Question..book 2 or something...

[revenus]

When you are at the part when you have the fight the helghost, is there any way to win without getting that spear?
Also, how many books are there total in the series?

[Dusk Fox]

As has been said in a previous thread, the only successful path through Book 2 is with the Magic Spear in hand (which requires you to make a number of correct choices in succession) unless you have the Discipline of Animal Kinship. With that Discipline, the Noodnics will lead you through the only truly “safe” route past the “Blackscreamerz” in the tunnel. Of course, this is only if you can resist the evil of Gashgiss….

It’s kind of lame. Either luck into the Magic Spear (which I did not the first time I played), have Animal Kinship (I’m lucky I was cheating at the time and just “had” all of the Disciplines--the book was so much easier when I was a child), or flat out cheat and move on past. Those of us with some experience get through this every time, but you end up dying an awful lot if you don’t know what you’re doing, I’d reckon.

As for the number of books, it’s 5 Kai, 7 Magnakai, 8 Grand Master, 8 New Order, 4 Grey Star, so total those up however you see fit (depends on what you want to “count”).

[Zipp]

There's also a mini adventure of Banedon in the Maganmund Companion, and there were four more books planned for the New Order Series that never got written.

And then there's about ten fan fiction gamebooks that I know of.