RPG Retrospective: The Adventures of Indiana Jones RPG

On this day in 1981, 45 years ago, I went to see the newest George Lucas/Steven Spielberg collab called "Raiders of the Lost Ark." I went with my best friend Steven and it was a life changer for both of us. Steven watched it and wanted to become a big Hollywood director. I watched it and wanted to become a university professor. We both got to our dreams, more or less. Steven became an art director and is now fed up with Hollywood. I became a professor, but sold my soul to the dot-com world during the late 90s/early 2000s dot-com boom. I, too, had become a little burned out on academic life. But Raiders of the Lost Ark still remains a perfect movie in our minds. One we still talk about to this very day.It is just too bad the RPG was so, well, terrible. At least that was my recollection of it. But is that true? Let's pull out my copy and have a deep dive into the game and what it has to offer.Fortune and Glory, KidWhen TSR picked up the license for Indiana Jones, it looked like a slam…