Been thinking about how the wizard series of ff gamebooks seems to be wasting away with no new gamebooks. Does anyone know about anything we can do about it, such as societies for its continuation and suchlike?

Stuart
Tue Jan 27 21:55:02 2009
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We've got a nice collection of FF books going. We could get them out there somehow?

duffmeister
Sun Feb 1 15:35:54 2009
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As my first installment in my epic 'Yaethyr Cycle' set in Mythological greece nears completion, I have reached a branch of options in the great gamebook that is life. The choice I have to make is about the title. Since the book is designed as a greek poem, it seems tempting to name it after its hero, Achaeon, in the style of such poems (the Odyssey, Aeneid, etc.) by calling it the Achaeid, however the other two options are to title it as a greek play (Naming it 'Achaeon the Prince') or simply giving it a modern title ('Enemy of the Fates' is a tempting one). All sound reasonable to me in their context, so i'm having difficulty choosing. Any opinions?

duffmeister
Sun Feb 1 15:37:06 2009
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sorry, misspoke there, it's not a greek poem, but an epic rather, and the Aeneid isn't greek but its the same idea

Phil Sadler
Sun Feb 1 16:57:36 2009
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'Enemy of the Fates' sounds rather good, as does "The Enemy of Fate". Also, I don't know about other people here but my ancient Greek is a little lacking so I don't really know the other things that you allude to.

Ulysses
Sun Feb 1 22:22:13 2009
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Duffmeister:
As a fan of mythology, the title The Achaeid is appealing to me, however, this is a more appropriate title for the series as a whole rather than the first installment.
Personal taste being what it is, and not neccesarily of any value to anyone else, Acheon the Prince sounds to me like a fairytale title.
If the Fates are to feature significantly through the series, which I seem to recall you saying have three parts, you could include one of their names in each of the three titles. For example, the first installment could be called: Clotho's Dread or something.

Everyone:
On the matter of names, I'm up to Episode 6 of the Wrong Way Go Back series; but still don't have a proper name for the series. Any suggestions?

Al Sander
Mon Feb 2 08:48:19 2009
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Twisted tales? :)

Stuart
Mon Feb 2 22:37:31 2009
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Wrong Way go back seems a bit like Hitch hiker's guide to the galaxy kind of humour. I'm terrible at titles, but maybe something to do with getting a girlfriend and being a teenager as the hero seems like a normal teenager who has to save the galaxy.

Kee
Sun Feb 8 10:59:12 2009
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The 'Wrong Way Go Back Saga?'

Ulysses
Tue Feb 10 02:44:27 2009
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Hi everyone.

Sorry for the late reply. I've just spent a week in hospital having part of my small intestine removed.

I have read Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy so its influence was in there somewhere.

The ideas I had for the title were:
The Wa! Chronicles - A "saying-nothing" kind of title
In Space No One Can Hear You If You Don't Have a Girlfriend - I like this one, but it's just too long.
And I have considered just calling it the Wrong Way Go Back Septology since it will have 7 episodes, culminating in either the achievement of boyfriend-girlfriendness, or death.

duffmeister
Tue Feb 10 16:58:18 2009
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In Space no one can hear you if you don't have a girlfriend is a FANTASTIC name, but I agree it is pretty long. It could do as a subtitle for a book, or possibly be involved in a book in some way or another, perhaps as the first or final line of a book, or even just mentioned by a character at some point.

Also, a seven part series isn't called a septology (Hope you don't mind me mentioning this, thought it'd be better to mention it before the series is named) it's a heptalogy. Not complaining here, just thought i'd better say (Also, four part series are not called 'quadrilogies' or 'quartets' but rather 'tetralogies')

I look forward to the series' continuation, and will see if i can think of any good title ideas. Also, sorry to hear about your operation, hope all went well.

Finally, on my mythical series. The series was planned to be similar to ancient story cycles (The epic cycle and theban cycle, for example) which is planned to be thus named similarly, the Yaethyr cycle. I have chosen to name the first book The Achaeid using greek titling techniques. I avoided naming the series 'The Achaeid' because i felt this avoided the theme of such series' being 'cycles' in the original ones. Thanks for the advice on titles all, since this steered me from what i now see was the rather awful 'Achaeon the Prince'. Until later, fare well!

Ulysses
Tue Feb 10 22:02:59 2009
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Duffmeister:

Thanks for the correction. I was just making it up, which is inexcusable given I have access to a world of information via the internet.

Theslayer02
Sun Feb 15 11:31:03 2009
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Has anyone here ever tried to write a gamebook in the style of armies of death?

and maybe added a few additions like swords making them kill one extra creature each time, or armour saving one or two of there creatures each time, or even making tougther creatures like dwarfs and chaos warriors lose one less creature each time beacuse of there tougthness and maybe chaos warriors killing an extra creature each time beacuse of there strength.

What are your thougths on this?

Kekataag
Sun Feb 22 15:16:21 2009
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I wrote a gamebook like this 2 years ago, but it was badly written and had several continuity errors. The book was extremely complex, very short (250 sections) and suffered from a problem that almost affected the excellent Legend of Zagor (until the part after you found the Dragonbone Keys): too much game and too little story. In it, you played an evil warlord controlling an army of Orcs and Wraiths, and your goal was to defeat an Elven army that attacked your fortress. I used units of troops in much the same way as STAMINA, except for the fact that each time your army lost a battle, its ability to fight was harder the next time.

Jordan
Sun Feb 22 20:13:02 2009
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I would verry much like to preview the aforementioned gamebook once the errors were weeded out and fixed. I tsounds quite interesting and entertaining.

theslayer02 Wed Feb 25 18:23:26 2009 General Chat	yer me to. anyone else ever writtern a ff book in armies of death style?
	The closest one I can think of is Sagi Hed's Realm Of The Vampire at http://www.fightingfantasy.go.to. This has a section in which you command either a Goblin, Orc or Midget army.

Jamus
Thu Feb 26 03:44:32 2009
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Hey cool site!

I tried bodies in the docks...it was really good and amazingly complex with all those special skills.

Hellfire seemed interesting...but I heard that there are critical dice rolls in it and tough combats which turns me off.

I also tried isle of the cyclops. I liked its non linear structure...you could move anywhere on the island at will.

Kekataag Tue Mar 3 13:57:34 2009 General Chat	Does anyone know from which book the illustration for the Cockatrice in section 196 came?
	All I know is that I got it from Richard Stanton's Yaztromo website, which no longer exists but is archived here : http://web.archive.org/web/*/http://www.stanton71.freeserve.co.uk/.

Andy Wright Thu Mar 5 12:04:38 2009 General Chat	I think there's two pictures of Cockatrices in FF. One is by Tim Sell and comes from Out of the Pit. The other is by Tony Hough and comes from Knights of Doom. Which one is it?
	It's this one: http://www.ffproject.com/PICTURES/COCKA.JPG.

Andy Wright
Fri Mar 6 14:09:15 2009
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Hey thanks for the link - that's the one from FF56 Knights of Doom, picture by Tony Hough.

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