Category: Gamebooks

These are good days to be a gamebook fan, it would seem. Just a couple of days ago, I noticed that the forthcoming American reprints of the Fighting Fantasy Gamebooks are starting to show up in major online bookstores, and this morning, an informant let me know that Troll is

FightingFantasyGamebooks.com, the new official site for the Wizard Books reissues of the Fighting Fantasy gamebooks, is up and running. It should be a continuing source of news, contests, downloads and more; there’s also a club you can join that will get you some free goodies. Check it out!

Mr. Buckethead, the superhero with a bucket for a head, now has a gamebook series thanks to Cybergecko, the company responsible for Super Giant Monster Showdown. In the Mr. Buckethead Adventure Game Series, readers wander from comic book panel to comic book panel (and sometimes from book to book) gathering

Myriador, a new D20 publisher, has made arrangements with Steve Jackson and Ian Livingstone to adapt their gamebooks into D20 modules. The first two titles are The Warlock of Firetop Mountain and Caverns of the Snow Witch, and other classics like Deathtrap Dungeon should be on their way. The initial

At long last, Project Aon, the official site for free Joe Dever gamebooks, has released the first book of the World of Lone Wolf spin-off series. If you’re looking for a slight change of pace from the regular series, this is a fun one. You can find the book here,

Wayne Densley, author of the popular online gamebook series, The Chronicles of Arborell, reports that while his current interactive writing project, the epic Earth and Stone, proceeds slowly, he has managed to create another work to tide fans over in the meantime. This time it’s “Blood and Iron,” a piece

Project Aon, the official Internet home of Joe Dever’s classic Lone Wolf gamebooks, has just undergone a complete site redesign. In addition to the new look, the Project now includes the full text The Masters of Darkness, the final entry in the Magnakai portion of Lone Wolf’s adventures. Next on

Project Aon‘s latest release isn’t a Lone Wolf solo gamebook; this time around, it’s the start of a comprehensive compendium of all of the rules used in the series and its spin-offs. Although the Rules Handbook is not yet complete, it contains enough information to help answer any questions that

Though gamebook-style games are normally Demian’s jurisdiction, I’ll risk a story about a new product coming from Z-Man Games this April. Warchon will be the first installment of Z-Man’s Playmark Book Game (or PBG, very different than a PBJ), which will have two characters fighting within the pages of a

has just confirmed the rumors it hinted at a few months back: Fighting Fantasy gamebooks are coming back into print! The first title, Warlock of Firetop Mountain, will be released in the UK in August, and more will follow. The series will be somewhat reordered (presumably just to confuse collectors

With remarkable speed, Sean-Robert Shaw has released the sequel to his Rangers of Taradoin gamebook. The book, entitled The Rangers of Taradoin: Of Cuneral Larinon and the Scions, provides both solitaire and multi-player role-playing rules (just like the first one) but, according to the author, doesn’t have the numerous editorial

Andrew Chapman, the author of several classic Fighting Fantasy adventures (including Space Assassin and Seas of Blood), has just electronically published Invaders, a previously-unreleased gamebook originally written to be part of a short-lived Australian series. The book is being distributed free of charge as a 2.42 meg PDF file, and