Mega-City One Archives from Mongoose Publishing

[John Caliber]

There was talk about reprinting some of GW's material (the Judgement Day module was going to be reformatted for the D20 rules if the D20 game had survived longer).

[TordelBack]

...the Judgement Day module was going to be reformatted for the D20 rules if the D20 game had survived longer

A really great module IMHO - an epic plot worthy of the Prog, a great space-suited manhunt on Titan, robot T-Rex, nice cut-out colour figures and gridded maps.  Formed a very enjoyable part of the summer of 1986 for me, friction-causing Ewins cover aside.

[John Caliber]

I enjoyed reading it a lot more than my RPG did playing it, unfortunately. I can't remember why, but wasn't there more for the GM to read (background material) than to actually present to the Players?

[Jim_Campbell]

I enjoyed reading it a lot more than my RPG did playing it, unfortunately. I can't remember why, but wasn't there more for the GM to read (background material) than to actually present to the Players?

I think you're right, now that I try to dredge up 20+ year old recollections of running it ... ISTR there was a lot of backstory that made the package a good read that didn't then get into the game itself (at least not in any way that was obvious to me).

Cheers!

Jim

[John Caliber]

It's a common problem with many RPG modules; the set-up material eats up so much room that the book's 'meat' (the adventure script) gets squeezed out.

Some of the modules in the Judge Dredd Companion (also GW) suffer badly from the same shift in perspective.

[TordelBack]

I enjoyed reading it a lot more than my RPG did playing it, unfortunately. I can't remember why, but wasn't there more for the GM to read (background material) than to actually present to the Players?

Absolutely.   I ran it myself, and  it was a really good detective story, but unfortunately that meant that even as they chased various leads across numerus set-pieces, the players had no clue what was actually going on until the very end, which can be frustrating.  

Happily, one of my players hit upon one of the sort-of red herrings (a rumoured shipment of surplus Atomic War wardroids), and as good players will, they concocted the necessity of thwarting a Doomsday-like threat of ABC Warriors rampaging through the city,  which with very little elaboration from me kept them engaged until the real plot was revealed.  I also surreptitiously leaked nuggets of the backstory through laboriously typed additional print-outs from MAC, one nugget per four red-herrings, which was a shedload of work. 

I did a stupid thing at the end though and didn't fudge the dicerolls, allowing one of the Judges to die in the final battle, which soured things a bit.  After solving a mystery story players deserve a reward, not a stomping.

Great robot name in it though - Call-Me-Ishmael.  

[Fordy]

I just saw it in my local comics shop - was flattered if a little pissed to see the Lawgiver design shown in the book to be a resized/photoshopped image of what looks like my 'design' of lawgiver/  prop replica used in the Judge Minty fan film....
They could have used the actual picture for free if they wanted !
have a look and see if you think the same ( ill try and upload a quick pic soon as I can)

The reference image sent to the artist was from the original Mongoose D20 Dredd RPG. It appears he may have googled an alternate image for reference and got yours. If I'd known we could have used yours for free, we would have 

[John Caliber]

Is there any graphic representation of the Lawgiver MK2 that is considered definitive, THE reference for 2000AD artists? Lots of variations about, as with the uniforms and Lawmasters.

[BPP]

Any update on what is happening these? Originally Vol.3 was March now the site says June...

Having seen 10 copies of Vol.1 sitting in Forbidden Planet untouched at 20 quid I can't see it having shifted much although the reduced prices of 1 & 2 on amazon made them much better value and not bad reads...