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[Lordinquisitor]

Yeah, noticed it some minutes after posting.

[nenjin]

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This should probably be at the top....

[GaelicVigil]

This is awesome, I'll be checking them out.  I remember borrowing and reading some of these books from my elementary school library when I was a kid.

I am more familiar with the Fighting Fantasy series though.  For those who've played both, how do they compare?  Do they have a cool little app for FF books as well?

[Lordinquisitor]

I love it!

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Fuuuuck. Lost my nice chainmail during a boat trip, lost my weapons and died later when i tried to attack a merchant. And i thought i was doing well.

[nenjin]

The series makes an art out of kicking you while you're down.

[Elven_ranger]

Awesome.

Thanks for the info...

[Aklyon]

Awesome.

Thanks for the info...

[Mindmaker]

Well I discovered a lot of the variations of "fun" you can have in this game

But I finally finished the 1st chapter.

[Vattic]

Neat, just finished the first book on my second run, I was lucky and rolled a 9 for combat that set me up nicely to slaughter most I met. Certainly better than the 0 on my first attempt.

Cheers for suggesting it.

[Sergius]

I like this link better than the one in the OP:
http://www.projectaon.org/staff/david/index.php

[Lordinquisitor]

I hate it that the combat and endurance stats are randomly generated at the beginning of the game- Even though i gained decent ones. Either you get a good one, or your character is doomed to die again and again. Bah. I never got it why so many games determine the stats at random.

I think i`m in chapter three or four now, and there were quite some interesting incidents until now. (It went quite well until i recently got an arrow into my head on a natural roll of 0  )

Spoiler: Concerning the Sommerswerd (click to show/hide)

I dislike it though that the Sommerswerd, which sounds a lot like bastardized german ("Sommer Schwert" meaning "Summer Sword".), makes some battles pretty easy. (Btw. can you actually lose it? I`ve encountered some incidents in which there were other options for the case that you didn`t have it..)

He, this game got me thinking. How awesome would a Dwarf Fortress choose your own adventure be? "You are in a room. There`s a lever. Do you want to Pull it? )

[nenjin]

I like this link better than the one in the OP:
http://www.projectaon.org/staff/david/index.php

Oop, yeah, should have used that one. Lack of sleep, and stuffs.

I hate it that the combat and endurance stats are randomly generated at the beginning of the game- Even though i gained decent ones. Either you get a good one, or your character is doomed to die again and again. Bah. I never got it why so many games determine the stats at random.

SeventhSense lets you do a points distribution method if you don't like rolling. Or you can just give yourself max stats.

Spoiler: Concerning the Sommerswerd (click to show/hide)

Those options assume you picked up the game after Book 2. Or were the biggest jerk of all and just threw away the SS.

Don't worry though. Even with the SS later on, some fights take everything you have to win.

[Yodamaster]

This is incredibly fun, thanks for bringing it up.

He, this game got me thinking. How awesome would a Dwarf Fortress choose your own adventure be? "You are in a room. There`s a lever. Do you want to Pull it? )

Never pull the lever. Ever.

[nenjin]

Well, sadly, SeventhSense is only good up to the start of the Magnakai, apparently they need to update to use the rest of the books. The good news is he's updating regularly and the Magnakai (at least Book 6) should be up soon. (His last post was today, in fact.)

I was kind of hoping he had a good template so he could crank stuff out, but apparently he has to do a lot of individual work for coding stuff like gambling events.

Also he's programmed in achievements for accomplishing stuff in different ways throughout the series. 70 achievements in the first 12 books! It's a nice touch.

http://projectaon.proboards.com/index.cgi?board=seventhsense&action=display&thread=1683&page=5

[Frumple]

Yeah... chewed through the first five books today as I was going about preparing to pack up. Program like SS makes choose yer own adventure stuff much more... bearable. Maxed stats (well, and plethora of other option tweaks, heh.) definitely make most of the combat fairly trivial -- after th'second book or so I never really had combat trouble. Somewhere between there and the third, you can get something like +8 or so to CS... can even manage it without dual wielding, but you'd have to constantly reroll the weaponskill kai until you got plain swords. But I had most of the option stuff on, so whatever. Still died quite regularly all throughout, generally to completely random, zero-warning, only-way-to-find-out-is-die stuff (P.S. Take the balcony.), which really, really sucks when it happens near the end of th'book. Sometimes, though, to genuinely I-shouldn'ta-dun-that, which made me smile a bit. I also liked that even with uber-mench scores going, attrition between combat was very noticeable... at least until I got the healing kai, heh.

All in all, though, very interesting. Made me want to go hunt down all the Conan books