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Here's a quick correction regarding Last Unicorn Games' need for Dune demo-ers. Tammie Webb clarified that she will only need demo-ers for Gencon. An, official, adjusted news
blurb from LUG:
Dune Needs Players at Origins, GenCon - sherlock Tammie Webb, one of Last Unicorn's most vocal salespersons is looking for anyone who plans on attending Origins or GenCon (or both) to help with running demo games of the Dune RPG. Send her an email if you will be going to one of these conventions. Amazon Posts September Release Date - sherlock Padishahlapdog checked on Amazon.com's entry for the Dune RPG core book and found a release date of September 1. It is uncertain whether this date was set by Amazon, LUG or someone else. Amazon had no comment about the origin of the release date. Here are the Amazon links for some other Dune RPG modules: Federated
Houses of the Landsraad
This will likely be old news to a number of you. But, considering the lack of Dune Rpg news lately, this information deserved some coverage here. As of June 5th, 2000, Wizards of the Coast officially announced their intention to acquire Last Unicorn Games. Neither company has publicly commented on the 'transaction' and the deal is set to close the end of this month. As you'd expect, fans of Lug's Trek
Rpgs have been outspoken in their concern for the future of Lug and their
finely-crafted products. In an effort to quell wild rumors, Steven Long
(Lug DS9 developer) provided this post on Trekrpg.net:
At this point it's uncertain what affect this acquisition will have on Lug's Dune Rpg line. Judging from some comments made, it appears that Dune is on the road to printing (right behind Red Alert!) and we should see it released in the same format as was originally intended: using Lug's game mechanic, the Icon System. A number of fans have already speculated about the future of the Trek and Dune line. Wizards has made their intention clear, within the past few months, that they intend to unify their Rpg releases by developing a universal Rpg game mechanic (referred to as the D20 system). So it bears to reason that we might see changes to Lug's products in the years to come. Whether that means 'mirrored' releases from Wizards (reprintings of the Trek and Dune core books and supplements to comply with the D20 system) or the possible extinction of the Icon System. The next few
months are going to be very interesting.
The wonderful people who established a community at TrekRPGNet for the Last Unicorn Trek RPG modules have done it again with DuneRPGNet. Currently, it only utilizes a message board since there is no product yet, but expect to see it develop into a Dune site archive of everything you've come to expect from TrekRPGNet. Link has been added to the
Navigation section.
Here's a recent
comment from Lug's Art Director regarding the release of the Dune Rpg:
I took it upon
myself to email George Vasilakos to inquire more deeply (and politely express
some outrage) at the recent word of delays to Dune’s release. Here’s his
response:
So our anticipated game has had to take a short hiatus on the back-burner while Lug releases their Red Alert! Disc game. Which from a business standpoint I can understand. Red Alert looks to be a product that will have fantastic sales and I can see Lug’s emphasis in getting that out to market quickly. From a Duner standpoint, it’s definitely disappointing to hear Dune’s not at the top of Lug’s priority list. But, I guess 2nd place on the list is far better than being last place. We’ll see the Sleeper awaken soon enough. |
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