Mark Lain’s Venom of Vortan, the third title in the Destiny’s Role gamebook series, has just launched on Kickstarter. It features cover art by Mike Tenebrae (Fantasy Flight, Avalon Games) and illustrations by Gary Ward (Fighting Fantasy). Venom of Vortan’s Kickstarter campaign offers a special edition hardback print, not available in stores. The book will […]
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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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Choice of Games’ latest interactive adventure, Mask of the Plague Doctor, is a 410,000-word medieval fantasy tale of swords and surgery written by Peter Parrish. A strange and terrifying sickness is inflicting misery on the residents of Thornback Hollow, preventing those infected from sleeping. With the town situated on an important trade route, the Crown
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Following on from our earlier article about Fighting Fantasy playthroughs, here’s a broader selection of audio and video adventures covering many different series (including more Fighting Fantasy), from classics such as Joe Dever’s Lone Wolf gamebooks to modern role-playing solos for D&D 5th Edition and Call of Cthulhu. The Dark Eye [Ulisses International] Ulisses International
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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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Tales of the Black Death from the Czech independent game developer Doubleton Game Studio is a 14th century interactive survival adventure. Tales of the Black Death – Italy is the first installment in an expansive three-part series, to be followed by Part 2 – France, and Part 3 – England. In Tales of the Black
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You are James Armistead, a compassionate and daring young man of colour enslaved on a Virginian tobacco plantation when a timely fire provides an opportunity to obtain your freedom; how you achieve this dream is for you to decide. James Armistead Lafayette is one of the two initial releases in Chooseco’s SPIES sub-series of their
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The 25th gamebook in Joe Dever’s classic Lone Wolf series has now been rereleased in a special Collector’s Edition hardback from Holmgard Press. Lone Wolf has been abducted by the forces of the Dark God Naar and imprisoned in a remote city-fortress on the border of the Darklands. Subjected to relentless attacks by the minions
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When aged 13 I was introduced to something different during recess; something that I didn’t know at the time would change my life and my perspective on fiction. Sometime around November I was walking with a few friends, just passing the time and waiting for the next class to start, when we saw some colleagues
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An interactive audio RPG for Amazon’s Alexa, in Wanderword’s Cursed Painting you explore ancient ruins in order to uncover the secret of a cursed painting hidden deep inside an abandoned castle. Choose from three different backgrounds – thief, adventurer or noble – and stop the undead curse plaguing the kingdom in this interactive role-playing experience.
The fate of magic is in your hands in Alana Joli Abbott’s Blackstone Academy from Choice of Games – a fast-paced 188,000-word interactive YA fantasy adventure. Cast spells, pass your exams, and save the world! Blackstone is more than a magic school: you’ll compete for glory in the sky sailing tourney, find love, and steer
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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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The 2020 Spring Thing Festival of Interactive Fiction features twenty new interactive stories submitted by authors working across the spectrum of text-based games. The Thing focuses on bringing together new text games of all kinds: choice-based stories, gamebooks, hypertext fictions, visual novels, text adventures, narrative roguelikes, and wild new experiments. Participants choose to place their
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In the land of the Danes, there’s a monster abroad. One too powerful for ordinary warriors to withstand; a fen-beast who can smash oak timbers aside like driftwood, and rend men limb from limb. A devourer of flesh and bones, a drinker of blood and a hater of mirth. He’s a real piece of work,
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