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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Paul Gresty, the author of the forthcoming The Serpent King’s Domain – the long-awaited 7th book in the Fabled Lands series – has recently posted an update on the Fabled Lands blog regarding his progress towards completion of this new book. It’s shaping up as a lengthy and detailed adventure with the current draft consisting
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A black & white softcover edition of Tales of Quahnarren: Beyond the Morning Mountains – Volume One has now been released for sale at DriveThruRPG. This new affordably priced version of the gamebook features exactly the same content as the original full-colour book, and is also the same 6″ x 9″ Trade Paperback size. All
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Megara Entertainment have just launched their latest Kickstarter campaign for an updated hardback version of a classic gamebook. Originally published in 1985, Grey Star the Wizard was the first of four books released in a new mini-series titled The World of Lone Wolf, created by Joe Dever and written by Ian Page. You are Grey
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You just can’t stop the zombie advance as they determinedly shuffle their way into every single corner of modern print and electronic media. I’m not a major fan of these decomposing antagonists, but they’ve certainly found many friends who enthusiastically enjoy their gruesomely destructive ways. Thankfully, Highway to Hell joins this wealth of current material
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David Tant’s first book of The Legends of Skyfall series is something of an enigma – a puzzling contradiction where simplicity and complexity unhappily coexist. Monsters of the Marsh is boldly promoted as ‘An Advanced Fantasy Gamebook’ – an adventure where those employing logic and intelligence are duly rewarded for their skill and reasoning. Unfortunately,
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This second book in the Dangerous Worlds Gamebook series will take you deep into a primordial jungle; an environment that is as much a central character in this story as any other (human, or non-human) to be found within the adventure. Immediately thrust into a position of authority and responsibility over a large expeditionary company
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The City of Thieves may be viewed as a basic gamebook to the modern reader – somewhat thin on the sort of detailed, logical adventuring now seen as standard in most new releases featuring this type of urban setting. Author Ian Livingstone is infamous for his love of the irksome ‘treasure hunt’ formula, and here
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Book 2 of Michael G Perrin’s martial arts inspired Shinté Warrior series follows on from the dramatic events of Trials of the First Moon (the first book in this series) and now requires you to scale the snow-covered Cadcliff Mountains in search of the legendary Rividia plant: a sacred medicinal herb with unique restorative powers.
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The first of three books in Aaron Emmel and C. Aaron Kreader’s new gamebook series, Midnight Legion, is now available for purchase. A colour, illustrated gamebook for solo or 2-player use, this series uses a highly advanced game system, offering a deeper level of character generation than a standard CYOA gamebook – featuring combat, puzzles,
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After successfully funding Crypt of the Vampire earlier this year, Megara Entertainment has just launched a new Kickstarter campaign for the second reprint of a gamebook from the classic Golden Dragon series by Dave Morris: The Temple of Flame. Far below the lost temple of the ancient god Katak, you and your evil foe Damontir
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Jeffrey Dean has now released the third book in his fascinating ‘Road Less Traveled’ series of post-apocalyptic gamebooks – The Lords of Benaeron. Lead a rebellion to victory in The Lords of Benaeron, a hybrid gamebook that combines a traditional branching-path narrative with a sweeping cityscape rife with opportunities for open-world exploration! Tackle stealth missions,
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Jonathan Green’s latest project, The Wicked Wizard of Oz, is now live on Kickstarter for funding. This nightmarish ‘dieselpunk’ gamebook will consist of 500 sections, and is available in ebook and paperback, and also as a special limited edition collector’s hardback with bonus content. An adventure stylistically similar to Green’s recent Alice’s Nightmare in Wonderland,
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Trade Paperback and PDF editions of Tales of Quahnarren: Beyond the Morning Mountains are now available for sale. This first volume of a two-part adventure across the island continent of Quahnarren features 1000 sections (400 pages), is fully illustrated, and also contains numerous extras detailing this exciting fantasy world. An unexpected and devastating act of
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