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Sanctuary: Thieves World box art
1982 Ranked #17,895

Sanctuary: Thieves World

A fantasy city game has players commit thefts to gain silver while surviving guards, hazards, and dangerous residents. Each successful job brings profit, but getting caught or meeting the citys threats can undo a thieves plans.

Strategy Games Adventure Economic Dice Rolling

Players

1-6

Play time

Not listed

Age

12+

Complexity

1.87/5

Rating

5.63

Harder to teach Highly interactive Deep strategy

Overview

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ABG editorial scores on a 1–5 scale.

Teachability 2.4/5

Harder to teach

Replay value 4.0/5

High replayability

Interaction 3.7/5

Highly interactive

Player scaling 4.5/5

Scales well

Strategic depth 4.7/5

Deep strategy

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How it plays

How does it play?

Can you survive among fiction's most notorious cutthroats! Find out in this challenging game of law and disorder in fantasy's meanest and seediest city based on Robert Asprin's anthologies.

Core mechanisms

Key systems that shape the decisions players make.

Dice Rolling

Roll dice to introduce uncertainty into actions, production, movement, or resolution.
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Can you survive among fiction's most notorious cutthroats! Find out in this challenging game of law and disorder in fantasy's meanest and seediest city based on Robert Asprin's anthologies. The object of Sanctuary game is to gain silver pieces by committing various successful thefts in the city of Sanctuary. To do so, you must overcome the many hazards to life in the city - getting caught in the act, the Hell Hounds (elite guards), and the multitude of unusual other residents.

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Type

2
Strategy Games Thematic Games

Category

5
Adventure Economic Fantasy Fighting Novel-based

Mechanism

1
Dice Rolling

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Game and edition data

All specifications (5)

Play and group

Players
1–6
Best with
2
Play time
120 min
Age
12+
Complexity
1.9/5
Credits and catalog connections

Credits

Designers

1
Bill Fawcett

Artists

2
Gerald O'Malley Walter Velez

Publishers

1
Mayfair Games

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