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Thieves' World

Published: 1980
Author: Lynn Abbey

The Thieves' World boxed set is a role-playing game setting, featuring contributions from noted Thieves World novelists such as Poul Anderson and Robert Asprin.

The boxed set includes the following items:

  • The Player's Guide to Sanctuary (two copies)
  • The Game Master's Guide to Sanctuary
  • Personalities of Sanctuary
  • fold-out brown-and-white maps of Sanctuary, the Maze, and the Maze Underground

The boxed set is mostly a setting guide, but it also contains sections with statistics and rules for a wide number of different role-playing game systems popular at the time of publication:

Genres: Crime (Criminal / Law Enforcement) Fantasy (High Fantasy) Fantasy (Low Fantasy) Generic / Universal

Types: Campaign Setting Sourcebook

Games: Generic / Universal

Settings: Thieves' World

Series: Chaosium Thieves' World (1)