I wish GDW had...

[Adm.Lee]

Originally Posted by fact275

I have to remember at the time when I was 16-20 that we played T:2000 not so much for its post-nuclear world but because it was a military RPG and there were few of those. You had Merc (I think), Delta Force, and then the Merc:2000 supplement. Phoenix Force provided modern firearms rules. T:2000 was the most fleshed out.

This is why I liked (and still like) T2k: other post-apoc games leave me cold.

I tried running Merc:2000 but I found my friends had less interest in a game that took place in Nigeria or the Philippines with (fictional) wars that they couldn't relate to. WWIII of course was all too real a thought.

That's too bad: I had a lively game of Merc running for about 2 years in the mid-90s. Anymore, I have trouble coming up with fictional wars that I'd want to run/play, they seem all too real.

Regarding your gaps:
Most of these, I think were places that GDW felt they didn't need to define.

6. I still have the price tags left on some of my modules, would you believe they were $7 or $8? The idea of a Challenge article for "what could happen next" would have been super cool!
I was pleasantly surprised at a convention years ago to find lots of interest in playing T2k; it seems to be largely nostalgia-based, though there are some that enjoy it as a military/WW3 game. I joined forces with that GM, as he was running tables of 12 or more people, several times over.

[Olefin]

Saw this old thread and figured it would be fun to bring it back to life - hopefully with people like me and Raellus writing new canon material we can finally answer some of these questions

What we have written has already shed some light on some areas you may have wanted to get resolved and with luck in the future there may be more holes filled in the canon besides "what exactly was going on in Kenya and Africa besides the two tiny mentions in the canon", "what happened to the divisions that left Europe" - which was answered at least for the 2nd Armored with the East African Sourcebook- and "I wonder if the Soviets knew about Omega and tried to stop it" which Raellus so ably filled in.

[Matt Wiser]

Speaking of what GDW hadn't done, there was an announcement in a Challenge issue back in '90 or '91, about a Korea sourcebook-then nothing came of it. That's a theater that certainly deserved canon treatment.

[Olefin]

You will be happy to know that Raellus is working on a Korean Sourcebook right now - and I know he is looking for inputs on the naval side. You might want to get in touch with him.