This is an interesting-sounding project that has evidently been in the works for a few years, A Thief’s Tale is a 20-30 hour RPG, inspired by Ultima Online and using many assets and systems from the classic Origin Systems MMORPG. It’s still in development, however, having been updated as recently as October 2011. UO Thief describes the project as “a hobby project”, but over the years it has morphed into an RPG of substantial complexity.

A Thief’s Tale features 64 Magery and 10 Chivalry spells from Ultima Online, along with numerous graphical and audio assets from the game as well. Dungeon layouts will also be familiar to UO players, as will some towns and cities. The combat system is also — surprise, surprise! — cribbed from Ultima Online. The cast and characters of the game, meanwhile, are based on the misadventures of UO Thief’s Mondain’s Legacy guild.

It sounds as silly and interesting in equal parts. If you were an Ultima Online fan from way back, consider checking it out — I have, of course, added a download entry. It requires the RPG Maker Runtime Package to run. I’ve included the same download package above that UO Thief features on his site, but it may be Windows XP-specific. Please let me know, anyone, if this does in fact happen to be the case.