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April 30, 2024
It’s been a busy month with other things. I’ve been playing Baldur’s Gate 3 for a fair bit of my free time, which has been cutting into the game books time. It’s a fun game, engaging, large, full of explosions and intrigue and all the stuff we like about video games. I’ve gotten to the […]
Read moreThank you to my fans (or critics? either way!)
March 9, 2024
A few weeks ago, someone sent in comments on some of my Lone Wolf pages. They pointed out some mistakes in my map, pointed out that one of the errors I had mentioned was not in fact an error, and so on. I reviewed my maps and consulted the books on Project Aon. I scratched […]
Read moreLiving Without F.E.A.R.
A month later and I am finally done with Appointment With F.E.A.R. It was really quite involved, perhaps the most complex Fighting Fantasy book I’ve known. And somehow that complexity was also why I didn’t enjoy it as much as I could have? The good: Four different super heroes, means four different win conditions. That […]
Read moreStill trying to make an appointment
February 15, 2024
I’m still trying to make my appointment… with F.E.A.R.! I think that Appointment With FEAR is the most complicated Fighting Fantasy book I’ve played yet. Four super powers, which change the choices available, not just for whether you instantly win a fight, but whether you find clues and open up side quests Numerous side quests, […]
Read moreMissed another appointment…. with FEAR!
January 15, 2024
Well, we’ve played Appointment With F.E.A.R. several times now, and every time we just flounder randomly, fail a lot at being heroic, then die. Here are a few highlights! Rolled 9 skill, chose technical heroism. Failed to stop an airplane from being hijacked. Decided to investigate a dairy because our pager said to. Saw a […]
Read moreI’m here, and feeling the F.E.A.R.
January 10, 2024
I notice that it’s been almost 2 months since my last post, when I finished playing Space Assassin. I’ve played Appointment with F.E.A.R. a couple of times with my sweetie, though didn’t write up anything. It’s an interesting premise, being any of four types of super-hero and with a variety of clues that unlock certain […]
Read moreThis time they sent a better assassin (part 3)
November 21, 2023
Continuing with Space Assassin. Turns out that not having a Skill of 7 is really instrumental in having a fair chance here! So, this spaceship is just goofy. It was corridors and laboratories and all for a while, then I fell into a pool that flushed me down to a planet. I wandered plains and […]
Read moreThis time they sent a better assassin (part 2)
Continuing my first competent playthrough of Space Assassin… I made my way more or less randomly down hallways and past guard robots, and a cool anti-gravity transit thing, to an indoor pool. The indoor pool sucked me into a current (strange in itself!) and deposited me out of a river, onto what seems to be […]
Read moreThis time they sent a better assassin
November 20, 2023
As you saw, my last two plays of Space Assassin were short and disastrous because I had a skill of 7, crummy armor, and 1 money to buy only a basic gun. Now that they’re thinned out the less-promising trainees, this time they sent someone qualified. Skill 10 / Stamina 21 / Luck 12 / […]
Read moreSpace Assassin, second try
November 10, 2023
Did you catch that ludicrous display of my last playthrough of Space Assassin? It was a travesty, and I died in only a few minutes. So this time the assassin’s guild is sending their best man for the job. Right? Skill = 7 / Stamina = 18 / Luck = 12 / Armor = 8 […]
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October 27, 2023
Well, my first play of Space Assassin was brief. The assassin’s guild that I work for must not have taken the mission briefing seriously. You would think that “doomsday weapon” and “the whole planet faces extermination” would convince them to send their best 12/24/12 with all the gear necessary. After all, if our unnamed home […]
Read moreTrial of Champions, I’m back
October 16, 2023
It’s been some 6 weeks since I last posted. Oh man. I’ve just had other hobbies going on such as playing Baldur’s Gate 3, and other events and occupations such as the Lovecraft Film Festival in Portland, Oregon. Fun times. And by contrast, Trial of Champions is kind of an unappealing slog through bad game […]
Read moreTrial of Champions shortest play ever?
August 27, 2023
After a month on other projects, I’m glad to crack open a game book again. Let’s go back to Trial of Champions! I rolled the dice for a new character and… Skill 8 / Stamina 21 / Luck 10 With a skill of 8, I doubt that I’ll even survive the gladiatorial phase. … And… […]
Read moreTrying to be a champion
July 20, 2023
Well, I’ve spent most of the last day trying to play Trial of Champions and it’s just brutal. After dying on Blood Island a half-dozen times, sometimes in combat and sometimes a “roll dice and die” situation, I gave up and just set my stats to 11/24/11. I didn’t want to go full 12/24/12 because […]
Read moreMeat Grinder of Champions
July 19, 2023
After my very short play of Trial of Champions where I died in the arena in a cut scene, let’s try it again. Let’s keep my old character: Skill 11 / Stamina 17 / Luck 10 They seemed like good stats, and I literally hadn’t made a single mark on the paper before dying so […]
Read moreTried, and not a champion
July 18, 2023
I’ve played Deathtrap Dungeon, and the third book in a loosely-associated trilogy, Armies of Death. But last week I realized that I hadn’t played FF21 – Trial of Champions, the second installment. I really have no idea what it’s about, except that it involves the famous dungeon, so let’s find out. Skill 11 / Stamina […]
Read moreRobot Commando, Speed run… to prison
June 14, 2023
I’ve been occupied on other stuff, most notably being sick with allergies for a few weeks. Ugh! Those poisonous spores in the Deathtrap Dungeon are surely worse than this pollen, but when I can barely breathe it sure feels bad. Oh, and I took up playing Cyberpunk 2077 again for a few evenings. But, now […]
Read moreRobot Commando – onward to not-quite-victory!
May 18, 2023
We continue playing Robot Commando! The story so far: – I’m in flying a stolen Go-Bot that can transform between robot and airplane. – I have a miracle drug that can save all of Thalos if I figure out how to distribute it. – I’m on my third robot, having had phenomenally good luck so […]
Read moreRobot Commando – Roll out!
May 17, 2023
We continue playing Robot Commando where so many fanboy dreams are brought together. In the previous part, two major plot points: – I created a potion that can cure the sleeping sickness, if I can find a way to distribute it. – I stole a Veritech VF-1 mech that can transform into an airplane! So […]
Read moreRobot Commando, let’s rock!
May 16, 2023
I’m so excited! It’s time to play Robot Commando. First off, some fortunate rolls! Skill = 10 Stamina = 23 Luck = 10 Suddenly the whole nation has fallen asleep, and I imagine that radio chatter like from the beginning of The Omega Man. People collapsing all over the country, at their homes, at their […]
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May 15, 2023
Fangs of Fury was quite something, and after working that books for literally weeks I took a brief break and played some video games instead. I went to my shelf and closed my eyes, and my next book is… Robot Commando! I’ve been excited about this one for some time, but I’ve been savoring the […]
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