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Joe Dever Lone Wolf Brian Williams Gamebook Adventures Earth Jonathan Green Way of the Tiger Video Game 1984 Orb Titan United States Allansia Horror Post-Apocalyptic Tin Man Games Russ Nicholson 1986 Magnamund Fighting Fantasy Science Fiction Mark Smith ACE Gamebooks 1987 1985 Jamie Thomson Khul Ian Livingstone Gary Chalk Steve JacksonBig Springs, here I come… again
April 20, 2020
I’ve played Freeway Warrior a few more times, and am honestly wondering whether it’s possible to win at all without cheating. The gauntlet of fights and damage at Strawn (the bus depot, the rabid dogs, and the heat stroke) have killed me 3 more times, since last weekend, which was 3 more times. And that’s […]
Read moreA Group Nightmare in Wonderland – Part 3
April 9, 2020
We continue our group playthrough via Zoom, of Alice’s Nightmare in Wonderland. We have someone on dice, someone with the character sheet, and someone with the book reading aloud. So far, Alice has breezed through everything without problem. Even the Royal Executioner and the Hatter-Dormouse-Hare-Golem gave her but a minor scratch. She found the Queen […]
Read moreA Group Nightmare in Wonderland – Part 2
April 8, 2020
We continue our group playthrough on Zoom of Alice’s Nightmare in Wonderland. Again, we have one person on Alice’s dice, one on the nightmares’ dice, one with the character sheet, and two of us with the book switching off reading. We have so far breezed through only one combat with Tik Tok Men, wandered through […]
Read moreA Group Nightmare in Wonderland – Part 1
April 7, 2020
Last night, four of us got together via Zoom to play Alice’s Nightmare in Wonderland. I love these Jonathan Green gamebooks. They’re well-written, thoroughly proofread, beautifully (disturbingly) illustrated, and just enormous with content. For group play, these are our favorites. Four of us got together: one with Alice’s dice, one with the nightmares’ dice, one […]
Read moreRoad Trip of Hope and Doom – Part 1
April 3, 2020
I still have Freeway Warrior (part 1) on my desk from last weekend’s Zoom group playthrough. That was a lot of fun, and we died when our car ran off a bridge after ramming a roadblock. I had previously played it with a friend, without Zoom but in similar fashion where we took turns reading […]
Read moreA Group of Freeway Warriors
March 31, 2020
This last weekend, we made a group activity out of playing Freeway Warrior book 1. Six of us wanted to get together for a little interactive storytelling. So we met up on Zoom. I have the gamebook. Someone else has a d10. A third person made up a character sheet, between what I showed them […]
Read moreAnother crawl Beneath Nightmare Castle (do over!) – Part 2
March 24, 2020
I continue my re-play of Beneath Nightmare Castle. My character’s stats are 9 / 20 / 7 and a willpower of 11. Right now, though, I’m down to 6 luck and 9 willpower, and I’ve just now gotten inside Nightmare Castle. The town was creepy and full of thieves, and the garden was full of […]
Read moreAnother crawl Beneath Nightmare Castle (do over!) – Part 1
March 23, 2020
So, I went to re-play Beneath Nightmare Castle and I lasted ONE STINKIN’ PAGE before I was overpowered and sacrificed to some horrible god or another. Totally weak, man. I’m gonna cheat here. Let’s rewind that dark adventure music soundtrack I was playing, and just go back and pick that other option. My stats: 9 […]
Read moreAnother crawl Beneath Nightmare Castle
March 22, 2020
I’m just on a kick this month, of replaying old FFs that I’ve played before. This time I randomly picked from the shelf Beneath Nightmare Castle. I recall that I liked this one a lot, because of its horror elements… by which I mean tentacles and that really hideous big boss Xakhaz or some such. […]
Read moreLet’s Replay: Masks of Mayhem
March 19, 2020
Looking back at my own website, I see that I played Masks of Mayhem in late 2017 (two and a half years ago) and found it “okay I guess” Well, let’s see what I think of it today on a single playthrough. I’m apparently the king of some unimpressive region, and my court wizard informs […]
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Steve Jackson Russ Nicholson Titan Ian Livingstone Gary Chalk Allansia Magnamund Brian Williams ACE Gamebooks Gamebook Adventures Joe Dever 1985 Way of the Tiger Fighting Fantasy Lone Wolf United States 1984 1986 1987 Tin Man Games Orb Khul Video Game Science Fiction Earth Jamie Thomson Post-Apocalyptic Horror Mark Smith Jonathan GreenLet’s revisit The Temple of Terror
February 28, 2020
Let’s play a gamebook tonight! I randomly grabbed a green spine and… Temple of Terror. I played this one back in 2015, and I only vaguely recall anything. Mostly, I remember a brutal desert and a nearly-impossible sandworm. And I think this is the one with the angel of death leaving letters so you can […]
Read moreA Forest perhaps involving Doom, but not calling it that
February 16, 2020
Today we will replay Siege of Sardath, and I say “we” because my sweetie and I are playing together, with one of us reading and the other making the choices. I played SoS back in 2015, and I remember that it was a very difficult book with a lot of mandatory items and a lot […]
Read moreThe Mail Call of Cthulhu
January 30, 2020
The post today brought something very special: Choose Cthulhu. I think “unboxing” videos are pretty stupid, but well… I’m pretty excited here. I got the six in English edition, since my Spanish is poor. I already have El Llamado de Cthulhu, an anthology of Lovecraft in Latin American Spanish (thus “El Llamado” instead of “La […]
Read moreNew Blood for the Portal of Evil
January 26, 2020
So, the temp agency hooked me up with Firetop Mountain PLC again. But I’m a maverick who can’t play by the rules, a loose cannon, a rogue cop, a lone wolf… well, no, that’s a different series. It’s The Regional Accounts Director of Firetop Mountain, and this time I’m going to play it by Fighting […]
Read moreThe Labyrinth of Temp Work
January 20, 2020
Let’s give the “gig economy” thing another go, with The Regional Accounts Director of Firetop Mountain. Again, I’m a desperate temp heading into my first day at the rather sketchy Firetop Mountain PLC. The office is a castle carved into the living stone of the downtown business district. The buzzer at the front door is […]
Read moreA Fatal Temp Job at Firetop Mountain
January 18, 2020
In The Regional Accounts Director of Firetop Mountain, I’m a data-entry temp, in between gigs for so long that I’ll take any job. The temp agency sends me to Firetop Mountain PLC where they always need “new blood”. heh heh heh Yeah, it’s kinda ominous but so is rent, so I need the work. The […]
Read moreThe next Lorestone is in Tahou (the boss fight)
January 11, 2020
Lone Wolf is back in the city of Tahou, after spending 3 days underground finding the Lorestone. The bis boss fight is here: that Vassagonian king Kimah, who we met back in book 5 Shadow on the Sand, is leading his army in battle and wants to kill me personally. He’s armed with a magical […]
Read moreThe next Lorestone is in Tahou (part 2)
January 10, 2020
Lone Wolf is in the city of Tahou, and awaiting an audience with the local senate to request that they open the Cauldron. Now, I should clarify that in the prologue I was told that the Lorestone is in (or under) Tahou, and I still have no idea what the Cauldron is. Apparently it’s some […]
Read moreThe next Lorestone is in Tahou
January 9, 2020
It’s Lone Wolf, book 9 – the Cauldron of Fear. It’s all out war, as the armies of Helgedad and Vassagonia together ravage their way across the land of Magnamund. I’m on the hunt for the next Lorestone, so I can become a magical badass and save the day. The Lorestone is in the city […]
Read moreA mixed success in the Jungle of Horrors
December 27, 2019
Okay, attempt number three of Lone Wolf book 8 — The Jungle of Horrors. This time, we know the path to and through the city of Tharro, and we make pretty short work of it. Well, except for that run-in with a helghast that tore me up pretty badly again. Still, we get out of […]
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Gary Chalk Post-Apocalyptic Allansia United States Mark Smith Russ Nicholson Ian Livingstone Jamie Thomson Science Fiction Orb Tin Man Games 1986 1984 Horror Khul Lone Wolf Titan Brian Williams Joe Dever Earth 1985 Jonathan Green 1987 Fighting Fantasy Way of the Tiger Gamebook Adventures Video Game Steve Jackson ACE Gamebooks MagnamundJungle of Horrors – Let’s try again (a brief ending)
December 22, 2019
After our daring escape from an ambush in Tharro, we have been riding for a few days northward towards Syada. That’s why I took all week getting to the next blog post: can’t get very good wifi on horseback in this area. On the highway we come across a boarded-up mine and a caretaker’s hut. […]
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