Particle_Man
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Would that include the romance choose your own adventures? Heartquest or Lovequest, I believe they were called. TSR meets Harlequin Romance...
Started With Fighting Fantasy Books
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Would that include the romance choose your own adventures? Heartquest or Lovequest, I believe they were called. TSR meets Harlequin Romance...
You know, I don't actually remember the chronology of it, but I think I got into the Lone Wolf books, and D&D choose-your-own-adventures like Mountain of Mirrors, somewhat before D&D. I remember exactly when I got into D&D; I got the red box Basic set as a reward for getting to the regionals in the spelling bee, seventh grade.
CruelSummerLord
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Fighting Fantasy was where it all began for me. I started first with Portal of Evil, and from there I fell in love with the world of Titan, especially as described in the milestone book Titan: The Fighting Fantasy World. It made the setting truly come alive for me, as a living, breathing world, and not just the backdrop for a tabletop game. All fluff, no crunchy bits, lots of interesting bits on daily life, everything from tavern life to jokes.
From there I went into Hero Quest and Dungeons and Dragons.
Ah, memories.
From there I went into Hero Quest and Dungeons and Dragons.
Ah, memories.
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My favorite was Deathtrap Dungeon - it was perfect for this format!
Yup, it's the brilliant storyline that made the difference for me. I also based a character class in my self-written rpg on the (Magna)Kai disciplines. Ach, gotta stop before I get all nostalgic!
questing gm
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It was Lone Wolf then Fighting Fantasy. Definately the most important gaming turning point in my gaming life. Then I found the AD&D PHB....
Upper_Krust
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1984...Deathtrap Dungeon, first book I ever bought...I was in around 10 or 11 years old. What a book!
Teaming up with the Barbarian Throm and then you had to fight him later. That sort of thing blows your mind at age 10.
I never liked Warlock of Firetop Mountain - pretty much because of the art.
Best ever book I thought was House of Hell though. That was scary stuff.
You know I was looking through the books recently and realised (25 years on) that I was incorrectly using the luck system. Plonker.
Teaming up with the Barbarian Throm and then you had to fight him later. That sort of thing blows your mind at age 10.
I never liked Warlock of Firetop Mountain - pretty much because of the art.
Best ever book I thought was House of Hell though. That was scary stuff.
You know I was looking through the books recently and realised (25 years on) that I was incorrectly using the luck system. Plonker.
MadMaxim
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You forgot your Luck went down by one each time you used it? It took me some time to figure out, because I thought the only stat that really changed was your Stamina. House of Hell was seriously scary, also because you could be scared to death!You know I was looking through the books recently and realised (25 years on) that I was incorrectly using the luck system. Plonker.
Ginnel
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Yup fighting fantasy kinda started it off for me, as the first game I got to play, but My older brother (10 yrs older) had left an AD&D dungeon masters guide and Call of cthulu the original boxset and also several issues of white dwarf at the house when he went to uni, me and my twin brother used to read them avidley, even rolling up stats and items for D&D when we didn't even have a Players handbook.
But after Fighting Fantasy books (me and my brother drew up a squared grid and some monsters in a gladiator style game with FF rules), we went on to the fighting fantasy book which introduced a board and multiple players, after that it was onto playing space crusade and a friends copy of heroquest in Primary School, after that it was Warhammer 40k in High School.
after that the Discworld MUD during 6th form and first year of uni, then in the second year of uni I had enough courage to go up to the "weirdo's" in the LURPS Lancaster University RolePlaying Society and sign up, played in a couple of uninspiring games but turned out a class mate was in the group too and introduced me to decent tabletop in my 3rd year.
But after Fighting Fantasy books (me and my brother drew up a squared grid and some monsters in a gladiator style game with FF rules), we went on to the fighting fantasy book which introduced a board and multiple players, after that it was onto playing space crusade and a friends copy of heroquest in Primary School, after that it was Warhammer 40k in High School.
after that the Discworld MUD during 6th form and first year of uni, then in the second year of uni I had enough courage to go up to the "weirdo's" in the LURPS Lancaster University RolePlaying Society and sign up, played in a couple of uninspiring games but turned out a class mate was in the group too and introduced me to decent tabletop in my 3rd year.
silentounce
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I'm surprised no one has mentioned this yet:
http://www.projectaon.org/en/Main/Home
Yeah, that's right, nearly all the Lone Wolf books in online format with a program that keeps your stats/character sheet. And it's legal, not pirated.
It's okay, I won't expect any thanks for the link until some time next week after you've all been burnt out on them and have returned to your normally scheduled life.
http://www.projectaon.org/en/Main/Home
Yeah, that's right, nearly all the Lone Wolf books in online format with a program that keeps your stats/character sheet. And it's legal, not pirated.
It's okay, I won't expect any thanks for the link until some time next week after you've all been burnt out on them and have returned to your normally scheduled life.
questing gm
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I'm surprised no one has mentioned this yet:
http://www.projectaon.org/en/Main/Home
Yeah, that's right, nearly all the Lone Wolf books in online format with a program that keeps your stats/character sheet. And it's legal, not pirated.
It's okay, I won't expect any thanks for the link until some time next week after you've all been burnt out on them and have returned to your normally scheduled life.
I found this quite a long time ago but for some reason never really found the time to play the whole series again as I get older. RL catching up I guess.
Mongoose Publishing is re-releasing the old books as well.
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