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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Mannahnin" data-source="post: 9731652" data-attributes="member: 7026594">I picked up The Legend of Weathertop as a kid but I seem to remember it being a bit complex and not quite getting it.  And I think I let it go in paring down some possessions when we moved back to the East coast when I was 17.  Making me sad about that one.  <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f641.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":(" title="Frown    :("  data-smilie="3"data-shortname=":(" />Lone Wolf I played several of.  The whole art style and vibe was so distinct; darker and grimmer and earthier than the Elmore Basic D&D set I started with.  The British gaming scene just had a different feel.  I remember picking up a few issues of Gamesmaster magazine, which was a British general gaming mag, and them having a Warhammer or similar game battle report in one issue, set in Magnamund, and which Joe Dever participated in.  That was cool seeing the author interact as a gamer.I had a few Fighting Fantasy books, but Steve Jackson's Sorcery! takes the crown for me, for that dark swords & sorcery vibe and  for difficulty and depth.  The John Blanche art boggled and enchanted and disturbed me a decade or more before I ever got into Warhammer.</blockquote>