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September 12, 2024
I’ve finished mapping out Alone Against the Flames, and added them to the site. This is the first of six game books based on Call of Cthulhu 7th Edition rules. Neat. It was a tad irritating at first. The nature of COC’s skill checks combined with a game book’s requirement to pass Test 1, Test […]
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August 31, 2024
The four Chaosium gamebooks arrived today! So this is exciting. I’ve been playing Alone Against the Flames for a few evenings, and having a good time of it. Last night I found the Page 270 ending which I thought was pretty awesome. And I found the one where I was mauled to death by a […]
Read moreAlone Against… a whole series of COC7e game books?
August 26, 2024
I’ve played Call of Cthulhu RPG a couple of times, and I enjoy it. The problem is, as always, finding a group to play with. That’s part of the appeal of game books. Well, turns out that the quick start kit for Call of Cthulhu RPG comes with a solo adventure called Alone Against the […]
Read moreMaps are up for You Are Not Deadpool
August 25, 2024
I’ve finished re-mapping and re-uploading those maps for You Are Not Deadpool. There’s a lot more to them now, including secrets and stat adjustments and a few notes. Enjoy! For our next game book, I’m going to try something entirely new: the solo adventures for Call of Cthulhu 7th edition. Yes, they are game books […]
Read moreVictory for Deadpool, and a new fan of the Tingleverse books
August 11, 2024
Two neat things these last two weeks. First, my sweetie and I have been playing You Are Not Deadpool. We played it a few times a couple of years ago, but never really played it out and sort of forgot about it. So we played it for a few evenings, I got a fair bit […]
Read moreDispelling the Darkness Over Arkham
July 28, 2024
Last night we finished the last of the mapping for The Darkness Over Arkham. and today I finished my scans and writeup. Fun time. Not as deep as the ACE gamebooks, but honestly few game books are. Still, it was a good time for a few weeks. First off, I love the Arkham Horror series […]
Read moreChasing Shadows Over Arkham
July 8, 2024
I have given up on Amtrak finding my book bag (its been over a week, I even told them the exact seat number), and I have ordered up a new copy of Crypt of the Sorceror. I sure am glad I took it and not Curse of the Mummy! Until that comes, we have been […]
Read moreCrypt of the Sorcerer stays hidden… for now
July 1, 2024
Well, this stinks. This last week I went to Seattle for some music, and on the Amtrak I left my book bag along with the book in it – Crypt of the Sorcerer. So that stinks. I left a message to their lost & found, and we’ll see how it goes. I may or may […]
Read moreBack to FF: Crypt of the Sorcerer
June 19, 2024
After two months of putting it off, last night I finished my mapping and writeup of Moon Knight: Age of Anubis. But rather than dwell on that unpleasantness, let’s grab a new book of the shelf, and this time it’s… Crypt of the Sorcerer, Fighting Fantasy number 26. The intro is pretty typical: A dead […]
Read moreEmail service fixed
June 16, 2024
Another server upgrade! I have outbound email working now, yeah after like 8 years of ignoring it. So now I’ll see comments, and you’ll get my replies to them. I do value the comments, even/especially the ones pointing out a mistake. Please keep them coming.
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2022 Jamie Thomson Joe Dever Brian Williams Lone Wolf Tin Man Games Martin McKenna Khul California Gary Chalk Mark Smith United States Mylène Villeneuve Science Fiction 1986 Russ Nicholson 1989 Old World Orlandes Allansia Jonathan Green 2014 Earth Fighting Fantasy Love is Real Magnakai Chuck Tingle 1988 1985 Way of the Tiger Steve Jackson ACE Gamebooks 1984 Montana Ninja Video Game Alan Langford 1983 Ian Livingstone Titan Gamebook Adventures Magnamund Keith Martin 1991 Super Hero Horror 1987 Orb Kai Post-ApocalypticSix more weeks of Moon Knight
Yesterday we finally finished the playing and initial mapping of Moon Knight Age of Anubis. I still have a few things to track down: a few items and keywords I missed, and two of the secret pages, So that will be another day’s work, and the final maps for the site. It’s hard to believe […]
Read moreServer upgrade! She Hulk! Moon Knight! Baldur’s Gate 3!
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 / […]
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Way of the Tiger United States Brian Williams Earth Orlandes Ian Livingstone 2014 Jonathan Green 1983 Love is Real Video Game 1988 Khul Joe Dever Chuck Tingle Keith Martin Montana Old World Russ Nicholson Jamie Thomson Steve Jackson Gamebook Adventures ACE Gamebooks Tin Man Games 1991 Lone Wolf Allansia Titan Kai 1985 Alan Langford Magnamund California Fighting Fantasy Martin McKenna 1987 1989 Orb 2022 Post-Apocalyptic Mylène Villeneuve Ninja Gary Chalk 1986 Horror Super Hero Magnakai 1984 Science Fiction Mark SmithSpace 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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