simkn
Kai Lord
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Post by simkn on May 2, 2017 17:39:17 GMT
What was your first experience of Lone Wolf? What book did you read first? For me, it was Shadow on the Sand. I was 10 years old and it was loaned to me by a school friend for just one school day. And that was enough to hook me. You can read the rest of my trip down memory lane here: www.4thwallgames.net/news/personal-memories-of-the-lone-wolf-series/And please, share your own memories!
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Post by Nym90 on May 3, 2017 20:07:25 GMT
The World of Lone Wolf series starring Grey Star.
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simkn
Kai Lord
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Post by simkn on May 4, 2017 1:51:11 GMT
The World of Lone Wolf series starring Grey Star. Nice! My first book was Shadow on the Sand. My second book was Flight from the Dark. My third book was The Forbidden City! There was some mixup concerning which "book 2" I should get, and I ended up with the wrong one at first. No matter, though, because I absolutely loved Grey Star.
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Post by thefran42 on May 18, 2017 10:29:39 GMT
I started much later, only when I was about 15 did I get my first book. It was the cover of book 13 – Plague lords of Ruel that got my attention and I bought it. Little did I know it would transform my life and open me up to a world of fantasy, turn based gaming, D&D and much more that I still pursue today.
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Post by asapiens on May 29, 2017 18:24:58 GMT
I bought my first book, "Castle Death" back in the 80's at a Borders bookstore after seeing the cover lol
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Post by chwiggum on May 30, 2017 5:44:32 GMT
I first found Book 3 Caverns of Kalte in my very small elementary school library when I was around 9 years old. I borrowed it many times and it wasn't til I was older that I found more of the books in my local bookstore. It was the American version and I still consider it my favourite cover and book of them all.
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Post by Honza on May 30, 2017 11:45:18 GMT
I found Flight form the Dark in small bookshop when I was around 14. Funny thing was that it was remainder of first print, and the next book released half year later was Chasm of Doom. I quickly get hooked, but waited nearly four years for Fire on the Water and Caverns of Kalte reprint. I remember my desperation when I was in Jungle of Horrors and still don't know anything about Sommerswerd and Silver Helm (you know, no internet...)
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Post by Sword Rune on Jun 9, 2017 5:38:11 GMT
First post on the forums! Woo hoo!
I was 13 or 14 when I discovered Shadow on the Sand while poking around the neighborhood K-Mart's book shelves. The cover art in particular caught my eye (the scene with LW backhand-slicing the Vordak's mace apart with the burning Sommerswerd, while on the Itikar's back)...and the rest, as they say, is history.
I'd loved the 'Choose Your Own Adventure' series previously, but this was the first time I'd seen a true gamebook, with a detailed play system and continuous character development across multiple books. Good times, good times...
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shinreizen
Kai Lord
Suddenly missing Lone Wolf's gamebooks...
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Post by shinreizen on Sept 5, 2017 18:07:45 GMT
It was Shadow on the Sand. I found it lying down randomly on the floor at home and picked it up -- turned out that my bro got it somewhere else.
I was so intrigued by the colored map at first... then I read the instruction on how to play and became a fan. Everytime I found a volume, I would play from Book 1. It took me quite a few years to complete my collection from Kai to GM series.
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Post by GhostofLandar on Sept 11, 2017 1:21:25 GMT
There's a place in Philadelphia called Reading Terminal Market. It's sort of an open air (enclosed by roof, though) market without walls between different establishments. One day as a 9 year old, I was in the book shop before we sat down to eat lunch (my mother and I.) I was scanning the shelves for fun books, I did enjoy the Choose Your Own Adventure books but they were limited. I occasionally read fantasy but the strange thing about that shop is that they tore the front covers off all the books. I don't recall anymore why they did this, so I was never drawn to a "cover" image, but to the title: The Chasm of Doom.
Even though I was joining the series somewhat late (consider obtaining the Sommerswerd and destroying Zagarna...and Helghasts) I was enchanted at once. I liked the idea of keeping track of a character, learning about a universe and still having an adventure, one you could lose after a deep investment of time. The thing that stands out about Chasm of Doom for me is that, somewhat like later books, it was very human in who you dealt with, journeyed with and fought. Yes, there was the fear of Vashna but the overall feel was very medieval to me (aside from a few monsters like the Daemonak.) You also get to experience what it is like to be a talented Kai Lord who is still not remotely strong enough to handle the threats that were to come.
I'll always remember the smell of those books and the torn cover.
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Post by milleniumbaby on Nov 15, 2017 10:26:33 GMT
I was 11 when the first book came out in German. I read about it in the publishers' catalogue. I remember waiting for new books to be published in the following years. I still have the original 12 books that were published in German as well as a complete set of the new German SC as well as most of the new English HC books. I also remember looking at the complete deal for the new HC run - not signing up as no longer relevant for me at that time point.
My kids brought me back to gamebooks, although they prefer the fabled lands series.
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Post by maanto on Nov 20, 2017 1:49:34 GMT
I'd loved the 'Choose Your Own Adventure' series previously, but this was the first time I'd seen a true gamebook, I started with the Choose Your Own Adventure series as well, through my grade school, and played D&D fairly early on. I didn't discover LW until I was about 30, strangely enough, but fell in love with it instantly.
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Post by WaitingOnPassword on Dec 2, 2017 12:29:39 GMT
I don’t remember my first Lone Wolf experience. I have no idea which book I started with or even how I came across them. I’d started my gamebook experience, like most people did, with the Choose Your Own Adventure books and then ‘graduated’ to the Fighting Fantasty series, so the Lone Wolf series probably caught my eye from being in the same genre.
It’s entirely possible, and I have a strong feeling that this is the case, that I started with the Magnakai books first and then went back to read the Kai series. What I do remember is that I didn’t play the Magnakai books in order, because there didn’t seem to any rhyme or reason as to the order in which my local bookstores got the books. This meant it was a long time before I could finally play the entire series in order, but it was worth the wait.
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Post by ramthelinefeed on Jan 16, 2018 11:35:44 GMT
At my primary school, they participated in a thing called the "Puffin Book Club" - every few months, we'd all get a little catalogue/brochure (I think it was just a folded A3 sheet), with a selection of children's books you could place orders for. (The teacher would collect everyone's cash or cheques or postal orders (!) and then you'd wait interminable weeks for them to be delivered). There'd already been a few of the "Choose Your Own Adventure" gamebooks in it, which quite a few of us had picked up. Then in 1984 (I was 10), 'Flight From the Dark' was in the catalogue... about a dozen other kids in my class ordered it and it proved a big hit.
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Post by rhygar on Feb 28, 2018 19:40:56 GMT
Fire on the Water probably in 1984 (certainly before Chasm of Doom came out). Suspicious of poor Capt Kelman, couldn’t work out who the assassin was, got frightened and slain by Helghast.
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