... Crypt of the Sorcerer killed Jack Palance! ... Per Jorner aka Finster aka Coffee Dragon (pel@...) Hoompage at http://user.tninet.se/~wcw454p...
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KoolTeevan@...
tejelordofth...
Feb 12, 2007 11:38 pm
It would, but if you simply take hte mapping text in scorpion swamp and put it in your book it will make things easier [Non-text portions of this message have...
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KoolTeevan@...
tejelordofth...
Feb 12, 2007 11:46 pm
From a gameplay prespective, its annoying, unless you can turn back. Having to start all over agian because of 1 wrong choice? Bleh. Really bad in books with...
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Simon Osborne
rentaghostus
Feb 13, 2007 12:35 am
... Only because Hawk . . . found the power that was . . . rightly his. -- Simon Osborne...
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Ben Nelson
mr_lunchau
Feb 13, 2007 9:02 am
If you don't want to do the Scorpion Swamp style "You are in clearing XXX. If you have been here before, turn to XXX..." thing you could try the following...
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gamebookhunter
Feb 13, 2007 10:41 am
... try ... it ... a ... Yeah, I was going to try a lot of ideas quite similar to the ones written above. For example, like your "magically vanishing corpse" ...
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Guillermo Paredes
gparedes76
Feb 13, 2007 3:46 pm
KoolTeevan wrote: "Giveyourself goosebumps the strange experiments of dr eek actually had some really funny endings (many of them didn't invovle death, which...
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Leigh L.
dongle_bomb
Feb 13, 2007 4:02 pm
... I live about 10 minutes away from Lichfield. Should I be worried? ... So where is this interview with The Grascoigne? Do I have to make my second visit of...
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Graham Hart
grahamhart@...
Feb 13, 2007 7:51 pm
Yes, anything that implies a satisfying crunch, has got to be good. ... From: gamebookhunter To: gamebooks@yahoogroups.com Sent: Monday, February 12, 2007 8:45...
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mishakai
Feb 14, 2007 12:56 am
My favourite random death paragraph, which I don't have a copy of, so can't quote exactly, what in one of the books written by Jamie Thomson and Mark Smith. I...
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gamebookhunter
Feb 14, 2007 9:47 am
... actually had some ... acutally made ... they did ... still die)).; I ... hell, but the ... humour." ... time at most, so you're not alone. Nonetheless, I...
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gamebookhunter
Feb 14, 2007 9:53 am
... my ... it? ... revealing ... Yuck! ... (not ... Not sure....
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gamebookhunter
Feb 14, 2007 9:54 am
... my ... it? ... Nope. It was on AFF, the old website. ... revealing ... (not...
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Guillermo Paredes
gparedes76
Feb 14, 2007 4:47 pm
Yes that's the one. Thanks! Guillermo ... De: gamebookhunter <gamebookhunter@...> Para: gamebooks@yahoogroups.com Enviado: miércoles, 14 de febrero, 2007...
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Gabriel Seah
gssq
Feb 14, 2007 5:08 pm
... Sorry, but who is Min?...
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Guillermo Paredes
gparedes76
Feb 14, 2007 5:59 pm
I think he means Mark Smith. Cheers, Guillermo ... De: Gabriel Seah <gabrielseah@...> Para: gamebooks@yahoogroups.com Enviado: miércoles, 14 de...
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Graham Hart
grahamhart@...
Feb 14, 2007 6:13 pm
I remember that little flurry of flap and fluster! It's hard to believe now that gamebooks could, even briefly, have been the focus of a moral panic. I wonder...
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gamebookhunter
Feb 14, 2007 6:24 pm
All this time were you talking about when the thieves betray you, and then stab you in the chest with a trident, and then you you look down to see that your...
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Simon Osborne
rentaghostus
Feb 14, 2007 6:25 pm
... I don't remember any of this! What time period are we talking about? I got into FF c.1986, and I don't recall any bad publicity since then. -- Simon...
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gamebookhunter
Feb 14, 2007 6:27 pm
One thing that's always disgusted me a little (and my brother a lot) is that a lot of gamebooks are set in sewers. So, I was wondering, do all sewers have to...
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pericles23@...
gaetano112244
Feb 15, 2007 6:53 am
One of my favorite has got to be from House of Hell. A young woman is going to be sacrificed by the Goat Heads, and you have the option of rushing in to save...
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bentilbury2002
Feb 15, 2007 10:13 am
I remember all that nonsense! There was a story on BBC radio about how gory FF was supposed to be. They read out the gruesome description of the "Decayer" (I...
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uwarr
Feb 15, 2007 2:10 pm
... Wererats? Yes, I'm afraid so. That's where they hide and breed, the sewers. Or at Gentry's Pub on the East Square....
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gamebookhunter
Feb 15, 2007 4:10 pm
... do ... That's not what I was talking about, but at least I learned an interesting fact about Wererats!...
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Graham Hart
grahamhart@...
Feb 15, 2007 5:47 pm
Now you mention it... I do vaguely remember a terminal paragraph in which you end up frantically struggling to prevent your entrails from spilling out. To put...
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Graham Hart
grahamhart@...
Feb 15, 2007 5:48 pm
Mid-1980s, I would guess; but no doubt it was easily missed. When I wrote that the gamebook phenomenon was "the focus of a moral panic", I didn't quite mean...
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Kieran Coghlan
kieran_coghlan
Feb 15, 2007 10:42 pm
I don't know about scarred for life, but I remember reading Tunnels and Trolls: Beyond the Silvered Pane when I was about 10 and getting pretty disturbed when...
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gamebookhunter
Feb 16, 2007 8:18 am
I just remembered, in an interview, Paul Mason (I think it was him, although it might have been another author)said that they were talking about that whole...
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dr_sentence
Feb 16, 2007 6:45 pm
... That can't have been the Corgi edition. In that version, you had to fight (to the death if need be) to defend your honour....
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uwarr
Feb 16, 2007 7:13 pm
... In the original T&T solos published by Flying Buffalo, almost all of them had a sex option or two in each book. For example, in "City of Terrors" you could...
