Created by game designer Oliver McNeil, The StoryMaster’s Tales “Weirding Woods” is a fantasy storytelling game like no other – a unique hybrid of role-playing, board game, card game and adventure gamebook. Quick to learn, portable and most importantly really fun, Weirding Woods can be played solo or with a group of family or friends, […]
Ulisses Spiele has launched a Kickstarter for Magic of Aventuria, a 240-page supplement of new spells, magical traditions, and advanced and optional rules for their popular RPG The Dark Eye. Included in this campaign is a new self-contained 64-page solo gamebook adventure, Conspiracy of Mages, which is a great way to learn all about spellcasting for
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We’ve compiled a bumper round-up article this month, featuring a wide assortment of printed gamebooks recently released or coming soon, a couple of online games that are FREE to play, some very interesting video games, a pdf D&D adventure, and an Advanced Fighting Fantasy sourcebook for fans of FF. • • •Nemesis of the Nin
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Paths: World of Adia is a tabletop RPG published by Smunchy Games that supports both classic Game Master group play and solo/co-op gameplay via their GM-in-a-box system. In Paths: World of Adia, players adopt the role of a denizen in a rich, multicultural world: a planet of extremes that is in constant flux as its
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Nemesis of the Nin Witch is a Woven Paths fantasy gamebook and the second in the acclaimed Scythe-Bearer Trilogy written by David Sharrock, continuing the tale from book 1, Malice From the Middle Vale. The hunt for the Nin Witch continues in another high quality, full colour, illustrated A4 gamebook featuring 800 entries! As with
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Last year, Van Ryder Games delivered the next evolution of gamebooks with Season 1 of Graphic Novel Adventures. Now they’re back with five new adventures in an exciting second season – visual gamebooks where you’re the star of a graphic novel, including a 2-player Sherlock Holmes mystery. Encounter foes, puzzles, traps, riddles, and much, much
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Michael J. Ward’s DestinyQuest series has recently emerged from scandalous publisher-driven turmoil with an exciting new book full of various improvements and bold ideas. Gamebook News has been closely following the unfolding Kickstarter delays and drama, and was keen to further examine the circumstances and fallout from Michael’s informed perspective – an unwitting participant caught
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The browser-based, gamebook-style RPG Sryth is currently seeking funding via Kickstarter to raise the necessary funds to continue operation as a full-time endeavor. Having now reached its 16th year online, Sryth’s creator, writer and developer, Matthew H. Yarrows, is on a quest to locate campaign backers to help meet the game’s operational, development and equipment
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Blood Sword is a series of five gamebooks originally written in the late 1980s by Dave Morris and Oliver Johnson. Using spells, swords, guile or secret lore to overcome your foes in a combination of tabletop tactics and interactive story, the books form an epic saga for one to four players. Banished from the world
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‘TWAS – The Krampus Night Before Christmas is a brand new interactive adventure in Jonathan Green’s ACE Gamebooks series. Inspired by the poem A Visit From Saint Nicholas, by Clement Clarke Moore, as well as other winter- or festive-themed classics, such as Hans Christian Andersen’s The Snow Queen, and John Masefield’s The Box of Delights, ‘TWAS
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Tainted Grail is a solo or cooperative survival exploration board game for 1-4 players from Awaken Realms, set in a dark universe that blends Arthurian legends and Celtic mythology. Players control one of the characters – accidental heroes who need to fight for their lives after stronger and wiser champions have failed. Chased by the
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Intudia is a new entertainment platform for interactive audiobooks and eBooks. Created by childhood friends Nicki Blådal (Manager of development and administration, and co-founder of a Danish software development company) and Nicolai Vedel Kellberg (Lead author, with 15 years of experience with interactive storytelling, and a master’s degree in educational psychology), Intudia believes that being
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Van Ryder Games, publishers of the Graphic Novel Adventures series, has launched a Kickstarter campaign for their first ever cooperative Graphic Novel Adventures game, The Crusoe Crew. In The Crusoe Crew, you’ll work together with other players (or play solo) to explore islands, solve puzzles, and find rubies, pearls and statuettes that will allow you
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Officina Meningi’s The Necronomicon Gamebook: Dagon is a short, illustrated adventure based on a faithful adaptation of H.P. Lovecraft’s Cthulhu short novels Dagon, The Hound and The Festival (plus extracts from The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath). These stories have been adapted with the utmost fidelity to the original text, in the style of the Master
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