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Post by Farseer Kyladras on Apr 16, 2014 20:21:48 GMT
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Post by Lord Draconiroth on Apr 17, 2014 8:54:00 GMT
D&D Adventure books? The "if you decide this path go to page 23" type?
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Post by paladin7221 on Apr 17, 2014 10:50:52 GMT
The very same. And since both these blokes started GW, we can honestly say that this is where it all began.
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Post by Geifer on Apr 17, 2014 11:45:13 GMT
Well, since you aske, nope, never seen these before.  D&D Adventure books? The "if you decide this path go to page 23" type? I never looked inside one of those single player adventures, but I always thought the concept was cool. |
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Post by Farseer Kyladras on Apr 17, 2014 13:15:01 GMT
They are really cool, as long as you play them `properly` and don't cheat they are quite a gripping read. My favourite was always creature of havoc where you basically start out as a mindless creature, you will see signs on doors and text in books etc as your character but it is unreadable at first, only later in the book do you `learn to read` as it were, becoming less of a mindless creature (in game terms you learn how to read the illegible scrawl (it is in the form of a code and you learn how to decode it) this is a superb twist and really opens up the story. Very difficult to complete as I remember but I look forward to doing so again  FK |
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Post by Lord Draconiroth on Apr 17, 2014 14:46:01 GMT
The problem I found with those kinds of book though is that when you didn't cheat you start to know which pages are the "you are dead" ones. I never managed to finish one properly when I was younger... Maybe I should try again now.
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Post by Farseer Kyladras on Apr 17, 2014 19:42:40 GMT
Try again Paul, I'll bring them with me to the mini-meet you're welcome to try them FK |
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Post by ghostwalker on Apr 17, 2014 22:49:59 GMT
Spent a lot of my early teens reading these and absolutely loved them. Think they helped me along the path to geekdom!
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Post by Geifer on Apr 18, 2014 8:58:07 GMT
The problem I found with those kinds of book though is that when you didn't cheat you start to know which pages are the "you are dead" ones. I never managed to finish one properly when I was younger... Maybe I should try again now. Resurrect on page one, and next time stay out of there! |
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Post by Farseer Kyladras on Apr 18, 2014 10:40:57 GMT
A lot of the time the deaths in it came from the dice and statistic based combat rather than simply picking the `wrong` option but that did of course happen as well so best thing to do in that case is to re-read a different book next and leave that one a while to hopefully ensure that you have forgotten the instant death options FK |
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Post by doomzombie on Apr 18, 2014 11:07:12 GMT
Like i said on FB Paul, nice find mate. As to start collecting them you have a long hard slog ahead of you, and i know as i have quite a few myself and some of them go past number 50 if i remember rightly. So good luck mate and happy hunting.
Will hunt mine out and will post a pic with a list.
Doom....
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