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Message: <blockquote data-quote="RealAlHazred" data-source="post: 9731022" data-attributes="member: 25818">Those are pretty good. They're all different, with little crossover unless you squint and decide, behind the scenes, that you're playing the same guy.The best four series:<ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><a href="https://gamebooks.org/Series/270/Show" target="_blank">TolkienQuest</a>: The first three gamebooks produced by ICE under the license with the Saul Zaentz Company were written by John Ruemmler, who made each one a hexcrawl-in-a-gamebook. Night of the Nazgûl has you bringing a message to Hobbiton that there are dark figures in the night. The Legend of Weathertop has you searching for the ruins below Weathertop to retrieve an item said to lie below. Rescue in Mirkwood has you searching for a noble elf who disappeared within. Some people don't like them, but I absolutely love that each playthrough can be wildly different.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><a href="https://gamebooks.org/Series/228/Show" target="_blank">Lone Wolf</a>: This series was fairly standard in style, but had a really well-realized setting, and your character can develop all sorts of cool abilities; you get a new power after completing each book. It was popular enough to spawn a spin-off, The World of Lone Wolf, which had a different protagonist. All books published in the 80s are available online at <a href="http://www.projectaon.org/" target="_blank">Project Aon</a>.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><a href="https://gamebooks.org/Series/15/Show" target="_blank">Steve Jackson's Sorcery!</a>: This was a spin-off of the Fighting Fantasy series. FF books were basically independent one-off stories you played through; instead of that, Sorcery! was four books with a series of linked adventures. And you could play a warrior or a wizard, which was cool! The magic system involved memorizing three-letter codes for spells in a separate book, and then trying to pick the right option in each encounter where you could use magic. A really good part of it was the excellent evocative art by John Blanche; in some of the encounters you had to notice a clue in the art that would only be obliquely referenced in the text. Really good. You can play this on <a href="https://www.inklestudios.com/sorcery/" target="_blank">Inkle </a>as well.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><a href="https://gamebooks.org/Series/469/Show" target="_blank">The Way of the Tiger</a>: I had forgotten about this one. You play a ninja, and each book builds on the story of the previous one. It was disappointing that the publisher canceled the series one book before it would have ended, but it shared the feature of Lone Wolf that you could gain a skill after each book. It was another spinoff of Fighting Fantasy (sort of), but the setting was different from the rest of that series; it was originally seen in Talisman of Death (FF #11), but it's very different from that one.</li> </ul></blockquote>

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