Ulysses Sat Oct 10 10:28:30 2009 General Chat	Maybe this site needs an FAQ section...
	You're right, and as it's raining this morning I've made one.

Jordan Fri Oct 9 21:20:23 2009 General Chat	Is there any way of adapting the other Windhammer competition gamebooks into online play? Also, I've heard lots about the House of Hell book. Any way of doing that one, as well?
	If their rules are close enough to FF (or a subset of FF) then yes. It's up to the authors though. Similarly, House Of Hell will only turn up here if Steve Jackson gives permission (and provides an electronic copy). I think this is unlikely, as that would effectively be giving away for free something that he is still trying to sell.

Snipe
Fri Oct 9 02:24:48 2009
House Of Horror

THIS IS ASKING FOR HELP IN THE HOUSE OF HELL BOOK:

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Gaetano
Thu Oct 8 03:57:35 2009
General Chat

In "City of the Dead," section 15, the first option does not contain the section number to go to.

duffmeister
Wed Oct 7 18:10:44 2009
General Chat

NB: In the Windhammer competition entries, there is an error in 'The Achaeid: The Enriyes'. One reference syaing 'Turn to 120' should in fact say 'Turn to 100'.

pi4t
Wed Oct 7 10:05:36 2009
Outsider!

In Outsider, from reference 577 you can go to various 'riddle references', the answers tell you to turn to 72. When you get there, it's clearly the wrong reference.

pi4t
Wed Oct 7 09:23:40 2009
General Chat

The Wrath of Cain has 2 reference 28s!

Stuart
Tue Oct 6 20:44:55 2009
General Chat

Gaetano - you have noticed a mistake I made. I should not have written 'turn to' there. If you want to return to the village with Ravan, you go to 94. If you want to explore the cave, you turn to 70. I have given the impression that there is a third option, but there is not.

Alec Worley
Tue Oct 6 18:40:39 2009
Garden Of Bones

Hi pi4t,
Thanks for reading Garden of Bones. In answer to your question, I guess I'd have to be Mr Arty-Farty and say - which ending felt right for you...?
Thanks again, dude.

Gaetano
Tue Oct 6 06:11:41 2009
General Chat

In "City of the Dead," section 15, the first option does not contain the section number to go to.

Kieran
Mon Oct 5 19:21:00 2009
Waiting For The Light

All you need for the note sheet is a scrap of paper anyway.

pi4t
Mon Oct 5 18:45:32 2009
Waiting For The Light

You can't see waiting for the light's note sheet...I don't suppose anyone's seen it?

Wayne Densley
Sun Oct 4 02:25:50 2009
Windhammer Competition

Hi All,

Voting has now commenced for the 2009 Windhammer Prize for Short Gamebook Fiction. Seven titles have been accepted for this year's competition and all are available for free download from http://www.arborell.com/windhammer_prize_2009_entries.html
The Windhammer prize is about promoting new gamebook authors and expanding the gamebook genre, and this year's submissions do not dissapoint. From diabolical hospital stays to the not so ordinary Wild West to ancient Mythology, these gamebooks show what can be done with interactive adventures and underline the creative energy of the authors themselves. Voting continues until the 30th of October with winners being announced on the 7th of November.

Have your say and vote for the entry you believe should claim the Windhammer Prize for 2009.

pi4t
Sat Oct 3 18:50:12 2009
Garden Of Bones

I completed Garden Of Bones, first I

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then I

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and finally

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What I want to know is did I find the 'good' ending?

Ulysses
Fri Oct 2 07:58:52 2009
The Hypertrout

Gaetano:

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Gaetano
Fri Oct 2 05:41:19 2009
The Hypertrout

In The Hypertrout,

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Anyway, very entertaining, like the rest in the series.

pi4t Thu Oct 1 16:37:23 2009 Outsider!	Same problem with 759-527, I'm afraid :(
	Normally I don't fix errors in the originals, but on this occasion I have dealt with the two you mention.

pi4t Thu Oct 1 16:20:33 2009 Outsider!	In Outsider, on reference 314, you are told that 'During that time, you have several contracts, but none as unusual as that of Fiorentino.' If you don't accept the contract, you aren't told the necromancer's name, so it should just say '...as that of the necromancer.' Also, in the html version, ref. 699 doesn't link with 600.
	I have fixed the reference 314 continuity error, thanks for pointing it out.

Ulysses
Thu Oct 1 13:36:12 2009
The Hypertrout

Aiken:

Thanks for your great comments! Any satirical parody of the FF series is entirely coincidental, since my philosophy when writing The Hypertrout was to try and be a complete bastard! Actually that's only half true. I have this operating principle which is that if the adventure is short, then I can be less fair, since replaying it is not too burdensome.
Although I have never been trapped inside a giant trout, I was trapped for half an hour in a laundry back in 2006. I managed to free myself with logic and reasoning. Of course I knew what the problem was before I started searching for items as I explored the laundry. Much like a FF adventure, if it hadn't been for the single coathanger that happened to be in the laundry I would have been unable to escape (often success does depend on the possession of a single pivotal item). However, with most things in life, you set out not knowing exactly how you are going to solve the problem. Furthermore, doing things at different times can lead to different experiences. So in this respect the adventure is entirely realistic! It is often impossible to know how significant things will be in the future. When I went into the laundry, even if I had of noticed the coathanger in the sink, I would never have known it was the coathanger of my salvation...
A valid counter argument to this is that a gamebook is not real life, and unless there is a way to solve it with your intelligence, then it's not really fun at all. Um...yes. I agree. I can only return to my original argument, which is that since it was so short, I tried to make it as hard as possible! I urge anyone having trouble with any of my gamebooks to look forward to the immense relief and sense of accomplishment you will feel when you finally do suceed!
More seriously, The Hypertrout has a number of valid endings. Although there is one ending that is better than the others, it was never meant to be the only path; and once Episode 5 is up, all valid endings will continue into it. That's why the stated objective of The Hypertrout is simply to escape.

Episode 5 has been submitted to the site and I believe is currently under development. As mentioned earlier, the new Episode 6 is underway and about half-written (it will be short adventure that might cause the same kind of reaction as The Hypertrout, since there are many paths leading to success, and some are better than others).

Episode 7 (formerly known as Episode 6) is also half written. And I have written the introduction and first few references for both Episodes 8 and 9. However all of my gamebook writing is temporarily on hold while I attempt not to fail my Masters course this semester (Fun Fact: the duration of my bachelor degree was extended by one semester due to writing The Diamond Key instead of studying!).

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