I think I get the skill rolls now. If I roll *above* my skill, I lose the roll (and die, generally).

Much of this is down to lucky guesses, so I doubt anyone will win this in the first go. It became mostly a game of restarting, skimming through the correct choices, then taking a different choice in the end (or attempting the skill roll again). I would call that "fake difficulty", as it has nothing to do with my skill and everything to do with having played the game before.

Not bad, but too much fake difficulty.

paul
Sun Mar 24 19:54:12 2019
Skull - non-optimum ending reached

squashed by a giant :(

mcg
Wed Nov 20 20:43:38 2019

Charming little adventure. It wasn't that hard.

hessus
Sat Apr 10 00:49:19 2021
Star - optimum ending reached

you did a great job writing this i really enjoyed playing it!

big lad
Wed Apr 21 08:49:05 2021
Skull - non-optimum ending reached

good

Mage
Fri Oct 22 01:04:40 2021
Star - optimum ending reached

I've run the gauntlet!

Saladbutt
Sat Oct 23 06:29:14 2021
Skull - non-optimum ending reached

Damn lizards! Forced me into quicksand.

haze
Mon Aug 8 22:42:37 2022
Skull - non-optimum ending reached

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haze
Mon Aug 8 23:01:12 2022

Its Really Fun

SCC Tue Oct 4 10:25:05 2022	I've sent an updated copy of Golem's Gauntlet to the webmaster, so hopefully it should be uploaded soon. I'm also going to revamp Gem Runner, as I was ill at the time and didn't do it justice.
	The new Golem's Gauntlet is uploaded now.

YARD
Tue Aug 8 14:40:34 2023
Star - optimum ending reached

What a great concept! Tey is an excellent villain, and I love the atmosphere of every entry! The progression is certainly rather linear, but I suppose it would have been difficult to do it any other way. I do wish your run didn't effectively hinge on one of those two checks - either the Skill check when

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or the Luck check if

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Now, I must mention there are more than a few typos. I see that the last post from the creator was to say he would like to correct them...but that was five years ago. I hope this comment will finally get them fixed.

46: "must be a huge underground complex. Plus "and when you are lower your arm are surprised to see" - what is that structure?

7: "you may be able to jump for the rock". On the other hand, "might be able to be jumped" reads rather dubiously.

11: "you are about to discard it".

16: "noting how much easier it is".

73: "just as the soldiers re (?) the main room."

10: "It would be near impossible".

98: "Dejected, you re (?) the fireplace"??? And "as both will beare effectively losing the last of your ground cover. The sides of the valley are also narrow"

51: "Running will only alert them to your presence, but there might be a chance"

99: "And re (?) the valley floor".

19: Is it Daren Tey or Dalen Tey?

60: "Will now work to your benefit."

93: "A third woldier".

61: "slash at (?) your throat"?

Observations:

Shouldn't losing a clay arm to rain also lower your skill, or at least hit your fighting ability in combat alone?

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I also have no idea if

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in 12 is meant to prevent you from bringing

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into the battles with

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but I'm glad it doesn't work, then, because the battle is really arbitrary without it. Not to mention that while unlikely, I found out it actually is possible to

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And further, if

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how come

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I would have thought that

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Some suggestions:

Can we have at least the description of a

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differ a bit if you have the

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? Even if you just have it destroyed by the current almost immediately, it's still better than ignoring it.

I don't quite understand why

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Instead, I think it would be nice if

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In fact, perhaps

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Granted, perhaps this already exists, and I just haven't discovered it yet.

I wonder if perhaps there could be

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I've fixed these bugs (as opposed to the observations/suggestions), thanks for pointing them out. I've gone with Dalen rather than Daren as it involves the fewest changes.

Simon did provide an updated version last year, and it's on the downloads page, but I didn't go through it to work out what had changed so the online version is based on the text from 2012.

YARD
Mon Sep 11 14:06:34 2023
Star - optimum ending reached

As I have been getting more and more (re)acquianted with Titan's canon, I began to wonder how well the stories I have already seen on here fit.

Upon closer look, I discovered that not only does the ref 109, which makes you fight two ettins as part of a group fight, arrive with zero context (you are literally told nothing about the creatures outside of their stats), but it seems like ettins are one of the seemingly few fantasy/folklore creatures to exist in D & D but not in Titan's canon to date. There's also the Formorian Giant (?)

At the same time, it's also technically possible this story isn't actually set on Titan in the first place, but rather just in Forgotten Realms or the like? The only thing which might place it in Titan seem to be references to Atlantis (when you get the steel body), but that seems to be in every fantasy setting anyway.

And once again:

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SCC
Tue Nov 21 14:57:07 2023

I'm tweaking a few things. Standby.

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