crymson
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Post by crymson on Sept 15, 2010 2:50:11 GMT -5
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Post by Doomy on Sept 15, 2010 16:43:21 GMT -5
Yay! Fabled Lands was almost the best gamebook series ever published, if only they had actually been published. Well, that might be exaggeration, but they were certainly ambitious - like a solitaire version of a full-blown RPG.
Collect the set!
So are you Dave Morris or Jamie Thomson? Or did I read that wrong?
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Post by crymson on Sept 15, 2010 17:03:39 GMT -5
No, my name is Shane Garvey. I am co authoring the rpg, but working closely with Dave and Jamie.
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Post by Doomy on Sept 15, 2010 17:19:21 GMT -5
Ah yes. Besides the LWRPGoL stuff I think you have a gamebook review of mine on a blog you once ran. A review of a book by one Mr. Thomson, no less.
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Post by Beowuuf on Sept 15, 2010 21:03:19 GMT -5
Not a gamebook series I ever heard of! I shall endeavour to put that right.
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Post by Doomy on Sept 16, 2010 6:07:53 GMT -5
It's an interesting series as it was free-roaming rather than using a linear, branching narrative. Each book was a chunk of the overall world which you could basically wander at will. No "one true path" here.
You could, say, travel off the map of Book 1, visit Book 3 for a while and continue your adventures in Book 1 at a later date.
The only things like it I've seen are the Knuckleduster Interactive Westerns and a solitaire RuneQuest module called Scorpion Hall, but they were self-contained volumes without the "interlocking" aspect. Also the FF gamebook Scorpion Swamp is like a smaller-scale version, as are most of Herbie Brennan's titles come to think of it.
Nice books as well, printed in a large, glossy format, like some "trade paperback" graphic novels.
Sadly they came out a few years too late, when gamebooks were generally dying off, and the series was never completed. Think they managed to release six out of twelve, I had the first two.
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Post by Beowuuf on Sept 16, 2010 12:35:36 GMT -5
Ah, that's cool - and also cool there's goign to be a completion to the series in that case!
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Post by crymson on Sept 16, 2010 17:05:14 GMT -5
Only if the reprints and the rpg sell well enough. Dave Morris has stated that the remaning 6 books will only be written if they can first sell a certain number of copies of the first six
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Post by Doomy on Sept 17, 2010 1:48:15 GMT -5
Will this stuff be released in the UK, or are we talking import-only?
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Post by crymson on Sept 17, 2010 4:31:38 GMT -5
I think you'll find it'll mostly be UK. The US is the harder part.
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Post by Izziel Darkblade on Sept 17, 2010 16:57:07 GMT -5
Finally, my chance to play these fabled gamebooks  . I have heard a ton of good stuff about these- like everyone, it seems. |
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Post by Samildanach on Sept 23, 2010 20:09:45 GMT -5
Never heard of them, but they sound interesting. I'll check them out if they're released.
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. I have heard a ton of good stuff about these- like everyone, it seems.
