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Post by sylas on Nov 19, 2023 21:29:37 GMT
FF is a system that involves dice for attributes so the range you're gonna get is already set from the get go. There are very few FF books that got the balance exactly right, possibly not one due to this. The book will be either too easy or too hard for the most part. Point-buy system is likely the most balanced way forward but I doubt more FF books will apply the Secrets of Salamonis system and even then, that can also be disadvantage. After all, who ISN'T going to put all their points into Skill? Those who do will think the adventure too easy; those who don't will find it near impossible. See what I mean? If anything, this is one of the reasons I give higher praise to Demons of the Deep and Stealer of Souls because those at least try to reward a weaker hero with more benefits in combat so the right mindset was there.
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Post by sylas on Oct 31, 2023 23:47:29 GMT
Cheers greenspine. That was a fun one.
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Post by sylas on Oct 31, 2023 20:21:42 GMT
I picked Shekou for being so prominent nobody in their right mind would choose him, considered swapping to the Second Skeleton because skeleton, but stuck with my (and everybody else's) first impulse. That was my mind set for Q2. Glad I missed the train wreck in Q6.
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Post by sylas on Oct 30, 2023 21:37:32 GMT
£50 for a hardback Assassins of Allansia.
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Post by sylas on Oct 19, 2023 19:14:59 GMT
Iron Cyclops with Bum-Face stylee on its cheeks.
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Post by sylas on Oct 18, 2023 19:08:47 GMT
One of the lowest ratings I've seen for Dead of Night.
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Post by sylas on Oct 15, 2023 21:16:17 GMT
I have just seen an interview with Ian Livingstone that took place yesterday for World Gamebook day in which he has provided the biggest hint yet that he is planning to write a sequel or prequel to Deathtrap Dungeon. He intimated that it is likely to happen to celebrate the 40th anniversary of the original release of DD next year and its release will presumably coincide with FF Fest 5, due to take place in Sept 2024. Any thoughts? I'd be thrilled to have DD3 from Ian considering his recent contributions have been quite fair in gameplay as opposed to his notorious earlier ones. I just hope it includes an original idea or twist behind it rather than a rehash of its predecessors or another basic generic dungeon.
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Post by sylas on Oct 5, 2023 17:05:00 GMT
Been busy lately but do mean to join in at some point.
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Post by sylas on Oct 3, 2023 13:31:10 GMT
Updated. Down to 6/75 books.
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Post by sylas on Sept 30, 2023 15:26:30 GMT
Compiling everyone's research, we only have 6 out of 75 books where you can see all the art in a single successful playthrough, including books which require loops and ambiguous mechanics to do it.
1. Warlock of Firetop Mountain (No. The Giant Spider and Cyclops are on separate routes.) 2. Citadel of Chaos (No. The tentacle and the group by the fire are on separate routes.) 3. Forest of Doom (I think you can. There are no death paragraph illustrations, so you can loop through everything.) 4. Starship Traveller (No. Beaming down to the water planet is not on the winning route.) 5. City of Thieves (No. The Lizardine and Mad Man are on separate routes/streets.) 6. Deathtrap Dungeon (No. The Mirror Demon is not on a winning route.) 7. Island of the Lizard King (No. The Water Elemental and the Bear are on separate routes.) 8. Scorpion Swamp (No the cool hooded figure that blows up Grimslade's tower is not on a winning route.) 9. Caverns of the Snow Witch (No. Redswift's brother, Ash, and the Night Stalker are on separate routes.) 10. House of Hell (No. The Ghoul in the kitchen is not on a winning route.) 11. Talisman of Death (I think you can, with the loops back to the Rift and outside of Greyguilds.) 12. Space Assassin (No. The Deity and the Cephalo Squirrels are on separate routes.) 13. Freeway Fighter (No. The rat man is not on a winning route.) 14. Temple of Terror (No. The desert rider and the Sand Snapper are on separate routes.) 15. The Rings of Kether (No. The pair of 'Blaster' Babbets and the exploding asteroid are on separate routes.) 16. Seas of Blood (No. The war galleys and the Roc are on separate routes.) 17. Appointment with F.E.A.R. (No. The Macro Brain and the presidential assassination are on separate routes.) 18. Rebel Planet - the Sewers, House of Stolen Goods, People Throwing Blocks at the Arcadians are all on different paths 19. Demons of the Deep (No. The picture of the 2 Deep Ones guarding the palace is only shown if you attack them, after which you will not get to meet their king, and so won't see his picture.) 20. Sword of the Samurai (No. Yoro Ginsei and Moichi are on separate routes.) 21. Trial of Champions (No. The Mind Warp Beast is not on a winning route.) 22. Robot Commando: I thought we had a chance with this one, but 312 is a picture of our robot sinking into the swamp 23. Masks of Mayhem (No. The Kraken and the spectres of its victims are on separate routes.) 24. Creature of Havoc (No. Dree is not on the winning route.) 25. Beneath Nightmare Castle (No. The Stone-drop game is not on a winning route.) 26. Crypt of the Sorcerer (No. The Black Fairy is not on a winning route.) 27. Star Strider (No. The picture of the Grom with an illusory monster head at section 54 cannot be reached if you fight the GromPol Androids at section 385 who are also pictured.) 28. Phantoms of Fear (No. The picture displaying Istra in his goat-crocodile form is directly at at bad ending.) 29. Midnight Rogue (No, the picture of the servant sending the dog at you in Brass' house leads inevitably to Game Over) 30. Chasms of Malice (No. The Khuddam and accompanying Orcs, Trolls etc. are not on a winning route.) 31. Battleblade Warrior – the Lizardman Priest, Lizardman Woman and Lizardmen siege engines are on different paths 32. Slaves of the Abyss (No. The eponymous slaves are not on a winning route.) 33. Sky Lord - the Scorbeetle and Prefecta are on different paths 34. Stealer of Souls (You can't see both the stone golem at 274 and the beetle at 365 in the same playthrough.) 35. Daggers of Darkness (No, you can't enter more than 1 maze in a single playthrough, and there's at least 1 picture involving each of the 3 mazes in the book) 36. Armies of Death (No. The Medusa is not on a winning route.) 37. Portal of Evil (No. Dryads not on winning path) 38. Vault of the Vampire (No. Valderesse the Ranger and the dead Werewolf are on separate routes.) 39. Fangs of Fury - the Horned Devil and Elf with Wings are on different paths 40. Dead of Night (No. The sword of Demon-Slaying and the prison of the Netherworld Sorcerers are on separate routes.) 41. Master of Chaos (No. The Chaos Manticore and Captain Grotniss are on separate routes.) 42. Black Vein Prophecy (No. Feior and army not on winning path) 43. Keep of the Lich Lord (Surprisingly no, although this one came close: seeing the picture of Elindora means that Kandagor is not with you, which means you won't see the picture of Lady Lotmora and her followers, even though you can still find and kill them.) 44. Legend of the Shadow Warriors (No. The Orcs of the Black Scorpion and the Nightmare Master are on separate routes.) 45. Spectral Stalkers (Another very close one, the design is such that you can go through almost every encounter...BUT I think the Vaskinds and the Mantir/Colepod encounter are the very rare mutually exclusive ones...and both of these feature a picture.) 46. Tower of Destruction - the Ice Demon and Polar Bear are on different paths 47. The Crimson Tide (No. The monks and the bandits are on separate paths) 48. Moonrunner (No. Fool's Gold mannequin not on winning path neither can you meet the Shocker and go to Penkhull) 49. Siege of Sardath (No. The picture of Fangnir's wagon being destroyed can only be reached if you made the choice that prevents him from giving you his book of which content is featured in another picture.) 50. Return to Firetop Mountain (No. The Inquisitor and the Chaos Slime Beast are on separate routes.) 51. Island of the Undead - the Swamp Alligator and Mutant Lizard Men are on different paths 52. Night Dragon: Bagghurd on 204 and the Snow Wolves on 250 are on separate paths. 53. Spellbreaker (No. The hags on broomsticks and the rats in the burning barn are on separate routes.) 54. Legend of Zagor – Yes I think you can 55. Deathmoor (No. The picture of the crone selling "lucky heathers" and of the gambling wheel in the Elfbane Bar are on mutually exclusive options.) 56. Knights of Doom (No. The Beast Man Champion and the Wicker Man are on separate paths) 57. Magehunter (No. I think a good number of pics are on very separate paths) 58. Revenge of the Vampire (No. The bat spectre and the (were)wolf are on mutually exclusive paths. 59. Curse of the Mummy (No. If you see the picture of Cranno's sabre-tooth tiger, you're on the path to delayed Game Over since you will miss getting an essential item from him after killing his pet.) 60. Eye of the Dragon (No. Ian Duckseller and Skeleton King are not on winning path) 61. Bloodbones (You can't encounter the Giant Chameleon and the Praying Mantis in one winning attempt) 62. Howl of the Werewolf - the Headless Highwayman, Water Wyrd and Vampire Hunter are on different paths 63. Stormslayer - There are at least 8 pictures in Stormeslayer for the "encounters going from one area to another", and you can't travel that much, so that one's out too. 64. Night of the Necromancer - No there are many different illustrations that are not on the same path. 65. Blood of the Zombies (No. If you see the armour and Ian Livingstone's bust (Ooh Matron!) then you have missed a Zombie.) 66. Port of Peril - Yes I think you could see them all on one run though it would be very hard. 67. Gates of Death (the fail ending where you're slaughtered by the demonic army (reference 436) has a large illustration, so that's out.) 68. Assassins of Allansia - No the sleeping man under the tree is the only one not on the true path. 69. Crystal of Storms - you would need to take advantage of the broken structure of the book to revisit islands: if your home island is Altos, you can't reach the pictures of Flapps and of Galen; if your home island is Cumulus, you can't reach the picture of the Tunneller. Thus, your home island must be Cirrus. But, I think the picture of the lightning dragon thing is only available if you take the bridge from Cumulus to Cirrus, meaning you have to visit Cirrus at least twice. 70. Secrets of Salamonis - You can see all illustrations but not on the same run. 71. Shadow of the Giants (Yes you can. No loops required.)
S1. The Shamutanti Hills (No. The Elvins throwing acorns and the Ogre in the mines are on separate routes.) S2. Kharé: Cityport of Traps (No. The fish in the fountain and the Living Corpse are on separate routes.) S3. The Seven Serpents (No. The snake charmer and the Baddu Beetle are on separate routes.) S4. The Crown of Kings (No. If you see Naggamanteh's quarters then you get locked in, which is not on the winning route.)
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Post by sylas on Sept 24, 2023 21:27:02 GMT
56. Knights of Doom (No. The Beast Man Champion and the Wicker Man are on separate paths) 60. Eye of the Dragon (No. Ian Duckseller and Skeleton King are not on winning path)
Only ones left to be checked are:
18. Rebel Planet 31. Battleblade Warrior 33. Sky Lord 39. Fangs of Fury 46. Tower of Destruction 51. Island of the Undead 62. Howl of the Werewolf 63. Stormslayer 69. Crystal of Storms
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Post by sylas on Sept 23, 2023 20:20:33 GMT
Anyone want to take the baton from here?
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Post by sylas on Sept 23, 2023 17:51:53 GMT
I don't remember seeing or reading about any shark-man executioners but I suppose it could be interpreted any way you want. Should the covers of FF books be literal depictions of scenes that appear within? The original cover brief for Magehunter was for the Pit Fiend encounter, which was also the subject of an internal picture. Since the two didn't resemble each other in the slightest, and it also became evident that the Pit Fiend encounter in no way represented what Magehunter was about, a lucky second chance led to the Roc/Flying Serpent encounter, which was a bit more like it (also, the Pit Fiend arena would have looked too much like Trial of Champions). But surely the purpose of the cover is to be an arresting image that somehow conveys what the book is about? I always thought Slaves of the Abyss did this really well (Steve Williams did that cover brief), and that wasn't really an actual scene from the book (though I think it sort of got shoehorned in). I must admit that, especially after the Riddling Reaver cover debacle, I hated the covers which were basically just a monster standing there looking menacing. Even though Moonrunner is one of my favourite books, its cover is just another 'Here's the monster' effort. Phantoms of Fear sort of does this, but I think it's forgivable because it's so weird. Very few covers break away from the rigid pattern -- maybe original Warlock and Spectral Stalkers are two examples? -- and I don't think the abject failure of Black Vein Prophecy is a criticism of trying to do something different, just testimony to my shit abilities at writing cover briefs. Crimson Tide, again, suffers from me being rubbish at cover briefs, though I'd learned a little from Black Vein Prophecy. But do you really read these books waiting for the cover scene to pop up? The cover of Crimson Tide was there to tell the reader that the book took place in an Asian-influenced setting, and one in which societal concepts were more important that in most FF. Anyone with any knowledge of Chinese mythology would recognise it as riffing on the tribunal of hell, where the deceased would be judged by the Yama King in a sort of grotesque parody of the earthly courts. And that gets to the heart of what each run through of an FF book is: until you succeed, you generally end up dying, and that implicitly involves judgement. So I still argue that The Crimson Tide cover is not the slightest bit misleading, but gives a pretty clear impression of what the book contains. Not literally, of a single scene. But overall. The majority of the FF covers are depictions of either scenes or encounters of what's in the adventures or a blend of both where an encounter might be depicted in a different setting that happens elsewhere in the book. Don't get me wrong, I do like the cover of The Crimson Tide and know a bit on Chinese mythology (being Chinese helps) so I appreciated the inclusion of such figures as the Ox-Head and Horse-Face, but again, it's the Shark-Man guards that I thought were very out of place.
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Post by sylas on Sept 22, 2023 18:25:48 GMT
Do you know why something like that happens? Even my portuguese versions, which are themselves reprints of the english originals, have this problem. It's probably easier\cheaper to reprint that way especially on the lower-quality paper. The publishers don't give a flying hoot about clues hidden in the book as we know. Sorry my commenting here is just guesswork.
The Wizard reprints had good quality paper. It might have been more a case of somehow not having the original scans of the artwork or maybe they used a lower resolution scan? I'm not sure.
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Post by sylas on Sept 22, 2023 17:20:43 GMT
Very normal unfortunately and causes issues when needing to see the details is important such as the Bronze Statue in Sorcery!2 has a weak spot which can be clearly seen in the original print but is barely visible in the reprint, or the Minderbender illustration in Return to Firetop Mountain where you are required to count the tiny coins which becomes difficult when you can't separate one from another.
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Post by sylas on Sept 21, 2023 15:13:41 GMT
Island of the Undead is quite misleading too as was The Crimson Tide. What's misleading about The Crimson Tide? The cover is illustrating the single most common ending of the whole book (you die, and appear before the Tribunal of Hell). I don't remember seeing or reading about any shark-man executioners but I suppose it could be interpreted any way you want.
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Post by sylas on Sept 21, 2023 14:46:25 GMT
Bloodbones - No the Giant Mosquito is not on the true path. Night of the Necromancer - No there are many different illustrations that are not on the same path. Possibly you could see all of them on multiple tryings of the book winning each time but not all on one run. Port of Peril - Yes I think you could see them all on one run though it would be very hard. Assassin's of Allansia - No the sleeping man under the tree is the only one not on the true path. Secrets of Salamonis - Yes if you do it multiple times. You can see all illustrations but not on the same run. The Giant Mosquito IS on a winning path. But I think you can't encounter the Giant Chameleon and the Praying Mantis in one winning attempt.
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Post by sylas on Sept 20, 2023 16:30:12 GMT
A few more negatives:
37. Portal of Evil (No. Dryads not on winning path) 42. Black Vein Prophecy (No. Feior and army not on winning path) 47. The Crimson Tide (No. The monks and the bandits are on separate paths) 48. Moonrunner (No. Fool's Gold mannequin not on winning path neither can you meet the Shocker and go to Penkhull) 57. Magehunter (No. I think a good number of pics are on very separate paths)
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Post by sylas on Sept 16, 2023 13:26:45 GMT
I'll be in the minority but I don't really like the cover for Howl of the Werewolf. The arms look weird, especially the left one and its positioning leaves a lot of empty space where the moon is. Speaking of which, I think Martin Mckenna used the exact same moon for Talisman of Death but rotated a little. It also looks remarkably like Earth's moon even though it's supposed to be for Titan and Orb.
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Post by sylas on Sept 16, 2023 13:16:47 GMT
I still hate it, but I appreciate the effort you put into solving this.
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Post by sylas on Sept 16, 2023 13:12:03 GMT
Two things I just thought about : 1) It is forbidden to use meals (Rules) and salve (248) during battles. It is not for using healing potions (80 and 193) and 300 indicates that you definitely can. 2) It is not forbidden to wear the breastplate (177 or 248) and the magical chainmail (85) together. This would reduce your damage by 2 in each fight... 1) By the rules (or rather lack of them) you are correct, though I never do use them in battle because I don't feel right about it. I think only Warlock of Firetop Mountain is the other book that allows this although that one feels more like an oversight. This one does too tbh. 2) This has been spotted before. Again, it's not a strategy I'd personally use even though it is allowed. It also makes many battles incredibly tedious and drawn out. Imagine rolling bad when facing Belgaroth's group of Chaos Knights and you are armed with the Spear. You'd all be toothpicking away at each other doing 1 damage per hit over 100 attack rounds!
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Post by sylas on Sept 16, 2023 8:59:06 GMT
From a story perspective, starting at Secrets of Salamonis is a good place to start a single play through character. Assuming you finish with sk 11, st 12, luck 6, and the 'lucky' blessing works only until the end of that quest, you can assign Amonour points for saving Prince Jared and continue building your character by adding to the starting stats at the end of each quest. Return Prince Jared - 6 Amonour points Kill Balthus Dire - 8 Amonour points Find lost hammer of Stonebridge - 4 Amonour points Defeat Zanbar Bone, stop Malbordus, etc Rules around items or armour should carry across books. Eventually you get a maxed out hero, at which point you also should have enough items with attack strength modifiers that maybe, just maybe, you can take on Razaak. Even a maxed out hero can die through getting stung by too many Harpoon Flies or the many instances of 'roll this or die' before you get anywhere near Razaak.
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Post by sylas on Sept 15, 2023 18:50:36 GMT
Island of the Undead is quite misleading too as was The Crimson Tide.
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Post by sylas on Sept 14, 2023 21:07:48 GMT
Only picked 3. Shadow Warriors has always been a standout for me. Also went for Moonrunner and Les Firetop Mountain. Not too fond of the others really.
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Post by sylas on Sept 11, 2023 15:30:58 GMT
Didn't Les Edwards do both covers for COTSW? Les Edwards did do the second. I will be releasing part 2 of the poll today. Just checked. Les Edwards did the covers for both the Puffin and the Wizard editions.
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Post by sylas on Sept 9, 2023 14:27:05 GMT
Now all we need is a Poll for these Scholastic covers as they should have been presented - full cover, full colour. A lot of the covers are pretty great even if they aren't as good as the originals and if they were confident enough to stick with their original format, they'd look a whole lot better as a set rather than having some full covers and some porthole covers then back to full covers. Biggest slap in the face in the fact that the full image is used on the inside page but it's in grey and white.
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Post by sylas on Sept 9, 2023 13:03:21 GMT
There should be a full cover version for Appointment with Fear and Creature of Havoc as well.
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Post by sylas on Sept 9, 2023 11:04:13 GMT
I hadn't seen these full cover pictures by Robert Ball for Deathtrap Dungeon and Island of the Lizard King. They are actually better than I thought, so much better than the porthole covers. Up against stiff competition in these first 10 books though, including the classic Ian McCaig covers. I also particularly like Ian Miller's House of Hell cover and Martin McKenna's COTSW. Didn't Les Edwards do both covers for COTSW?
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Post by sylas on Sept 9, 2023 11:01:40 GMT
The full cover, full colour covers for the Scholastic editions are great and it's such a tragedy that they opted for the porthole covers instead. A bad decision in every way.
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Post by sylas on Sept 8, 2023 15:03:06 GMT
Oddly enough, if Freeway Fighter and Starship Traveller do get re-released, I'd like Iain McCaig to do Freeway (finish what he started all those years back) and Vlado to do Starship but give him more time and not in grayscale (his sci-fi art is decent).
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