The Thieves’ World fiction anthology series was an early 80s shared world setting. It was pretty amazing at the time, prolific authors all writing in the same world, borrowing each others’ characters and affecting the course of events. I recall the reader was cautioned that any inconsistencies should be written off as quirks in the … Continue reading Thieves’ World as a Rosetta Stone of early RPGs (Chaosium, 1981)