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Post by lordomnibok on Dec 9, 2016 20:29:10 GMT
...how about pristine retro-style new editions of FF, with green spines? How beautiful would that be. I could finally get Magehunter without having to remortgage my house.
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Post by lordomnibok on Dec 2, 2016 14:40:27 GMT
Many years into the future, his work will still be inspiring readers and bringing joy to fans of this great genre. He wrote some of my favourite books. Well done Joe, rest in peace.
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Post by lordomnibok on Nov 13, 2016 9:31:08 GMT
I don't seem to be able to get your link to work. I read a while ago that he wanted to collaborate with Steve J. for the 35th anniversary. Is this still the case? If he's still musing over a sequel I'd pick CoT over forest or deathtrap, but if I had any choice, I'd like to see Freeway. Actually, he should just start bringing out a new book every couple of years or so. He says he loves writing them, and we love reading them, so why not! Just please, not another BotZ, not too linear, and make sure it can be completed VIA THE RULES! Those would be my only requests.
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Post by lordomnibok on Nov 11, 2016 9:13:06 GMT
Just a quick question : Is it ok to use the fighting fantasy logo on the site or am i making some sort of infrigment, toughts please? I think Phil is probably right on this, but I'm pretty sure you would be in infringement territory nonetheless. Some companies are really hot on this sort of thing - like Disney - whilst other brands are more relaxed. I've had my knuckle's rapped by Warner Brothers before over something similar (naughty me), so you have three options as I see it. Ask them first. Don't do it. Or take a chance, but be prepared to remove it if they ask you to do so. I imagine you would be okay with FF, but after my run in with Warner Bros. I've learnt that its not always the best thing to make assumptions. (They just told me to remove it or else they would take action. So i removed it. Fast. Then all was good.) Hope this helps.
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Post by lordomnibok on Oct 30, 2016 0:32:55 GMT
Hopefully it didn't sound like I was legitimising the difficulty level of this book, I just meant that I still found some enjoyment in surviving for as long as I could via the rules, despite the inevitable doom that awaited. I fortunately had the advantage of knowing that Crypt was unbeatable when i first played it, so my ambitions towards it were set differently from the start. Botz also seemed insanely hard to me, so hopefully Livingstone will ease back on the overpowered mandatory fights in his next book. Botz 2 featuring Razaak would not be on my Christmas wish list.
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Post by lordomnibok on Oct 29, 2016 17:47:44 GMT
Thanks for clearing that up Champskees, I forgot about the box. To be honest, I don't see that it makes much difference - without cheating, the book is impossible anyway. Although I agree with this, i do have a different perspective on your comment. Crypt does mirror real life, if only in the sense that it presents some challenges that seem beyond the limits of the individual to overcome. As long as the reader knows that the book's odds are stacked against them, the challenge then comes from seeing how far you can legitimately get before dying or cheating. i.e. There is still a satisfaction in giving your hero all the best possible chances for survival.
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Post by lordomnibok on Oct 24, 2016 22:57:28 GMT
can't remember too well but i think it was something like a glass globe containing vapours you have to inhale to protect you against Razaak's fire attack. Could be. Not that it would help you in the slightest against the most disgusting and unplaytested 'boss' in FF history. Hi Phil. Every time you mention Razaak, I get the feeling that he might have ruined your childhood. Joking aside though, I agree that it is amazing that any book of this ilk could be published without a proper play test of AT LEAST the one true path. That said, I still enjoyed Crypt, even if I was eventually forced to cheat like a maniac to get through it. P.S. Hats off as always to Champskees for his walkthroughs.
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Post by lordomnibok on Oct 20, 2016 22:36:13 GMT
Nice site offm. Thank you for your hard work. I took a break from marking to have a quick go on one of the adventures. It looks good, so you can be assured that I'll be back for more, (especially as its half term next week.)
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Post by lordomnibok on Oct 2, 2016 23:28:28 GMT
Agreed. By using Tammy’s method, it usually takes me three edits to create a decent piece of work. After that I get someone else to read it, and they always find some little thing that I’ve missed. If someone were to create a decent sized book and eradicate every single tiny error from it themselves, I would have to bow to their god-like powers. I certainly have never been able to do it.
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Post by lordomnibok on Sept 29, 2016 20:48:08 GMT
I've felt and i've won Slaves of the Abyss yesterday. Fantastic book. Extremely complete. I do not agree with Paul Mason, at least with some opinion i've read from him somewhere, i think, calling this book weird. This is an amazing and fantastic book, by far his number one masterpiece. Bythos could be more charismatic, though. I haven't read this book since I was a kid, and I have no memory of its plot at all. I just picked it up again on the basis of your enthusiastic post. I do love your passion for FF, Vagsancho, I hope you never loose your zest for it.
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Post by lordomnibok on Sept 29, 2016 17:54:14 GMT
You said it is far too easy to "read what you know it's supposed to say." Quite right. That is why it is so difficult for writers to proof read their own work. But you did a good job. Glad you liked the review.
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Post by lordomnibok on Sept 28, 2016 16:23:10 GMT
I forgot to ask. I'm curious as to how long this took you to write and edit.
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Post by lordomnibok on Sept 26, 2016 17:52:44 GMT
Hi Mudworm, here are my thoughts as promised. Your writing style has a lovely flow, and this infuses the whole experience with an immersive quality. Your pages also seemed the perfect length to me; good, tight editing has allowed you to say more with less, and the descriptions are great. The plot was both creative and uniquely funny - it had something of Dougherty’s Krampus about it – and though it is fair to say that one man’s meat is another man’s gravy, the humour was perfect for my taste. The replay value was also good; you had just sixty two pages, yet on the fourth read I was still stumbling into new areas. I also found the difficulty well balanced; I am an unlucky roller with the dice - a poor trait for a gamebook fan - but certain artefacts helped me negate this tendency towards bad luck.
To conclude, I think you’ve done an excellent job. At sixty odd refs, a time-poor gamer can still get into it, and it was a great mini adventure. I would definitely recommend that others give it a go. I’d probably have even bought it and put it on my shelf, were it in the shops.
I did find a couple of SUPER TINY errors, missing words and the like. If you want to polish your diamond, let me know and I’ll message you what I found. I won’t be able to do it immediately though, as I have a heap of stuff to do in the coming week. Thanks again for posting up this story. I thoroughly enjoyed it.
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Post by lordomnibok on Sept 24, 2016 0:05:36 GMT
Hi Mudworm. I've just completed my second play through of this. I got my dice out and tackled it as per the rules, with no cheating. By the skin of my teeth, I just about made it through on my second go, but my Comfort & Joy points came out pretty low. Hopefully I'll have time to write a short review in the future, to share my thoughts, but I want to better my score first. I found the initial run throughs really enjoyable. Thank you for sharing this, its a great little adventure.
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Post by lordomnibok on Sept 15, 2016 22:11:14 GMT
Writing just one decent gamebook takes a commendable effort and a lot of resolve. It is clear from your book’s intro that a lot of love has gone into it; the beginning flows nicely on from its predecessor, with a compelling start which is nicely written. I see that a few people on here have written gamebooks, and I genuinely respect anyone who takes on a challenge of this scope; it shows a great love for a great genre.
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Post by lordomnibok on Sept 15, 2016 17:30:31 GMT
Yes, McKenna is one of my favourite illustrators too. I take pains to avoid looking at the drawings until I reach the corresponding text, that way the artwork is a surprise and feels ‘of the moment,’ enhancing the atmosphere of each book. I wonder if many other people do this too? As McKenna was hired for this one, I may well agree with your sentiments when I start reading it tomorrow.
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Post by lordomnibok on Sept 15, 2016 7:16:37 GMT
[/quote]Don't forget to go online and check out the various errors in it, otherwise the book may prove too much. By the way, it's still a classic. [/quote]
It's good to hear you liked it. I checked out the 'game breaking' error, so thanks for the tip. As for the rest, I'm going to go it alone. I'll be patient and forgiving with its technical faults, as long as it is well crafted in other respects, which I imagine it will be. (whoops. I messed up that quote. I'll sort that out later)
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Post by lordomnibok on Sept 14, 2016 23:05:45 GMT
"In the near times" I intend to read revenge of the vampire. Its one of the few ff books I haven't read, and as Vault was such a classic I'm hoping for good things. Plus my girlfriend nearly decapitated me when she found out how much I had paid for it, so it had better be fairly decent. Gamebooks aside though, I wouldn't mind re-reading Waylander. It was my favourite book as a kid, along with TLOTR, so it might be nice to see how it measures up from an adult perspective
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Post by lordomnibok on Sept 14, 2016 18:37:20 GMT
I recently read Hound of the Baskervilles, a very nicely written/structured piece of literature; I can see why it is so well loved. Prior to that, I probably haven't read anything other than gamebooks for about a year. I’m basically a gamebook addict.
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Post by lordomnibok on Sept 8, 2016 9:42:54 GMT
Thanks for the welcome, I've been a fan of this site for a long time so its nice to be engaging with it. Regarding this thread, it did put a smile on my face after a long day at work; I found the notion of "starving in a Rentarn loop" hilarious, and the WalkDoom/lemmingthrough comments mad me laugh out loud. Thanks all.
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Post by lordomnibok on Sept 7, 2016 16:53:12 GMT
I was being a little facetious . Crimson tide was great in many ways, just a bit to hard in my opinion. Greenspine is right though, cypyt would trump it on that basis
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Post by lordomnibok on Sept 6, 2016 18:31:57 GMT
Surely the swiftest route to failure in any ff book goes to the crimson tide. You pick it up without a walkthrough. You are dead before you open the book.
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