The World of Indiana Jones

BOOK
The World of Indiana Jones
Author	Brian Sean Perry
Cover artist	Lucasfilm Ltd. (Credited to Richard Amsel)
Country	USA
Publisher	West End Games
Released	1994
Pages	144
ISBN	0-87431-425-9

The World of Indiana Jones is a role-playing game written by Brian Sean Perry and published by West End Games (WEG). The game was originally intended to be played using WEG's MasterBook rules, but would later be adapted (with the release of Indiana Jones Adventures) to the alternate D6 System rules.

It differed from the earlier Indiana Jones role-playing game from TSR, Inc., The Adventures of Indiana Jones, in that it discouraged gamers from playing as Indiana Jones himself, instead advocating for the creation of original adventurers. As a consequence, follow-on titles (such as Indiana Jones Magic & Mysticism: The Dark Continent) contain some of the only licensed Indiana Jones stories in which the title character is completely absent.

The book was packaged as part of a kit, along with the MasterBook rule book, two ten-sided dice, and a special deck of cards called the MasterDeck.

Publisher's summary

If adventure has a name, it must be Indiana Jones.

Now you can travel to exotic lands, challenge ancient mysteries and brave dangers beyond imagining. Plunge into a world of treacherous spies, thrilling chases, arcane artifacts and non-stop excitement with the greatest hero of them all!

The World of Indiana Jones gives you everything you need to begin your adventuring career. Learn how to create a character, and the allies and enemies he's likely to encounter in his travels. Then get ready for the ride of your life with an Indy mini-adventure!

Contents

• Introduction
• Chapter One: Character Creation
• Chapter Two: Equipment
• Chapter Three: Special Rules
• Chapter Four: Designing and Running Adventures
• Chapter Five: Allies, Enemies ... and Asps
• Chapter Six: An Era of Adventure
• Mini-Adventure: The Jewel of the Ancients
• Appendix A: Indiana Jones Timetable
• Appendix B: Timetable of Technology
• Appendix C: Timetable of History
• Character Profiles
• Character Sheet
• Equipment Chart
• Continental Maps

Appearances

Characters

• Indiana Jones
• Heinrich Schlosser

Artifacts

• Eye of Azrael

Behind the scenes

The book cover image is a photograph from Raiders of the Lost Ark provided by Lucasfilm Ltd. but the film's poster artist Richard Amsel is credited for "Cover Illustration". Amsel's work would later be used for the Raiders of the Lost Ark Sourcebook.

The World of Indiana Jones was part of a series of World of titles with otherwise unrelated franchises, such as The World of Species, The World of Tales from the Crypt and The World of Tank Girl, that used West End Games' commercially unsuccessful MasterBook game system.

In the late 1990s, Raiders of the Lost Ark Sourcebook author Peter Schweighofer proposed to the then-owner of West End Games to make a complete D6 System re-release of The World of Indiana Jones similar to the company's revised and expanded Star Wars roleplaying game. However, a re-release of The World of Indiana Jones never came to be.

Continuity

The World of Indiana Jones contains one of the first comprehensive — at the time of its 1994 publication — timelines of Indiana Jones's life, weaving together events from The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles, the first three feature films, the Dark Horse comics (including the events from the unpublished Indiana Jones and the Lost Horizon, and Indiana Jones: The Dance of Death), and many of the American and German novels.

Notably, it doesn't include any stories published prior to 1990 outside of the original trilogy of movies such as The Further Adventures of Indiana Jones comic series, Find Your Fate gamebooks or the video games Indiana Jones in the Lost Kingdom and Indiana Jones in Revenge of the Ancients.

However, it is not without its contradictions. For example, the book places the "Paris, September 1908" episode of The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles in July 1908 despite being broadcast a year before the book's release.

Stories and events as ordered by The World of Indiana Jones:

• Birth of Henry Jones, Sr. (1872)
• Birth of Anna Mary Jones. (1878)
• Marriage of Henry and Anna Jones. (1898)
• Graduation of Henry Jones from Oxford. (June 1899)
• Birth of Indiana Jones. (July 1, 1899)
• The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles – "Egypt, May 1908" (May 1908)
• The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles – "Paris, September 1908" (July 1908)
• The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles – "Vienna, November 1908" (August 1908)
• The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles – "Florence, May 1908" (August 1908)
• The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles – "British East Africa, September 1909" (September 1909)
• The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles – "Benares, January 1910" (January 1910)
• The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles – "Peking, March 1910" (March 1910)
• Death of Anna Jones. (1912)
• Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade (Summer 1912)
• Young Indiana Jones and the Lost Gold of Durango (Summer 1912)
• Young Indiana Jones and the Plantation Treasure (Spring 1913)
• Young Indiana Jones and the Tomb of Terror (Summer 1913)
• Young Indiana Jones and the Princess of Peril (Summer 1913)
• Young Indiana Jones and the Ghostly Riders (Halloween 1913)
• Young Indiana Jones and the Circle of Death (Christmas 1913)
• Young Indiana Jones and the Journey to the Underworld (January 1914)
• Young Indiana Jones and the Curse of the Ruby Cross (Spring 1914)
• Young Indiana Jones and the Gypsy Revenge (May 1914)
• Young Indiana Jones and the Secret City (June 1914)
• Young Indiana Jones and the Mountain of Fire (October 1914)
• Young Indiana Jones and the Face of the Dragon (October 1914)
• The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles – "Princeton, February 1916" (February 1916)
• The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles – "Mexico, March 1916" (March 1916)
• The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles – "Ireland, April 1916" (April 1916)
• Death of Indiana. (April 1916)
• The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles – "London, May 1916" (May 1916)
• The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles – "Somme, Early August 1916" (August 1916)
• The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles – "Germany, Mid-August 1916" (August 1916)
• The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles – "Berlin, Late August 1916" (August 1916) (Cancelled)
• The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles – "Verdun, September 1916" (September 1916)
• The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles – "Paris, October 1916" (November 1916)
• The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles – "Young Indiana Jones and the Phantom Train of Doom" (November 1916)
• The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles – "German East Africa, December 1916" (December 1916) (Misprinted as 1917)
• The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles – "Congo, January 1917" (January 1917)
• The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles – "Austria, March 1917" (March 1917)
• The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles – "Barcelona, May 1917" (May 1917)
• The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles – "Petrograd, July 1917" (July 1917)
• The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles – "Prague, August 1917" (August 1917)
• The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles – "Palestine, October 1917" (October 1917)
• The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles – "Transylvania, January 1918" (January 1918)
• The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles – "Northern Italy, June 1918" (June 1918)
• The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles – "Istanbul, September 1918" (September 1918)
• The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles – "Paris, May 1919" (May 1919)
• The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles – "Chicago, April 1920" (April 1920)
• The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles – "Chicago, May 1920" (May 1920)
• The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles – "Young Indiana Jones and the Scandal of 1920" (June/July 1920)
• Indiana Jones and the Peril at Delphi (October 1922)
• Indiana Jones and the Unicorn's Legacy (1924)
• Indiana Jones and the Dance of the Giants (1925)
• Indiana Jones and the Seven Veils (March 1926)
• Indiana Jones and the Seven Veils (April 1926)
• Indiana Jones and the Lost Horizon (Late 1926) (Cancelled)
• Indiana Jones and the Genesis Deluge (1927)
• Indiana Jones and the Unicorn's Legacy (May/June 1928)
• Indiana Jones and the Interior World (Spring 1929)
• Indiana Jones and the Sky Pirates (1930)
• Indiana Jones and the White Witch (1930)
• Indiana Jones and the Shrine of the Sea Devil (1935)
• Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom (1935)
• Indiana Jones und das Erbe von Avalon (1935)
• Raiders of the Lost Ark (Early 1936)
• Raiders of the Lost Ark (Late 1936)
• Indiana Jones and the Arms of Gold (1937)
• Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade (1938)
• Indiana Jones: Thunder in the Orient (1938)
• Indiana Jones and the Fate of Atlantis (1939)
• Indiana Jones and the Sargasso Pirates (1939)
• Indiana Jones und das Schiff der Götter (1939)
• Indiana Jones und das Verschwundene Volk (1939)
• Indiana Jones: The Dance of Death (1940) (Cancelled)
• Indiana Jones and the Golden Fleece (Spring 1941)
• Indiana Jones und das Schwert des Dschingis Khan (Summer 1941)
• Indiana Jones und das Geheimnis der Osterinseln (Late 1941)
• Indiana Jones and the Spear of Destiny (1945)

On page 85, Germans are mispelled as "Gerrmans" at one point and Adolf Hitler is mentioned to have committed suicide in May 1945 when in other sources his death date is pointed out as a month earlier like in real life.