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Post by kesher on Jun 30, 2013 11:10:00 GMT -6
Project Aon has pretty much anything Lone Wolf-gamebook related you could want, all on line in awesome ebook editions, all for free, all with permission by the author, Joe Dever. It's pure awesome. Though I was always more a Fighting Fantasy guy, I'm now getting into these. The Magnamund Companion is a particularly delicious example of the Golden Age of Gamebookery. Though, with the extensively-bookmarked PDFs these guys are creating, I'd say we may well be looking at a Platinum Age...
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Post by Deleted on Jun 30, 2013 11:15:34 GMT -6
I love these. Check out the four-book Grey Star series especially - but be sure to read the footnotes added by the compilers of Project Aon.
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gronkthebold
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Post by gronkthebold on Jun 30, 2013 11:44:16 GMT -6
I remember finding Project Aon a good while back and being delighted because of how awesome the Lone Wolf series is. I also like the way the Lone Wolf books are more open in ways the player can reach the ending (in my opinion) than other games of its ilk. Thanks for sharing this with the forum!
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Post by kesher on Jun 30, 2013 12:35:26 GMT -6
My pleasure! I wrote a bit more about it on my blog...
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Post by benoist on Jun 30, 2013 13:33:24 GMT -6
Lone Wolf is awesome. BIG BIG fan here.
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Post by idrahil on Jun 30, 2013 19:20:44 GMT -6
I still remember adventuring throughout Magnamund instead of paying attention in class....ah back in the days.
These books are excellent. I also was a big fan of Grail Quest books and the Sorcery! series.
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Post by kesher on Jun 30, 2013 20:29:26 GMT -6
I never played the Grail Quest books, though I truly love the Sorcery! series...
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Post by Deleted on Jun 30, 2013 20:55:12 GMT -6
Same here idrahil...my 4th grade class's library had two books which influenced me throughout the rest of my life: Beyond the Nightmare Gate, a LW spinoff which I played incessantly, and a Gene Wolfe book (I forget which one).
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Post by idrahil on Jun 30, 2013 22:14:03 GMT -6
The Magnamund Companion is wonderful. It sets a very nice bar for campaign setting detail.
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Post by kesher on Jul 1, 2013 8:47:23 GMT -6
...and the Companion just oozes setting flavor. They just don't make stuff like that anymore. I mean, have you ever before seen a dissected Giak? The concatenation of setting history, modeling, and gaming is totally unique. The funny thing is, I'm reading both the Companion and the Core Book for the Lonewolf Multiplayer Gamebook written, I don't know, 30 years later? And they copied over huge chunks of text for the Setting chapter.
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Post by DungeonDevil on Jul 3, 2013 5:17:24 GMT -6
I've loved LW since I discovered it about a decade ago. Sadly, it was not available in book-form in the US when I was a wee lad. I rather grew up with Choose Your Own Adventure and a few Fighting Fantasy books ( Forest of Doom, Deathtrap Dungeon, Warlock of Firetop Mountain). I've even got a threesome of Conan the Barbarian-flavoured gamebooks (by Roger Moore and James Ward). Gamebooks are the perfect entry-drug to recruit new RPG players!
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Post by Allandaros on Aug 5, 2013 10:21:12 GMT -6
There's a free Lone Wolf Android app available here (https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.GDVGames.LoneWolfBiblio ) if you want to go through the LW books on a phone or tablet. This has been my first exposure to the books, really (I think I borrowed one from a friend in 4th grade, but I gave it back before too long ) and it's been pretty fun. Clawed my way through the Kai books and started the first Magnakai book just recently.
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