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!

 

[imagineGod]

Thanks. Was the thread I posted 51 minutes ago the prompt for this announcement 41 minutes ago?

 

[Morrus]

Thanks. Was the thread I posted 51 minutes ago the prompt for this announcement 41 minutes ago?

No. It was Andy Peregine's post.

 

[bulletmeat]

With all the comments on 2d20 games I usually see i'm surprised this was 1st on the anticipated 2020 games list.
I am very interested to see how they use the system for a 'grittier' & political setting. I'm assuming some sort of honor or prestige mechanic would be used for social interaction among the Landsraad.

 

[Morrus]

With all the comments on 2d20 games I usually see i'm surprised this was 1st on the anticipated 2020 games list.

Vocal minorities are always very vocal and always the negative minority. Rule applies the world over, any topic. How many people phone a company to complain about a service vs how many people phone them to compliment them? Then the votes come in, and hey - lots of people like it!

 

[bulletmeat]

Vocal minorities are always very vocal and always the negative minority. Rule applies the world over, any topic. How many people phone a company to complain about a service vs how many people phone them to compliment them? Then the votes come in, and hey - lots of people like it!

True, true. I guess this glass is half full after all.

 

[bulletmeat]

So, how do I play a navigator is my next question.

 

[Sunsword]

With all the comments on 2d20 games I usually see i'm surprised this was 1st on the anticipated 2020 games list.

Something I've learned about 2d20 is it plays better than it reads. I was worried about it's crunchiness but our whole group picked up easily and after an hour it was like we'd been playing it for ages.

 

[The Mirrorball Man]

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

 

[eyeheartawk]

I really wanted to like all the 2D20 games I've read. Mutant Chronicles, Conan, Star Trek. But man, it just doesn't flow for me.

I guess I'll wait another 20 years for somebody else to take another shot at a Dune RPG.