The Two-Fisted Fantasy series from Sam Iacob (aka Herman S. Skull, Hermit Skull) simply isn’t your typical gamebook fare. Containing off-the-wall plots often full of puerile yet witty absurdity, populated by puzzling characters carrying plenty of personal baggage, and bursting with endless situations that entertain with their outlandish inventiveness and attitude, this series presents adventures […]
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5e Solo Gamebooks have released a new type of solo adventuring, and unlike their previous gamebooks (The Death Knight’s Squire and Tyrant of Zhentil Keep), Tables of Doom uses a free-form game system that relies on dice rolls and tables (hence the name) to randomly generate monsters, traps, clues, encounters, secret doors and loot. Final
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A deluxe edition of the out-of-print Elven Lords, a Tunnels & Trolls solitaire adventure originally published by Flying Buffalo Inc in 1990, is now seeking funding on Kickstarter. This new version is part of Kickstarter’s Make 100 – a creative initiative focused on limited editions. The signed and numbered print edition, limited to just 100
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Quill is a unique letter-writing solo roleplaying game, but rather than having standard attributes like strength or dexterity, characters in Quill use Penmanship, Language and Heart. It’s something completely different – a game in which your creativity, craft and eloquence in corresponding with recipients from different scenarios is matched with a simple system of dice-rolling
5e Solo Gamebooks has now released Tyrant of Zhentil Keep, its second solo adventure for Dungeons & Dragons Fifth Edition. Written by Paul Bimler, this 160+ page adventure is designed for one 3rd-level Player Character of any race or class, without a DM. Tyrant of Zhentil Keep continues the narrative of The Death Knight’s Squire
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Jonathan Green has launched the Kickstarter campaign for his latest gamebook, NEVERLAND – Here Be Monsters! In this brand-new, thrilling adventure you choose the course of the story – inspired by both Peter Pan and Wendy, by J. M. Barrie, and The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. It’s Treasure Island meets Jurassic Park!
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Set in the magical fantasy realm of Yarnia, Malice From The Middle Vale is the first book of the Scythe-Bearer Trilogy by David Sharrock. A gamebook consisting of 650 paragraph entries and 538 pages, you will explore the world of the woven yarn, seeking endless adventures and the life of a hero. You have come
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The Death Knight’s Squire is the first in a planned series of solo, DM-less adventures from publisher 5e Solo Gamebooks. A 100-page adventure set in the Forgotten Realms for D&D Fifth Edition rules, The Death Knight’s Squire is a great way to scratch your roleplaying itch, or it can serve as an introduction for new
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Do you have a child in your life who’d love to read and play a full-colour, illustrated gamebook? Written for children aged 3 to 9, GameTale: The Big Adventure of the Little Gremlin is Bulgarian award-winning author Nikola Raykov’s interactive fairy tale featuring his little gremlin, Gremmy. He has little adventurous pawsies that don’t get tired
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Out of print for over 15 years, Ken St. Andre has now updated his classic solo adventure from 1979. This deluxe version of Arena of Khazan includes new dT&T options and adventure in the Arena, new art by Steve Crompton, pre-rolled opponents and characters, along with a full-color map of the Trollworld and the City of
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As our own world increases in complexity and continuously demands more from us just to survive the unending grind of daily life, it’s often welcome to escape our modern difficulties by embarking on a relatively straightforward journey that recalls the simplicity of gamebooks of old, where your main tasks were to fight monsters and find
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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,
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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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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