25 years in the making

[phantomdoodler]

So i am one of the old timers who lavished every second of completing lonewolf books in the eighties and nineties. If i died, i did the whole series again. I was crazy, obsessed even. But i loved them. I spent years adapting the books to countless systems - warhammer, gurps, harp, well too many to mention, but they never felt right. Adding complicated rules systems just removed it from the heart of the books, but my inner gamer told me it had to be complicated. So i battled, battled and gave up, eventually, after a few failed attempts. It was like trying to kill the Chaos Master! Then the d20 system came out - i was over the moon. Then I read it and the more I read, it seemed like someone else had taken my favourite world setting and made it into something i no longer recognized. It had good background material, but it just didnt feel right. I was too much of a purest to accept it. So i forgot about it and gave up again.


Then today, i got the new book. I just cannot believe what i am holding. This is what i have been waiting for, for 25 years. I can hardly contain my emotions because its wonderful. Thank you Mongoose. And thankyou for getting Joe on this, because having his hand involved in this makes it credible, and makes it exactly the game I want to run. I dont want to run any other game from now on. I cannot wait for the other supplements. And the beauty is that not needing any serious rules, i can use the original books, however much the spines are at breaking point, to flesh out my own campaigns.

Ok a little evangelical, but in a way i feel born again. I am once again, the 13 year old geeky school kid that looked in awe at the cover of Fire on the Water, in my local Martins newsagent, who looked at the inside map, and Gary Chalks beautiful illustrations, and dreamed of roaming the lastlands for himself. Its a good day!

 

[Ser Andrew]

Couldn't agree more! Jungle of Horrors was my first LW book. I was 7, and I read it so many times the book nearly fell apart. The fact that it didn't is nothing short of amazing. Now, I'm 30 and I still have all my old LW books.. some of my most cherished possessions. Now all I need is all that money to buy all the new hardcovers.

 

[Zipp Dementia]

I also must say how happy I am that Mongoose Publishing has really taken LW to the next level. Crazy to think that I've been witness to two different eras of this wonderful series!

 

[WritingWolf]

Yeah I remember having Lone Wolf from back in the 80s - in fact they were some of the first books I remember reading. I only ever had Book 1 and 2, then lost 1 and only had 2 for ages.

Finally got Book 1 and then Book 5 again. That was it - that was my Lone Wolf collection for several years in the 80s. Not sure how old I was, 9 or so?

Then I found a 2nd-hand book shop and got a few more. Then I found book 20 in the shops and bought that - man that was a revelation! Finding out the Darklords had gone, lots of strange new Disiciplines. After that I lucked in on loads of Lone Wolf had the 2nd hand bookshop - someone must have decided to get rid of their collection, and it became mine.

Ordered all of the New Order books from a postal-order book company (save for 22 - I had already missed that) and was lucky enough to get the last 3 books signed by JD himself.

Finally, a few years ago, my mum won Book 22 on ebay for me as a present - what a present! The hallowed book, today it still sits inside a protective bag, none of the others too (sadly even the newest have yellowed a bit, probably dimminishing their value - like I will ever sell them!)

And now we have the shiney new reprints! Ok so they are not perfect, neither were the originals. Now I can read both versions (sparingly).

I love the fact that when reading them they range from 25 years old to 15 years old yet still seem really fresh to me. I have grown up with Lone Wolf - to have it being reprinted is fantastic.

I know most people on here are the same as me. Lone Wolf is not just a book - like everything from your childhood (like Dr Who, Garfield, Star Wars) it is a part of you. Sod the Force - I want the Kai Disciplines.