Within the Tyrant's Demesne is a 1983 role-playing game supplement for Thieves' Guild published by Gamelords.
Its principal author was future science fiction writer Walter H. Hunt, along with Richard Meyer and Robert Traynor.
[2] Within the Tyrant's Demesne was written by Walter Hunt and Richard Meyer, with Kerry Lloyd and Robert Traynor, and was published by Gamelords in 1983 as a 48-page book.
[3] Chris Hunter reviewed Within the Tyrant's Demesne for Imagine magazine, and stated that " The complexity of who is helping/ fighting whom and why, means that if the module is to be used in anything like the intended detail a large wall chart of what's going on is essential.
[1] Swan commented that "The setting is heavily political and may be too dry for some, but clever touches abound - I especially liked the 'Weepons' shop operated by an enterprising insect (who's all business).