Twilight 2000, 2nd edition

by Frank Chadwick

Read the 2000 Game Spotlight article here!

Here's What You

Generate Your You select your nationality, chracter type, and your military and nonmilitary backgrounds.

Equip use your money for weapons, ammunition, equipment, vehicles and spares.

Start You're in hostile territory. Your next encounter may be a friendly farmer, a frightened refugee, or a dangerous deserter. You pick your course of action; you decide your own fate in the chaos of World War III.

2000's award-winning game rules provide the foundation for role-playing in the chaos of World War III.

Fast-playing, easy-to-resolve comabt system gives the feel of modern battles.

Types of travel, time scales, vehicles, encounters, maintenance, fuel, repairs.

Dangerous environments, radiation, disease, contaminants, reasons for encounters and typical adventures.

Weapons, supplies, vehicles, munitions, costs, availability.

Places to go and reasons to go there. Plus reasons you wish you hadn't.

Chronology and history of World War III.

2000. The adventures are fast and furious. The prize is survival, and maybe, just maybe, a safe place to spend the night.

Genres: Role Playing Games, Games

280 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1984

Reviews

[Little Timmy · Rating 4 out of 5]

I love this game. Bought it when it 1st came out and my friends and I played many hours of adventure with it. Nice, quick but deadly combat system. Nice character building. Very recommended

[Gary Pilkington · Rating 4 out of 5]

A good set of rules, better than the first edition. However, there is still a fair amount of page flipping during character generation. Given that, there are a couple of good “blow-by-blow” examples of char gen which help. The mechanics are task oriented with three levels of difficulty for any task.

Note that there is also a version 2.2 which brings the game system more in line with Traveller the New Era. Is it necessary? No. The game is perfectly playable in its second edition format. If you are a Traveller the New Era fan it might be worth your while to purchase the 2.2 ed. as a pdf.

[Signy · Rating 4 out of 5]

We used to read the Twilight 2000 manuals growing up just as much for their amazing artwork and depiction of a post-WW III Europe as we did play the game. The story backdrop always felt like it would have made a good novel or movie in the vein of Red Dawn or more recently, Civil War.

[Jeff Schmieder · Rating 3 out of 5]

Preferred the 1st edition, but this is more like a large unit combat system that the original module.

[Bradley · Rating 3 out of 5]

Fabulous game of shoot-shoot and survival. Where will you find gas for that truck in a war-torn country? That and more fun awaits you within these pages.