As you know, FF has been revived under the Scholastic publishers. Ian Livingstone's 'The Port of Peril' was released late last year, with promise of more titles in the future. Just five minutes ago I came across a fantastic discovery that must be shared: 'The Gates of Death' has been listed under the bibliography of Charlie Higson, well known for his comedy contributions and The Enemy series of books for young adults. He was also know for (mostly) penning the excellent 'Jekyll and Hyde' TV series - sadly ITV decided not to do a second series. A moment's sadness replaced by excited anticipation! However, going by the lesson of 'Bloodbones' during the days of Puffin, actual publication remains to be seen. Let's hope it does.

Joel
Mon Jan 8 16:58:20 2018
Soul Tracker
Skull - non-optimum ending reached

Yea I can't seem to get any ending besides the world going to hell and the portal opening permanently. Any help?

bcyy
Tue Jan 9 03:03:46 2018
General Chat

@Robert:

Sorry about the late reply - for some reason, our posts didn't appear until just now.

Going abroad is, in my personal experience, a good way of keeping things in perspective. If you really want to leave the UK and have the means to do so, then I think doing so would be helpful. In fact, I would recommend leaving the western world altogether for a while - just make sure you can make it back if and when you want to.

As for the UK being decadent, in my humble opinion, that's what happens when you take many of the world's richest 1% of people and cram them together. I've seen the same happen in many places with similar situations. So many, in fact, that it has led me to conclude that it's just human nature. Don't let this obscure your vision of your goals, though - someone has to make progress happen, even if the society in general is reluctant to.

As for the FF revival, I look forward to seeing copies in my local bookstore, even though that could take years to happen.

Robert Douglas
Tue Jan 9 23:50:09 2018
General Chat

@bcyy,

You make a good point regarding the 1%. However, I would say there are other factors besides in-balanced capitalism contributing to the decline. It's a shame about Wizard Books ending the FF series, although let's hope Scholastic produce some new titles. Saying that, it would be great to see authors such as Jonathan Green and Stephen Hand make a comeback. I'm not sure if Steve Jackson (UK) would ever return to write a gamebook -whether physical or digital - but that would be great if he did! And you can tell that Ian Livingstone has a certain fondness for gamebooks by returning every once in a while! I'd also like to suppose (hint!) that 'Blood of the Mandrakes' by Stephen Hand could be a contender, but it all depends on the copyright, author's decision, publisher's decision to revive that idea. It is possible: many fans despaired over 'Bloodbones'...yet it eventually appeared through Wizard! And of course there are many other shelved projects you might find by consulting Titannica website.

Joel
Thu Jan 11 17:14:00 2018
The Golden Crate

Can someone please just say the code for the Golden Crate? I can't remember it and I will lose my place if i restart. I keep seeing people asking for it and the only answers they get are "Oh you saw it earlier". If I wanted to go back and look I would have done that already

Babap
Fri Jan 12 21:32:07 2018
The Curse Of Drumer
Star - optimum ending reached

Been a while, but playing it again. This book is always that awesome to me.

Ruenblogger
Sun Jan 14 11:38:09 2018
New Day Rising
Skull - non-optimum ending reached

Well, that was fun but brief. I enjoyed the descriptions and the irony. And who could have guessed that bringing the cleric with us would unleash a nuke? Oh well...! :-)

Joel
Wed Jan 17 17:20:58 2018
The Black Lobster
Star - optimum ending reached

You know I didn't get to use the Gold I earned for literally anything. I hope there is a sequel so I can actually use this gold. I have literally 58 gold. I could buy a lot with that.

GG
Thu Jan 18 20:29:59 2018
General Chat

That's peculiar... it seems that as soon as you get into a gamebook all the website formatting is gone, only a basic, ugly (albeit functional) html is left without even any css... any clues?

Tammy
Fri Jan 19 01:48:15 2018
General Chat

Me.

Andrè M. Pietroschek
Tue Jan 23 00:23:53 2018
New Day Rising
Skull - non-optimum ending reached

I liked the idea to hire a group, but all I experienced was going strictly from fight to fight. A notch more story and atmosphere could help.

Guest
Wed Jan 31 23:14:25 2018
New Day Rising
Star - optimum ending reached

When I saw there was a sequel to Outsider my heart skipped a beat. I had considered Outside to be not merely the greatest fan made fighting fantasy book but the outright greatest fighting fantasy book ever made, and were it not for the Fabled Lands, possibly the greatest gamebook ever.

But I found this sequel jarring and disapointing.

First why is this a sequel to Outsider? It not only has nearly zero connection to Outsider but the tone is wildly, wildly and jarringly different. Outsider was an epic about seeking your identity and possible redemption and this is... a dungeon crawler where you mostly go from one encounter to another with jarringly modern speech and loads of awkward 4th wall jokes? I get you probably wanted to do something different, but announcing this as a sequel and having a seemingly serious intro only to lead into this was very jarring. It's like if Citizen Kane was followed up with a romantic comedy that only mentioned something from that film in passing

The party mechanics were interesting (though not integrated into the play as well as it could have been but I felt it was a serious dick move to have the player pick 3 out of 5 companions

SPOILER

END SPOILER

, there were too many blind choices for which door to walk through luck (the stat and thing in real life) played a distressingly large part in this book

Guest
Thu Feb 1 07:10:14 2018
New Day Rising

Was my message deleted? I Left a long and thoughtful hit submit and now its gone

Guest
Thu Feb 1 07:12:52 2018
New Day Rising

Never mind it was just a gltich with my browser

Martin
Thu Feb 1 13:01:22 2018
Isle Of The Cyclops
Skull - non-optimum ending reached

Completely random with regards to objects you need or people you need to meet before you get to the kill-the-monster-quest. Hence this game is too difficult!

john
Sun Feb 4 15:56:35 2018
New Day Rising
Skull - non-optimum ending reached

Wow, not what I was expecting compared to outsider. Pretty darn funny, though. I'm off to try a few more times.

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