kieran
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Favourite Gamebook Series: Fighting Fantasy
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Post by kieran on Nov 4, 2020 15:08:31 GMT
Does anyone know what will be released next? Sword of the Samurai? Crypt of the Sorcerer? The Seven Serpents? It was meant to be Seven Serpents, not sure why it got delayed.
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vagsancho
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Favourite Gamebook Series: CRYPT OF THE SORCERER
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Post by vagsancho on Nov 4, 2020 16:59:29 GMT
I won Chasms of Malice today. I felt it. Ow god all that lands of Gaddon. That cave underneath unending world. Liked it. That 7 khuddams all dead.. All.. But I am so exhausted now. So gaddamn exhausted. The lack of oxygen one day will be my end... Just need to rest now..
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Post by johnbrawn1972 on Nov 27, 2020 16:06:23 GMT
What is Deathtrap Dungeon 3 and does it belong on the solutions board if it is not one of the standard books?
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sylas
Baron
"Don't just adventure for treasure; treasure the adventure!"
Posts: 1,678
Favourite Gamebook Series: Fighting Fantasy, Way of the Tiger
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Post by sylas on Nov 27, 2020 16:14:05 GMT
What is Deathtrap Dungeon 3 and does it belong on the solutions board if it is not one of the standard books? It's another collaborative fan adventure IIRC.
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Post by a moderator on Nov 27, 2020 23:19:39 GMT
What is Deathtrap Dungeon 3 and does it belong on the solutions board if it is not one of the standard books? Fair point. I've moved the thread to the Amateur Adventures section.
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Post by johnbrawn1972 on Feb 2, 2021 15:38:12 GMT
Do most people on here own books 1-59?
I own 46(1-33)of the books plus the Jonathan Greene books, post-puffin books and Sorcery.
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Post by bloodbeasthandler on Feb 2, 2021 15:40:52 GMT
I've got them all. Not sure about everyone else though. Maybe set up a poll and see?
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Post by tyrion on Feb 2, 2021 16:06:31 GMT
I've not got 53, 54 or 59, but I've got the wizard editions of those books. All the other puffin ones I've got, and all of wizard series 1.
I was lucky to have many left over from the 80s and 90s, and managed to fill some gaps before the prices got stupid.
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Post by bloodbeasthandler on Feb 2, 2021 17:00:31 GMT
I was lucky to have many left over from the 80s and 90s, and managed to fill some gaps before the prices got stupid. Same here. Just 55 and 56 needed finding on ebay for a reasonable price some years ago.
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Post by a moderator on Feb 2, 2021 17:14:38 GMT
Puffin: All 59, plus Sorcery!, Clash of the Princes, the FFRPG books, the 10th Anniversary Yearbook, The Adventures of Goldhawk and an extra Citadel for the sake of the new cover illustration.
Wizard I: All 29.
Wizard II: The first 10 (acquired as a set), plus Blood of the Zombies
Scholastic: The previously unreleased titles.
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kieran
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Posts: 2,458
Favourite Gamebook Series: Fighting Fantasy
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Post by kieran on Feb 2, 2021 19:34:40 GMT
I have all the gamebooks, including Clash of the Princes and Goldhawk. They're a mixture of Wizard and Puffin though.
I have bought all the Scholastic books so far.
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Post by johnbrawn1972 on Feb 2, 2021 20:36:09 GMT
There is something a bit odd with the new poll as 51-59 seems to be missing? Am I missing something?
I own 46 of the original titles so I have ticked the last box but this seems to imply I own nearly all of them which is manifestly not true.
Can you amend the poll or start a new one with 51-59 before many people have voted?
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Post by tyrion on Feb 2, 2021 20:45:19 GMT
I've said in the poll thread it's for the first 50 puffin books. But I have done another poll for 51-59.
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Post by The Count on Feb 2, 2021 20:46:54 GMT
If by 'here' you mean the Fighting Fantazine Forum, then yes, you probably are the only one who prefers it. And if by 'here' you mean this universe and all the parallel universes accompanying it throughout the various multiverses stretching into infinity .... then yes, you are probably still the only one. Well, there is that mysterious member who gave it 10/10... We never did figure out who that was...
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Post by The Count on Feb 2, 2021 21:12:19 GMT
I used to get them from the library and although I must have bought most of the series using book tokens and the school book club, the first FF books that I remember actually owning were bought in a 2nd hand bookshop while travelling (Vault of The Vampire, Phantoms of Fear, City of Thieves and either Space Assassin or Rings) and subsequently gave them away in a book exchange, and repeated this pattern on and off for years. Having moved countries several times, I tend not to hang onto books that much as they are heavy and take up a lot of space, and I got rid of the rest of the books I owned about 5 years ago, alongside my vinyl / CDs etc. I do have a link to them in pdf format which is handy, though cumbersome for play, and currently have a few of the Scholastic editions in the vain hope that they somehow get round to republishing some of my favourites. Or at least get some decent writers on board for some new books.
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Post by petch on Feb 3, 2021 11:04:57 GMT
I've just had a count up, I have 45 total. I'm a late returner to gamebooks...I was helping my parents clear out their attic about 3 or 4 years ago and was pleasantly surprised to find all of my childhood FF books neatly boxed up. I hadn't seen them since I was a teenager and had assumed my mum had chucked them all out when I left home. I took them home with me and for nostalgia's sake decided to read Warlock again. I was instantly drawn in again - it was the brilliant line 'The steep face in front of you looks to have been savaged by the claws of some gargantuan beast' that did it for me. It was kind of a revelatory moment for me where I realised that something I loved as a child was actually genuinely great.
I was hooked again, and over the next several months spent most of my free time reading through all of the books again sequentially. I didn't have all of them, and for the gaps in my collection I'd try to plug it by buying a copy where I could, usually with whatever was cheapest out of a second hand copy or a reprint. I was also pleased to discover that further books had been released post-Puffin - I bought them too. I will admit to a few occasions though where, due to lack of availability or unreasonable prices, I had to resort to looking up PDFs instead of getting hold of a physical copy.
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Post by johnbrawn1972 on Feb 3, 2021 23:41:50 GMT
Is there spam in the Moonrunner solution?
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Post by a moderator on Feb 4, 2021 1:48:02 GMT
Not any more. There is a 'Report Post' option on the drop-down list at the top right of every post, which can be used to alert me or Alex to any spam if you spot it before one of us takes care of it.
Dealing with spam here is like the Chaos Warrior loop in Creature of Havoc, except with Jib-Jibs instead of Chaos Warriors...
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Post by Wilf on Feb 4, 2021 17:03:11 GMT
Well, there is that mysterious member who gave it 10/10... We never did figure out who that was... Pssst!! Can you keep a secret?
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Post by vastariner on Feb 4, 2021 18:19:06 GMT
Is there spam in the Moonrunner solution? No. There's the Hand of Glory though.
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Post by hynreck on Mar 22, 2021 15:42:06 GMT
Ah, Vagsancho, I missed the guy. Such a loony. Mr. Green just finished writing his Dracula opus of a 1000 or so sections. It's being sent to the playtesters. Good try though. (I realize I'm late to this, by the way)
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Post by thealmightymudworm on Mar 22, 2021 17:46:48 GMT
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Post by hynreck on Mar 23, 2021 16:43:36 GMT
Hey, good to be back and to see all of you guys. I'm even tempted to post reviews again - I might have the time since I'm unemployed. But we'll see. I do have to find a job sooner or later, and that requires a bit of my attention. Meanwhile I'm trying to stay in touch, and here's my LinkedIn profile for those of you that are interested in such a thing: www.linkedin.com/in/dominic-marcotte
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Post by dragonwarrior8 on May 6, 2021 14:45:14 GMT
Still no news on the new Steve Jackson book or is that officially dead? I really had my hopes up for that one.
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Post by bloodbeasthandler on May 6, 2021 18:37:22 GMT
Still no news on the new Steve Jackson book or is that officially dead? I really had my hopes up for that one. We're seeing nothing aren't we? Nothing in the official FF site, nothing on Scholastic, not a title, not a teaser... nothing. On Steve's Twitter page is a posting from 13th April this year about The Dice Men book due to be printed later this year, and in it a couple of people have asked him when his next FF book is out but he has not replied to them. Fingers crossed it's that he's been working on the Dice Men and can and will get back to his FF book sooner rather than later.
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Post by dragonwarrior8 on May 7, 2021 6:01:58 GMT
Perhaps FF fans need to try a different approach and appeal to the pride/ego of some of the authors. Maybe a friendly competition among the gamebook greats (Steve Jackson, Jonathan Green, Paul Mason, Jamie Thomson, Dave Morris, etc) to see who can write the best FF book in the course of a year with the winner ultimately chosen by the fans. Regardless of who wins (which would obviously be totally subjective anyway) we should at least get 5 or more really good gamebooks out of it. Just imagine a year with books written by that group. Everybody wins!
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kieran
Baron
Posts: 2,458
Favourite Gamebook Series: Fighting Fantasy
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Post by kieran on May 7, 2021 9:29:59 GMT
Perhaps FF fans need to try a different approach and appeal to the pride/ego of some of the authors. Maybe a friendly competition among the gamebook greats (Steve Jackson, Jonathan Green, Paul Mason, Jamie Thomson, Dave Morris, etc) to see who can write the best FF book in the course of a year with the winner ultimately chosen by the fans. Regardless of who wins (which would obviously be totally subjective anyway) we should at least get 5 or more really good gamebooks out of it. Just imagine a year with books written by that group. Everybody wins! Nice idea, but I sense only Jon Green would be up for it!
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Post by bloodbeasthandler on May 8, 2021 9:48:39 GMT
Perhaps FF fans need to try a different approach and appeal to the pride/ego of some of the authors. Maybe a friendly competition among the gamebook greats (Steve Jackson, Jonathan Green, Paul Mason, Jamie Thomson, Dave Morris, etc) to see who can write the best FF book in the course of a year with the winner ultimately chosen by the fans. Regardless of who wins (which would obviously be totally subjective anyway) we should at least get 5 or more really good gamebooks out of it. Just imagine a year with books written by that group. Everybody wins! Nice idea, but I sense only Jon Green would be up for it! Some of it would boil down to time and money. From what I see on the Fabled Lands blogspot, Dave Morris has got other projects in the pipeline, so he might be time-poor. Paul Mason has ideas for a book or two floating around in his head (and on bits of paper or files here and there I expect), but has a day-job over in Japan. Steve Jackson has apparently been writing a FF book for some time now but it has still not yet seen the light of day. No-one here seems to know why. Not sure about Jamie Thomson. He co-wrote 'Can you Brexit?', so he could potentially have time on his hands for FF, but maybe works best with a co-author. Jonathan Green hasn't written a Fighting Fantasy gamebook for ages, has he? It's been over a decade now. He has a family to support so it would have to be worth his while (as is the case for all other potential FF authors not already comfortably wealthy) and I don't know how much folks get paid for writing these books. I'd sooner see him take charge of the whole 'franchise', to be honest, and see what he can do with it. No doubt if the books were selling like they were back on the 80's, it'd be different, but we are where we are.
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Post by a moderator on May 8, 2021 11:16:56 GMT
Jamie Thomson had no co-author for the Eternal Champions gamebooks, so he can write solo.
Mind you, I'm not sure he'd be that interested in doing a new FF book when he has a best-selling series of YA novels he could be focusing on.
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kieran
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Favourite Gamebook Series: Fighting Fantasy
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Post by kieran on May 8, 2021 19:35:58 GMT
Jonathan Green hasn't written a Fighting Fantasy gamebook for ages, has he? It's been over a decade now. He's still actively writing gamebooks under his Ace series so I imagine he wouldn't mind turning his hand to a new FF if the opportunity came his way.
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