((I was wondering earlier.. What will mongoose do if/when Wagner decides to write something that goes against the details of the RPG? I'm not having a pop here, btw, I'm just intrigued. We all know Wagner - all Dredd's various writers, really - have had a fairly liberal view towards continuity (ie: it doesn't matter half as much as the story), so if Mr W goes and writes a brilliant story that utterly contradicts something in the source-books you chaps have come-up with.. what happens?))
Not a lot, I should think – the source book will have been contradicted by later developments in the comic continuity, which happens all the time with licensed role-playing games (Star Wars, for example). We do try (and Rebellion make sure of this!) to be as faithful as possible to the established Dredd continuity, but if we had to stick exactly to what happened in the strip the books would be a bit short (there's only about ten stories set in the Undercity, almost all contradict each other and there's almost no detail of what it's actually like to live there, for example). Frankly, I'm more concerned with trying to write something that works as a setting for an interesting scenario than trying to guess what Wagner might come up with next. It would be up to the individual player/reader which version of events they wanted to use in their games.
Not a lot, I should think – the source book will have been contradicted by later developments in the comic continuity, which happens all the time with licensed role-playing games (Star Wars, for example). We do try (and Rebellion make sure of this!) to be as faithful as possible to the established Dredd continuity, but if we had to stick exactly to what happened in the strip the books would be a bit short (there's only about ten stories set in the Undercity, almost all contradict each other and there's almost no detail of what it's actually like to live there, for example). Frankly, I'm more concerned with trying to write something that works as a setting for an interesting scenario than trying to guess what Wagner might come up with next. It would be up to the individual player/reader which version of events they wanted to use in their games.