Re: [dq-rules] Idiot-Savant Assembly Line Wizardry

[Bruce Probst <bprobst@netspace.net.au>]

On Fri, 13 Sep 2002 11:54:54 -0700 (PDT), "S.M. Kelley"
<archangelkelley@yahoo.com> wrote:

>SO this is the DnD Thieves world supplimet that has these conversions? It sounds kind of neat, but want to make sure I am looking for the right one on e-bay.

"Thieves World", a boxed supplement published by Chaosium, includes a
description of the citizens and town of Sanctuary (from the series of books
edited by Robert Asprin).  Includes character stats for nine RPGs, including
D&D, T&T, DQ, RQ (2nd ed), Traveller (!), etc.

Each system section was written by an author particularly associated with
that system, so the DQ stuff was written by Eric Goldberg.  The DQ portion
is unusual in that it goes into a lot of "background" detail in how to make
DQ and TW compatible, whereas a lot of the others just presented raw stats.

There was also a "Thieves World Companion" published some years later with
an updated timeline (and new characters) and additional stats for RQ3 (and a
couple of other systems, but not DQ, which had "died" by that time).

Even if you don't know anything about TW, the supplement still presents an
excellent city map with descriptions of typical encounters, etc. that could
be used in any FRPG with little trouble.

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