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Also a case of But What About the Astronauts? and I Will Fight Some More Forever.

On its trip the the Pleilades, the Bayern encounters a planet with a civilization that destroyed itself in a nuclear war about a hundred years earlier.

The only survivors just barely re-invented the steam engine.

During our Bronze Age, the Eber were a spacefaring civilization possibly more advanced than humanity is currently, with stutterwarp ships and three colony worlds.

Earth has recovered from the nuclear war, but the current balance of power between Earth's nations had its beginning in the Twilight War.

The entire game is After the End for the earlier Twilight: 2000 game.

The map of human space is thoroughly and sometimes confusingly three-dimensional, but starship combat uses a flat map.

2-D Space: Both averted and played straight.

This game provides examples of the following tropes:

The core book also included pages of detailed tables to generate new star systems to explore. The character generation system was similar to Traveller's, with a "life path" system.

A sourcebook to convert 2300 to the rules system was planned, but GDW closed down before it was written. Traveller and Twilight 2000 received later editions using GDW's house system.

The basic rules mechanic was a variation of the "Task" system originally developed for Traveller, using a d10 instead of 2d6, but most of the other mechanics were original to this game. Apart from FTL travel the typical trappings of Space Opera are mostly absent, and the game boasted a "Near Star Map" based on real stellar catalogues. Mankind has started to spread into space, and faces its first major competition in the form of the Kafer.Ģ300 AD was intended to be more "hard science-fiction" than GDW's Traveller. The setting is an extension of the background of GDW's Twilight: 2000 game, effectively showing what happened during the next 300 years. The game in fact had little to nothing to do with GDW's popular Traveller RPG, and when the system was revised in 1988 it was also re-branded as 2300 AD. 2300 AD is a science-fiction role-playing game first published by Game Designers Workshop (GDW) in 1986 as Traveller: 2300.