New Edition of Twilight 2000 Interview

[comped]

I guess we'll find out more about this when August rolls around and the Kickstarter launches? I'm vaguely interested to see this - if only because this is the first possible set I'll possibly own in a physical manner. Shame it will probably mean an end to the player-developed sourcebooks that have been occasionally popping up for sale as of late.

[StainlessSteelCynic]

Originally Posted by comped

... Shame it will probably mean an end to the player-developed sourcebooks that have been occasionally popping up for sale as of late.

Not necessarily. Free League has a licence to produce T2k material but they don't "own" the IP.
Far Future Enterprises (FFE) still has control over the IP and if someone wants to produce a 1st or 2nd edition sourcebook for retail sale, they don't have to get approval from Free League, they have to get approval from FFE.
Common courtesy would suggest that they work with Free League to avoid potential conflicts in sales etc. etc. but at the end of the day, it's FFE that everyone has to answer to.

[Lurken]

Originally Posted by comped

I guess we'll find out more about this when August rolls around and the Kickstarter launches? I'm vaguely interested to see this - if only because this is the first possible set I'll possibly own in a physical manner. Shame it will probably mean an end to the player-developed sourcebooks that have been occasionally popping up for sale as of late.

Not at all. I know that Legbreaker is still working on his ANZAC book, and my work is still progressing on the Nordic book. I bet there will be more books coming in the future as people realize that potentially interesting areas of the world lack information. Such as the Iberian Peninsula as one example.

[Legbreaker]

Correct. My book will be compatible with 1st, 2nd and 4th editions and published by Fria Ligan.

[comped]

Originally Posted by Lurken

Not at all. I know that Legbreaker is still working on his ANZAC book, and my work is still progressing on the Nordic book. I bet there will be more books coming in the future as people realize that potentially interesting areas of the world lack information. Such as the Iberian Peninsula as one example.

Originally Posted by Legbreaker

Correct. My book will be compatible with 1st, 2nd and 4th editions and published by Fria Ligan.

Great to hear!

[Olefin]

FYI - per a discussion today with Chris Lites

At this moment there is no tie in with the 4th edition to the Twilight 2300AD timeline - meaning that the future for the 4th edition may be wide open and not constrained as the earlier versions of the game were - stay tuned but that would make the 4th edition a very different animal from V1 and V2.2

Waiting to get confirmation from Tomas

[comped]

Originally Posted by Olefin

FYI - per a discussion today with Chris Lites

At this moment there is no tie in with the 4th edition to the Twilight 2300AD timeline - meaning that the future for the 4th edition may be wide open and not constrained as the earlier versions of the game were - stay tuned but that would make the 4th edition a very different animal from V1 and V2.2

Waiting to get confirmation from Tomas

Considering FFE licenses 2300 out to Mongoose, I suppose that makes sense. That does, however, really only mean that we might see a few changes with the timeline to make it a bit less... constrained, like perhaps the French may actually get their shit kicked in. Unless they're sticking with the timeline as established entirely...

[Olefin]

It would open all kinds of things to reinterpretation - keep in mind that the uber drought that basically took out the US efforts to rebuild was done in large part to align the final results of the war with the 2300AD where Mexico kept large parts of the Southwest and Texas was independent because the US was too weak and disorganized to do anything about it

And thats just one area that not having it tied to 2300AD could leave open to change - I personally would like a new edition that isnt tied down to a 300 years in the future canon - leaves you much more open to creating new things and makes the timeline one where you can actually do something and not be like so what if we liberated LA its going to Mexico anyway for 2300