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Post by thealmightymudworm on Mar 22, 2014 1:21:55 GMT
From TUFFF (Oct 2009)... I have just finished uploading the latest--and final!--version of my Atlas of Titan to my website. As well as every map that has ever appeared in any and all Fighting Fantasy material, it includes some landscape images to help flesh out the world. Each image is accompanied by a brief essay describing the area covered using quotations from the books, each meticulously footnoted. Where maps/images are absent (e.g. Scorpion Swamp), text has still been compiled to describe the area covered. Effort has also been made to reconcile the disparate sources, though places where this is impossible have also been noted. Appendices are used to cover such things as Distance and Climate of Titan. To those who had a look through my recent pre-release version, several more pages of information have been added, including Warren's most recent revision of "Where is Gundobad?" and a two-page write-up of the geography of Femphrey, as based on Stormslayer. As I have now covered all published gamebooks, novels, and magazines, I will call this Atlas finished...until Night of the Necromancer next year, anyway. I've also added to my site an SVG flowchart of Stormslayer, for those of you who might be interested. This Atlas has been in gestation for 20 years, and it's taken me over five years to compile it, with plenty of help and feedback from Warren, Andy, and others. Thanks, guys; looking forward to 2010. I think I'll have a bit of a rest before looking at writing that article for Fighting Fantazine #2. The outspaced Shrine
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Post by thealmightymudworm on Mar 22, 2014 1:22:23 GMT
From TUFFF... Very impressive. Congrats of compiling all of that.
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Post by thealmightymudworm on Mar 22, 2014 1:22:55 GMT
From TUFFF... I may be being particularly dense but I can't see how to get to the atlas...
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Post by thealmightymudworm on Mar 22, 2014 1:23:20 GMT
From TUFFF... @sleepytemplar. Cheers! daikoku: Follow the Gamebook link; it's on the lower half of that page.
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Post by thealmightymudworm on Mar 22, 2014 1:23:43 GMT
From TUFFF... That's a truly impressive piece of work, outspaced!
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Post by thealmightymudworm on Mar 22, 2014 1:24:20 GMT
From TUFFF... Wow, incredible... I can't believe how much you've compiled!
Excellent work, to all involved. ~ Vae Victis! ~
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Post by thealmightymudworm on Mar 22, 2014 1:31:13 GMT
From TUFFF... I Bow to Thee
Can I be so rude as to ask are you planning to update the Monster Compendium to include the gamebooks past #59? Currently preparing a new AFF campaign "The Plague of Dreams"
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Post by thealmightymudworm on Mar 22, 2014 1:32:58 GMT
From TUFFF... Hi codenameage Sorry for not responding sooner--been laid out with a nasty sickness bug for a few days. Not nice. Thanks for the kind words. I'd mostly forgotten that old webpage with the monsters on it. I've started work on updating it, though it won't be done for a while. I'll add monsters from Warlock 1-13, Clash of the Princes, Fighting Fantasy, The Riddling Reaver, and the four new gamebooks. I'll also fix all those hideous typos! And, as a small rant, in importing the webpage to Excel, I've just spotted that it is impossible to output to standard HTML from M$ Office 2007 and later. Stupid, idiot, morons! It's MY data, I want to export it in a format that I want. The crappy mht format that Office wants me to use sucks donkey balls, and no browser except Internet Explorer supports it! Gah! All hail Open Office--now that really is fast becoming a very useful office suite. And it can do what I ask of it. And it's free. Up yours, Microsoft. (And...relax.)
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Post by thealmightymudworm on Mar 22, 2014 1:34:06 GMT
From TUFFF... He he ...you said "donkey balls" Currently preparing a new AFF campaign "The Plague of Dreams"
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Post by thealmightymudworm on Mar 22, 2014 1:34:31 GMT
From TUFFF... OK, I've updated the FF_Monsters.ZIP file on my website to include encounters from the more recent FF books. I've been much more thorough this time, with many NPC characters also referenced. It makes me think I should maybe go back over the whole series looking for any named characters who appear but are not given stats. I think I'll leave it for now! Be advised that the file unpacks to a 6Mb webpage. Also be aware that I've gone through and standardised a lot of things, added references and missing info to all monsters (except # of Attacks and Weapons), altered monster names slightly to categorise certain types of monster (e.g. prefixed dinosaurs with Dinosaur: ), and hopefully fixed all the typos. It should be much more readable now.
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Post by thealmightymudworm on Mar 22, 2014 1:35:25 GMT
From TUFFF... I checked out your website and it looks like ICON Books spat the Dummy..... has all that hard work gone down the drain??? Currently preparing a new AFF campaign "The Plague of Dreams"
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Post by thealmightymudworm on Mar 22, 2014 1:35:50 GMT
From TUFFF... I'm hoping Simon can transform some of it into articles for the fan magazine. (328) Despite your best efforts, you find yourself decaying in front of a computer screen. Your adventure ends here.
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Post by thealmightymudworm on Mar 22, 2014 1:36:25 GMT
From TUFFF... All the hard work still exists, just not on my website. As far as the Fantazine goes, copying the text of Atlas sections, alongside a fan-made map of the area, should be fine. Not that Icon seem to understand the concept of Fair Use laws, but still.
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Post by thealmightymudworm on Mar 22, 2014 2:18:36 GMT
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Post by thealmightymudworm on Mar 22, 2014 2:22:24 GMT
From TUFFF... As ever, I'm still looking for a copy of Proteus 20. If anyone has a copy and could scan it for me, I would put it up on the site to complete the Proteus collection.
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Post by thealmightymudworm on Mar 22, 2014 2:23:34 GMT
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Post by thealmightymudworm on Mar 22, 2014 2:24:03 GMT
From TUFFF... Meanwhile Simon, could we squeeze another article out of you for the fan mag? (328) Despite your best efforts, you find yourself decaying in front of a computer screen. Your adventure ends here.
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Post by thealmightymudworm on Mar 22, 2014 2:24:30 GMT
From TUFFF... Proteus 20 is the one with the straight-off-the-typewriter The Orchid of Life and the reprinted Treasures of the Cursed Pyramid. I have a copy, but no functional scanner.
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Post by thealmightymudworm on Mar 22, 2014 2:25:52 GMT
From TUFFF... Meanwhile Simon, could we squeeze another article out of you for the fan mag? Maybe for #6? I've just received scans of Proteus #20, so that's taking my free time at the moment.
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Post by thealmightymudworm on Mar 22, 2014 2:26:28 GMT
From TUFFF... I'll pencil you in! (328) Despite your best efforts, you find yourself decaying in front of a computer screen. Your adventure ends here.
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Post by thealmightymudworm on Mar 22, 2014 2:27:30 GMT
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