tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7487871339000666216.post5526837700307492087..comments2024-03-19T03:02:38.228-04:00Comments on GROGNARDIA: Retrospective: The Ice DragonJames Maliszewskihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00341941102398271464noreply@blogger.comBlogger9125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7487871339000666216.post-43175700473356597632012-02-15T17:33:00.269-05:002012-02-15T17:33:00.269-05:00Ahh, that's why it didn't look familiar to...Ahh, that's why it didn't look familiar to me - that was the cover we had in Australia, too!Shane Cubishttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09439632627554929290noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7487871339000666216.post-61350888205824968772012-02-15T17:31:58.743-05:002012-02-15T17:31:58.743-05:00I just read your second sentence as "I don...I just read your second sentence as "I don't give a damn and will stab you at any offered opportunity."<br /><br />So aggressive! :DShane Cubishttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09439632627554929290noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7487871339000666216.post-43262445595777678132012-02-15T14:55:22.109-05:002012-02-15T14:55:22.109-05:00Choose your own Adventure books might have had a l...Choose your own Adventure books might have had a lot of endings, but most could be summarized simply as "You die a horrible death"... at least from my memory... or maybe I just sucked at choosing my own adventure...Mr. Bluehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07027893907355004146noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7487871339000666216.post-22174977504763597892012-02-15T14:06:51.550-05:002012-02-15T14:06:51.550-05:00I had the UK printing which, as is often the way w...I had the UK printing which, as is often the way with these things, had a much better cover. <br /><br />http://gamebooks.org/gallery/sagard1b.jpg<br /><br />Didn't regard it too highly but it did have an excellent justification for it being a zoo-dungeon - it really was a zoo from a fallen civilization.Coopdevilhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16219253658967958289noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7487871339000666216.post-23224408308204428902012-02-15T12:57:25.567-05:002012-02-15T12:57:25.567-05:00The d4 is my least favourite Euclidean numbered so...The d4 is my least favourite Euclidean numbered solid.<br /><br />It don't roll worth a damn and will stab you at any offered opportunity.Sir Yobgod Ababua the Handlesshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01880522667399635154noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7487871339000666216.post-77996952675712016332012-02-15T11:12:41.079-05:002012-02-15T11:12:41.079-05:00I have this series on my bookshelves somewhere--or...I have this series on my bookshelves somewhere--or maybe in a box in the attic next to the <i>Crypts of Chaos</i> video game. Unlike the video game, I enjoyed the books. They had lots of combats, and perhaps because of that constant die rolling, the books took about as long to play through as a typical FF. <br /><br />To quibble about one thing, the number of endings these solo gamebooks have is insignificant. FF, which sold millions, had ONE successful ending in the great majority of them (if not all of them); the Lone Wolf series, the same--its original run sold approx. 8-9 million copies. The selling point in these books is the quest and the quality of writing. Are they evocative, immersive? Is the quest original? Sagard the Barbarian? Yes. Fighting Fantasy and Lone Wolf? Hell yes! Those strange solo D&D modules of the 80s that required an invisible ink pen or Magic View Finder(TM) to play? Not so much.Sorenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02485097316924991612noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7487871339000666216.post-35328792980054826302012-02-15T10:51:27.476-05:002012-02-15T10:51:27.476-05:00I had these too, thought they were pretty poor com...I had these too, thought they were pretty poor compared to Forest of doom and the other jackson and Livinstone put out.<br />Just out of interest, I have a Gygax signed AD&D Players handbook and DMs guide, anyone know the worth of these items now that the great man is no longer with us?Andromhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11676842057897482010noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7487871339000666216.post-7153008786356001482012-02-15T10:25:47.692-05:002012-02-15T10:25:47.692-05:00I still have one or two Sagard books. Maybe I shou...I still have one or two Sagard books. Maybe I should go through them again. I forget almost all of it.Danhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04732052814850525574noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7487871339000666216.post-4788659317406326982012-02-15T10:07:48.882-05:002012-02-15T10:07:48.882-05:00Wow... I'd totally forgotten about this book.....Wow... I'd totally forgotten about this book... but seeing that cover takes me back. Like you, I'm sure seeing Gygax's name on the cover was the catalyst for buying it but I also don't remember reading any of the sequels.<br /><br />Still at that time I was all about game books. Lone Wolf, Steve Jackson's Sorcery!, Fighting Fantasy... etc.Praetoriushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09615267701681202292noreply@blogger.com