Factual error, creep!

[ffutures]

According to the Wikipedia article for Judge Dredd RPGs, Games Workshop's game used Traveller rules. This is news to me, and I suspect to everyone else who has ever actually written for or run the game.

I really don't know how to describe the actual system - was there ever another RPG that used it?

later: It looks like there are two pages for the game - one that you get if you follow a long chain of links from other rpg and comics entries (the one I saw last night) and one that you get if you just enter Judge Dredd RPG as a search, which isn't in error. I'm not sure how I got to the one I saw last night, I'll have to see if I can find it again.

Comments

[gonzo21.livejournal.com]

Not as far as I was aware, the Dredd rules seemed pretty unique.

Definitely wasn't Traveller. I never liked the Traveller rules.

[ffutures.livejournal.com]

I wrote quite a lot for that system in my Workshop days, it may be derived from Warhammer Fantasy Role Playing, but I'm not sure, it's a LONG time since I looked at the rules. It sure as hell isn't Traveller.

[ffutures.livejournal.com]

It looks like there was another page for the game - weird. Not sure how I got to it, I'll have to see if I can find it again.

[gonzo21.livejournal.com]

it wasn't something that was easy to pick up. I remember trying to play a few of your old WD scenarios, but had to convert the rules to a Dredd flavoured Call Of Cthulhu percentage style.

[ffutures.livejournal.com]

What do you think I was using to playtest it?

[gonzo21.livejournal.com]

Ha. A dredd-flavoured Call of Cthulhu percentage style system by any chance?

[ffutures.livejournal.com]

Exactamundo.

[heliograph.livejournal.com]

My experience trying to correct the Space 1889 Wikipedia page was so horrific it put me off trying to fix things on Wikipedia forever. I'm not sure how the system is setup, but I think contributors get some kind of points for their contributions (wrong or not) and will continually revert to incorrect info to keep their points (or whatever the hell it is) up. I'm talking very, very basic things that're easily verifiable, too, like book titles. Good luck fixing an esoteric point like what kind of rules system it was...

[nelc.livejournal.com]

The page I'm looking at (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Judge_Dredd_(role-playing_game)) says that the Mongoose version is based on (presumably Mongoose's version of) Traveller, and that Games Workshop's version was based on WFRP.

[ffutures.livejournal.com]

I think that there must be a second page for the game, this isn't the one I was looking at last night. I'll try to remember how I got to it.

Re: The Mongoose Traveller Rules

[gfieendish.livejournal.com]

Which in turn, was ultimately based on Version 3.0 of the Advanced Dungeons & Dragons rule set, so much so, it was recommended that you had to buy the Version 3 AD&D Players Handbook to use as the core book, for all D20 rules based games...

[gfieendish.livejournal.com]

I suspect this may have come about because someone has conflated the Games Workshop demo game for their proposed Doctor Who:RPG system, during the mid 80's (the Licence for said system, was "won" by the U.S games manufacturer FASA, whose Dr.Who RPG system was a combination of their existing Mechwarrior & Star Trek RPG systems ), with a modified from of the Judge Dredd RPG system rules.
The proposed Games Workshop Dr. Who RPG, used the rules set from Judge Dredd...
The demo game, for the above, which involved the 3rd Doctor & Unit investigating a vast alien spacecraft, apparently abandoned, that had suddenly appeared in Earth orbit.
The demo game itself as I recall, used the (Traveller) Azhanti High Lightning boxset (I suspect for convenience, as several demo/participation games were played that day) to provide the floorplans for said spacecraft, hence the conflation, and therefore the assertion, that the Judge Dredd RPG used Traveller rules...

[ffutures.livejournal.com]

I haven't been able to find the offending page, which doesn't help. I think I may have stumbled across something that was posted then deleted when the author realised there was already a page for the game.