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Fighting Fantasy look-a-likes

Started by Settembrini, August 06, 2007, 02:09:47 AM

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The Yann Waters

#15
August 06, 2007, 08:32:24 AM
Quote from: The_ShadowI regret selling them now...but when I saw what they were going for on ebay I couldn't resist.
Home of the Underdogs has some of the books in PDF, and the Yahoo group for the game has the rest as well, along with various other little perks.
Previously known by the name of "GrimGent".

TheShadow

#16
August 06, 2007, 08:47:38 AM
Quote from: GrimGentHome of the Underdogs has some of the books in PDF, and the Yahoo group for the game has the rest as well, along with various other little perks.

Thanks, nice find.
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The Yann Waters

#17
August 06, 2007, 10:25:58 AM
Quote from: The_ShadowThanks, nice find.
I recently found The War-Torn Kingdom in a local bookstore. The comments about how the series is often heavier on game than story make sense once you notice that the average volume has about 700 entries crammed into less than a hundred pages.
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Nicephorus

#18
August 06, 2007, 11:51:15 AM
You can pretty much complete coverage of all solo adventure books ever made at Demian Katz' gamebook site:
http://www.gamebooks.org/

If you haven't read them, you can get the Lone Wolf books for free online.

Pierce Inverarity

#19
August 06, 2007, 01:10:37 PM
There was no railroading in "Die Torte schlaegt zurueck"!
Ich habe mir schon sehr lange keine Gedanken mehr über Bleistifte gemacht.--Settembrini

arminius

#20
August 07, 2007, 02:32:21 AM
Quote from: SettembriniThanks, I know about them.
What I´m really interested in are other, yet similiar contemporary (franchises of) game books.
Not quite the same, but I'll point again to Dark City Games and their neo-Fantasy Trip solo modules.

If they're anything like the old TFT books, they'll play slightly better with a GM due to the use of a tactical system (with a map) that gives options to both sides in a fight. But should still be highly playable if you're used to playing wargames solo.

Drew

#21
August 07, 2007, 03:18:25 AM
Slightly off-topic, but I'd love to see a console game set in either the Fighting Fantasy or Lone Wolf worlds. A third person action adventure title that spanned Firetop Mountain, Darkwood Forest and The city of Thieves, with plenty of wilderness roving in between would be just incredible.

EDIT: And I have a title!

Grand Theft Allansia: Port Blacksand

C'mon, tell me you wouldn't snap it up!
 

DevP

#22
August 07, 2007, 09:18:06 AM
I ran the Dark City Games demo ("Orcs of the High Mountains") and liked it a lot. I ended up buying some more games for use at some point.

(Granted, I think I played it a little differently: a group of people for a pickup game, with some extra rules things being ad hoc adjudicated and allowing the GM (me) to add little bits around the edges. So I used it as the 80% basis of the adventure I ran.)
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