Fabled Lands: This Tin Man's got heart

"Gamebooks are alive and thriving in 2011, as you can see from this dramatic trailer for Tin Man Games' upcoming iOS gamebook Catacombs of the Undercity, the fifth in their Gamebook Adventures series that began with An Assassin in Orlandes."

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Fighting Fantazine #5 drops

"The fifth issue of Fighting Fantazine - the Fighting Fantasy fan magazine - has finally hit the web! "

Get all the details and linkage here:

Fantasy Game Book: Fighting Fantazine Issue 5

SOLO PLAY-Playing alone or 1 on 1- Part 4

SUDOKU DUNGEONS
http://greywulf.net/2009/09/sudoku-dungeons/

Deathtrap Solitaire: 4th Edition Playing Card Dungeons
http://greywulf.net/2009/01/deathtrap-solitaire-4th-edition-playing-card-dungeons/

SOLO THIEF ADVENTURES(Interesting thoughts on game play)
http://deltasdnd.blogspot.com/2009/09/solo-thief-adventures.html

SOLO PLAY-Playing alone or 1 on 1-Part 3

Solo gaming comes in all shapes and sizes. Today's shapes look like this :)

Attacks of Opportunity

http://attacksofopportunity.blogspot.com/search/label/lonely%20fun

Which morphed into this:

About How to Host a Dungeon

http://planet-thirteen.com/Dungeon.aspx

And if you have a few minutes to kill and want to do some crawling or even show someone new to the hobby how much fun they can have, just start them with this:

Solo Dungeon Bash
http://www.bookranger.co.uk/SoloDungeonBash/SoloDungeonBash.html

And with such a simple form you can re-load this a few times until a bigger challenge is desired.

Enjoy!

SOLO PLAY-Playing alone or 1 on 1-Part 2

THE DYING EARTH RPG
http://www.dyingearth.com/pickapath/00.html

I decided to start this off with the a nod to the origin of Vancian magic in D&D. It’s an online pick-a-path so not to involved but a chance to get your solo feet wet :)

Lord of the Rings Solo Books

http://www.tolkienguide.com/modules/wiwimod/index.php?page=MERP

(From the tolkienguide.com website)

Tolkien Quest Solo Game Books - solo adventure paperback books, but this range was withdrawn due to a copyright dispute (and, according to Pete Fenlon, was a major contribution to the financial troubles of ICE culminating in their loss of the MERP license)

• Night of the Nazgûl (1985, #101)
• The Legend of Weathertop (1985)
• Rescue In Mirkwood (1986) (Labeled as Middle-earth Quest)


I didn’t even know these existed until I started researching the solo game topic for this series. I would say these are a bit on the collectible side, but, again, solo Lord of the Rings…awesome.

(ICE also did a few other non-MERP titles: )

• Sherlock Holmes Solo Mysteries line
• Murder at the Diogenes Club (1987)

• Narnia Solo Games line
• Return to Deathwater (1988)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iron_Crown_Enterprises#Solo_gaming_books

SOLO PLAY-Playing alone or 1 on 1-Part 1

When you have the urge that you just can't purge, when all have moved away or maybe just yourself. Or maybe it's just the off time.

Solo gaming, misunderstood since its beginning, is an art unto itself that is just as creative and engaging as full party gaming.

There's also the 1 on 1 adventures where a single player matches wits against the Game Master's imagination, encountering all manner of man and beast and delving deep into arcane places and deep dark forests to gain his (or her) fame and fortune.

And let's not forget game books. From CREATE YOUR OWN ADVENTURE to the more complicated material they form an important link in gaming history that reverberates down to this day.

Too long these methods of play have been seen as a lesser form of game play. But upon further examination one can see a whole other aspect that gaming can bring even under limited circumstances.

This series will cover material you might need for those sessions. From the granddaddy of them all,Tunnels & Trolls, to Indie scene hack fests I hope to steer you to gaming gold (both free of charge and those worth paying for) that eases the urge or even opens whole new portals to the fun and excitement of the rpg and adventure gaming.

Please feel free to point me in the direction of anything I'm missing. I would love to see as much of this posted as possible. And maybe have to...uhh...sample...some myself :)