You’re welcomed to Mega-City One before the character creation process starts. From there, we move through the motions of pointing out what you need to play, explaining the d20 system to newbies or highlighting the changes made to the core rules for those veterans among us and even some initial help for people entirely new to Judge Dredd. The opening paragraph does a fine job of very briefly summarizing the game. There is colour on every page, in fact, with the Mega-City One skyline on the bottom and a Justice Department style frame as a border for the sides and top.įor the first time in an absolute age, I found myself carefully reading the Introduction in the book. Better still, you’ll find full colour, full page artwork maps, tech-specs and, of course, pictures of various Judges. Throughout the book you’ll find snippets of Judge Dredd comic strips, normally just one or two cells at a time but enough to build up the darkly humorous mood of 2000AD. I like the simplicity of the front cover’s artwork. Heck, you could play as a professional Fattie if you want. You don’t have to play as a Judge though, you can, if you want, play a civilian, a criminal or even a mutant. The concept of highly trained police going out on different and demanding missions maps very nicely to episodic roleplaying style a scenario as a mission, and then introduce a background plot which loops through these scenario missions and you’ve got a nice campaign set up. Mega-City One, alone, has enough character to give the game a strong and unique flavour. It would be mad to try and run, for example, a Spiderman RPG without Spiderman in it, but it’s perfectly possible to run a Judge Dredd game without the overwhelming presence of the infamous Judge himself. You don’t even need to know anything about he setting to enjoy sitting down with the rulebook and idly reading through it. You don’t need to know anything about the Judge Dredd and Mega-City One setting to play the game. Just while I’m linking these URLs back to the various company’s websites, let me offer up 2000ADrpg as the official website for the game. ![]() It’ll be a shame, though, because the d20 Judge Dredd roleplaying game is a cracker, it’s really rather good. So are Mongoose, the developers, or Rebellion, the current owners of the 2000AD license, sitting on a gold mine? Well, probably not. ![]() In fact, world wide, I think it’s safe to say that more people know the Judge Dredd name that those who know Forgotten Realms, Ravenloft, the World of Darkness, or any other campaign world you care to mention. Whether you’ve read any of the comics or seen the movie, you know the name.
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