Thieve's world?
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Greg Smith
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Archer said:
It was not just for Runequest, it included stats for D&D, Traveller, Lands of Adventure and more.
Oh and it is Thieves' World (plural!).
Greg Smith
Mongoose
Not the one I've got.
http://www.thievesworld.info/roleplay/img/rpbox_f.jpg
All of the novels I own are spelled that way too.
Since Green Ronin have the TW licence, I can't see Mongoose being able to publish anything.
http://www.thievesworld.info/roleplay/img/rpbox_f.jpg
All of the novels I own are spelled that way too.
Since Green Ronin have the TW licence, I can't see Mongoose being able to publish anything.
nysalor said:
That thieve will most likely be Shadowspawn, John... :roll: His world by inheritance, after all his grandpa is chief of (Ilsigi) gods. :twisted:
I guess that a new edition of RQ will spawn a couple of fan adaptations to favourite literature settings. I used the Sanctuary setting for my Glorantha (city of Refuge, there was a quite good adaptation to southern Heortland in the French magazine Tatou), and I'm a bit tempted to finally do a Midkemia campaign with the rules rather than just rob concepts (and cities) to use in other settings.
Jorganos,nysalor said:
I'm guessing nysalor rolls his eyes about the fact that there's no such word as 'thieve'. It's either 'thief' (singular) or 'thieves' (plural). :wink:
As for Sanctuary, it's full of thieves, therefore it's supposed to be their world. Shadowspawn happened to be one of the more well-known professional thieves. But I suppose you know that already...
Turloigh said:
Having enjoyed meeting John Hughes at Tentacles two years ago, I know his weakness for anglo-saxonisms in barbarian speech. He even managed to use "wald" for "forest" in his latest Whitewall-related contribution to Ye Booke of Tentacles.
So: there is no such word like "thieve" in modern English, but that doesn't stop people like John to use antiquated terms. Rarely antiquated spellings for their own sake, though...
Turloigh said:
Yeah. I still contend that there aren't that many sons of Shalpa crawling about in Sanctuary. :twisted: :wink:
Just because we're new to this forum doesn't mean we aren't old farts. :shock:
Gallowglass
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CthulhuFnord
Mongoose
What is Thieves World?
It was a fantasy/swords and sorcery 'shared anthology' published back in the 80's as series of stories set in a fantasy city called Sanctuary. The stories revolved around several roguish characters, ie thieves, and were written by various fantasy writers of the era. Chaosium published a boxed rpg set utilizing the setting and characters, and I believe it was dual statted, BRP and another system, or two. That's all I remember, someone else might come along and add something else...oh, some of the writers were, if I remember correctly, Lynn Abbey, Piers Anthony, et al...pretty much most of the fantasy writers of the late 70's and into the 80's.
vitalis6969
Mongoose
Robert Lynn Asprin was the one who got the ball rolling on the whole thing, along with Poul Anderson if I remember correctly.
David Drake also took a shot at it as well. Though I have found that most of the stories after the first book were only so/so...
-V
David Drake also took a shot at it as well. Though I have found that most of the stories after the first book were only so/so...
-V
CthulhuFnord
Mongoose
Sounds interesting. I was envisioning an extra-dimensional Thieves Guild of some sort.
Actually there is a new series of Thieves' World books. To my knowledge there are 3 already out the first one is a novel and another two are anthologies by various writers.
The new stories are sent at another era from the first series (I don't remember how much to the future but some of the old hands are still there although not that active).
The new stories are sent at another era from the first series (I don't remember how much to the future but some of the old hands are still there although not that active).
