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Jonathan Green Ninja Lone Wolf 1989 Earth Gary Chalk Allansia 1984 1985 Montana Science Fiction Alan Langford United States Khul Magnamund Post-Apocalyptic Horror Keith Martin Video Game Steve Jackson Tin Man Games California 1986 Super Hero Orlandes Way of the Tiger Martin McKenna 1991 1988 2014 Kai Brian Williams Old World Mark Smith Love is Real Fighting Fantasy Titan Mylène Villeneuve Russ Nicholson 1987 Orb Jamie Thomson Magnakai Ian Livingstone Joe Dever 1983 ACE Gamebooks Gamebook Adventures Chuck Tingle 2022Worst 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 […]
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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Montana Super Hero Chuck Tingle Jonathan Green Joe Dever Mylène Villeneuve Ninja 1991 1989 ACE Gamebooks Ian Livingstone Gary Chalk California Tin Man Games Khul 1985 Video Game Jamie Thomson 2022 1984 Steve Jackson 1983 Fighting Fantasy Allansia Earth Gamebook Adventures Alan Langford 2014 Orb Way of the Tiger Science Fiction Horror Brian Williams United States Orlandes Mark Smith Magnamund 1986 1987 Love is Real Old World Keith Martin Titan Russ Nicholson 1988 Magnakai Martin McKenna Lone Wolf Post-Apocalyptic KaiRobots and dinosaurs! It’s Robot Commando!
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 […]
Read moreNine maps and still counting
April 4, 2023
My goodness, Fangs of Fury is quite an adventure. I have finally probed and played out everything up until the Choose Your Level judgment on page 39, and it came up to nine pages of maps. Most FFs or other game books are 3-4 pages, some as many as 5. But this is just wild […]
Read moreA new look for the website
April 1, 2023
I gave the FFF website a facelift yesterday, with a new WP theme. I had been running the old one since 2014 on a stock theme I found, and while it worked it wasn’t great. At one point they updated the theme and made the heading and banner a full laptop-sized screen by itself. The […]
Read moreStill chewing away at Fangs of Fury
March 15, 2023
I’ve been working on Fangs of Fury as time allows, an hour here and there. I am impressed by how much is in this book, and by the complexity of the layout. My mapping is up to 11 pages so far, and I don’t think I’m even close to having found everything. If you the […]
Read moreChewed up by the Fangs of Fury (Part 2)
March 7, 2023
Continuing yesterday’s thrilling cliff hanger in… Fangs of Fury! My skills are: Skill 7 / Stamina 17 / Luck 7 which should make this a pretty short adventure. And it was. I was immediately captured by the enemy, thrown into jail, then accidentally conscripted into their army. But I blew my cover when I attacked […]
Read moreChewed up by the Fangs of Fury (Part 1)
March 6, 2023
I haven’t posted in some six weeks, and for the most part I’ve been distracted by a vacation trip and by playing the Mass Effect trilogy again. But, I have also stayed on topic here playing Fangs of Fury. So here comes my second attempt. The back story: Our city is under siege by Bad […]
Read moreAn Archaeology Adventure in Montana
January 27, 2023
I finished playing and mapping Expedition to the Frozen Lake, another Select Your Own Timeline adventure by Chuck Tingle. We had played this one several times previously as a fun read-aloud, and we thought we had seen everything. Turns out, the folks I was letting make the choices kept choosing the same thing because it […]
Read moreStealer of Souls vanquished
January 22, 2023
Finally, on what felt like my 50th try, I have defeated Modraneth, the Stealer of Souls. I won through fair and square with a Skill of 10 and a Luck of 10, demonstrating that this one really did take a) a little luck not to get killed right on page 1, and b) mapping and […]
Read moreStealer of Souls, screw this I’m cheating (part 3)
January 8, 2023
Welp, that power-run ended and Mordraneth, the Stealer of Souls, has claimed another soul to madness and terror. I wandered halls for some time, trying doors at random and steam-rolling over some orcs and goblins and a wizard at some point. Eventually I caught news of a captured wizard being tortured for information, which sounds […]
Read moreStealer of Souls, screw this I’m cheating (part 2)
December 29, 2022
Continuing Stealer of Souls from yesterday, this time with 12/24/12 because I rolled 7s and 8s five times in a row, and am killed by that damn bird every time. Having finally survived as far as the beach, I hiked for two days and I am at a crossroads. I leave the path, and start […]
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ACE Gamebooks Steve Jackson Chuck Tingle United States Brian Williams Old World Mylène Villeneuve 1988 Mark Smith Science Fiction Joe Dever Keith Martin Khul Fighting Fantasy 1986 Jamie Thomson Orlandes Jonathan Green Love is Real Way of the Tiger 1989 1987 Allansia 1983 1985 Ninja Magnakai Alan Langford Horror Gary Chalk 1991 2014 Russ Nicholson Kai Montana Titan 1984 Magnamund California Gamebook Adventures Orb Earth Post-Apocalyptic Super Hero Video Game 2022 Tin Man Games Lone Wolf Martin McKenna Ian LivingstoneStealer of Souls, screw this I’m cheating (part 1)
December 28, 2022
Since my last post, I have played Stealer of Souls two more times but rolled shitty stats: 8 / 14 / 11 and 8 / 18 / 8 Both times, that damn bird on page 1 killed me. Clearly something’s wrong with my dice that they can’t roll higher than a 2 if it’s for […]
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