Editing Twilight: 2000 (section)

== Publication history ==
=== First and Second Editions ===
GDW extended the timeline of ''Twilight: 2000'' to create the background history for the science fiction game ''[[2300 AD]]''; by doing so, the depressing post-nuclear environment of ''Twilight: 2000'' is mitigated by the outcome in which the Earth rebuilds itself and begins to [[Space colonization|colonize space]].

Far Future Enterprises has reprinted the first edition of ''Twilight: 2000'' in hardcopy (paper) format, and both the first edition and version 2.2 are available in CD-ROM format. Versions 2.0 and 2.2, both using the system that became standard for GDW's games, are currently available in watermarked PDF format online (as are the first edition rules).

In 1990, realizing that the game's background was in danger of becoming obsolete, GDW published ''Merc 2000'', an alternative campaign setting which revolves around mercenaries fighting brushfire wars in a time in which the Twilight War never occurred. After ''Merc 2000'' was released, many supplements and articles printed in GDW's ''Challenge Magazine'' featured ''Twilight: 2000'' with equipment and background conversions to ''Merc 2000'' or were ''Merc 2000''-only.

In 1991, GDW licensees [[Paragon Software Corporation|Paragon]] developed the ''[[Twilight 2000 (video game)|Twilight 2000]]'' computer game adaptation (complete with expansion, "the Colonel") depicting a squad of 20 soldiers stranded behind enemy lines in Poland, struggling against the despot Baron Czarny.

====Supplements====
GDW produced over 40 supplements for ''Twilight: 2000'',<ref>{{cite book |title=Players' Guide to the Twilight: 2000 role-playing game system. |date=2006 |publisher=Far Future Enterprises |edition=1 |url=https://www.farfuture.net/Guide%20to%20Twilight%20v1.pdf |access-date=30 January 2021}}</ref> including:
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* ''The Black Madonna'', 1985
* ''[[The Free City of Krakow]]'', 1985
* ''Pirates of the Vistula'', 1985
* ''The Ruins of Warsaw'', 1985
* ''Armies of the Night'', 1986
* ''[[Going Home (Twilight 2000)|Going Home]]'', 1986
* ''[[RDF Sourcebook]]'', 1986
* ''Red Star, Lone Star'', 1986
* ''US Army Vehicle Guide'', 1986
* ''Airlords of the Ozarks'', 1987
* ''Allegheny Uprising'', 1987
* ''Gateway to the Spanish Main'', 1987
* ''King's Ransom'', 1987
* ''Soviet Army Vehicle Guide'', 1987
* ''[[Howling Wilderness (Twilight: 2000)|Howling Wilderness]]'', 1988
* ''Kidnapped'', 1988
* ''The Last Submarine'', 1988
* ''Mediterranean Cruise'', 1988
* ''Satellite Down'', 1988
* ''Small Arms Guide'', 1988
* ''Urban Guerilla'', 1988
* ''The Bear's Den'', 1989
* ''Boomer'', 1989
* ''Heavy Weapons Guide'', 1989
* ''Return to Warsaw'', 1989
* ''[[American Combat Vehicle Handbook]]'', 1990
* ''[[Infantry Weapons of the World]]'', 1990
* ''NATO Vehicle Guide'', 1990
* ''[[Soviet Combat Vehicle Handbook]]'', 1991
* ''[[Survivors' Guide to the United Kingdom]]'', 1990
* ''[[Twilight Encounters]]'', 1990
* ''[[White Eagle (Twilight: 2000)| White Eagle]]'', 1990
* ''[[Bangkok Cesspool of the Orient]]'', 1991
* ''[[NATO Combat Vehicle Handbook]]'', 1991
* ''[[Castle by the Sea]]'', 1993
* ''[[Special Operations (Twilight: 2000)|Special Operations]]'', 1993
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Additionally, [[3W (company)|3W]] produced one supplement:
* ''City of Angels'', 1989

=== Third Edition (''Twilight: 2013'') ===
In 2006, 93 Games Studio announced that they had acquired the license to produce the official ''Twilight 2000'' Version 3.0, and planned for a 2008 release with the title ''[[Twilight: 2013]]''. According to the developers, the timeline leading to the Twilight War was completely re-written, and no longer focused on a Cold War confrontation between NATO, the Soviet Union and China.

The ''Twilight: 2013'' core rules were released on 8 November 2008 as a PDF.<ref>{{cite web| url = http://rpg.drivethrustuff.com/product_info.php?products_id=58794| title = Drive-Thru RPG product page}}</ref> A print edition was also released. In December 2010, 93 Games Studio announced it was going out of business.

===Fourth Edition===
In 2020, [[Free League Publishing]] announced they had received a license to publish a new edition of the ''Twilight: 2000'' setting.<ref>{{Cite web|title=New Edition of Twilight: 2000 Announced|url=https://us3.campaign-archive.com/?u=2dcfb24fb7c8d0fb9c2f52040&id=4e5ab10e7b|access-date=2021-03-08|website=us3.campaign-archive.com}}</ref> The game has a new ruleset based on the [[Year Zero Engine]], and background where the Soviet Union survives the fall of the [[Berlin Wall]] and battle in central Europe is joined in 1998. It was released in November 2021 under the name ''Twilight: 2000 – Roleplaying in the World War III That Never Was''. <ref>{{Cite web|title=Roleplaying in the World War III That Never Was – Twilight: 2000 RPG Released Today|url=https://www.gamespress.com/Roleplaying-in-the-World-War-III-That-Never-Was-Twilight-2000-RPG-Rele|access-date=2021-12-02}}</ref> It featured two settings: Poland and Sweden.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://freeleaguepublishing.com/en/games/twilight-2000/| title = Twilight: 2000 Roleplaying in the World War III That Never Was}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.blackgate.com/2021/02/01/twilight-2000-roleplaying-in-a-post-nuclear-holocaust-world/|title=Twilight: 2000 — Roleplaying in a Post-Nuclear Holocaust World – Black Gate|date=February 2021 }}</ref>

The first expansion to the game, ''Urban Operations,'' includes rules for play in urban environments and is loosely based on the classic module ''Free City of Krakow'' from the first edition of ''Twilight: 2000''.<ref>{{Cite web |last=DadsAngry |date=2023-10-25 |title=Building by building. Room by room. One rat at a time! – Urban Operations [Twilight 2000] |url=https://rollingboxcars.com/2023/10/25/building-by-building-room-by-room-one-rat-at-a-time-urban-operations-twilight-2000/ |access-date=2023-12-23 |website=Rolling Boxcars |language=en}}</ref>