binki Sun Mar 22 08:51:06 2020 A Saint Beckons	Hello, Robert You wrote a great story. I played a couple of times and find it amazing! Would you mind telling me how ARMOUR works?
	Each time you are wounded, two dice are rolled behind the scenes and if the total is equal to or lower than your ARMOUR score then the damage is halved.

duffmeister
Sun Mar 22 12:53:01 2020
Gamebooks

Kinda interesting to hear your thoughts on long intros, Tammy. When I submitted 'The Scarlet Thief' for the Windhammer competition years ago, most of the feedback I got was positive, but one of the big pieces of criticism that I got was that some people really didn't like how long the intro and setup was, feeling that it didn't really seem very interactive, but just loads of exposition (first you hearing about a criminal, then you getting mistaken for the criminal, then you having people try to arrest you, then for mysterious reasons you get a chance to escape and some clues, all without any player choices). But I agree that a detailed intro can really add atmosphere and excitement (like how, to be honest, I've always thought 'Creature of Havoc' is a slightly overrated gamebook, maybe just cause I never managed to finish it, but I always really liked the detailed introductory backstory bits which seemed so much more atmospheric than just 'You go to a dungeon and you want to kill a wizard there'). I think arguably the best way to 'get both options' is to start with a not-super-long intro followed by a big choice (or choices) followed by the more detailed backstory after that so that things feel more interactive (like how in 'The Word Fell Silent' there is a whole lot of setup and information to build atmosphere, but before you get to that you have to decide which of the three religious groups you belong to, which has huge consequences for the adventure and affects the initial paragraph which you get to read).

binki
Sun Mar 22 14:01:45 2020
A Saint Beckons

Thank you for your reply - but can you tell a bit more, just to satisfy my curiosity. How do you manage different weapons - for example halberd and arming sword. Besides description they look the same for me.

The difference between those two is mainly what kind of opponent they are useful against. With the arming sword, there is a 2 point Attack Strength penalty when facing a plate-armoured opponent; the halberd gives you a 2 point bonus against an opponent on horseback, but a 2 point penalty from the fourth attack round onwards regardless of the opponent.

All the weapons' effects are hinted at in their descriptions, and can be seen more explicitly during combat where the Attack Strength adjustments are displayed on a round-by-round basis.

Robert Douglas
Sun Mar 22 15:00:16 2020
A Saint Beckons

Hi bikini,
Certain weapons have similar statistics. However, one difference is that the halberd has a longer reach compared to the arming sword, but as I recall is more difficult to wield in combat. Thanks for the kind words regarding ASB story, I enjoyed writing it :)

oakley
Mon Mar 23 03:40:23 2020
A Strange Week For King Melchion The Despicable

oakley
Mon Mar 23 03:46:14 2020
Escape Neuburg Keep
Skull - non-optimum ending reached

Tammy
Mon Mar 23 05:47:21 2020
Gamebooks

It solely depends on you. Don't listen to critics that tell how you should go about things. It's your writing, it's your choice. If they don't like it, that's fine. Some people are just too lazy to read a lot of text while others are impatient and want to get to the interaction immediately.

It's always a curfew on my mature content, don't make it so violent, don't be so gory or sexual, but it's what I do. If they don't like they don't have to read it or bother leaving a comment.

If you want your gamebook to be wordy, then alright. If you want it short and to the point, very well. It depends on you and as i always tell others "DO IT to please YOU not others because once you start writing for others you lose your enjoyment of far-fetched creativity and now you'll be afraid to let them down, expect greater things, or rely strictly on judgement and reviews of your work."

But as it's always nice to hear feedback, write the book with as many long reference as you like. Just don't be like Charles Dickens who took two pages full of paragraphs to describe a tree.

Robert Kingett
Fri Mar 27 13:59:15 2020
The Trial Of Allibor's Tomb

Okay, this is very, very hard. Where do I find the holy water?

s
Sat Mar 28 05:44:21 2020
Escape Neuburg Keep
Skull - non-optimum ending reached

dont like it

Robert Kingett Sat Mar 28 14:09:57 2020 The Trial Of Allibor's Tomb	I will be playing this again because it was loads of fun. I did it without the holy water, but just for curiosities sake, where is the holy water?
	SPOILER The cobra has it, near the end. END SPOILER

Gavin
Fri Apr 3 17:36:36 2020
New Day Rising

It's the lock down, and while my primary goal is reading and secondary goal is online wing chun tutorials, tertiary will be continuing this. If I get to it.

Quick Games
Sat Apr 4 02:34:55 2020
The Word Fell Silent
Skull - non-optimum ending reached

Had confusion how the stamina was being added as it seems ransom

Andre Michael Pietroschek
Mon Apr 6 04:07:00 2020
A Saint Beckons
Skull - non-optimum ending reached

What a retarded little infantry-man! He ran back to the Raven instead of staying true to the quest? Stupid fellow, deserved to be cut down!

bcyy
Tue Apr 7 02:19:12 2020
General Chat

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
General Chat

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
General Chat

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.

Yaztromo
Wed Apr 8 08:17:34 2020
A Strange Week For King Melchion The Despicable
Star - optimum ending reached

Every time I play this little, lovely adventure I find something fun that I didn't notice previously...

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