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9920
Greywood Publishing has given itself a Facebook presence, which can be found...
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Apr 1, 2009
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http://www.mongoosepublishing.com/home/detail.php?qsID=1656&qsSeries=&PHPSESSID=2743895bf4480b9c8af6f035d4b21d19 Guillermo...
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Apr 2, 2009
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9922
The first book in the Legend of Inz series can be bought in pdf format here: http://outskirtspress.com/webpage.php?ISBN=9781432727161 Note that this is a...
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Apr 2, 2009
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... No dice?! What kind of a gamebook is that?! Actually I have no problems with dice not being used, but Demian's review didn't exactly inspire me with...
Kieran Coghlan
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Apr 3, 2009
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A recent Russian gamebook which may be of interest to collectors: http://www.panrus.com/books/details.php?langID=1&bookID=18173 Guillermo...
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Apr 4, 2009
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... This book has been on my reading list for a long while, and only recently did I manage to peruse a copy. Mine is the American edition, which was a...
Guillermo
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... If he's the one who wrote some humorous stuff for InQuest then I know he wrote some humorous stuff for InQuest, but nothing else. *wikipedia* Apparently he...
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Apr 5, 2009
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Review of The Water Spider by Robin Waterfield and Wilfred Davies Length: 300 sections Summary: A large shipment of gold has disappeared on its way from Cape...
Guillermo
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Apr 5, 2009
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9928
I did not comment on Malcolm Barter's illustrations. Here is the excerpt which will be added to the final version: "Malcolm Barter's artwork, once again, does...
Guillermo
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Apr 5, 2009
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... It's an interesting book - I'd never heard of it before. This is just idle speculation but Bruce Galloway appears from the Cambridge cabal of early British...
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Apr 6, 2009
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... Thanks! Guillermo...
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9931
... Plus any UK residents missing Woolworths can play the Money Spider to revisit it again and again....
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Apr 6, 2009
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9932
... or you can come to Mexico City, where the chain is still alive and well. It's only unfortunate that the average gamebook fan does not seem to want to...
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Apr 6, 2009
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Re the belowe, I have had the book (or a proof copy) for many years. Frankly it reads as an excellent summation of RPGs as they were at the time, with good...
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Apr 6, 2009
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Many people I've talked to seem to agree that the book works better as a supplement than as a stand-alone game. I might get around to reviewing it one of these...
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Apr 6, 2009
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When I first approached this book, I was worried that the authors would have produced something which, while changing the plots and locations, would have...
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... Interesting point Guillermo. I'm guess-generalizing here, but wouldn't you say this is typical for many immersive past-times in this spectrum, and not just...
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Apr 7, 2009
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... Some would say Star Wars is more fantasy than sci-fi anyway as there's far more focus on the fantastical Force than any of the scientific advances. I'm not...
Kieran Coghlan
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Apr 7, 2009
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9938
A pretty generic question, really, but I would like to know what you find most appealing about gamebooks? For me, it would have to be a simple (but not too...
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Apr 7, 2009
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I have always preferred fantasy gamebooks over sci-fi ones in the same way as I've always preferred fantasy novels over sci-fi ones, so maybe it's not sci-fi...
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Apr 7, 2009
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I like a simple game system - I have little time for needlessly complex books like Sagas of the Demon Spawn and some of Keith Martin's FF books. I also don't...
Kieran Coghlan
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Apr 7, 2009
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9941
Something similar to what Kieran said - many ways to interact with the story so that every time you read the book you reach a wildly different outcome through...
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Apr 7, 2009
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An educational Australian gamebook. http://nla.gov.au/nla.cat-vn4387376 Guillermo...
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Kieran said many things I strongly agree on. I do like a game system in my gamebooks, but a simple one that doesn't require you to keep track of innumerable...
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Apr 7, 2009
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only non-fantasy book in the series. Choose Your Own Adventure was possibly the biggest gamebook series and it used a mixture of genres. I think though a lot...
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9945
A pretty generic question, really, but I would like to know what you find most appealing about gamebooks? For me, it would have to be a simple (but not too...
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Very interesting, I'd never heard of these books before. Regarding genres, it must be noticed that fantasy doesn't necessarily need elves and trolls to be...
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Apr 8, 2009
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9947
... Spot on! You covered virtually every reservation I have about sci-fi in general. I find there's usually more 'suspension of disbelief' required in sci-fi...
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Apr 8, 2009
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... "Historical" does not necessarily need to fit into the Medieval period, of course; the 1890s, 1920s, and Second World War would all be intriguing settings...
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Apr 8, 2009
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9949
... Do the Sherlock Holmes books count? ... Per Jorner aka Finster aka Coffee Dragon (pel@...) Hoompage at http://user.tninet.se/~wcw454p ...
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