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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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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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 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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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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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
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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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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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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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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