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KICKSTARTER: Autumn Snow 2: The Wildlands Hunt

Megara Entertainment have now launched their new Kickstarter campaign for the second gamebook of the Autumn Snow series of Lone Wolf adventures: Autumn Snow 2: The Wildlands Hunt. This hardback Collector’s Edition will be similar to the first book, The Pit of Darkness, and will again feature some fantastic black-and-white interior illustrations and page fillers […]

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Thaumistry: In Charm’s Way

Award-winning Infocom and Legend Entertainment author Bob Bates is currently seeking funding via Kickstarter for his new game project Thaumistry: In Charm’s Way – a parser-driven interactive fiction comic fantasy set in New York City. This is a text adventure with player input via keyboard using a simple interface featuring no graphics, as per the

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SCRAWL

Stuart Lloyd’s latest game system has now been generally released via RPGNow. Titled SCRAWL (Solo CRAWL), this new system has been built from the foundations of his earlier Wayfarer system, however, within SCRAWL there’s no detailed world-building or specific game logic, just old-school dungeon crawling where monsters and treasures wait for the arrival of skilled,

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REVIEW: The Legion of Shadow

The evident computer game influence within Michael J. Ward’s DestinyQuest: The Legion of Shadow stands boldly at the forefront of what it is that differentiates this series from many other gamebook formats. Within its pages we find individual quests (which can be undertaken in any order), no permanent death and a multitude of collectible items

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The Dark Eye: the Vampire of Havena

Ulisses Spiele North America have recently released an English-language edition of the popular German RPG The Dark Eye, set in the rich and immersive fantasy setting of Aventuria: a magical continent featuring lizard people, dwarves, orcs, elves and barbarians. The Vampire of Havena is a 64-page softcover solo adventure occurring within the city of Havena

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REVIEW: Saga of the North Wind

A text-based fantasy adventure using CYOA-style game mechanics, Saga of the North Wind is an enjoyably atmospheric drama, intelligently written in a style that brings to life the various situations, conflicts and characters encountered on your journey to reach the Valley of the North Wind. Your tribe (which you can name as you desire) roams

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REVIEW: The Lords of Benaeron

Jeffrey Dean’s impressively elaborate and skilful world-building has already been on display throughout the preceding volumes of his ‘Road Less Traveled’ series: both Westward Dystopia and Spire Ablaze have delivered detailed story-driven adventures overflowing with an assortment of interesting and complex characters, memorable environments and unique situations. Book 3: The Lords of Benaeron continues his

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Random Solo Adventure: Post Apocalypse

The long-awaited new gamebook from J. Pingo Lindstrom has now been released! This post-apocalyptic adventure is the largest book in the Random Solo Adventure series so far, featuring 224 pages of tense adventuring in The Wasteland. Decades ago the world was crushed in a disaster few of the living remember. You know that the key

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Ian Livingstone’s FREEWAY FIGHTER: The Comic

Ian Livingstone’s 1985 Fighting Fantasy adventure FREEWAY FIGHTER is being adapted into a full throttle comic series by Titan Comics: Critically acclaimed writer Andi Ewington (Just Cause 3, The Six) teams up with original creator Ian Livingstone and artist Simon Coleby for FREEWAY FIGHTER – a furious, three-part road trip like no other, speeding from

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REVIEW: Legends of the Deep Guild

Wayne Densley’s Chronicles of Arborell continues to expand in new directions with the general release of the advanced rule set for his collection of micro-gamebooks. The Advanced Legends of the Deep Guild Starter Pack is an expansion of the existing standard rules and contains an initial 120-section adventure entitled The Tombs of Hallad’Mortain. These solitaire

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RIP Joe Dever

Legendary gamebook author Joe Dever passed away on 29 November 2016 due to complications after surgery. Creator of the fantasy world of Magnamund and the Lone Wolf series, Dever’s many gamebooks, roleplaying games and computer games enthralled and entertained millions, earning him impressive worldwide sales and establishing his works as much loved fan favourites. At

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6Quest – The Choice Is Yours

Hungarian developer Hexahedron Games has now released an Android app featuring their gamebook collection of tales from the shattered world of Felorian. What would you do if you were the hero of a story? If you could choose the direction it takes and make all the important decisions? If you could decide whether to save

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KICKSTARTER: The Sword of the Bastard Elf

Hermit Skull, creator of Star Bastards, has just launched his new Kickstarter campaign for his latest Two-Fisted Fantasy adventure gamebook: The Sword of the Bastard Elf. The half-human Bastard Elf has been turfed out of home at the cruelly young age of 60 and needs to find some place to crash! Using only his (limited)

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Tunnels & Trolls: Naked Doom – Sneak Peek

MetaArcade, developers of the upcoming Tunnels & Trolls adventure Naked Doom have now opened their Sneak Peek prototype opportunity to the gaming community. This is your chance to download, play and review the current build and game features of Naked Doom (as seen recently at GenCon and PAX), providing your personal feedback to help shape

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