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Post by North Star on Jun 22, 2005 23:35:06 GMT
Shame I didn't think to ask Joe Dever when I spoke to him last November NS.
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Post by Dusk Fox on Jun 22, 2005 23:45:34 GMT
I'm sure that, at the time, it wasn't at the forefront of your mind.
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Post by North Star on Jun 22, 2005 23:52:17 GMT
No. Asking when the last four NO books were going to be out, discussing the differences between LW and FF and getting him to sign my new LW d20 books were!
NS.
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Post by Dusk Fox on Jun 23, 2005 0:20:16 GMT
I would imagine such things would take precedence.
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Post by outspaced on Jun 23, 2005 8:54:13 GMT
discussing the differences between LW and FF Hey, NS, what did Joe have to say on that topic? I'm intrigued.
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Post by North Star on Jun 23, 2005 11:58:05 GMT
Well, I told him that I first came to Lone Wolf with Caverns of Kalte, which I picked up because it was a gamebook (the same reason I didn't read the Dragonlance Sage for years). At the time, I was heavily into Fighting Fantasy but Lone Wolf kind of grew on me Well I told him that I preferred Lone Wolf because it had a continuing story and one that was easier to follow (not many "You do not have the emerald, I'm not telling you where it is and you're about to die" instances). He agreed and said that yes, that was the idea to have a saga. Then again, I'm not entirely sure that JD and Games Workshop get on to well. He had problems with a miniatures version of Magnamund that they were (and weren't) going to produce and then he had titling issues with one of the Magnakai books etc. He really wasn't too keen to talk about Fighting Fantasy, which is only understandable of course. NS.
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Post by outspaced on Jun 23, 2005 12:39:56 GMT
Dragonlance Saga, I believe you mean. GW had an issue with the whole Freeway Warrior series name, I know that. Then again, Dever has always seemed to be a bit unlucky. He and Ian Page were forced to change Beyond the Shadow Gate to Beyond the Nightmare Gate because the publishers thought people would get that confused with the then-recently released Shadow on the Sand; ISTR the US edition of Highway Holocaust was simply called Freeway Warrior 1; and Slaughter Mountain Run was renamed Mountain Run by the US publishers Berkeley-- despite the fact that Slaughter Mountain is a real place in the States! Add to that the on-off Lone Wolf boardgame, RPG, and computer games that were being announced and dropped throughout the 80s and 90s. Despite being OOP, Lone Wolf is now more popular than ever, I'd imagine! ;D
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Post by North Star on Jun 23, 2005 14:58:52 GMT
Dragonlance Sage - also known as Astinus! Tyrenis. Edit: Not North Star...
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Post by Dusk Fox on Jun 23, 2005 15:38:52 GMT
There is no North Star, only Tyrenis.
Now to find the Keymaster.
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Post by Dusk Fox on Jun 23, 2005 15:42:45 GMT
Slaughter Mountain Run was renamed Mountain Run by the US publishers Berkeley-- despite the fact that Slaughter Mountain is a real place in the States! And to think, all they'd have to do is drop the "s," and it'd be Laughter Mountain Run, the greatest comedy gamebook of all time.
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Post by North Star on Jun 23, 2005 21:26:22 GMT
Heh. There is of course the whole fun thing with man's laughter being manslaughter!
Tyrenis.
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Post by Dusk Fox on Jun 23, 2005 21:33:08 GMT
That was actually a shirt on T-Shirt Hell for a while (still is, I think): "You can't have manslaughter without laughter."
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