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CardJoe · 15th Dec 2007, 09:53

Anyone else remember those? Written by Jamie Thompson and Dave Morris, they were a series of gamebooks called Fabled Lands in the UK, Quest in the US. It was great - each book was a different country in a much larger world and players chose a character in their starting book and could travel around at will. You could hop between countries by taking your persistent character to a new book and you could make these really big changes in the game world by toppling governments and so on. There were 12 books total - 10 countries, 1 for the ocean and 1 for the Underworld - but they only ever published the first 6.

Anyway, I just found an online version which runs using Java. That's my weekend gone, but I thought I'd share it with you guys first.

http://au.geocities.com/jemann75/

Mord · 15th Dec 2007, 20:39

Ahh I remember them, think I still have a copy of The Plains of Howling Darkness. I never really got into them because you just couldn't find them in the shops.

I always did prefer the Fighting Fantasy game books http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fighting_Fantasy the best ofwhich IMO was "City of Thieves". Most fun any kid could have reading a book...

15th Dec 2007, 09:53	#1
CardJoe Player Character bit-tech Staff Join Date: Apr 2007 Posts: 7,945	Fabled Lands/Quest Gamebooks Anyone else remember those? Written by Jamie Thompson and Dave Morris, they were a series of gamebooks called Fabled Lands in the UK, Quest in the US. It was great - each book was a different country in a much larger world and players chose a character in their starting book and could travel around at will. You could hop between countries by taking your persistent character to a new book and you could make these really big changes in the game world by toppling governments and so on. There were 12 books total - 10 countries, 1 for the ocean and 1 for the Underworld - but they only ever published the first 6. Anyway, I just found an online version which runs using Java. That's my weekend gone, but I thought I'd share it with you guys first. http://au.geocities.com/jemann75/ __________________ this is joe's non-bit-tech blog

15th Dec 2007, 20:39	#2
Mord Supermodder Join Date: Mar 2004 Location: Yorkshire, England Posts: 424	Ahh I remember them, think I still have a copy of The Plains of Howling Darkness. I never really got into them because you just couldn't find them in the shops. I always did prefer the Fighting Fantasy game books http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fighting_Fantasy the best ofwhich IMO was "City of Thieves". Most fun any kid could have reading a book... __________________ [Athlon XP 2500+] [1.5GB PC3200 Ram] [Geforce 6600GT Agp] [120GB Seagate HD] [Audigy 2 Sound]