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Post by johnbrawn1972 on Sept 20, 2023 15:10:20 GMT
This is asking a lot but is there anyone who can see if my Howl of the Werewolf solution reaches 20% chance of success and also if Stormslayer reaches 75% chance of success. I would do it myself but my mathematics is not really up to completing something so technical. I know this is a bit of an ask. These have been my hobby horses of recent times. This would definitely be too time consuming for me to do that, I'm sorry. Anyway, the answer would depend on your policy of using luck in each fight, which is not mentioned in your solution. Thank for the reply. I am pretty deterministic about using luck so I usually specify in my solutions. I tend to specify when to use luck according to the Jon Virgo doctrine of it being a shot to nothing in his happy phrase. I was just wondering if someone had coded a solution and then could mutatis mutandis a solution according to my variables.
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Post by CharlesX on Oct 2, 2023 14:07:08 GMT
Do people still believe in the fake virus? It seemed real when I caught it after multiple vaccine shots. Some people don't believe the war is real either. Presumably they make the anti-virus\vaccine crowd look like Mensa.
And I just caught the 'fake' virus again. So, either I've walked through a wall twice, or this virus isn't fake.
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Post by kieran on Feb 16, 2024 20:23:04 GMT
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Post by scouserob on Feb 16, 2024 20:41:13 GMT
Wow! Exciting news! π Thanks for the heads up Kieran.
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Post by kieran on Mar 28, 2024 14:49:16 GMT
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Post by trialmaster on Mar 28, 2024 15:04:47 GMT
Exciting news! Lets hope it's another classic π
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Post by scouserob on Mar 28, 2024 18:19:28 GMT
Wow!
Here is the synopsis from Amazon:
Book overview Are YOU brave enough to enter the Dungeon of Despair? Jealous of the fame and fortune that Baron Sukumvit's Deathtrap Dungeon has brought him, his brother Lord Carnuss spends five years using an army of slaves to build the ultimate dungeon challenge on Blood Island.
Offering a prize of the Golden Orb of Fang, he challenges all-comers to risk their lives to find the Golden Orb and escape with it alive.
Filled with deadly creatures, lethal traps, and horrific surprises, danger lurks at every turn.
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Post by kieran on Mar 28, 2024 19:09:26 GMT
Wow! Here is the synopsis from Amazon: Book overview Are YOU brave enough to enter the Dungeon of Despair? Jealous of the fame and fortune that Baron Sukumvit's Deathtrap Dungeon has brought him, his brother Lord Carnuss spends five years using an army of slaves to build the ultimate dungeon challenge on Blood Island. Offering a prize of the Golden Orb of Fang, he challenges all-comers to risk their lives to find the Golden Orb and escape with it alive. Filled with deadly creatures, lethal traps, and horrific surprises, danger lurks at every turn. So before he tried to embarrass his brother by finding someone to beat his Dungeon, Carnuss first made his own I Can't Believe It's Not Deathtrap Dungeon?
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Post by scouserob on Mar 28, 2024 19:15:05 GMT
To get even more in the mood for an Ian Livingstone, Deathtrap Dungeon sequel, gamebook here is some Fighting Fantasy art. So Iain McCaig is doing the cover art, it is reasonable to expect something special there. Don't need much of an excuse to bask in the glories of past McCaig cover art so: The internal illustrations will be by KrisztiΓ‘n Balla who did the internal illustrations for the Hungarian Version of Assassins of Allansia. (These are also the illustrations used in the Tin Man Games Fighting Fantasy Classics version of Assassins of Allansia.) For a Deathtrap Dungeon link, that would be our old mate Throm on the right.
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Post by blueswift on Mar 29, 2024 0:05:19 GMT
On February 16th, Ian announced that he began writing a new Fighting Fantasy book and then announced on March 28th that he has written The Dungeon on Blood Island. How plausible do you think it is that the book he referred to on February 16th is NOT The Dungeon on Blood Island? Feb 16 to March 28 strikes me as a super fast completion time for a 400 section adventure. Barely over a month. If he locked himself away and worked at it many hours a day with hardcore concentration then maybe a short period of writing time like this would be possible. Your thoughts?
Either way, exciting news though!
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Post by The Editor (Alex B) on Mar 29, 2024 4:22:24 GMT
Thatβs roughly 13 refs a day.
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Post by paperexplorer on Mar 29, 2024 7:03:51 GMT
If he had everything plotted out already, it is plausible. If you have nothing to do but write, it is possible to pump out a book in a little over a month. Hopefully it was inspired
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Post by kieran on Mar 29, 2024 8:23:12 GMT
On February 16th, Ian announced that he began writing a new Fighting Fantasy book and then announced on March 28th that he has written The Dungeon on Blood Island. How plausible do you think it is that the book he referred to on February 16th is NOT The Dungeon on Blood Island? Feb 16 to March 28 strikes me as a super fast completion time for a 400 section adventure. Barely over a month. If he locked himself away and worked at it many hours a day with hardcore concentration then maybe a short period of writing time like this would be possible. Your thoughts? Either way, exciting news though! If he'd already done all the planning and mapping before 16 Feb and assuming there's still further refining and playtesting to be done, it would be hard work but doable.
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Post by CharlesX on Mar 29, 2024 8:39:05 GMT
On February 16th, Ian announced that he began writing a new Fighting Fantasy book and then announced on March 28th that he has written The Dungeon on Blood Island. How plausible do you think it is that the book he referred to on February 16th is NOT The Dungeon on Blood Island? Feb 16 to March 28 strikes me as a super fast completion time for a 400 section adventure. Barely over a month. If he locked himself away and worked at it many hours a day with hardcore concentration then maybe a short period of writing time like this would be possible. Your thoughts? Either way, exciting news though! OT but I think many\most professional writers would write faster than that. As well as being foreplanned, Sir Ian has never been one for long description in the way Steve J (UK) has, or complicated rules in the way of Jon G.
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Post by kieran on Aug 8, 2024 20:46:40 GMT
Just saw this on Facebook
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Post by scouserob on Aug 8, 2024 21:08:16 GMT
Thanks Kieron The cover picture is on Amazon now as well. It is giving me genestealer vibes. I like it. πππ»
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Post by Wildy on Aug 9, 2024 1:07:32 GMT
I wonder if the hardcover will come with a different cover or if it will receive same treatment as the latest Shadow of Giants book.
Itβs a good cover but not very dungeony or blood Islandy. Maybe a throwback to the original DD cover showing a single monster.
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Post by hallucination on Aug 9, 2024 8:24:02 GMT
That would be cool, but over at the official site the update says the hardback will have the same cover art as paperback (but an updated map?)
Still, love this cover.
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Post by misomiso on Aug 9, 2024 11:24:15 GMT
Can you link that hardback news story? Are we definately getting one?
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Post by drmanhattan on Aug 9, 2024 11:29:38 GMT
bit sad that both the title and cover don't really call out the original book.
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Post by scouserob on Aug 9, 2024 11:34:29 GMT
Can you link that hardback news story? Are we definately getting one? FightingFantasy.com Blog: The Dungeon on Blood Island - 09/08/2024
Not only that, but there will be a limited number of signed and numbered hardbacks of Sir Ian's new gamebook on sale on the day. The dustjacket cover art is the same as the paperback but on the back, there is an updated map of Allansia by everyone's favourite FF cartographer Leo Hartas.
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Post by CharlesX on Aug 9, 2024 13:40:45 GMT
bit sad that both the title and cover don't really call out the original book. It might just be me but the distinctive monster on the cover calls out like the Bloodbeast in DD (which was a great monster but a bit loophole-ridden and not the best). The title includes the word Dungeon like the original so how could that not be a call out? Knowing marketing and AI it wouldn't surprise me if the monster didn't feature, or at least, wasn't on the optimum path. As Kieran remarks it wouldn't surprise me either if a number of the contestants in line didn't feature\were eliminated before entry; I do hope they won't be by numbers enemies like Assassins Of Allansia.
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Post by Per on Aug 9, 2024 13:47:00 GMT
The title includes the word Dungeon like the original Does it though? Leaning back and squinting at it from a counterclockwise oblique angle, it definitely seems to be called "Blood Island".
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Post by CharlesX on Aug 9, 2024 14:39:43 GMT
The title includes the word Dungeon like the original Does it though? Leaning back and squinting at it from a counterclockwise oblique angle, it definitely seems to be called "Blood Island". Several key words, a whole majority, are in small print. It's like calling The Lord Of The Rings The Lord Of The Rings (yes, it irritates me when Americans do that). The Warlock of Firetop Mountain
Somehow feels incorrect even if the way the author would prefer.
Hey, maybe the hardback edition would feature the other words more prominently ?
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Post by philsadler on Aug 9, 2024 15:38:32 GMT
Don't know why he just didn't call it 'Blood Island'. A good title that's less of a mouthful.
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Post by tyrion on Aug 9, 2024 22:36:53 GMT
Don't know why he just didn't call it 'Blood Island'. A good title that's less of a mouthful. Because then it wouldn't follow the naming convention of 'thing of bad thing'
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Post by drmanhattan on Aug 11, 2024 9:46:15 GMT
Yeah, I don't like it, but maybe my memory is hazy. Is "Blood Island" something that was mentioned in DD/ToC?
ToC was a great "new" name that still tied into the original book, since it described the thing we are all doing there.
If I walked past this book I would have no idea it was supposed to be DD3, which is the feeling I would want the cover and title to convey, either explicitly or if not the boring option like DD3 then something that clearly "implies it". I do not get that from this image or BLOOD ISLAND (even if the word Dungeon is on there in small, DUNGEON OF BLOOD ISLAND does not say to me "we're going back to Deathtrap Dungeon"
(again, maybe I just forgetting Blood Island in earlier canon, fill me in if I have please)
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Post by kieran on Aug 11, 2024 11:15:12 GMT
Yeah, I don't like it, but maybe my memory is hazy. Is "Blood Island" something that was mentioned in DD/ToC? Blood Island was where Carnuss' arena of death was based in Trial of Champions.
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Post by blueswift on Aug 11, 2024 18:57:20 GMT
Yeah, I don't like it, but maybe my memory is hazy. Is "Blood Island" something that was mentioned in DD/ToC? ToC was a great "new" name that still tied into the original book, since it described the thing we are all doing there. If I walked past this book I would have no idea it was supposed to be DD3, which is the feeling I would want the cover and title to convey, either explicitly or if not the boring option like DD3 then something that clearly "implies it". I do not get that from this image or BLOOD ISLAND (even if the word Dungeon is on there in small, DUNGEON OF BLOOD ISLAND does not say to me "we're going back to Deathtrap Dungeon" (again, maybe I just forgetting Blood Island in earlier canon, fill me in if I have please) How would you feel about the title "Blood Island Deathtrap"? How about for the cover art: two bloodbeasts side by side in a slime pool, their evil eyes looking hungrily at the observer?
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Post by CharlesX on Aug 11, 2024 19:05:50 GMT
Yeah, I don't like it, but maybe my memory is hazy. Is "Blood Island" something that was mentioned in DD/ToC? ToC was a great "new" name that still tied into the original book, since it described the thing we are all doing there. If I walked past this book I would have no idea it was supposed to be DD3, which is the feeling I would want the cover and title to convey, either explicitly or if not the boring option like DD3 then something that clearly "implies it". I do not get that from this image or BLOOD ISLAND (even if the word Dungeon is on there in small, DUNGEON OF BLOOD ISLAND does not say to me "we're going back to Deathtrap Dungeon" (again, maybe I just forgetting Blood Island in earlier canon, fill me in if I have please) How would you feel about the title "Blood Island Deathtrap"? How about for the cover art: two bloodbeasts side by side in a slime pool, their evil eyes looking hungrily at the observer? There might well be no bloodbeasts in the gamebook. Also the word Deathtrap might lead to the equally wrong impression the Dungeon is Sukumvit's not Carnuss's. I'm personally looking forward to taking on Carnuss, I'm hoping Ian won't be a semi-sycophant about him the way he's been about Lord Azzur.
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