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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 "...
Paul Mason
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Jan 1, 2004
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... 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...
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Jan 1, 2004
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... 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 ...
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Jan 2, 2004
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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,...
Per Jorner
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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...
Shane Garvey
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Jan 2, 2004
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... 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...
Per Jorner
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Jan 4, 2004
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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! ...
Per Jorner
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Jan 5, 2004
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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...
Doug Riddell
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Jan 5, 2004
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... 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......
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Jan 5, 2004
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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...
Guillermo
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Jan 6, 2004
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... 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...
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Jan 6, 2004
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... 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...
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Jan 7, 2004
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... 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...
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Jan 7, 2004
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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...
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Jan 7, 2004
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... 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. ...
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... fighting_fantasy_gamebooks@yahoogroups.com, "lord_of_the_cruel_summer ... I *had* similar problems, but they were resolved following an exchange of e-mails...
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Jan 7, 2004
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... 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...
Demian Katz
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Jan 7, 2004
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... 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. ... ...
Leigh Loveday
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Jan 8, 2004
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... 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...
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Jan 8, 2004
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... 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...
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Jan 8, 2004
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... 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...
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Jan 9, 2004
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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...
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Jan 9, 2004
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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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Jan 9, 2004
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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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Jan 10, 2004
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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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Jan 10, 2004
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Hello, This email message is a notification to let you know that a file has been uploaded to the Files area of the fighting_fantasy_gamebooks group. File...
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Jan 10, 2004
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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...
Andrew Ritchie
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Jan 10, 2004
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... 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...
Guillermo
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Jan 10, 2004
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... The three-part Dark Usurper story was the only FF adventure published in White Dwarf, though the magazine also published solitaire adventures for Tunnels &...
Demian Katz
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