Through the Silver Gate is a new alt-campaign for Twilight 2000 cementing it as a flexible and practical modern task and combat resolution system.
It sits alongside Here Be Dragons and The Gloom as possible alt-campaigns for T2K on the premise of “what if it wasn’t the Soviets….”
This means it’s perfectly possible to play T2K and not be as concerned with the current situation in the world.

So, saddle up, grab your packs and get to the front line. The Orcs have all but taken Virginia and are moving North. Tales of Dragons flying over the Appalachians and a large silver sphere has materialised on the front lawn of 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue. Let’s take the fight to them!

This book contains:

• A new set of extradimensional enemies (Orcs, Goblins, ….and Elves…kinda)
• A dual purpose campaign of resisting or invading the alien world
• A whole new magic system, based on Fantasy Magic
• A tie-in to future books about Dimensions

This is particularly inspired by a few sources including

The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe
Janissaries, by Jerry Pournelle
Cannibal Halfling: The Forbidden Stairs
A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court
The Long Stair, a very long thread on RPGnet.

You might see some other influences from the Del Toro movie Cronos, to TORG.

Discussion

One of the issues I’ve seen raised repeatedly is the current state of the world. That Twilight 2000 represents something a little too close to reality with the current conflict in Ukraine. It’s kinda hard for some of us (old, aged, seasoned) GenX to fully understand as we grew up in the shadow of constant potential nuclear devastation from the USSR in the height of the Cold War. That’s when Twilight 2000 was birthed, in the state of existential worry.

But things are different now. People are more informed, possibly better informed, but certainly more. However there’s never been more uncertainty in the world.

This is the result of masticating this idea, in conjunction with others, on how to use a modern, tactical ruleset without the potential triggers it might cause. And this was born the idea of Twilight Dimensions or, in other words, alt-campaigns for Twilight 2000.

GDQW did this first with MERC 2000, where they took away the apocalypse and made the game more about mercenaries in a more milsimmy-way. But I’m more interested in other things. Like what if there was an interdimensional invasion? Or what if the minions of Cthulhu rose up and took over the world. And this book is a part of that.