A plug-and-play adventure for Hack’n’Slash! The Harbor Town is an “in-between adventures” adventure—a town to visit when you want to rest or simply talk to the townspeople. In this small adventure booklet, you use the Hack ‘n’ Slash Core Rule System to revisit a familiar town. Meet Abbot Brikarian and help him with the undead […]
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Last of April 2025, and Gamebook News is still kicking around. We haven’t been updating much lately, mainly due to the fact that all of the contributors have tons of other stuff to do. The story of Gamebook News is a long one, with lots of ups and downs (mainly ups!), but now I (Pingo)
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FIVE (5) Interactive Gamebooks in one big bundle! Out now at DriveThruRPG. Includes these five books: Get them all in this big pack and get more than 50% discount!
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Another solo adventure gamebook, The Horror of the Lighthouse, is now available at DriveThruRPG, written and created by J. Pingo Lindstrom (me). For total openness: I am the one controlling the GamebookNews.com website as well – so I am publishing news about my own book here. Ellen Wittgrave (from the first book, The Secret of
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A NEW Solo Interactive Gamebook is JUST RELEASED, exclusively at DriveThruRPG. Published by PenguinComics.com, written and created by J. Pingo Lindstrom. For total openness: I am the one controlling the GamebookNews.com website as well – so I am publishing news about my own book here. Ellen Wittgrave, a renowned historian known for her relentless pursuit
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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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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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This month we bring you news of interactive adventures set in different times and places: 6th-century Scandinavia, fantasy lands featuring marshlands and winter storms, Zanzibar in the late 19th century, an Australian small town, and war-ravaged Syria. • • •Beowulf Beastslayer Jonathan Green’s 4th title in his ACE Gamebooks series, Beowulf Beastslayer, has now been
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It’s been yet another busy month for interactive fiction, with many interesting releases recently hitting retail outlets or seeking finance via crowdfunding. We’ve gathered together a wide variety of books, digital games, board games and more to tempt you – surely something for both young and old, and every taste and wallet! • • •Savage
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D100 Dungeon from MK Games is a pen & paper game in which you steer an adventurer through underground caves and dungeons, looking for lost treasures and completing dangerous quests. With each game players gain wealth and recognition, and become stronger and more skillful in their pursuits. It is very much like a solo RPG
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Another bumper round-up this month, covering multiple genres, platforms and products, and diverse styles of adventurous play. Will YOU test your deductive abilities to solve a mystery, visit a steampunk Paris or participate in a live action thriller? We have news of games, tools, art and tomes of information – something to please anyone seeking
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This month we have news about forthcoming print gamebooks; interactive games playable on PC, Mac and in your web browser; an audio adventure for Alexa; and a solo storytelling game. • • •Draw Nine Draw Nine is a short narrative Twine game created by Damon L. Wakes, in which you play the role of a
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If you’re new to solitaire gaming in the world of Tunnels and Trolls, or wish to introduce someone else to its unique role-playing system, then The Necropolis of Death offers a perfect tutorial quest for beginners, in which you learn the rules as you complete the adventure, gaining the knowledge needed to undertake further, more
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