shnar said:

Well, Tibs' aforementioned camapign with the spider mastermind does sort of fulfill this request.  It's about five or six scenarios IIRC, and seems to have received generally positive feedback in terms of playability and balance.

If there are other *decidedly good* scenarios out there (as in, ones the community has played and widely agree on) I am sadly unfamiliar with them.  That's really why I'd like a compendium like this.  Even if it's just a text file listing scenarios and the URLs to get them from.  Whether they're one shots or campaigns I'm sure I'd enjoy them all. =)

Sorry that I'm late to the party, but I've been playing doom for a week now and I was thouroughly surprised to get on these forums and see that it has been discontinued from FFG development for some time now. Considering I bought it new at a local retailer of FFG products, it came as a bit of a shock (What? I paid 60 bucks for a game that has no future for expansion or development?)

The problem for me isn't so much new rules or scenarios... I can make my own mods and scenarios. What bothers me is that there will be no more future expansions that have more miniatures! I love the miniatures that were included in the box set, and am currently scrounging to get a copy of the expansion before they disappear. I am sad that no more miniatures are going to come out now.

 It makes me sad to see Doom get discontinued, especially since the sides of my dice have rubbed almost entirely off.  It was such a fun game.

Keggy said:

The game might be out of print, but you might still be able to get replacement (engraved) dice to fix that issue.  I'd suggest contacting FFG's customer support and see what they say.

I contacted them about a year ago and Thaadd said they don't have anymore in stock :(

Sooo, when the Christmas sale came around and sold Doom for $20, I bought 2 copies, just to get the engraved dice! :)  (extra components is good too ;)

-shnar

You think you might be able to get Chessex or some other dice-producing company to custom-make some engraved Doom Dice? Or is that breaching a copyright?

Um, not sure since the symbols being used on the dice are very generic (you cannot copyright something like that, you could trademark it though). Either way, I highly doubt there'd be any problems with Chessex printing them. They printed The Warp's special psychic die:

The biggest problem would be the cost. You'd probably have to pay at least $5 per die, and that can add up with the number of dice you need to buy!

Your best option is probably to buy blank dice and print stickers up for them (which many people have done with the original dice, just put labels on them of their original nubmers).

-shnar

shnar said:

My gut reaction would've been "no they probably wouldn't duplicate another company's proprietary design" but if they made that purple die for Warp, maybe I'm out to lunch on that one.  Or maybe the person who took the order didn't realize/care about the potential infringement.  Either way, I guess it can't hurt to ask them.

shnar said:

That's another option.  If you want to go the sticker route, I'd start by checking BGG to see if someone's already made some print outs you could use.

There are, but I'm too lazy to go look them up ;)

-shnar

• Man, I really wanted the expansion pack! I guess I'll have to find someone in the local area that has it and maybe we could get together and play it but otherwise the odds of me finding a copy are slim.

I'm pretty sure I've seen copies of the base game and the expansion in local gaming stores around here.  It may be out of print but that doesn't mean there aren't copies collecting dust out there. =)

I'd suggest phoning around every gaming store you can find in your area to see if anyone still has it in stock.  Maybe check neighbouring towns too, if you have a means of transport and are willing to travel a bit.

I don't have many gaming stores around here to phone them.

 I have dropped my signature for the cause.

I'm really just hoping that FFG simply develops a new game that has a similar combat system and modular boards.  It can simply be a scifi version of Descent... some horror elements in there, but if it's space marines (or something on that line) in a ship or space station, shooting it out against alien creatures (or from another dimension, as opposed to from Hell), they can do whatever they want with it.   And, the idea being that you could add in your Doom components as well with little or no adjustment. 

I think opening up the genre and setting a little gives the game a really wide appeal and more potential for story and settings.  With Doom, you were a little more constrained.   They opened Descent into a pirating-like campaign, so a scifi version of the game could go to alien worlds with no limitations.

The Warp said:

If you just want another sci-fi setting for this engine, I think the most obvious choice would be to set it in the Twilight Imperium universe.  Of course, you'd have to either divide the existing races into "good" (whose figures will compose the "heroes/marines") and "evil" (whose figures will be the enemy/invaders) or else you'd have to create a new threat to the galaxy at large, at which point you could use all the existing races for hero designs.  I think either idea could be made to work.

That said, I'm not sure I'd be interested in buying yet another game with this engine (as I believe I have said before.)  Doom is expandable enough to suit my needs, with new scenarios and so on.  Descent keeps things alive for this game engine (and frequently causes mind-boggling logical debates.)  Little TI figures of various races would be really tempting but it's about the only thing that would compel me to buy such a game.