The LW Multiplayer Gamebook will be released in...

[Black Cat]

... March 2010!

Yes, that's right: according to the Mongoose website, the new version of the LW RPG will be released in 4 months, at the same time that LW 29 is supposed to be released if what Joe Dever's recent interviews are right.

From the Mongoose website:

Launched in the 80's, the Lone Wolf series of gamebooks quickly became firm favourites among a growing fan base. Alone among the gamebooks of their day, Lone Wolf was the only one to feature a cohesive and exciting world, and an extended campaign in which your character could grow and expand as he travelled through all 28 books of the original series. This was the first true mega-campaign!

Prepare to return to the world of Magnamund, this time with your friends. The Lone Wolf Multiplayer Gamebook is a full roleplaying game, based on the simple rules system of the solo books – it is so easy, anyone can play! The first book in this range brings you the core rules, introduces the Kai Lord character class and presents three introductory scenarios to get you started.

The book will be a softback of 140 pages, available for £10 (or $19.99 in the US).

In other news, the 14th gamebook of the LW series, The Captives of Kaag, is set for a release in February 2010.

[eviltb]

Lovely stuff! Will be picking this up "fo sho".

[Doomy]

Cool, you can run a game on LWRPGoL. Looks like we need a new 'un on there.

[Beowuuf]

We can also un-protect the one we were playing previously too!

[Doomy]

Yeah, what was the deal with the Kai Lord game we were involved in for a bit? I seem to recall Crymson saying it was connected with the Mongoose multiplayer gamebook in some fashion, shortly before he buggered off.

[eviltb]

That game was fun, if only for the character creation. Raging Stallion swings in with his mace!!

[Beowuuf]

As far as I know, we were playtesting the actual ruleset as it was then. Solid Snake rules. Umm, I mean..Sun Snake...

[Simey]

No! My character was the best! So good, in fact, that....I can't remember his name. Or indeed anything about him. Erm....

But the simpler the system, the easier to do a play-by-post game, I'd've thought, so this is sounding good.

[Beowuuf]

Swift Otter

Swift Otter is seventeen years old, fairly tall and lean, with (typically unkempt) short, dark brown hair and brown eyes - relatively unusual features for a Sommlending. His often slightly scruffy appearance is a source of much (usually) good-humoured mockery from his fellow acolytes and of much (nearly always) ill-tempered admonishment from his tutors.

Swift Otter revels in natural environments, particularly forests and rivers. Although not uncomfortable within the monastery walls, he is always keen on opportunities to escape them. The disciplines that he has excelled in reflect this, whilst the particular weakness of his studies of the focused mental arts demonstrate his tendency to rely on his instincts rather than exercising the more controlled powers of the mind.

His Kai name was judged the ideal epithet due to his being almost as at home in water as out of it, and due also his fleetness in either environment. Needless to say he is an excellent swimmer. His tendency to playfully manipulate anything that comes to hand - whether in twirling his spear, rolling leaves up into a ball or idly passing a stone from palm to palm - and to use the forests and rivers that he loves so much as a source of fun - whether in sliding down muddy river banks into the water, climbing any available tree or stalking animals that he has no intention of permanently capturing - only strengthened the appropriateness of the 'Otter' moniker in his tutors' minds.


Combat Skill: 18
Endurance: 23

Kai Disciplines

1. Hunting
2. Tracking
3. Sixth Sense
4. Animal Kinship
5. Camouflage

[eviltb]

damnit, if only I could remember my password to that forum Id dig up my character... Raging Statllion was a beast!

[Beowuuf]

I'm actually going to see if I can throw it open come March, I'll pm you the password at lunch

[Doomy]

After some fiddling about to recover the password, here's my guy. I'd forgotten how cool his avatar was.

Running Bear

This Kai Lord is a solidly-built young warrior with shoulder-length brown hair and green eyes. His enthusiastic approach to training is contrasted by a laid-back, cheery disposition.

CS: 15 (19/21 with Mindblast)
EP: 25 (31 with armour, currently 24/30)


Kai Disciplines
1. Weaponskill in Mace
2. Mindblast
3. Mindshield
4, Healing
5. Sixth Sense

Weapons
1. Mace (+2CS Weaponskill)
2. Bow

Miscellaneous Equipment
Kai uniform
Backpack
Belt with pouch

Special Items
1. Helmet (+2 EP)
2. Chainmail Waistcoat (+4EP)
3. Shield (+2 CS)
4. Quiver (11 arrows)
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Gold Crowns: 15

[Simey]

Ooh, blasts from the past all round! I shudder to think how long back it was that we were playing that - was it even this year?

Thanks for the profile, Beo! Remember him now. Hmm, would rather like to play that character. Ah, well.

[Doomy]

The Story thread for the game started on September 10, 2008 and died on November 14, 2008.

We got as far as Banedon.

[Simey]

What can I say?

Yikes.