Update September 2021 – No further news forthcoming on DC4
For more news I’d recommend both visiting the crowdfunding site and joining the Dark Conspiracy RPG Fan Facebook page to be kept appraised of the situation.
Last Update was in December 2020 in regards to Amargosa Press Acquiring the Dark Conspiracy License (see below for details).
From the Dark Conspiracy Facebook group, a brief Q&A has gone up –
Amargosa has a license from Marc Miller to do a new edition of the Dark Conspiracy RPG. We have no connection to Uhrwerk Verlag’s 4th Edition Campaign (apart from a number of us being backers for it) or to the company itself.
Is there actually going to be a Dark Conspiracy 4th edition at all?
We certainly hope so, we are fans of the original editions and love the world. COVID-19 and some personal issues have delayed but we are currently talking to the writers who worked on the proposed 4th Edition and moving things forward, slower than we would like but progress is being made.
If so, what form will it take? Will it be its own system or based upon another existing game?
It will be a stand-alone game not requiring any other game to run. The actual rules system is under discussion at the moment.
When can we expect to see it?
Coming to Kickstarter sometime in 2021.
Is it still possible for those who backed the Game On Tabletop crowdfunder by Uhrwerk Verlag to obtain refunds if they have since (and quite understandably) changed their minds?
This is unfortunately something that people will need to take up with Uhrwerk and not something Amargosa can help with.
Will the people who backed the Uhrwerk crowdfunder still be getting copies of the DC4 material, as stated by Amargosa when they took over the license?
Obviously dependent upon the overall success of the Kickstarter but this is absolutely the intent.
Will the people who worked on Uhrwerk’s version be getting paid, again as promised by Amargosa?
We are currently talking to the people who contributed to the 4th edition as they currently own their content as they have not been paid. As such if they are interested in working on the new edition and we either re-use their work from the 4th edition or they create new content, then they will be paid (obviously).
As a totally separate entity Amargosa do not have the funds from the Game On Tabletop crowdfunder, nor access to them. That said, where did that money go to exactly?
No Idea, again this is a question that would need to be directed to Uhrwerk as Amargosa had no involvement in their campaign or visibility of anything that happened post campaign.
Keep safe out there!
The DCtRPG.info crew
ABOUT DARK CONSPIRACY
In the all-too-near future, the world slides into the Greater Depression, the United States affected most dramatically. Nationalism surges, and the social safety net is in tatters. Corporations control governments openly, corruption is commonplace, and the citizenry is starkly divided between those who have and those who go without. Urban sprawl runs amok, and great metroplexes connect the great cities into teeming, soulless metropolises, their lights shining across the countryside.
The heartland of America is largely abandoned, the bread basket now empty. Law enforcement and the government have given up on these regions, and utilities are scarce and unreliable. Few can survive within these outlaw areas. Few humans, that is.
For in these forgotten and empty places in the rust belt, the tissue of reality tears wide, and energy from nightmare dimensions and planes of utter terror seep into this world. These places, called demongrounds, grow more substantial, expanding each day, and creatures from these hell-places walk freely there, and from the demongrounds they infiltrate the metroplexes to feed their inhuman hungers and bring ruin to all.
Some of these strange and terrible creatures are remembered through folklore and legend — monsters such as vampires, demons, ghouls, and their like — while others are utterly fantastic, extradimensional and alien beings from beyond time and space. Together, these minions of darkness are opposed to all life, and they struggle to extinguish the last lights of human civilization.
Some few stand against them, humans banded together and armed against these dreadful forces of darkness. These minion hunters stalk them in the cities and even in the demongrounds, but the greatest challenge they face is the realization that these monsters do not work alone: they are aided by humans who have made terrible pacts with the forces of darkness, selling out their own kind for power and survival.
This is the world of DARK CONSPIRACY.
ABOUT AMARGOSA PRESS
Amargosa Press are a British based design studio headed by Angus Abranson (co-founder of Cubicle 7) which has provided design work, and consultation, for a number of tabletop RPP publishers. Dark Conspiracy is the first game to be announced that will be published by the company.