Lone Wolf 5: Shadow on the Sand
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To be honest I hadn't read any LW in a long, long time (lost all my books in a fire) so it's really good revisiting these gems in a nice new format. My memory tells me that book 5 was my favourite when I was a teenager. I'm keen to see how it holds up nowadays and if it will still be my fave now that the new FftD is so fleshed out - especially with Zipp Dementia's Gourgaz battle (that brings the number of sections up to 600!) 
Hi guys,
Announcement coming very soon, but yes, Book 5's will be going out this week!
Announcement coming very soon, but yes, Book 5's will be going out this week!
coreystinson
Mongoose
Head's up: I received my Shadow on the Sand today (I'm in Missouri, USA).
Balgin Stondraeg
Mongoose
Well my copy arrived today. It felt better. The cover didn't have any issues and had a lovely round curved spine. I'm almost willing to buy the first four again so I can get matching covers.
The text wasn't going off the edges of any pages, the paper even felt better, everything was where it should be. Well, almost everything. Once again there was no equipment selection section, just like in book 4!
That seesm to be rapidly becoming a regular feature of the new books which is fine if you're playing through the series but if a casual customer picks one up in a bookshop he's going to feel jilted at trying to brave te adventure empty handed and wonder if it's really meant to be that hard.
The text wasn't going off the edges of any pages, the paper even felt better, everything was where it should be. Well, almost everything. Once again there was no equipment selection section, just like in book 4!
That seesm to be rapidly becoming a regular feature of the new books which is fine if you're playing through the series but if a casual customer picks one up in a bookshop he's going to feel jilted at trying to brave te adventure empty handed and wonder if it's really meant to be that hard
.AguilaSaber
Mongoose
Balgin Stondraeg said:Well my copy arrived today. It felt better. The cover didn't have any issues and had a lovely round curved spine. I'm almost willing to buy the first four again so I can get matching covers.
The text wasn't going off the edges of any pages, the paper even felt better, everything was where it should be. Well, almost everything. Once again there was no equipment selection section, just like in book 4!
That seesm to be rapidly becoming a regular feature of the new books which is fine if you're playing through the series but if a casual customer picks one up in a bookshop he's going to feel jilted at trying to brave te adventure empty handed and wonder if it's really meant to be that hard
If you surrender and go to the prison it won't matter much since all equipment is lost, and you will have most of the new set when you find the place where it is hidden (if you find it).
Trying to get away through the sewers would be far more difficult though.
Overall, this is one book where you don't need good starting equipment to survive.
Balgin Stondraeg
Mongoose
AguilaSaber said:
Now there I agree with you but can you imagine trying it with book 7 or 8?
SnowShadow
Mongoose
Hi all.
Got my copy of Shadow on the Sand today too. Bit of a pity about the equipment section but in case anyone wants to know:
"You may take any four of the following:
DAGGER (Weapons)
POTION OF LAUMSPUR (Backpack Items). This potion restores 4 ENDURANCE points to your total when swallowed after combat. There is enough for one dose.
SWORD (Weapons)
SPEAR (Weapons)
2 SPECIAL RATIONS (Meals). Each of these Special Rations counts as one Meal, and each takes up one space in your backpack.
MACE (Weapons)
SHIELD (Special Items). This adds 2 points to your COMBAT SKILL when used in combat."
So basically you can take one weapon and all the other items.
SPOILER ALERT
Okay the debate on which way - I like to evade Maouk until purchasing Alether from the Herb Mistress, then I go to prison and escape - it's nice to use something other than the Sword of the Sun for a change and I prefer the equipment choice when escaping. The Alether I use against Haakon with the Sommerswerd.
N.B. The +4 Alether from Kalte I save for the archery contest in Book 6 - I use Weaponmastery with Bow as +3 CS on this occasion but it would be nice to always add the 3 to the random number I pick; which method do you guys use?
If I didn't lose the backpack at Castle Death then I would definately use the +4 Alether against either Kimah or the Chaos Master, thank heavens I can get at least one Alether from Tadia in Book 8.
Hope that's some help.
Got my copy of Shadow on the Sand today too. Bit of a pity about the equipment section but in case anyone wants to know:
"You may take any four of the following:
DAGGER (Weapons)
POTION OF LAUMSPUR (Backpack Items). This potion restores 4 ENDURANCE points to your total when swallowed after combat. There is enough for one dose.
SWORD (Weapons)
SPEAR (Weapons)
2 SPECIAL RATIONS (Meals). Each of these Special Rations counts as one Meal, and each takes up one space in your backpack.
MACE (Weapons)
SHIELD (Special Items). This adds 2 points to your COMBAT SKILL when used in combat."
So basically you can take one weapon and all the other items.
SPOILER ALERT
Okay the debate on which way - I like to evade Maouk until purchasing Alether from the Herb Mistress, then I go to prison and escape - it's nice to use something other than the Sword of the Sun for a change and I prefer the equipment choice when escaping. The Alether I use against Haakon with the Sommerswerd.
N.B. The +4 Alether from Kalte I save for the archery contest in Book 6 - I use Weaponmastery with Bow as +3 CS on this occasion but it would be nice to always add the 3 to the random number I pick; which method do you guys use?
If I didn't lose the backpack at Castle Death then I would definately use the +4 Alether against either Kimah or the Chaos Master, thank heavens I can get at least one Alether from Tadia in Book 8.
Hope that's some help.
WritingWolf
Mongoose
Personally I always cheat and ignore every instruction to lose your Backpack and items from your Backpack (unless like in Book 2 where the book forces you to have no food).
The books are hard enough, and in the NO books it seems that every other section has you having to chuck stuff out of your pack.
The Alether and Oede and all the rest I save up for Kimah - he's waaaay too strong to fight any other way. Oh and the Chaos-master too.
The books are hard enough, and in the NO books it seems that every other section has you having to chuck stuff out of your pack.
The Alether and Oede and all the rest I save up for Kimah - he's waaaay too strong to fight any other way. Oh and the Chaos-master too.
lord darkstorm
Mongoose
Do mongoose actually proofread these books at all...?
hi guys, my book 5 arrived this morning (am in the uk) - looks much better quality.
as for equipment section, having a quick flick there's no selection of goodies (like shield, lamspur etc) as has been said, i wonder if this is deliberate for all the reprints to encourage you to start the series from the beginning?
--: mini spoiler, highlight to read :--
oh and the bonus adventure has you as a young tipasa the wanderer finding the tomb of the majhan, looks interesting ...
as for equipment section, having a quick flick there's no selection of goodies (like shield, lamspur etc) as has been said, i wonder if this is deliberate for all the reprints to encourage you to start the series from the beginning?
--: mini spoiler, highlight to read :--
oh and the bonus adventure has you as a young tipasa the wanderer finding the tomb of the majhan, looks interesting ...
