Escape from Portsrood Forest is a light-hearted, high fantasy gamebook by Samuel Isaacson in which YOU take on the role of a knight who wakes up in an enchanted forest with no memory of the previous night. Written in an open world style, and making use of codewords and tick-boxes to keep track of your […]
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The fifth release in Paul Bimler’s highly popular series of DM-less solo Dungeons & Dragons adventures from 5e Solo Gamebooks, Drums at Daggerford continues the story arc that first began in The Death Knight’s Squire. Designed for a level 5 PC with any race and class combo, this adventure is written in a sandbox style
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Become a courageous adventurer in Eyal Aradi’s It’s Your Adventure – an exciting Print & Play pocket series of four linked adventures, beginning with Book 1: The Caves of Danger. Delivered as a special print-at-home PDF, this physically tiny (and therefore both convenient and able to easily fit into any pocket) gamebook series features a
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A horror-themed gamebook with plenty of gore and violence, Victoria Hancox’s The Alchemist’s Folly is an interactive adventure where you’ll quickly find yourself caught in a desperate struggle to survive, attempting to determine just who the real monsters truly are. Can you save yourself and all the Discarded Ones? Do you have what it takes
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Steve Jackson Games’ has launched a new Kickstarter to fund the latest titles for The Fantasy Trip roleplaying game: a guide to many of the known kinds of unlife, and a new solitaire adventure. The Book of UnlifeA 64-page book by Howard Kistler, The Book of Unlife covers 44 unliving and undead creatures. A guide
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An all-new Tunnels & Trolls solitaire adventure from Flying Buffalo, Alice in Weirdworld is based on Lewis Carroll’s 1865 novel Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, and is the first T&T solo ever based on an existing written work. Play as Alice, or a character of your own design, as you chase the rabbit into a weird world
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A digital fantasy gamebook to be published in English and Spanish, Retro Quest is a 100-page solo graphic novel written by Javier Lavilla, and illustrated by Andrea Lidia Radu. Created in a nostalgic style reminiscent of 1980s gamebooks, Retro Quest will feature many handmade illustrations using traditional black ink and textured paper, reminding all of
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Ken St. Andre’s companion game to Tunnels & Trolls called Monsters! Monsters! (first published by Metagaming Concepts in 1976, and then again by Flying Buffalo in 1979) has now been updated to a new edition retaining much of its original appeal and structure, but now features all-new art and new options like stunting and monster
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Jonathan Green’s Dracula – Curse of the Vampire is an interactive Gothic horror novel inspired by the works of Bram Stoker. To be published by Snowbooks and featuring illustrations by Martin McKenna (artist for numerous Fighting Fantasy titles, including Howl of the Werewolf, Vault of the Vampire and Revenge of the Vampire), this multi-path gamebook
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Created, written and illustrated by Panagiotis Vlamis and published by DFMGames, Tales from Ane Moni: The Keep of Bane is an interactive ‘comigame’, a derivative of the words comic and game, meaning that it is both. This mini visual adventure features branching paths and game mechanics, with adversaries of various difficulties set to test your
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The long-unavailable solitaire Tunnels & Trolls adventure written by Stefan E. Jones and published by Flying Buffalo, Dark Temple, is available again! This massive 413-paragraph quest pits the player against the sinister Cult of Krestok. Sub-quests, random encounters and multiple victory conditions give Dark Temple great replay value, and the adventure has now been corrected
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In Fire on the Water, the second book of Joe Dever’s Lone Wolf saga, everything that made Flight from the Dark an unforgettable and enthralling adventure is offered again on an even greater scale. Instead of facing a journey of a few days over a hundred miles of war-torn Sommerlund, you embark on a quest
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Vampire Hunter Belladonna is a solo programmed adventure from Gaming Ballistic, authored by noted game writer and designer David Pulver for The Fantasy Trip – the old-school RPG from Steve Jackson Games. This adventure doesn’t require a Game Master, as a system of branching paragraphs directs you from encounter to encounter as you make your own
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This December update is the final Round-up article we’ll be posting on GBN. Due to recent alterations to our category structure and further upcoming improvements to the site, we’ll now make a switch to separately listing all news items as either a normal post set in our standard formatting, or as a brief ‘NewsByte’ for
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