dragons of lencia and glory & greed books???
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OldMongooseFordy
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These are both original novels set just after the current Lone Wolf timeline
MongooseCharlie
Mongoose
Just to let you know the final files for these novels have gone to the printers today
Charlie
Charlie
WritingWolf
Mongoose
Hi Mongoose
Do you have any updates on these books please? I am consious of having ordered them both over a year ago - just wondering how things were going.
Thanks
Do you have any updates on these books please? I am consious of having ordered them both over a year ago - just wondering how things were going.
Thanks
AguilaSaber
Mongoose
Any updates on the two novel series ???
It seems that these books are perpetually afraid of the printers!
It seems that these books are perpetually afraid of the printers!
SnowShadow
Mongoose
Hi
I had an email from Matthew Sprange on the 29th - I noticed Dragon Warriors were being printed by Mongoose and asked if Blood Sword gamebooks were planned. I asked about these books too and he said "you should expect to see them within the next couple of months"
Can't wait!
I had an email from Matthew Sprange on the 29th - I noticed Dragon Warriors were being printed by Mongoose and asked if Blood Sword gamebooks were planned. I asked about these books too and he said "you should expect to see them within the next couple of months"
Can't wait!
EvilRedEye
Mongoose
SnowShadow said:
Oh wow. Are those Dragon Warrior books also upcoming releases? I can't see them anywhere.
SnowShadow
Mongoose
From the Mongoose home page look under Flaming Cobra - Dragon Warriors is there under upcoming releases October 2008. 
Balgin Stondraeg
Mongoose
SnowShadow said:
Hmm, now you've got me confused with Dragon Warriors and Golden Dragon. Ah, I remember Dragon Warriors now. That was the free standing roleplaying game.
It would be nice to see the Blood Sword series or even the legendary Way Of The Tiger series (possibly the only other gamebook series to come close to equaling Lone Wolf in the variety of ways you could achieve an objective whilst others remained more linear).
That wouldn't be Jamie Wallis who also happened to write all 8 of the Myriador Fighting Fantasy d20 adventures and then moved on to write a lot of that Cursed Empire stuff would it? Just wondering.
SnowShadow
Mongoose
Way of the Tiger, was that Avenger, Assassin, etc? Jamie Thompson's ninja gamebooks. I seem to remember the final book, finished with you tumbling into an abyss :twisted: so it never really 'finished' after all (like LW), if so it would be nice to expand the books to have a satisfying end.
SnowShadow said:
I still have them. 6 books in all, I never really understood the reasons/politics behind such an abrupt ending to a great series.
When i first discovered eBay i spent a year or two collecting old gamebooks. huge shock to discover that grailquest didn't finish at book3. I picked up those two robin of sherwood books mentioned on another thread as well.
LW was always my fave, I even managed to remember to look for & order up to 28 from my local bookshop as they came out.
Wow, now Bloodsword books were my favourite. Such in depth and far greater than any other.
I remember I had a party of 4 so they were all astonishingly week but found a room where you could use unlimited scrolls - transfer any one point from one score to another as many times as you liked. So I had my Enchanter sacrifice most of her hit points for Intelligence. Brilliant - there's a tip for you for Book 1!
I was pleased to have completed this series and still have countless copies...
As with all my unique Lone Wolf stuff I'll be putting these up too.
I remember I had a party of 4 so they were all astonishingly week but found a room where you could use unlimited scrolls - transfer any one point from one score to another as many times as you liked. So I had my Enchanter sacrifice most of her hit points for Intelligence. Brilliant - there's a tip for you for Book 1!
I was pleased to have completed this series and still have countless copies...
As with all my unique Lone Wolf stuff I'll be putting these up too.
Eternalknight
Mongoose
Balgin Stondraeg said:
No. James Wallis used to be the owner of Hogshead Publishing. They are two seperate people
As you know, however, Jamie Wallis has been releasing his own gamebooks under the Epic Adventure Game Book title (www.greywoodpublishing.com for anyone interested).
Balgin Stondraeg
Mongoose
Eternalknight said:Balgin Stondraeg said:
No. James Wallis used to be the owner of Hogshead Publishing. They are two seperate people
Ah, like Steve Jackson (the cool guy who wrote Fighting Fantasy books) and Steve Jackson (the not so cool american guy who wrote 1 really bad Fighting Fantasy book (Scorpion Swamp), created GURPS and all the Munchkin card games).
I was actualy going to start a thread about them soon. They've got a nice gritty Gemmelesque style but the dice rolls are so difficult. There are a couple of skill checks you're almost garaunteed to fail (rendering section 42 possitively lethal and making you wish you'd failed that tracking section at -30% a few sectins ago as you'd stand a much greater chance of survival).
The way to view it is that you're never going to pass all the skill checks but if you play it right you should expect to fail about a third of them. So you have to work out which ones you can afford to fail and arrange your skill points accordingly.
The rules are not dissimilar to Rune Quest (or at least the way RQ used to be - I haven't seen the Mongoose version yet). Greatly simplified 'though but that should give you a rough idea of how it plays as a d100 system.
I was at GenCon today and spoke with one of their staffers. He claimed the books would try to be out in September (only a year delayed!) and that they are trying to get Book 29 out in November.
They also had copies of Book 6, which looked good. He said they would be shipping out to customers very soon.
They also had copies of Book 6, which looked good. He said they would be shipping out to customers very soon.
For those interested, the interview I did with Richard Ford is in the brand new issue of the Rising Sun: http://www.dmjump.net/Issue_17.pdf
EvilRedEye
Mongoose
Balgin Stondraeg said:
Sorry to be a pedant but he wrote three Fighting Fantasy books in total.
