It’s no secret that Twilight 2000 has been my main RPG for the past couple of years. I’ve been writing session recaps at my other blog.

So just imagine my delight when a really nice set showed up in the shop. I got my camera out and snapped photos of the components. There is a LOT of gaming goodness in there.

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Twilight: 2000 (1st edition)
1984 … Frank Chadwick … GDW 500 … ISBN 0943580501

The characters are survivors of the US 5th Infantry Division, broken and scattered to the four winds in Poland. They are alone, in a land foreign now even to its natives, hundreds of kilometers away from nominally friendly territory. Even now, Soviet commanders are hunting for stragglers, expecting them to head west to Germany. What do you do? Where do you go? It’s a harsh world, requiring brains as well as firepower.

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Here, and throughout the books, GDW was ahead of their time. In 1984, they envisioned the US Army with women assigned infantry MOS by 2000.
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Contents sheet

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M1 MBT (foreground) & LAV-75 (background)

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The Encounters section illustration depicts an imminent encounter. Steve Venters is credited with the art, inside and out.
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Referee’s Manual – Table of Contents
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Play Manual – Table of Contents

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Referee’s Charts
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Players’ Charts
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Equipment List
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Price List
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Beginning Adventure: Escape From Kalisz
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Adventure Handout: Escape From Kalisz
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Intelligence Briefing

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Campaign Map (Poland)
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Character Generation Worksheet. Don’t let the math scare you; it’s not difficult!
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Character Record Sheet
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You can date your set by the Errata sheet. See my Reference page for other errata dates.
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The Price List was a surprise, and also helps to bracket the printing date of this particular set. The orange blob is a fluorescent D10.

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