Dark Conspiracy

[TheMetal1]

They had a Bundle of Holding for 2nd Edition and I've always been interested in it so decided to buy. I'm a Twilight: 2000 Fan and figured it should have some good stuff in there.

So far in my reading of it, it uses a d20 for resolution, and has a dystopian future - kind of a mix of Shadow Run, Rifts, World of Darkness, Mad Max, Judge Dread and XCom.

Like some of the ideas, but curious if anyone has any experience playing or running it and what they thought of it.

[pawndream]

I briefly ran a Dark Conspiracy campaign in the early 90s and have fond memories of the setting and game in general. Aside from being produced by the same company, GDW, I do not remember it being that compatible with anything from Twilight: 2000 (which I played heavily through the middle to late 80s).

I don't own the rulebooks for either anymore, but I believe they were completely different systems.

The way we played it was kind of like the early X Files, i.e., episodic game with monster-of-the-week sort of plots. The campaign background is what I remember the most (memories of the rules have faded). All this to say, I remember it as a fun game having a very cool background.

[finarvyn]

I remember seeing copies at the game store back in the day, and they looked really cool, but at the time I wasn't interested in experimenting with new or different rules systems. I also recall seeing several novels. They looked good, but since I didn't buy the rules I didn't bother with the novels either.

The background sounds interesting. Ironic if I end up tracking it down now.

[serleran]

I believe the d20 resolution system is not the original version of the game, which is percentile. But... it has been a while.

Thematically, you described it pretty well. Not as clean as Shadowrun, though, but less magical (relying on psionics instead).

The thing I liked about the game was the career paths, where you gained X number of skills at Y level but had to take years off your life to do it. Seemed logical. Complex, but logical.

[slimykuotoan]

If this is the game thou speak'st of, I'm interested.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dark_Conspiracy

Sounds crazy cool.

[TheMetal1]

If this is the game thou speak'st of, I'm interested.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dark_Conspiracy

Sounds crazy cool.

It is the same game. The Bundle of Holding was for 2nd Edition by DPI, I still would like to see the 1st edition just to compare it with Twilight 2000 v2.2.