Has anyone here ever tried to write a gamebook in the style of armies of death?

and maybe added a few additions like swords making them kill one extra creature each time, or armour saving one or two of there creatures each time, or even making tougther creatures like dwarfs and chaos warriors lose one less creature each time beacuse of there tougthness and maybe chaos warriors killing an extra creature each time beacuse of there strength.

What are your thougths on this?

Kekataag
Sun Feb 22 15:16:21 2009

I wrote a gamebook like this 2 years ago, but it was badly written and had several continuity errors. The book was extremely complex, very short (250 sections) and suffered from a problem that almost affected the excellent Legend of Zagor (until the part after you found the Dragonbone Keys): too much game and too little story. In it, you played an evil warlord controlling an army of Orcs and Wraiths, and your goal was to defeat an Elven army that attacked your fortress. I used units of troops in much the same way as STAMINA, except for the fact that each time your army lost a battle, its ability to fight was harder the next time.

Jordan
Sun Feb 22 20:13:02 2009

I would verry much like to preview the aforementioned gamebook once the errors were weeded out and fixed. I tsounds quite interesting and entertaining.

theslayer02 Wed Feb 25 18:23:26 2009	yer me to. anyone else ever writtern a ff book in armies of death style?
	The closest one I can think of is Sagi Hed's Realm Of The Vampire at http://www.fightingfantasy.go.to. This has a section in which you command either a Goblin, Orc or Midget army.

Jamus
Thu Feb 26 03:44:32 2009

Hey cool site!

I tried bodies in the docks...it was really good and amazingly complex with all those special skills.

Hellfire seemed interesting...but I heard that there are critical dice rolls in it and tough combats which turns me off.

I also tried isle of the cyclops. I liked its non linear structure...you could move anywhere on the island at will.

Kekataag Tue Mar 3 13:57:34 2009	Does anyone know from which book the illustration for the Cockatrice in section 196 came?
	All I know is that I got it from Richard Stanton's Yaztromo website, which no longer exists but is archived here : http://web.archive.org/web/*/http://www.stanton71.freeserve.co.uk/.

Andy Wright Thu Mar 5 12:04:38 2009	I think there's two pictures of Cockatrices in FF. One is by Tim Sell and comes from Out of the Pit. The other is by Tony Hough and comes from Knights of Doom. Which one is it?
	It's this one: http://www.ffproject.com/PICTURES/COCKA.JPG.

Andy Wright
Fri Mar 6 14:09:15 2009

Hey thanks for the link - that's the one from FF56 Knights of Doom, picture by Tony Hough.

Andy Wright
Wed Mar 11 05:09:21 2009

Sure! Glad to help:

http://www.ffproject.com/PICTURES/FIENDS.JPG

Dave Gallagher (Keep of the Lich-Lord)

http://www.ffproject.com/PICTURES/TROLL.JPG

Martin McKenna (Vault of the Vampire) - it's actually a Huge Ghoul.

http://www.ffproject.com/PICTURES/BEGGAR.JPG

John Sibbick (Midnight Rogue)

http://www.ffproject.com/PICTURES/SKEL3.JPG

Dave Gallagher (Keep of the Lich-Lord)

http://www.ffproject.com/PICTURES/TOWN.JPG

Martin McKenna (Daggers of Darkness)

http://www.ffproject.com/PICTURES/COURT.JPG

It looks like Wil Rees or John Sibbick (Titan - The Fighting Fantasy World)

http://www.ffproject.com/PICTURES/FIENDS.JPG

Dave Gallagher (Keep of the Lich-Lord) same as above FIENDS.JPG

http://www.ffproject.com/PICTURES/GHOSTS.JPG

John Sibbick (Titan - The Fighting Fantasy World)

http://www.ffproject.com/PICTURES/BAR2.JPG

Dave Gallagher (Keep of the Lich-Lord)

http://www.ffproject.com/PICTURES/MARKET.JPG

Dave Gallagher (Master of Chaos)

http://www.ffproject.com/PICTURES/HARBOUR.JPG

John Sibbick (Dungeoneer)

http://www.ffproject.com/PICTURES/SHABMAP.GIF

This is Dave Holt using elements from Leo Hartas' many FF maps for an area devised by Hugh Eldred-Grigg

http://www.ffproject.com/PICTURES/GARG.JPG

John Sibbick (Midnight Rogue)

http://www.ffproject.com/PICTURES/GADDON.JPG

Martin McKenna (Vault of the Vampire)

cheers

Andy

Fantastic. Thanks very much. Oh and there's one more :
http://www.ffproject.com/PICTURES/TENTA.JPG.

Kekataag Wed Mar 11 14:50:06 2009	From what I recall, the picture of the town is from Daggers of Darkness and is by Martin McKenna, and the picture of the market is from Master of Chaos and is by David Gallager (not sure if that's the correct spelling).
	And thanks to you too.

Kekataag
Thu Mar 12 12:08:56 2009

Although I don't which book it's from, the picture of the tentacled monster you just posted appears to have been illustrated by Russ Nicholson, so it's probably from one of the following: FF23, FF28, FF 51, FF 55, or FF57. I've checked the books illustrated by him which are earlier in the series than FF23, and none of them have this illustration.

Andy Wright Thu Mar 12 13:01:54 2009	That last one is a Slime Worm by Russ Nicholson, from FF51 Island of the Undead.
	Nice one. Thanks once again.

duffmeister
Thu Mar 19 20:09:18 2009

Good news guys! Just found out that the wizard series of fighting fantasy hasn't died after all! Jonathan Green is writing a new adventure 'Stormslayer' to be released in september 2009! Hurrah!

hisdark Thu Mar 19 20:59:04 2009	hi, i was just wondering would it be illegal to put he reall ff books on here. Because I would happily help you with it.
	It would be illegal if the authors didn't give permission - and as they are still trying to sell them I very much doubt that they would. Thanks for the offer though.

duffmeister
Fri Mar 20 17:54:19 2009

Idea...huzzah! I've been thinking. The 'Mauristatia' ff books 'Vault of the Vampire' 'Return of the Vampire' and 'Howl of the Werewolf' have featured two famous horror icons (The Wolf Man and a Vampir Count). I'm wondering whether a 'Frankenstein' inspired adventure would be a good idea. I'm aware that there have been a few 'Frankenstein's monster' type creatures in the ff books (eg: Arcanum's creature in 'Howl of the Werewolf') but wondered if any one outside the original series has written similar gamebooks. Anyone know any?

Hisdark Fri Mar 20 21:30:08 2009	Hi, just wondering what formats you take gamebooks in? .doc? .html? .txt? .pdf?
	Yes, any of these.

Phil Sadler
Thu Mar 26 08:31:05 2009

It's raining heavily here!

duffmeister
Sun Apr 5 16:50:48 2009

After some reflection, and scrapping a few bad ideas, I wish to rewrite 'The Wrath of Cain'. I intend to make it less linear, remove some super hard fights and alter some plot changes around the middle of the story. Is there anything else anyone thinks needs changing?

Kekataag
Sun Apr 5 17:57:40 2009

Duffmeister,

There are a few punctuation mistakes here and there, but I suppose they don't really matter. A little more description would be nice, and the final battle with Cain probably should have been longer. Finally, in all but a few occasions, fighting seems to be the only option in an encounters.

Ulysses
Mon Apr 13 22:43:55 2009

Duffmeister:

Rather than labouring over something that has at least been completed, why not take what you have learnt in writing tWoC and use it in your new work?
Rather than making a marginal improvement to an old story, I think your efforts would be better focused on one of your other ideas in development.

And just some cautionary advice that applies to me as well as you: we shouldn't overestimate other people's level of interest in our own work.

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