The credits list for the Ringworld RPG is impressive, in both numbers, and in the names I recognize. Adapting Larry Niven’s Ringworld to a standalone roleplaying game set had to have been quite a project. These days, it would have been a Kickstarter project I’d reckon.
“The Pak looped a million-mile-wide, harder-than-steel ribbon around a star, and set the ribbon spinning. Like a lariat the scrith band spun evenly, in an orbit comparable to Earth’s. Air came, and water and soil, and beneath a sun always at high noon lived and died man-like beings who knew no other reality.
Mysteriously, the Pak died out, but upon the Ring there came to be many species with intelligence — Ghouls, City Builders, Grass Giants, Machine People — and their empires and destinies grew bright or dimmed. Then expeditions from the far stars came, changing the fortunes of Ringworld as surely as Ringworld changed Known Space, the little bubble of stars which Earthmen know.”
Ringworld: Roleplaying Adventure Beneath the Great Arch [BOX SET]
1984 … Sherman Kahn (game design) & John Hewitt (narrative descriptions) … Chaosium 2501-X
Ringworld items currently for sale in the shop
My follow-up to this post:
Ringworld Companion (1984): All the Missing Material from the Epic RPG Box Set
Box and Credits
The Books
Reference Sheets, Figures, Catalog, Comment Card
See also:
Ringworld Companion (1984): All the Missing Material from the Epic RPG Box Set
PENDRAGON Box Set (1985): RPG campaign spanning generations in King Arthur’s Britain
Midnight at the Well of Souls RPG (1985): Obscure For a Reason
Traveller 2300 : Three Centuries after a Global Nuclear War, Humanity Reaches for the Stars (1986)
MEGATRAVELLER (1987): Traveller’s Imperium Fragments into Warring Factions
