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Post by a moderator on Jul 29, 2023 23:18:44 GMT
Dropping The Adventures of Goldhawk from this year's weekly gamebook-playing challenge to make space for the mini-adventure from Fighting Fantazine 17 left a blank slot or three, which I was keeping in reserve in case any new FF books (or another Fantazine) came out this year, but by now it looks unlikely that there will be anything new published.
If this year's challenge runs for just 52 weeks, that leaves just one blank slot to be filled, and there are a few magazine-published FF adventures that could go in there. Ideally, it should be something that at least some of the participants actually have the opportunity to play, so this poll is to determine what they would prefer. I can't stop anyone who's not playing from voting, but I'd prefer it if only those who are involved in the challenge were to cast a vote - and as a moderator, I can see who's voted in any poll, so if any outsider just can't resist sticking their oar in, I will know.
I've included the short version of Caverns for completeness' sake, even though it's pretty much identical to the full gamebook up to the point where you meet Redswift and Stubb. The other Warlock variants are more significantly different from the published gamebooks, while The Dark Usurper is a whole new adventure (albeit an obscure one, having been serialised across 3 issues of White Dwarf).
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Post by terrysalt on Jul 30, 2023 0:24:35 GMT
As far as I can tell, there's no guides for me to play in lieu of the book for any of these so I'll abstain as I'll be choosing the other option for that week anyway.
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Post by hallucination on Jul 30, 2023 6:45:21 GMT
In each of the solution threads for warlock, caverns, and house of hell, guides for the magazine versions are posted following champskees’ guide for the book. I don’t have access to Dark Usurper, so my preference would be not that. I voted for Warlock, but really, I’d be cool with adding any of the 3 FF magazine versions.
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Post by kieran on Jul 30, 2023 8:37:29 GMT
I think the only one of these I own is Caverns so that I guess
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Post by CharlesX on Jul 30, 2023 8:41:43 GMT
I would have voted for Warlock Of Firetop Mountain as I'm a huge fan of that, not keen on Caverns, don't vote for obscure things like Dark Usurper and don't think the world of House Of Hell. I 100% agree though with Greenspine's sane suggestion people who haven't participated shouldn't be voting.
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Post by terrysalt on Jul 30, 2023 8:55:21 GMT
In each of the solution threads for warlock, caverns, and house of hell, guides for the magazine versions are posted following champskees’ guide for the book. I don’t have access to Dark Usurper, so my preference would be not that. I voted for Warlock, but really, I’d be cool with adding any of the 3 FF magazine versions. Oh, nice. Thanks for that.
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Post by evilwizard on Jul 30, 2023 19:17:24 GMT
I would prefer Dark Usurper as I've never seen / read / attempted it, however have no idea where to look for it. Otherwise, House of Hell is different enough to essentially be a different book.
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Post by a moderator on Aug 1, 2023 22:00:00 GMT
There is now a guide for The Dark Usurper here, so all options are equally playable-by-guide.
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Post by terrysalt on Aug 1, 2023 22:40:52 GMT
Thanks for that. I appreciate you putting in the effort to get the guide up so quickly.
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