[1]: 383  Laws was the senior designer for The Dying Earth Roleplaying Game, and a sourcebook for the setting titled White-Walled Kaiin.

[2] Phil Masters also contributed articles to The Excellent Prismatic Spray, a magazine supporting The Dying Earth Roleplaying Game by Pelgrane Press.

[1]: 384 After a number of releases in the Dying Earth line, by these authors and others, the license for the RPG was allowed to expire in 2009.

[citation needed] However, sales in response to the "closing out" sale held by Pelgrane Press were so strong, that the license was renewed in 2010 and expanded to cover the Gaean Reach books, and a new Gaean Reach RPG by Robin Laws was released at the end of 2011 which incorporated certain elements of the GUMSHOE system alongside the Dying Earth mechanics.

[3] Shannon Appelcline comments: "The Dying Earth Roleplaying game is an RPG that does a superb job of capturing the feel of Jack Vance's foundational fantasy books.