At the time I half-jokingly asked what the cost of doing a print run of the 1e boxed set would be, and the response (sadly, I don't have the exact email) was "sure, send us $17,000 and we'll be happy to do a print run!"
Obviously I don't
have seventeen grand lying around to spend on that...however, maybe I do. Or we do. Or something.
The reason I bring this up is I'm a huge fan of that other, more famous role-playing game (*cough*AD&D*cough*) - the community of guys who play original D&D and Advanced D&D is huge, and they have gotten in to
Kickstarter in a huge way.
For those not in the know, Kickstarter is a way by which small investors can pitch financial support into a product or project that requires some capitalization to get published. For varying amounts on a scale, contributors can "buy in" and get certain perks (like, just blue skying, let's say you did a T2k kickstarter and said $25 donations got a Teeshirt, $100 donations got a copy of the boxed set, Ruins of Warsaw and a wall map of the Polish/German campaign area, etc. etc.)
All the heavy lifting for T2k is
done. What needs to be done to get it back in print is to get any negatives, proofs, etc. to a print shop and have it printed and boxed.
Obviously, I'm not a GDW/FFE employee.
But...I'm wondering if approached if they'd consider this?
The reason I bring it up is this: four of the last Kickstarter projects for home-brewed 1st edition AD&D fan-made products have brought in nearly $100,000. A hundred thousand bucks!
Surely there's enough fan support for Twilight:2000 to get whatever was needed to see at least some of it back in print, yeah?
So let's hear some infield chatter. What do you guys think? Should we approach FFE?