The Legend of the Sky Raiders starts with the players stranded on the planet Mirayn. As with any RPG, of course, it puts the characters into the action and making the consequential choices. The trilogy taps into the popular adventuring tropes of ancient civilizations, greedy bad guys, dangerous environments, and startling finds.
Raiders of the Lost Ark by Lucasfilm and Paramount Pictures, 1981 “Dedication: To Indiana Jones, who would feel right at home here.”
The Legend of the Sky Raiders minces no words in the tone and type of adventure they are going for: The trilogy is a planet hopping adventure focusing on hunting down the mysteries of the Sky Raiders, a lost civilization. This was followed in 1982 by The Trail of the Sky Raiders and The Fate of the Sky Raiders. In 1981, they published via FASA (a notable RPG published with licenses to produce TravellerRPG supplement and adventure material), the first in a trilogy of adventures: The Legend of the Sky Raiders. They wrote the classic Murder on Arcturus Station (you can see my review here). Andrew and William, were prolific and significant contributors to Travellerin the 1980s, often writing under pen names to avoid entire products being obviously written by the two. The is the first of two articles covering FASA’s published adventures in the Sky Raiders trilogy for Traveller.
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