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<blockquote data-quote="MonkeezOnFire" data-source="post: 7893569" data-attributes="member: 6784845">Your suspicions are correct. The Dune board game was originally published in 1979 by Avalon Hill. In 1984 it got a second edition to tie into the movie along with a couple of expansions and then the game goes out of print for a long time. In 2012 it was kinda sorta reprinted when Fantasy Flight Games got the rights to the game, but not the setting so they released Rex: Final Days of an Empire set in their Twilight Imperium universe. In 2019 the game was finally reprinted proper by Gale Force Nine with a basic mode emulating the original game and an advanced mode to add in the mechanics of the expansions. Overall I find myself excited for the RPG adaptation despite only having surface level familiarity with the setting. I've seen the Lynch movie, but from my understanding is that it's not even close to a faithful adaptation. Most of my limited knowledge comes just from references and other works that have taken inspiration. Dune is very much a seminal work of science fiction and perhaps it's about time I got around to reading the novels.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="MonkeezOnFire, post: 7893569, member: 6784845"] Your suspicions are correct. The Dune board game was originally published in 1979 by Avalon Hill. In 1984 it got a second edition to tie into the movie along with a couple of expansions and then the game goes out of print for a long time. In 2012 it was kinda sorta reprinted when Fantasy Flight Games got the rights to the game, but not the setting so they released Rex: Final Days of an Empire set in their Twilight Imperium universe. In 2019 the game was finally reprinted proper by Gale Force Nine with a basic mode emulating the original game and an advanced mode to add in the mechanics of the expansions. Overall I find myself excited for the RPG adaptation despite only having surface level familiarity with the setting. I've seen the Lynch movie, but from my understanding is that it's not even close to a faithful adaptation. Most of my limited knowledge comes just from references and other works that have taken inspiration. Dune is very much a seminal work of science fiction and perhaps it's about time I got around to reading the novels. [/QUOTE]

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