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I love that series! I have about a dozen of them in a shoebox waiting until my daughter is old enough to read them. :)

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Diego

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I knew this name was familiar to me for a reason! I read a few books by him and Steve Jackson :)

 

Memories.. I still have the second edition of GURPS. It's the first brazilian edition and it has a weird cover of a pink silhouette of a head on a white background.

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Hyeron

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Will I be considered a heretic if I admit never caring that much about Fighting Fantasy, and much more about Grailquest (and other series by J.H. Brennan) and Lone Wolf? :D

"Lie to a liar, for lies are his coin; Steal from a thief, for that is easy; lay a trap for a trickster and catch him at first attempt, but beware of an honest man"

- Arab proverb

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Oh, oh, my misspent youth! I even tried writing two books of my own (like most of my friends), but never finished them (like all of these friends). The Sorcery! series was the greatest; had a grubby-dirty feel and some really good art.

 

WRT City of Thieves, one of my friends occasionally runs (pencil and paper) RPG adventures that use it as the background setting. It works well, too, naive charm and all that.

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Hyeron

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Ah, 's true that Sorcery! was very special too. I think the only downsides to it were the heavy bias towards Wizard rather than Warrior, and how The Seven Serpents was the most unforgiving gamebook written. EVER. F*CK THAT TIME SERPENT. :D

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I read the Xanth & Blue Adept series as a kid (Piers Anthony). A lot of Heinlein. Some Terry Brooks.

 

In other news, Strageblue of TTLG just published a novel this week too (she wrote most of T2X).

http://www.barnesand...n=9780451464552

 

Edit: Purah's been publishing stuff recently too (made Calendra's Legacy if you didn't already know).

http://anthonyhuso.com/

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fllood

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I love that series! I have about a dozen of them in a shoebox waiting until my daughter is old enough to read them. :)

 

By chance I gave my teen daughter "The Warlock of Firetop Mountain" just three weeks ago. For her impression it was too much dice rolling fighting and too few story. But she was as much impressed from the solo-book concept as I had been back in '82 (remember there hadn't been any CRPG's for PC's yet!) . So the same day she started writing rules and story ideas for her own solo adventure book pausing her current work on writing her next teen fantasy story. She finished writing two long fantasy tales before. Reading her first new pages I noticed some impact from her playing Grimrock as well... ;)

 

All that brought back memories of a co-op writing of a 400 entries solo adventure I finished with a friend for a role-playing game end of the 80's. Following that I started a huge solo book project I had to abandoned half-way finished with 1500 entries after over a years of enthusiastic work on the in the very early 90'. Really a shame I never finished it! ... but sometimes RL takes it's unforeseen routes.

 

Wonder where she'll end up with these inspirations new to her ... :-)

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