Hey, no apologies needed, I'm quite honored that someone actually thought I could run a site like this. But Me? "Omniscient answerer of all questions"? LOL, I'm far from that. In fact, if you happened to read Shadow Dragon's post above, I just supplied asgardian a wrong answer not long ago, and I'm glad SD is there to correct me.

Anyway, it looks like you just made the same mistake I made myself when I first came: you need to post your spoilers in between the two bracketed 'S's, not after them. Too bad we can't edit our own posts, since this is a guestbook, not a forum. We'll have to wait for our real host to pop in and correct that mistake.

ShadowDragon
Sun Jul 16 17:00:42 2006

There's actually a newsgroup devoted to fabled lands where they're publishing all the books online. Sadly there's no aids like the FFbook program or the Statskeeper in Project Aon to help play them, so its really hard for visually impared people to get around in them, especially if you use a screen reader. They're all published in PDF format, so you not only have to find the page they're on, but also the section on that page, and it takes a while to skin through pages trying to guess at how far ahead you need to go to get to the next section. I've never liked keeping track of items, stats and such on my own to boot, but I could live with that if the books were published more like the lone wolf series with html links instead, grin. I'd like to see some kind of program built to play the FL books, but sadly I don't think that'll ever happen. Oh, and sorry for the very off-topic post.

Dark
Sun Jul 16 17:57:39 2006

Keeping track of my own stats and roling my own dice is something I've never minded doing, ever sinse I used to play tabletop D&D with a laptop. The self voicing gma dice programme is extremely handy as well. The only thing that puts me off trying other Fighting fantasy books is the lack of Html links, sinse trying to find a correct page in a text or Pdf document is (as you say Shaddow dragon), both spoilersome and a strain.

This is a shame, sinse the fabled lands series really sounds like good fun, I love the idea of books where you can just wander around doing quests.

It's a shame actually that when people write gamebooks, they don't think to put in codes that you can find for each paragraph, so that you could use ctrl F (in word or whatever).

If when the book told you to go to page 24 and you could just type in "Pg24" and be instantly there, it would make the lives of visually impared players (like myself), much easier.

Oh well, we'll have to wait until someone developes a "Project fabled lands" site.

Endless Words...
Thu Aug 3 13:24:29 2006

Webmaster...

I don't understand why you don't have a forum already.

It would be sooo worth it.

I hope you would be willing to consider the idea.

Comments could be divided into appropriate sections.

I strongly believe that traffic would be increased by using a forum rather than a guestbook. It would also prevent repetitions such as walkthroughs and so on.

I've read before that you had set your mind on not using a forum. I hope you will reconsider. I think it would be beneficial not only for this forum, but for the gamebooks in general.

E.

DARK
Tue Aug 29 19:26:32 2006

Dark ranger, I believe the a previous post in the guest book concerned the river of acid in Hellfire, try the previous page.

As reguard's Alabar's tomb:

SPOILER

END SPOILER

For the attention of the webmaster, I would also love to see a forum on this site. It would not only be a very good platform for people to discuss the books hosted here, but also allow prospective authors (and we seem to have quite a few), to discuss their work, and maybe even post bits of it for cryticism and suggestion, thus creating better FF for everyone, pluss, judging by the crew who seem to use this guest book, I imagine there could be some pretty good intelligent discussion of the merrits of the genre.

Ps: if I can get the time during my Phd (in philosophy), which I'm starting next month, I'd love to write a paper on interactive fiction and fighting fantasy for the journal of aesthetics or some such.

I've only got a few ideas at the moment, and I'm obviously more taken up with my main thesis, but it's something I'd like to do in the next year or so, hence my desire for some reasonabley inteligent discussing.

I'm very sorry if that sounded pompus, it's just what I do.

Sealgirl
Mon Sep 4 20:20:51 2006

Hi everyone,
Been in lurk-mode for a while, but I was intrigued by all this forum talk.
If anyone else here uses LiveJournal to blog in, you'll know that they have the facility for making communities - where like-minded people can all post and chat about whatever.
The only snag is you need an lj account - but they are free, and you don't have to blog in your own journal (I know some people who keep an account just to talk on the communities)
Just a thought.

*re-lurks, for fish*
Sealgirl (who is seal_girl in lj)

Andrew
Mon Sep 4 21:47:51 2006

REALLY enjoyable website!

Tim
Wed Sep 6 11:54:10 2006

A bunch of rubbish quite simply. It seems as though you haven't read any of the FF books at all, where have you been the past 20 years..

Dark
Wed Sep 6 21:29:00 2006

Hmmmmm, a strange post, I'm not even sure whome the "You" is referring to.

I'm not sure about the Live Jernal forum thing, the hole blog business just isn't something I've looked into.

Infinte Words...! Thu Sep 14 14:25:47 2006	So what about it, uh? I would love to share what I've done and get some criticism on a forum. Just do it, yeah? I.W.
	Sorry, but there isn't going to be a forum in the foreseeable future. But if you have written a gamebook, by all means email it to me and I will put it on the downloads page, I'm sure someone would give you some criticism then.

Lost in the Ruins
Tue Sep 26 01:01:36 2006

Hi
Thanks for putting up this site, it is v enjoyable.
I'm just wondering if someone could give me some pointers for finishing Midnight Deep? I am stuck at the 3 doors in the ruins and I don't seem to have the correct items for any of them...
Thank you
I thought Outsider was well written but I died in the sewers...ug.

Ibrahim Tue Oct 3 08:50:37 2006	Hi Folks. Any chance of a new game being added before Christmas? Quite a few to choose from at http://www.shadowvault.net/amateurgamebooks.htm to keep even the most ardent FF fan busy.
	It looks unlikely, I'm quite busy at the moment.

Lutfee
Fri Oct 6 14:36:08 2006

Men this is the best book i my whole life me and my gang are creating this member game that is this game i like to buy all of the books but i can't afford it the first book i bought is "Trail of Champions".I MUST BUY ALL THE BOOKS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Phil Sadler
Fri Oct 6 18:54:14 2006

Pardon?

Jordan CALDER
Fri Oct 13 18:45:26 2006

MAGIC!!!!!

Dark
Fri Oct 27 05:43:26 2006

Hello.

My friend has started a job, and during slack periods he's slightly short of things to do. Annoyingly, his work server blocks any site that google recognizes as having games on it, so I've been downloading the gamebooks from this site and sending him them via E-mail.

the only one that I couldn't find a copy of though, was midnight deep. the book, certainly impressed me, and I'm pretty sure it would appeal to my friend as well. So if anyone happens to know where I might get a copyfor my friend, that would be good.

Oh yeah, I've also downloaded adobe reader and so can read pdf files (though obviously my screen reader can only handle the ones with actual text in them). A while ago, somebody said that a number of old game books (the fabled lands series I remember), were available as pdfs. If they are pdfs with text, I'd certainly be interested to know where to get my hands on them.

thanks in advance.

shadowdragon
Fri Oct 27 17:59:35 2006

I thought you said you always had trouble with PDF format gamebooks? I know I certainly can't play the fabled lands gamebooks or whatnot without accidently spoiling something. But anyway, if you want them, its a yahoo group that you have to subscribe to. Just google Fabled Lands and I'm pretty sure you'll hit that site, its pretty high on the list.

Andrew Wright
Sun Oct 29 00:01:54 2006

If you're interested in the Fabled Lands PDF's go here:

http://games.groups.yahoo.com/group/fabled_lands/

Once you've been approved, click on the files section on the left-hand side menu. Click on the folder for Book 1, and then on the folder for Book 1 - The Adventure, and you should have a list of six PDF files. The ones you really need are the adventure and the rules, everything else is fairly superfluous.

Let me know on that forum if you have any difficulties!

cheers

Andy

Infinite Words
Sun Nov 5 05:10:45 2006

Hum sorry.

I guess we're both stubborn in our own way :-).

No forum, no book.

Should you change your mind, I would instantly send your the result of my labour.

I.W.

James
Mon Nov 6 13:16:33 2006

Hi,
People on this list might be interested to know that I've done a fair bit of updating of my online rpg / gamebook Age of Fable (www.ageoffable.net). It's not finished by any means, but it's now self-contained ie it shouldn't have any more areas where the game suddenly ends because you reach a bit I hadn't written yet. So check it out if you're interested, and please feel free to send any feedback to me - news@apolitical.info

Thanks,
James.

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