[PK Games]

Originally Posted by TrippyHippy

It was later than that. It was mooted to get published by Last Unicorn in 1999, but didn't come out till 2000, when Wizards published around the same time as D&D 3.0 Edition was coming out.

It was a full colour, gorgeous looking book - with very high quality paper, and good writing. It did, however have a slightly quirky inverted dice-pool system ("granular") which was a bit fiddly in applications to combat, particularly. It also made heavy reference to follow on supplements (especially details on Arrakis) that never happenned.

At the time, there were plans to release a new D20 edition, which would have worked well truth be told, but the licence was snapped away from them, by a grumpy Herbert estate that simply wanted more money, I think.

It was a shame, because Dune is the best sci-fi novel of the 20th century, and possibly the most precient too if you consider the spice as a metaphor for oil in the Middle East. It's as highly gameable a world(s) setting as Middle Earth.

Ive heard this before.

Arrakis, Iraq.

Spice, Oil.

Fremen, Insurgents.

Harkonnen, American.