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Mail Call of Cthulhu

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 […]

Alone 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 […]

Maps 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 […]

Victory 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 […]

Dispelling 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 […]

Chasing 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 […]

Crypt 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 […]

Back 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 […]

Email 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.

Six 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 […]

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Server 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 […]

Thank 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 […]

Living 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 […]

Still 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, […]

Missed 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 […]

I’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 […]

This 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 […]

This 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 […]

This 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 / […]

Space 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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Worst space assassin ever

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 […]