RPG Retro Review : Thieves World 

I only say that because I'm using my glasses to read it. lol

Agreed on all particulars. BRP should be immensely popular, and weirdly isn't. Still, it's the core engine of Call of Cthulhu as well as many other games over the years, so a lot of people have played minor variants of it even if they've never heard the name.

Definitely!!

Yes, I remember those days!

Me too somewhere, along with some Paladium books.

Why not both? Yes... both is good!

@@captcorajus I'm in three campaigns as a player at the moment. Beause of my wife's long illness (she passed away last month), friends have been helping to maintain my sanity by running games. It's been wonderful from that perspective. But I'm champing at the bit to run again. For one group, it'll be "Ghosts of Saltmarsh". Without meaning to gezump your review, I think it's the best campaign WotC have done, perhaps apart from "Curse of Strahd". People have complained about the details added to the U-series, which I find silly. The originals told you to make everything up - the details of the town, the NPCs etc. That's great for an experienced DM but lousy for the newbie. The new take on the town adds a lot without being overwhelming (just take notes, folks!) and the five additional adventures make it less of the dungeon bash as I remember it. I've already added complications such as Hags. The other group will suffer as 0-level PCs and "The Keep on the Borderlands" with the notion of Chaos played up in the "Caves of Chaos". Not sure about the third group. Given the one-shots lately to cover a player's absence due to holidaying, and the fact all the PCs are members of the Watch, it may be a Lankhmar campaign. Somehow, thievery has caught their interest and imagination.

Didn't you see the box? Cha-o-si-um. Your tip-off that it was quality...

True enough. But mixed reviews, plus the fact there was only my cousin and me playing AD&D back then meant it didn't get over the line. A very different matter now.

@@southron_d1349 before you run keep on the borderlands watch dungeoncraft youtune channel campaign videos

Yes, but the revival in interest in D&D is really great for all aspects of the game and related fiction so who knows what the future holds!

True. I completely forgot the other big collab series from back then, Cherryh's Merovingen Nights. Asprin was involved in that one too. Good stuff, scifi in theory but a regressed colony so it felt distinctly like Renaissance Italy, especially Venice. Seven anthologies and a novel and yet you never hear about them these days. I suppose 30-ish years is a long time. :)

Great! I was going to provide you with a link but i was on mobile when i answered you.

There isn't any issue with her at all. This review was specifically about the 1981 Boxed Set, which was based on the first two books of the anthology series release in years PRIOR. Janet Morris's novels didn't come out till years later, so really have nothing to do with the boxed set or this review.

@@captcorajus I was just curious. Its been a hundred years since i read any/all of them. Enjoyed all of the series. I think the stories might be one of the first shared worlds. Never played in the setting, but always wanted to...I was a broke teenager in the early 80s, so go figure. :) Thanks for the review.

Janet Morris' first TW story was in the third book in 1981. The series was a bit of a boys club initially, but every book had at least a couple of female authors - including one I'd prefer to never see mentioned again, but that's over child abuse and pedophilia, not an issue with her writing or gender.

Green Ronin didn't exist when this came out in 1981

Thanks! Me too. Phenomenal supplement, and amazing piece of RPG history.

I use Fantasy Grounds. To be honest, I can't make heads or tails out of roll 20

captcorajus one of the groups I play in use it for the maps and player sheets and just use discord for the voice

He edited the anthologies and wrote short stories and created this game. Extremely influential esp for authors. Were still talking about it today.

@@ronniejdio9411 When you say created this game do you mean D&D? (Mr. Gary Gygax invented D&D). Every book he was involved in was a co-author or co-edited. He's not even "famous" for these set of books. His ex-wife Lynn Abbey has just as much to do with Thieves world as did Robert. It was his mythos-books that his real claim to fame, (for there humor). I did some searching I couldn't find anything saying he was still being talked about or there being kind of life time achieve award. H.P. Lovecraft is still remembered today. It took those books 50 years before they became famous. It also took that long before he even got a headstone on his grave. Lovecraft died a poor-man and was buried in a paupers grave. So I guess you could say H.P. Lovecraft was 50 years ahead of his time. CoC game is getting ready to hit its 7th edition. I'm sorry that Robert is no longer with us, (R.I.P.). 61 years of age is just to young. Thanks for your reply & have a great day.