''Twilight: 2000'' is a 1984
post-apocalyptic
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military
tabletop role-playing game
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published by
Game Designers' Workshop
Game Designers' Workshop (GDW) was a wargame and role-playing game publisher from 1973 to 1996. Many of their games are now carried by other publishers.
History
Game Designers' Workshop was originally established June 22, 1973. The founding m ...
(GDW).
Set in the aftermath of
World War III
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(the "Twilight War"), the game operates on the premise that the
United States
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/
NATO
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and the
Soviet Union
The Soviet Union,. officially the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. (USSR),. was a transcontinental country that spanned much of Eurasia from 1922 to 1991. A flagship communist state, it was nominally a federal union of fifteen national ...
/
Warsaw Pact
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have fought a lengthy conventional war followed by a limited
nuclear war
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with all its consequences. The player characters are survivors of said war.
Setting
Original setting and game history
Adventures in ''Twilight: 2000'' typically involve a military unit stranded in
Central Europe
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several years into
World War III
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and emphasize realistic depictions of military and social systems after a nuclear war. The war, as it continues on from 1997, has aspects of the
broken-backed war theory, wherein a catastrophic nuclear exchange occurs between two belligerents and is then followed by a continuation of conventional war.
The game was first published in 1984 during the
Cold War
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and was intended to be an accurate depiction of a possible future, but events in the world have rendered the premise of the game an
alternate history
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.
In ''Twilight: 2000''
's version of 1995, a series of
Sino-Soviet border conflicts expands into general war between the Soviet Union and China. The Sino-Soviet war rapidly escalates from
conventional warfare
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into exchanges of
nuclear, chemical, and biological weapons. In 1996 a cabal of
East German
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and
West German
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military officers seek to
reunify their country. Unified German forces stage a
coup d'état
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against the
Group of Soviet Forces in Germany
The Western Group of Forces (WGF),. previously known as the Group of Soviet Occupation Forces in Germany (GSOFG). and the Group of Soviet Forces in Germany (GSFG),. were the troops of the Soviet Army in East Germany. The Group of Soviet Occupati ...
. The US and NATO allies initially attempt to stay out of the war, but are quickly drawn into the European conflict. France withdraws its troops from Germany and then withdraws entirely from NATO, declaring its neutrality in the conflict.
Between 1996 and 1997, a largely
conventional war
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is fought between NATO and Warsaw Pact forces throughout Europe. There are limited exchanges of
battlefield nuclear weapons, and chemical and biological weapons. During
Thanksgiving
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of 1997, the Soviet Union launches a surprise
first strike against targets in the United States and Europe. The US and Great Britain launch retaliatory nuclear strikes against the Soviet Union. France, because of its neutrality, largely escapes direct damage.
In the aftermath of the nuclear exchanges, both blocs struggle to recover from the damage. The war continues, despite increasing shortages of men, equipment, and fuel. In the United States, there is a breach between the civilian government and the
Joint Chiefs of Staff
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. An open rift develops between "Civgov" (the civilian government) and "Milgov" (the military government), which leads to a
low-intensity civil war
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The aim of one side may be to take control of the country or a region, to achieve independence for a region, or to change government policies ...
.
By the summer of 2000, the European
theater of operations
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T ...
has been fought to a near stalemate. In one final effort to break the deadlock and end the war, NATO forces plan a summer offensive across Northern
Poland
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and into the
Baltics
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, but the offensive ground to a halt in the face of a Warsaw Pact counterattack. Several divisions and corps on each side were virtually eliminated. In the chaotic aftermath,
supply lines
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are lost, high level command breaks down and armies in the European theater lose
cohesion beyond the
platoon
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unit. Some go “native’ and integrated with the militias of independent "
free cities", others turned into gangs of marauding bandits and some small groups of surviving soldiers sought to find their way home.
Later history
To create 300 years of background history for their science-fiction RPG ''
2300 AD
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Publication history
GDW created the popular science fiction role-playing ...
'', GDW staff members participated in an in-house simulation called "The Great Game", with
Frank Chadwick
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as referee. Starting with the world situation in 2000 following the Twilight War, players controlled one or more countries and guided them through 300 years of development, including the discovery of
faster-than-light
Faster-than-light (also FTL, superluminal or supercausal) travel and communication are the conjectural propagation of matter or information faster than the speed of light (). The special theory of relativity implies that only particles with zero ...
space travel,
colonization
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of other Earthlike planets, and contact with a variety of sentient aliens. The staff member playing
France
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,
John Harshman
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Career
In 1975, Game Designers' Workshop published '' Triplanetary'' by Harshman and Marc Miller. Harshman, Frank Chadwick
Frank Chadwick is an American mul ...
, did exceptionally well, leading to France being the supreme
superpower
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in 2300.
Revised setting
The Second Edition (published in 1990) and subsequent editions featured a reworked background intended to be an alternate history closer to 1990s real-world history. Version 2.2, GDW's final edition of the game, was published in 1993 and featured a background in which the
KGB
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's
Alpha Group
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obeys the coup leaders in the
August 1991 Soviet coup attempt and storms the
Russian White House
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, killing
Boris Yeltsin
Boris Nikolayevich Yeltsin ( rus, Борис Николаевич Ельцин, p=bɐˈrʲis nʲɪkɐˈla(j)ɪvʲɪtɕ ˈjelʲtsɨn, a=Ru-Boris Nikolayevich Yeltsin.ogg; 1 February 1931 – 23 April 2007) was a Soviet and Russian politician wh ...
and effectively preserving communist control. This also has the effect of basically future-proofing the game, as anything that happened in reality after that period could be ignored as the event basically wiped out history after that.
In 2017 and 2018, there were three new official modules for ''Twilight: 2000'' released online, including a source book for East Africa/Kenya, a new standalone adventure played during the same time as the "Going Home" module and a Korean source book. These three releases were all officially approved by Marc Miller, who is the current owner of the ''Twilight: 2000'' game, and were the first new releases for the 1st and 2nd edition since the mid-1990s.
Publication history
First and Second Editions
GDW extended the timeline of ''Twilight: 2000'' to create the background history for the science fiction game ''
2300 AD
''2300 AD'', originally titled ''Traveller: 2300'', is a tabletop science fiction role-playing game created by Game Designers' Workshop (GDW) and first published in 1986.
Publication history
GDW created the popular science fiction role-playing ...
''; by doing so, the rather depressing post-nuclear environment of ''Twilight: 2000'' is mitigated by the outcome in which the Earth rebuilds itself and begins to
colonize space.
Far Future Enterprises has reprinted the first edition of ''Twilight: 2000'' in hardcopy (paper) format, and both the first edition and version 2.2 are available in CD-ROM format. Versions 2.0 and 2.2, both using the system that became standard for GDW's games, are currently available in watermarked PDF format online (as are the first edition rules).
''Twilight: 2000s success as a game can be attributed in part to its manner of presenting a military background and setting, without hemming the players into a military's
command structure
A command hierarchy is a group of people who carry out orders based on others' authority within the group. It can be viewed as part of a power structure, in which it is usually seen as the most vulnerable and also the most powerful part.
Mili ...
. The civilian governments of most countries in the game have been shattered (France and Belgium quit NATO and thus largely escaped war damage) with the US government splitting into the civilian and military governments, as has the military chain of command, supply lines, etc. The various military forces are presented as being much weaker than their stated sizes, occupying civilian territories and relying on civilians for food and small-scale manufacturing, and recruiting from civilian populations to some extent. This all means that the players can feel they are part of a military of some sort, without their characters being forced to submit to higher military authority. Players generally can choose whether they want their characters to try to continue the war, get back home (wherever that may be), join one of the new power groups wherever they are, simply survive as
mercenaries
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or marauders, or some combination.
In 1990, realizing that the game's background was in danger of becoming obsolete, GDW published ''Merc 2000'', an alternative campaign setting which revolves around mercenaries fighting brushfire wars in a time in which the Twilight War never occurred. After ''Merc 2000'' was released, many supplements and articles printed in GDW's ''Challenge Magazine'' featured ''Twilight: 2000'' with equipment and background conversions to ''Merc 2000'' or were ''Merc 2000''-only.
In 1991, GDW licensees
Paragon
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developed the ''
Twilight 2000
''Twilight: 2000'' is a 1984 post-apocalyptic military tabletop role-playing game published by Game Designers' Workshop (GDW). Set in the aftermath of World War III (the "Twilight War"), the game operates on the premise that the United States/NATO ...
'' computer game adaptation (complete with expansion, "the Colonel") depicting a squad of 20 soldiers stranded behind enemy lines in Poland, struggling against the despot Baron Czarny.
Supplements
GDW produced over 40 supplements for ''Twilight: 2000'', including:
* ''
The Free City of Krakow
''The Free City of Krakow'' is a 1985 Post apocalyptic military tabletop role-playing game adventure for '' Twilight: 2000'' published by Game Designers' Workshop (GDW).
Contents
''The Free City of Krakow'' is the first adventure module for ''T ...
'', 1985
* ''
RDF Sourcebook
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Contents
"RDF" stands for "Rapid Deployment Force", a ...
'', 1986
* ''
Howling Wilderness'', 1988
* ''
Survivors' Guide to the United Kingdom'', 1990
* ''
White Eagle'', 1990
Third Edition (''Twilight: 2013'')
In 2006, 93 Games Studio announced that they had acquired the license to produce the official ''Twilight 2000'' Version 3.0, and planned for a 2008 release with the title ''
Twilight: 2013''. According to the developers, the timeline leading to the Twilight War was completely re-written, and no longer focused on a Cold War confrontation between NATO, the Soviet Union and China.
The ''Twilight: 2013'' core rules were released on 8 November 2008 as a PDF. A print edition was also released. In December 2010, 93 Games Studio announced it was going out of business.
Fourth Edition
In 2020,
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announced they had received a licensed to publish a new edition of the ''Twilight: 2000'' setting. The game has a new ruleset based on the
Year Zero Engine, and background where the Soviet Union survives the fall of the
Berlin wall
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and battle in central Europe is joined in 1998. It was released in November 2021 under the name ''Twilight : 2000 – Roleplaying in the World War III That Never Was''. It featured two settings: Poland and Sweden.
Alternative settings
Merc 2000
Whereas ''Twilight: 2000'' was set in the immediate post-
World War III
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era, with characters representing soldiers trying to survive, characters in ''Merc: 2000'' are mercenaries working for or against government forces in a world where the "Twilight War" involving nuclear weapons did not occur.
''Merc: 2000'' must be used with ''Twilight 2000'' versions 2.0 through 2.2; the earlier first-edition ''Twilight: 2000'' rules differ too much to be easily usable without extensive adaptation. The ''Merc: 2000'' rulebook details the game world, gives additional rules and equipment that will be more useful in mercenary
campaigns
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than the original set of rules and equipment in ''Twilight: 2000.'' It also supplies some basic
adventures
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to play. GDW additionally published a number of separate adventures for use with ''Merc: 2000''. ''Merc: 2000'' has a supplemental rulebook called ''Special Forces'' which gives guidance for those wishing to play as members of a Special Forces unit. Additional equipment is described and there are more sample adventures.
In GDW's own gaming magazine ''
Challenge
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'', they close the gaps between the setting of ''Merc: 2000'' and their future role-playing game ''
Dark Conspiracy
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Setting
''Dark Conspiracy'' is set i ...
''. ''Merc: 2000'' characters are confronted there with aliens as the world turns into the near-future setting of Dark Conspiracy.
Cadillacs and Dinosaurs
''
Cadillacs and Dinosaurs'' used the second edition ''Twilight: 2000'' rules and was set in
Mark Schultz's underground comic book series ''
Xenozoic Tales
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''. ()
Dark Conspiracy
''
Dark Conspiracy
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Setting
''Dark Conspiracy'' is set i ...
'' used the same set of rules to present a setting in which characters in a near future dystopia fought monsters which hunted human beings.
OPFOR Games
Characters in ''Twilight 2000'' games are typically representative of US and NATO military forces. Within the T2K gaming community, games that are centered on a group of Soviet/Warsaw Pact characters are referred to as "OPFOR games" for
opposing force
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. There are no full OPFOR games as published adventures, but the concept is a popular
PBEM
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scenario.
Awards
At
Origins 1985, ''Twilight 2000'' was awarded the H.G. Wells Award for "Best Roleplaying Rules of 1984".
Reception
Rick Swan
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Swan also wrote ''The Complete Guide to Role-Playing Games'' (1990), published by St. Martin's Pre ...
and
Greg Porter
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reviewed ''Twilight: 2000'' in ''
Space Gamer
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'' No. 74.
Swan commented that "Whether or not ''Twilight: 2000'' becomes a standard remains to be seen, but it certainly fills a niche and does so successfully; I hope it finds an audience with roleplayers and wargamers alike. As a design, it's nothing spectacular, but as a concept, it's an innovation."
Porter commented that "All told, ''Twilight: 2000'' is a tragic waste of
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The nice concept and character generation system are completely overrun by innumerable flaws and hopeless violations of the laws of physics."
Chris Felton reviewed ''Twilight 2000'' for ''
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'' magazine, and stated that "Overall, this is a good game, well worth clubbing together for if you belong to a group of experienced players who like free-running games and whose referee can run a scenario from minimal notes. If your referee has no experience of 'winging it' and needs all the details worked out in advance, this is not the game for you."
Marcus L. Rowland reviewed ''Twilight: 2000'' for ''
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'' #68, giving it an overall rating of 5 out of 10, and stated that "it's evident that this game has been written by and for Americans, with little or no understanding of European attitudes or desires."
''
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'' reviewed ''Twilight: 2000'' and stated that "Not a game to return to week after week maybe, but for a complete change of style it's well worth a play."
''Twilight 2000'' was ranked 35th in the 1996 reader poll of ''Arcane'' magazine to determine the 50 most popular roleplaying games of all time. The UK magazine's editor Paul Pettengale commented: "Pretty much all the previous 'post-apocalyptic' RPGs had been fairly fantastical, and had been set some time after the apocalypse. ''Twilight: 2000'' is realistic and set in the middle of the breakdown of European society. Involving, but not exactly cheerful."
In a retrospective review of ''Twilight: 2000'' in ''
Black Gate'', Patrick Kanouse said "In ''Twilight: 2000'', the characters can forge their own future, and to me, that is the magic of the game — its promise of hope in a gritty, dangerous, breaking and broken world."
Reviews
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Different Worlds
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''Different Worlds'' published support articles, scenarios, and variants for various role-playing games including ''Dungeons & Dragons'', ''Ru ...
'' #40 (July/Aug., 1985)
*''
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'' #26 (Sep/Oct., 1985)
*''Adventurer'' #3 (Aug./Sept., 1986)
*''
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'' #24 (Dec./Jan., 1990)
* ''
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'' #26 (June 1985)
*''
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'' #152
See also
''Twilight: 2000'' at BoardGameGeek*
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