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Oishi the Roninator, roninating the countryside – part 2

April 16, 2025

Continuing with my playthrough of Ronin 47, this time giving my mech some cheats so the game is actually playable instead of just roll 2d6 to find out how quickly I died. I’ve found that Kira is holed up in Tokyo – or rather, the ruins of Tokyo, which was devastated by kaiju attacks decades […]

Oishi the Roninator, roninating the countryside – part 1

April 10, 2025

So we’re finally at the point where I’m bored of dying and re-playing the same two chapters, knowing full well that when I reach the third or maybe fourth fight I’ll be defeated. So, my mech is a 4 in all stats instead of the usual balance of 3. Doesn’t that add up to 8 […]

Eaten by a shark again, then by a turtle

April 9, 2025

I’m still at it, playing Ronin 47 and so far I’m not having a lot of good luck with it. We open again with the starfish tutorial, then the attack on Ako Base. I fought a giant turtle, and it tore me down to 35 integrity out of my initial 55. When I saw a […]

Eaten by kaiju again

April 6, 2025

I’ve been plating Ronin 47 by Jonathan Green for a few days now, as time permits. I dig the setting – I drive a Japanese-style battlemech and fight giant sea monsters on a quest for revenge. That’s awesome – and it’s only the second time I’ve seen anything like it, the other being Fighting Fantasy’s […]

Proofreading a gamebook, then pliloting a mech

March 30, 2025

For the last few weeks, I have been proofreading and testing a new game book that someone in the community is developing. It’s been a part-time job, but I finished up a few days ago. It’s set in the Dragon Realms universe, and has the brave adventurer hunting a cult that has been murdering people. […]

Spellbreaker, the final showdown – Part 6, the spellbreakening

March 11, 2025

Spellbreaker is really annoying me to no end. As I noted before, surviving the witch trial is a whole elaborate affair of secret herbs and a 50/50 roll, then a fight, then having the keyword Raven. I looked it up (thank you champskees https://fightingfantazine.proboards.com/thread/182/53-spellbreaker-solution) and to get Raven, means having started with maximum gold, bought […]

Spellbreaker, the final showdown – Part 5, Tallow witch trial and I die anyway

March 9, 2025

Spellbreaker – I have finally made it to the town of Tallow, which is the furthest I have ever made in in this book, because of an unlikely sequence of required rolls and items. But here I am, ready to explore new ground. With some luck I can survive this awful little village, and move […]

Spellbreaker, the final showdown – Part 4, danger in the fen

March 7, 2025

Ah, Spellbreaker – We are still at it. After twenty failed playthroughs, I think I know what I need to survive the town of Tallow and to finally proceed on my quest. And with only a little bit of cheating, I now have everything I need – at least, everything that I know I will […]

Spellbreaker, the final showdown – Part 3, the tomb of Gwythain

March 5, 2025

Day three. I have survived Aryll. There was a plague, a barn fire, zombies and a minor god of disease. The complimentary breakfast was mid but the service was friendly. All in all, two stars, would not recommend as a tourist destination. But they did tell me where to find Gwythain’s Barrow, where I hope to […]

Spellbreaker, the final showdown – Part 2, the rats of Aryll

March 4, 2025

With only a little cheating at some required points, I made it through Hallow’s Well with the herbs, the potion, and the animal control devices that I’ll need to get further in my quest. I’m walking down page 300, the road west from Pilgrim’s Hallow. I take a southern fork towards the village of Aryll, […]

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Spellbreaker, the final showdown – Part 1, screw this I’m gonna cheat

March 3, 2025

I had other things to do for a few weeks, and Spellbreaker has just been sitting on the table every time I got a break. But I’m back to it. And honestly, I have played this first section of the book twenty times now and I’m kind of tired of it. I’ll keep my stats […]

Still dying a lot in Spellbreaker

February 9, 2025

Over the last few weeks, I’ve played Spellbreaker several more times. It’s been rough going. Some memorable endings include: Died on page 1 fighting a demon. Helped a town with a plague, where they set the barn on fire with me in it, then I caught the plague and died when leaving the town. The […]

Shortest FF play ever

January 12, 2025

Until tonight, the record for shortest Fighting Fantasy playthrough ever was Masks of Mayhem. There is a choice on page 1 that gets you eaten by tentacles right there on the next page. But tonight I have set a new record, and I don’t think this can be beaten. Spellbreaker – died on page 1. […]

Got my butt kicked, then got turned into a werewolf

It’s been fun getting back into game books after a few months off. My sweetie and I played Escape From the Prison of the Tower of the Wizard, right on the heels of finishing Alice’s Nightmare in Wonderland and that was great fun. I have a new trove of Call of Cthulhu solo adventures, too, […]

Gamebook of Loathing?

December 30, 2024

I opened the Christmas present, which felt like a paperback book. Nice. “Escape From the Prison of the Tower of the Wizard” – a Decision Paralysis adventure. What the heck? A indie game book! Then I turned it over and saw that it’s by Zack Johnson. Whoa, wait – the Kingdom of Loathing guy??? Yep. […]

Alice’s nightmare is finally over

December 25, 2024

This morning, Christmas Day, my sweetie and I finished Alice’s Nightmare in Wonderland. We defeated the big bad, then defeated the bigger bad, kept our sanity, and saved Wonderland. Despite several errors, some of them game breaking, it was great fun. Now I’m going through and filling in a few gaps in the map, and […]

Still navigating the nightmare

December 19, 2024

My sweetie and I have been playing Alice’s Nightmare in Wonderland for a few weeks now. It’s been great fun, spending several evenings and weekend afternoons playing together. As a game I think it’s not very well balanced. But as a story, it’s wonderful. I have still never finished this one but this time I […]

What Lies Beneath? Now we know

October 31, 2024

I’ve finished mapping and posting What Lies Beneath. It was an interesting one, with some novel mechanics, some fun endings, and some gruesome endings. Check out the detailed writeup for more.  

You Are Deadpool issues 1-5

October 8, 2024

So I am slightly disappointed. Last week I was thrilled to see that there was more You Are Deadpool – five issues! I got them today, and realized… The one I have is in fact these same five issues bound together. So that’s sad. Only the one book with five chapters, not four more books. […]

Some minor maintenance, and more You Are Deadpool!

October 4, 2024

Two news items. First, I’m going through and doing some minor maintenance on my site. I’m checking and fixing broken links, correcting outbound links to others’ pages, that sort of thing. This should help my SEO a bit, so that’s nice. But then there was this: “You Are Deadpool” really did become a series! There […]

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What Lies Beneath? Let’s find out

September 28, 2024

For my birthday a few months back, a friend bought me a new gamebook – What Lies Beneath by Chris Scaffidi. How cool is that? He’s so great. A couple of weeks ago I finally opened it, and have been playing it since. It’s what it says on the cover – a dungeon crawl. And […]