Dune RPG Details Emerge!

Polygon has some details about the single most anticipated RPG of 2020, the upcoming Dune RPG! Here are the key points!

• It will be based on Modiphius' 2d20 System (as expected).
• Players will join a house, or create a house.
• Gameplay also covers agents, spies, mercenaries, and criminals.
• It will come out around Christmas and into 2021.
• A beta test will kick off very soon.
• Writers include Andy Peregrine and Khaldoun Khelil (who has worked on Vampire: the Masquerade for two decades), and Chris Spivey (Harlem Unbound) and a whole bunch more!

 

[atanakar]

Sadly, the 2d20 system is not my cup of tea.

 

[Eilathen]

What i want to know is : how do i get ino the playtest of Dune?! Normally, Modiphius makes a playtest open-call but i can't find anything.

 

[Morrus]

What i want to know is : how do i get ino the playtest of Dune?! Normally, Modiphius makes a playtest open-call but i can't find anything.

"A beta test will kick off very soon."

I guess you wait.

 

[Nikosandros]

This reminds me of the great, lost "Dune" RPG from Last Unicorn Games, which, if memory serves, was killed when Wizards bought LUG.

IIRC, WotC wanted to keep publishing the game, but the change of owners triggered a clause in the license contract and the holders rescinded it.

 

[Kannik]

IIRC, WotC wanted to keep publishing the game, but the change of owners triggered a clause in the license contract and the holders rescinded it.

That's my recollection as well, and is how WotC lost both the Dune and the Star Trek licenses (and thus really ended up with nothing from their purchase of LUG).

That said, they were allowed to publish a small amount of copies of the manuscript as it was when they bought LUG. (I lucked out and got/have a copy.) At the time they must still have thought they'd be able to keep or re-negotiate the contract as it made references to the game being fully (re)released after being ported to the d20 system.

Which if all had panned out could have given WotC licenses to publish games based on Star Trek, Star Wars, and Dune, all under the d20 system. It's a bit funny now to see Modiphius having both the Star Trek and Dune licences (like LUG before them) publishing under a 2d20 system.

 

[Sunsword]

That said, they were allowed to publish a small amount of copies of the manuscript as it was when they bought LUG. (I lucked out and got/have a copy.) At the time they must still have thought they'd be able to keep or re-negotiate the contract as it made references to the game being fully (re)released after being ported to the d20 system.

By "manuscript" are you referring to the hardcovers that were released?

 

[TrippyHippy]

We’ll have to see what the system will be like, but I am heartened to know that, regardless of the core system used, the rules for politics and intrigue will be treated as important as those for knife fighting. Big Tick.

 

[Bedrockgames]

Not very familiar with the system, but I love Dune. Looking forward to checking this one out

 

[imagineGod]

Not very familiar with the system, but I love Dune. Looking forward to checking this one out

It uses the 2d20 system, first designed by Jay Little (of Star Wars Edge of the Empire fame), and used in Mutant Chronicles 3rd Edition, but since then, refined and simplified by the Modiphius Team, with a good free sampling in the Star Trek Adventures Quickstart:

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www.drivethrurpg.com

 

[Greg K]

Which if all had panned out could have given WotC licenses to publish games based on Star Trek, Star Wars, and Dune, all under the d20 system. .

Personally, I am glad that never happened.