GA13 wrote on Dec 31: " This came up on the Rebuilding Titan list courtesy of John Gompers " and I was wondering whether Paul Mason might provide further "...
... Sacred Sword ... written by ... Tsui are ... World. I think a Scared Mace of Tsui may have crept into Magehunter (Allansia = two continents) but I'm not...
... Right next to the Nervous Halberd of Thwok and the Frightened Dagger of Frak. ... Per Jorner aka Finster aka Coffee Dragon (pel@...) ...
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... Dagger of ... D'OH! That should be Sacred Mace of Tsui, I guess. Too much beer, too many shaky fingers at the console. Off to commit non-fatal hara kiri ...
I read a review of some Myriador stuff on RPGnet. In case you don't all know about it already, there's a comment on the books: "I had Khare: Cityport of Traps,...
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I'm usually just a lurker here, but I'll add my 2 cents. I've played through a few of the Myriador adventures, and although they don't fit into my normal...
... The paradox would seem to be that if the players are not FF fans, there's no reason to choose a dungeon crawl which must stay faithful to non-RPG-suited...
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If you haven't finished Masks of Mayhem, do not scroll down very far or you'll encounter death and destruction. Instant death here if you haven't won FF23! ...
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... I sure do Per, I did exactly the same experimenting you've outlined back in 1990 and reached the same conclusion. Still it was a very good book, but I...
... far or ... I had exactly the same thing when I played it and finally got through to the end. I wish he had made the traitor's name Ifor Tynal......
Since we were talking about Warlock and Proteus magazines I while back, I got curious. Could you people please list which adventures from these two mags you...
... fans of ... them ;-) ... there's ... know every ... crawl ... I was ... again... I must admit I didn't really understand the gist behind these d20 posts so...
... Temple of Testing (W7) was good. There's the odd double-figure Skill opponent, and it's very much an item hunt, but you have as much freedom of movement as...
... I know nothing of Proteus (I had one (a dungeon bash with pix that looked like a poor man's Dave Carson (FF25)) but it never left an impression) so would...
I've just subscribed to Wizard's fightingfantasygamebooks.com website, run by our own Dave Holt. I've got my username and password down, but I can't seem to...
... Proteus used a variety of authors in every issue, of varying quality. Mark K Dunn and Paul Campbell were good, Dave de Leuw less so, the others I forget. ...
... fighting_fantasy_gamebooks@yahoogroups.com, "lord_of_the_cruel_summer ... I *had* similar problems, but they were resolved following an exchange of e-mails...
... If you could find the time to include publication dates and author/illustrator credits, it would be of tremendous value to my book project, as the Proteus...
... As referenced in my recent house-sized Curse of the Mummy review over on the gamebooks list, for anyone who's not signed up. Pluggity-plug-plug. ... ...
... Yve Newnham had a co-credit with Dave Morris on GD 6. That's the only other female gamebook writer I can think of off-hand. ... The trivia-retention...
... GD6 certainly doesn't read like a standard Dave Morris gamebook so you'd have to say Yve's influence is certainly in the majority. I haven't tested it for...
... It's nowhere near as difficult to actually play as several other GD books. M I N O R S P O I L E R S Did you notice that at one point the entire layout of...
Currently I only have access to my copy of the miniature reprint that came free with issue 9, so I don't have precise details of publication. Unless there was...
FF23: Masks of Mayhem First let me gush a little on Russ Nicholson's art for this book. It's quite simply up there with the best gamebook art I've seen. I've...
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I would rate Dead of Night much higher, at least an 8. I think the difficulty level is a fresh change, at least for one of the later FF books- it will take...
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I would rate Dead of Night much higher, at least an 8. I think the difficulty level is a fresh change, at least for one of the later FF books- it will take...
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Hey guys... while you're discussing FF scenarios from other magazines... A mate recently gave me White Dwarf no.62. It has the second part of a short FF...
... the ... Issue 2 is of similar quality. One question: did all Proteus magazines come with dice attached on the cover, like Fabled Lands did several years...
... The three-part Dark Usurper story was the only FF adventure published in White Dwarf, though the magazine also published solitaire adventures for Tunnels &...