Unfortunate luck roll, must lose a point.

Oh.... shoot, all out of luck points.

Time to face the shit now and call on Oiden. Damn, he's on quarantine too.

All is lost!

Adrius Thu Mar 19 05:41:39 2020	Can this website be optimized for mobile view? It's pretty tiring to keep zooming in/out when playing on mobile.
	You could try this.

Tammy
Fri Mar 20 08:55:04 2020

Aguyofdown, you're welcome. Glad you enjoyed them. :)

bcyy
Tue Apr 7 02:19:12 2020

Is everyone OK? How many of us are in quarantine?
Especially Robert - I have a hunch he won't deign to wear protective gear, not even for an epidemic.
My planned trip to the UK was cancelled, postponing until November...

Tammy
Tue Apr 7 03:21:22 2020

i'm survivor of the virus, sick for 21 days, recovered 2 weeks ago. my lungs hurt now an then (still congested), coughing, but i have this inhaler dr gave prescribed me which i'm still hesitant to use. i get extremely fatigued by easy tasks and breathless.... but i'm ok now. i was very healthy before all this, now i have to heal which could take weeks. don't wish to ever go through that hell ever again, but i work in health care, so i'll risk it again if i have to to save others. not sure my survival if a second time get it, but it is what it is.

Quarantine foods....canned beans. ugh.

please wash your hands after going in public, or sanitize. they're not joking. social distance (even at work), stay the fuck home if you can. wear a mask. stay safe. very important.

during my illness i wrote that razaak story between bouts of lethargy and severe flu symptoms. Strange, and razaak is the bringer of plagues....?

i dont wish to write part 2 in the same condition, but will see what happens.

take care, everyone.

bcyy
Tue Apr 7 10:20:43 2020

Wow, congrats on your recovery, Tammy. It's very brave of you to keep working in healthcare at such a time. Take care! We'll keep mailing you Potions of Fortune!

So there are long-term complications for the lungs, even after recovery? How bad is it?

No worries on the "take it seriously" front. I've been staying at home since March, having sprayed every surface at the end of February. I'm not taking any risks. I have a supply of facemasks for emergencies, and will continue to work from home, for the next 6 months if necessary. Hopefully they will have developed some sort of vaccine by then. Personally, given my experience of how careful Canadians are when it comes to human lives, I'm very surprised that the authorities haven't declared martial law by now. A death rate of 2.9% is far higher than fighting in a typical war.

bcyy
Tue May 5 05:59:25 2020

Just finished 14 days of quarantine after I had to travel for an emergency. Glad to know that Robert is alive and well, and has posted in another topic.

BTW, I also had tons of canned beans in quarantine, although I was able to make pancakes from my strategic food reserves to supplement the beans. There were also a few days in which I was able to have cooked meals delivered to and left at my doorstep, which I then retrieved after a 30-minute wait. In short, life is still relatively good.

Is everyone else OK?

Gavin
Wed May 6 16:46:07 2020

Bloodstock is definitely cancelled, even Satan is feeling the pinch

A.E. Johnston
Thu Jun 4 08:13:56 2020

Hi Everyone, just wanted to check in! I have been doing okay, my main occupation is working in a Lab in Los Angeles County, so I have been fortunate enough to keep my work along with a steady paycheck.

Tammy, so sorry to hear of your bout with COVID, and thankful you are now recovered. These are troubling times for everyone.

Keep that STAMINA up, and don't let the Lung Rot get you down!

All the best,

Robert Douglas
Fri Jun 5 12:33:54 2020

This Coronavirus is a nasty thing, I hope that there isn't a second spike. Let's hope it's all over soon - Test your Luck, if you are lucky you don't catch Corona or get away with mild symptoms. If you are unlucky.... An FF gamebook mechanic that says it all really.

Stuart Lloyd
Thu Jun 18 01:55:25 2020

Congratulations on your recovery, Tammy! I hope everyone else is OK. I'm a little wary of this "opening up" that's happening - I'm glad that people are getting an income now, but I'm staying away from the shops as the virus hasn't got bored with us yet.

Stay safe, everyone!

Yaztromo
Fri Jun 19 04:16:05 2020

Health is OK, but the rest not so good... anyway I still feel a privileged, as health is OK.

Gavin
Fri Jul 3 06:28:33 2020

My story Polaris is now available at Amazon.

asgardian
Sat Jul 4 18:38:02 2020

Nice to see the site is still operating. A perfect time to be at home reading old FF books (City of Thieves is a great one when there is heavy rain outside).

I'm fortunate in that the current situation hasn't affected me financially, but it still leaves one numb when you try and comprehend the global situation. I suspect the "old normal" is gone forever.

SCC
Fri Jul 10 20:03:29 2020

"I heard that Stephen Hand wants nothing more to do with Fighting Fantasy. What would be cool is if some of the books here got the print treatment. However I'm sceptical as they seem to be aiming their books at a childrens' market now."

* Stuart Lloyd (from Fri Jul 19 05:10:20 2019)

Good point, sir. I think a collection of some of the better Windjammer stories that were only 100 entries long would have been a good sell.

I was once given a nice compliment by someone after showing them a revised version of my story "Golem's Gauntlet".

This person was "in the know" as far as FF titles went and said it would have been perfect for the later half of the run and was in fact much more original and enjoyable than many of the published efforts.

I was very grateful, but at the same time agree with your comment that the new titles will be for a younger audience.

The advent of gaming has taken many young teens away from books. In fact, FF worked because it and other products such as D & D were the outlet for the imagination in those days. Not so now.

While I enjoy playing the latest Souls game as much as the next person, there's a special place in my heart for the first seven FF books and the Sorcery series (I have PDF versions of them all on file for when I have a taste for nostalgia).

It's hard to quantify and explain to someone who didn't live through that period, but I believe we've lost something. But, nothing is forever.

Tammy
Sat Jul 11 16:24:07 2020

Its aimed at 12 or younger, which is fine. But i doubt im able to write for that audience, as i would get bored writing a dumbed down, G rated story. I would read them for fun but doubt i'd play with dice.
What they should do is have a category of 13 and up and then 12 to younger.
That way adults can still read their favorite themed ff gamebooks to themselves with difficult settings rather than read a bedtime gamebook to their children, where house of hell has become house of the very mean man and a few scary monsters in a big old creepy house.

Tammy
Tue Jul 28 14:44:17 2020

Just came back to read my post, it seemed a bit harsh. What I am trying to say is that they should categorize the FF franchise.

From 0-11, gamebooks written for children. Where monsters become cute and villains are creative not scary. The hero would not be facing dire consequences and death refs. The Paw Patrol, He-Man, Power Rangers, Winnie the Poo, Blues Clues? Has a gamebook author tried to attempt this?

12-18, gamebooks geared at teenagers like in the (80s & 90s), what we have now in our collections including future books. This is usually where Ian Livingstone (and a majority of others) stays in the boundaries. This is the level to which everyone usually writes their stories.

Adult gamebooks not ranging in content for only for grown ups but with higher difficulty levels of gameplay, deeper plots, and longer references with details and good dialogue. The only one I noticed who had done a great job at this was Jonathan Green.

I would read gamebooks ranging in violent gore, sexuality, and swearing but I will just go play a video game to reach that effect. They'd be fun to read once or twice but then it'd be put on the shelf and most likely I'd go back to open the 12-18 ones more often. I think CYOA are the only ones who do adult gamebooks with odd front covers, i read a few once, but that was it, just once. Not against it, i just prefer my sword, magic spells, armour and regular old villain story lines.

They should open more genres too like Old Westerns, romances, scientific/physics, paranormal, historical, modern day... LGBT? I believe someone wrote a gay zombie gamebook.

There were gamebooks geared just at a female only audience but they didn't do so well. I'm sure now if they tried again it might work if they did a Nancy Drew theme. Loved Nancy Drew or a romance like in Lord of the Rings or Game of Thrones. Then there is Lara Croft.

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