Questbird Posted April 4, 2016 Share Posted April 4, 2016 (edited) On 3/29/2016 at 7:59 AM, Mysterioso said: Choose Your Own Adventure books are still around too to help with the reading. We were lucky that the public library had a bunch of them. The Fabled Lands series is a pretty good crossover between gamebooks and real roleplaying. It is a fantasy sandbox setting made of 6 (soon to be 7!) interconnected books. There's no fixed path; you choose one of several character types and wander around back and forth between the books (which are roughly geographically separated, although there are adventure links in between the books). Along the way you accumulate skills and gain and lose treasure. Written by Dave Morris and his cohorts, so generally good writing. I call these books the Clipper Ships of gamebooks, because they are the apex of the form but came out just as the gamebook market crashed in the 1990s. There were originally supposed to be 12 in the series, but only 6 were produced. However, thanks to fan interest, not only have the original 6 been republished (available from Amazon) but a 7th one (The Serpent King's Domain) has been commissioned by a successful Kickstarter. I guess if it does well we may hope for the remaining 5 books to be produced one day. Edited April 4, 2016 by Questbird Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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