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Post by Sarra on Apr 21, 2004 21:52:16 GMT
I take it I'm the only "underage" person here? I'm 16. I first heard of Lone Wolf when I was about 9 years old, and that was in 1996... Don't fret dude...I'm only 17 so I am a youngun too. I picked my first Lone Wolf book up in a rundown, small town library. It was Fire on the Water. I went to the local used book store and purchased Fire on the Water and The Caverns of Kalte. Then I found The Chasm of Doom at a library out of town. Right now I only own books 1-10 and The Deathlord of Ixia but I am working on the rest. A good portion of each of my paychecks each week goes to Lone Wolf
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Post by Relenoir on Apr 22, 2004 2:13:14 GMT
HAPPY BIRTHDAY OFX!!! There will be an extra gold crown in your paycheck this week, I hope. Since we're doing Lone Wolf biographies... I first came across them when my younger brother brought them home when I was about 15. I was familiar with them to a degree, because I'd gotten into the "Choose Your Own Adventure Series" when I was about 9, and read a couple of adventure-type books. I had always been interested in Dungeons and Dragons, but nobody I knew wanted to play, so this was a great outlet for me. He had bought books 1-9, and a month or so later I bought #10, then finished the series later after 12 had been out for a while during my senior year of high school. After that, I kind of forgot about them for a few years. When I was in my mid-twenties, I was reminiscing about how great they'd been, and decided to try to order them at the bookstore. A couple were discontinued, but I managed to find them all eventually. A few years after that, I was reading them again and began thinking "What a cool RPG this would make!" I ended up finding the Magnamund Companion on eBay for about $100 U.S., gladly paid it, and got to work. I also picked up the U.K. versions once I found out about the color maps and unedited versions, 1-9 of the Legends series, and even found a copy of book 28 from the original publisher. I ran a group for about two years, and had the Kai Lord class, Brotherhood Mage class, and Knight of the White Mountain class completed, with the Vakeros in the works. I was close to finishing the last few of the Grand Master Discipline conversions, and planned on trying to send it to Joe Dever somehow to see if he was interested in marketing it, perhaps to restore interest in Lone Wolf. It was going great until about two years ago last week, when my wife's and my room-mate ended up burning down our house. Lost all of it- the books, notes, characters, and the computer that all the info was on. I was so distraught that I couldn't even THINK about trying to rebuild it all. Of course, I couldn't stay away forever and once again came back to it when I found this website. I have rebuilt most of my collection, re-created my table-top RPG and now have a new game group, and best of all have this connection with other LW fans from around the world. Sorry, I'm being more long-winded than usual, and don't usually go on about the whole "poor me" thing, but I needed to get that off my chest to others who would understand. I suppose what I'm trying to say is through all this is: Yes, I'm a die-hard Lone Wolf fanatic!
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Post by Phoenix159 on Apr 22, 2004 5:01:15 GMT
20 years old. I first read Flight From the Dark when I was around 7 or 8, my cousin recommended it to me. I was hooked ever since.
Nerethel, I agree that "Death's Gate Cycle" was an excellent series. I'm not a huge fan of Weise and Hickman, but I really enjoyed the story. Great characters, if a bit shallow at times.
My all time favorite series would have to be "A Song of Ice and Fire" series by George RR Martin. Start with "A Game of Thrones". The most awesome series ever. Better than Tolken. *awaits blasphamy accusations* I can't recommend a better series to fantasy fans.
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Post by KaiLord on Apr 22, 2004 7:42:19 GMT
There are 3 D's you need to know: Dragonlance Darksword Death Gate Cycle
All are series written by Weis & Hickman. Yes, I'm a W&H fan, too.
KL
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Post by Tim on Apr 22, 2004 8:04:34 GMT
It was going great until about two years ago last week, when my wife's and my room-mate ended up burning down our house. Lost all of it- the books, notes, characters, and the computer that all the info was on. I was so distraught that I couldn't even THINK about trying to rebuild it all. I once lost an essay in high school when my computer crashed. I can't imagine what it feels like to lose your entire Lone Wolf collection. It's good to know that you recovered from this!
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Post by Banedon on Apr 22, 2004 11:30:22 GMT
OK...this is how I found out about Lone Wolf...
One day in 1996, we were in a bookstore, and we got to one section and it was just FULL of Lone Wolf books. I decided to get one to try it out, so I tried to find "Book 1"...but it turns out it was actually Grey Star Book 1. Then later we went back, but most of the books were gone...Books 8 and 10 were the lowest numbers there, so I got those. When I first played the GS book, I remember I went straight to Section 1 and started reading...then I saw something about Elementalism and thought "Maybe I should read the instructions"...
I soon got the hang of the system, but got discouraged because I kept dying...I actually once located ALL the instant death sections and wrote down the numbers so I could avoid them.
Fast-forward a few years (about 1999 or 2000)...I was at a used-book store, and they had a bunch of LW books there. That's how I got Books 1-7 (I already had 8-12 at the time) and got really into the story behind them. The thing I didn't like about them was the constant page-flipping and occasionally losing track of what section I was at (like if I went to use the bathroom), and the fact that by Book 5 or so there was a gaping hole next to "EP" on my notebook paper because of my constant erasings and rewritings. Then in late 2002 I found Project Aon, and I started playing them online...I haven't played a physical book since (although I do check maps and such in the books).
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Post by The Tagazin Poodle on Apr 22, 2004 15:14:24 GMT
I'm 28, going on 76. Of course, that's probably because of the allergy season.
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Post by Martinus on Apr 22, 2004 15:32:43 GMT
I'm 28. I discovered Lone Wolf when I was about 8 or 9. A friend of mine had The Chasm of Doom, and we used to play it on the bus on our way to school. Later I bought the entire series in Swedish (only 1-12 appeared in Swedish), got The Magnamund Companion for [heavens]mas one year (it was also translated), bought the US editions of the Legends of Lone Wolf, and managed to track down the Grey Star books at my FLGS. I'm currently enjoying a revival of my old LW interest, so I've downloaded everything from Project Aon, bought the Legends straight from John Grant (excellent stuff, especially since I have never read any of the books after Hunting Wolf) and am now eagerly waiting for the RPG from Mongoose.
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Post by Relenoir on Apr 22, 2004 23:44:49 GMT
Actually, there's one more I'd like to mention...(besides the obvious answer of Dever). Drizzt Do'Urden of the Forgotten Realms. I just got to meet the author, R.A. Salvatore, for the second time at a book signing last week. He only lives about half and hour away from me, so he visits Massachusetts bookstores fairly often. I've been reading this particular series for about 12 years or so, and I can't say that anyone else has painted such vivid combat sequences in my mind as Bob Salvatore. Drizzt (pronounced dritz) is a Drow (dark elf) who rejected the evil ways of his people and came to live on the surface instead of in the Underdark. He became a ranger, and fights with a pair of scimitars. There are usually excerpts at the beginning of book sections that are like reading his private thoughts out of a journal. Very cool stuff. BLASPHEMY!!! Sorry, had to be done. Seriously, as much as I love Tolkien, he did sometimes have a tendency to let things drag, i.e. two whole chapters dedicated to Tom Bombadil...
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Post by Nerethel on Apr 23, 2004 13:30:31 GMT
Drow. Blek. How many D&D and other RPGs must I sit through where someone insists on playing a dark elf? Phooey. It's a sore spot to me, as I'm an elf and I equate drow to a glorified effort by humans to 'make elves cool'. Sorry about this being an off topic rant. It's likely one that needs to be vented, but this isn't the forum. Especially since Magnamund has no elves. Magnamund has a bunch of races that are unique and interesting, anyway. Like noodnics, ogrons, szalls, etc. Yeah, giaks, too. Ahem. So, how about them Vassagonians? Nerethel
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Post by Magnakai Warrior on Apr 23, 2004 14:39:14 GMT
I'm 29. I discovered Lone Wolf when a friend shown me Fire on the Water 19 years ago. OMG. Hadn't thought about it like that before. I've got them all and haven't read them in YEARS - but they come with me where ever I move and stay in mint condition. I've already got my 8 year old interested - he'll be reading them soon enough. I loved a lot of books from that era - Wizards, Warriors, & You, Dungeons & Dragons Endless Quests, Choose Your Own Adventure, I've got tons of them that I can't ever let go - they represent a magic that has long been lost to me. Anyway, glad to see so many others like me out there.
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Post by mirradric on Apr 24, 2004 11:53:15 GMT
Turning 23 on monday. Can't really rememeber but i think i first got introduced to LW when i was 6 or 7. I can't even remember who introduced me to it. I did read all the LW gamebooks at least once but not GW, FW or the legends. I currently only have the 1st 2 and last 2 books and book 15 first hand and books 6, 7, 8, 12 2nd hand. Lost book 11 though... sad.
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Post by JJ on Apr 29, 2004 3:06:15 GMT
I'm 24. I came across the series when I was 9 yrs old. My family stopped at a mall and I found Book 10 in Waldenbooks. I was fascinated by the book and bought 1-4 with my birthday money later on. During the following X-mas my grandpa wanting me to continue reading (and stay away from the nintendo) so he bought me 5-9,11,12. I thought the series was over at that point, so you can imagine my shock when I saw the "Legacy of Vashna" in Kmart 6 years later. All I have left to get is the last 2 books. Anyone know of a place that has them?
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Post by Relenoir on Apr 29, 2004 6:26:12 GMT
Besides the "Evil EBay Empire," you might try Amazon.com (unlikely), Half.com (also unlikely), or AbeBooks.com (decent chance, and although some prices are higher, at least you don't have to worry about getting into a bidwar.) EBay is still the easiest, unfortunately.
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Post by adgramaine on Apr 29, 2004 7:39:29 GMT
going on 28 and a US-born reader. I got hooked on the GS books first - my mom found one somewhere looking for another series of books for me to try... I had read/collected every CYOA book in print including the SuperCYOA books, and she was trying to keep me interested in reading (not that I needed encouragement). I remember reading through the first GS book, and I was intantly spellbound, pun intended. I also remember charging $5 for cutting lawns in the neighborhood, just enough to cover the cost of buying a book or two in either the GS or LW series. The, disaster struck in 1996 when I entered the army - most of my LW/GS books were tragically lost in a move. Fortunatly I have managed to find the most common available here in the states, plus the first few novels published. Only in the last few weeks have I discovered that there were 28 books - I thought 20 was the last.
And am I ever glad I was wrong. Now I just have to find the remaining 8 books.
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