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Post by North Star on Sept 15, 2004 13:22:48 GMT
Heh heh Outs. Yeah, I have the entire AFF series (Dungeoneer, Blacksand!, Allansia; Titan & Out of the Pit), as well as the four-book Sorcery series and a few assorted FF books. NS. Edit: It's years since I read the books, but the person that immediately jumps to mind is the Dark Elf child Aeren, the one who destroys an entire Wood Elf village and murders its population, yet looks entirely cherubic...
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Post by Banedon on Sept 15, 2004 21:42:50 GMT
I wonder where the name "Banedon" comes from...a misspelling of Brandon?
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Post by Black Cat on Sept 15, 2004 23:04:23 GMT
ok, but you french are wrong: we don't pronounce kampagne ;D Well, if you pronounce it that way, the meaning of the word changes: campagne (pronounce it kampagne) either means a campaign (in a war) or the country (the one with plains and farms). Anyway, France is closer to England than Italy is, so Joe might heard the chianti word (pronounced shianti) during a trip in Paris and decided it was good enough to be the name of the half-god people that he had just created for Magnamund. Hey, it's just a possibility, it might not be the truth. BTW, I'm not a French, but a Canadian living in the only French-speaking province of the country. So we don't really drink champagne here. We rather drink Molson or Labatt beers, or even caribou (red wine mixed with maple syrup).
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Post by outspaced on Sept 16, 2004 8:48:29 GMT
Heh heh Outs. Yeah, I have the entire AFF series (Dungeoneer, Blacksand!, Allansia; Titan & Out of the Pit), as well as the four-book Sorcery series and a few assorted FF books. Heh! Same here, though I have more than 'a few' of the vanilla FF books (*coff*allofthem*coff*). Don't look at me like that! It's not that weird! I've been a gamebook collector for about 18 years (and counting). Still, it's nice to meet a fellow FFer. And the other day Relenoir made some comment about The Seven Serpents--looks ike there's a load of us coming out of the woodwork.
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Post by Banedon on Sept 16, 2004 11:26:42 GMT
I don't even know what FF is...
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Post by Darklord Gnaag on Sept 16, 2004 11:37:00 GMT
I don't even know what FF is... I too (of course ;D)
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Post by outspaced on Sept 16, 2004 21:30:44 GMT
FF = Fighting Fantasy, a series of gamebooks originally written by two guys called Steve Jackson and Ian Livingstone. In the 80s and early 90s, they and Lone Wolf were rivals. ;-)
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Post by Darklord Gnaag on Sept 16, 2004 21:48:41 GMT
FF = Fighting Fantasy, a series of gamebooks originally written by two guys called Steve Jackson and Ian Livingstone. In the 80s and early 90s, they and Lone Wolf were rivals. ;-) ok I got it; I played 3 books of that series, all VERY FUN! book 1 (The evil castle or something, sadly all italian titles are different): I played with a friend of mine, it was so difficult and fun, in every room of that castle there is an evil creature wich asks you to give something; you try to give some of the things you collected on the way, but it's always the wrong thing...then the evil creature says "What for is it? I don't need it" and just kills you ;D book 5 (the infernal house): just fun, you have a problem with your car in a very dark and stormy night, then you find a light...an house, you asks for help, and then... book 11 (the creature of the evil): I never ever finished this one, the most difficult gamebook of all times; you don't know who you are, and you have to translate a strange language.
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Post by columbob on Sept 17, 2004 1:36:41 GMT
Ok, but in French, we say chianti like we say shianti. It's the same pronunciation. Err, not quite. We still pronounce it kianti in French as well. I've never really heard anyone pronounce it shianti.
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Post by Black Cat on Sept 17, 2004 1:44:56 GMT
Err, not quite. We still pronounce it kianti in French as well. I've never really heard anyone pronounce it shianti. Hum...ok FRENCH CANADIANS are pronouncing it like that. There's so many words that we pronounce (and that we use) differently in Québec...oh well...
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Post by outspaced on Sept 17, 2004 8:32:54 GMT
ok I got it; I played 3 books of that series, all VERY FUN! book 1 (The evil castle or something, sadly all italian titles are different) I believe the Italian numbering system is different to either of the Uk systems (original: #1-59 , 1982-95; Reprints 1-21, 2002-present), but this sounds like Citadel of Chaos, with the evil bad guy Balthus Dire, right? UK: House of Hell, US: House of Hades original #10. Yep, a fun, old-fashioned horror story. Original UK #24, Reprint #4: Creature of Havoc, one of the most fiendish gamebooks ever written, but a very rewarding one. It has a great storyline. I'm going to stop being such a tedious gamebook bore now. *outspaced ducks back into the Library of Limbo where all his gamebooks are*
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Post by North Star on Sept 17, 2004 9:50:32 GMT
I *like* Creature of Havoc, because it was supremely difficult. On the other hand, I *hated* House of Hell, but then I don't really like cross-overs, being more of a true fantasy fan myself. My favourite is Knights of Doom (book 56), where you are an Analandish Templar from Ruddlestone, on the archetypal quest to save the world from chaos NS.
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Post by Ghost Bear on Sept 17, 2004 11:49:44 GMT
Knights of Doom was cool. I really liked the Legend of Zagor, because you got to play four different characters. Armies of Death was interesting too.
-GB
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Post by North Star on Sept 17, 2004 12:09:50 GMT
Never did Legend of Zagor, but I did like reading the Zagor quartet, set in the different world Zagor is resurrected in. NS.
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Post by Darklord Gnaag on Sept 17, 2004 12:28:09 GMT
outspaced, you're right on everything I think; in UK they published 59 books of that seris? well it should have been very succesful ;D
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