# Merc: 2000

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***Merc: 2000*** is an alternative [setting](/source/Setting_(narrative)) for the *[Twilight: 2000](/source/Twilight:_2000)* [role playing game](/source/Role_playing_game) by [Game Designers' Workshop](/source/Game_Designers'_Workshop). Whereas *Twilight: 2000* was set in the immediate post-[World War III](/source/World_War_III) era, with characters representing soldiers trying to survive, characters in *Merc: 2000* are mercenaries working for or against government forces in the 1990s, mainly in [Third World](/source/Third_World) countries all over the world.

Rules-wise, *Merc: 2000* must be used with *Twilight: 2000* versions 2.0 through 2.2; the earlier first-edition *Twilight: 2000* rules differ too much to be easily usable without extensive adaptation. The *Merc: 2000 rulebook* details the game world, gives additional rules and equipment that will be more useful in mercenary [campaigns](/source/Campaign_(role-playing_games)) than in normal *Twilight: 2000* ones, and also supplies some basic [adventures](/source/Adventure_%2528role-playing_games%2529) to play. Game Designers' Workshop also published a number of separate adventures for use with *Merc: 2000*.

## Reception

Allen Mixson reviewed *Merc: 2000* in *[White Wolf](/source/White_Wolf_(magazine))* #30 (February 1992), rating it a 4 out of 5 and stated that "If you want a slightly futuristic game setting or a perspective on what the world could have been if nuclear war hadn't started, this book is just for you. I highly recommend it."[1]

## Reviews

- *Terra Traveller Times* (Number 33: March 1991)[2]
- *Voyages to the Worlds of SF Gaming* (Issue 15 – 1991)[3]
- *[Polyhedron](/source/Polyhedron_(magazine))* #70[4]
- *[Polyhedron](/source/Polyhedron_(magazine))* #75[5]

## References

1. Mixson, Allen (February 1992). ["Capsule Reviews"](https://imgur.com/a/ZWjCvPC). *[White Wolf Magazine](/source/White_Wolf_Magazine)*. No. 30. p. 66.

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1. ["Reviews | Article | RPGGeek"](https://rpggeek.com/rpgissuearticle/153761/reviews)

1. ["Dungeons & Dragons World – Magazines – Polyhedron Magazine"](https://archive.org/details/polyhedron-153/Polyhedron%20070/page/22/mode/2up)

1. ["Dungeons & Dragons World – Magazines – Polyhedron Magazine"](https://archive.org/details/polyhedron-153/Polyhedron%20075/page/22/mode/2up)

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