Wraith Storm
03-09-2009, 06:34 AM
When I was younger my brother and his friend were really into the Lone Wolf RP novels. So naturally seeing them enjoy the books and being a fan of RPGs, I got hooked on them as well.
For those of you who don't know about the Lone Wolf RP novels i'll explain. They were inspired by and in competition with Steve Jackson & Ivan Livingstone "Fighting Fantasy" Novels and were just as successful if not more so. Essentially they were a glorified "Choose Your Own Adventure".
You played the character Lone Wolf and similar to Dungeons and Dragons you would create a character sheet. You would distribute character points and select skills and items to use throughout the book. There would be times when you would fight battles and you would use the "Random Number Table" in the back of the book, coupled with your stats, to determine how much damage you inflicted.
It was just like playing an epic RPG or a game of D&D but you didn't need to have a TV and a game system or a group of friends and someone to DM. All you needed was yourself a pencil and one of the Lone Wolf books. I was never one to read to many books... but these really gave me a reason!
Here in the states they have been out of print for many years. Hell, all we got were the first 20 books. We missed out on the last 8, but not our lucky friends in the UK. The books have recently made a resurgence over there. For the past few years Author Joe Dever has gone back and revised, fine tuned, and expanded the books. They are being published by UK's Mongoose Publishing and by the looks of it I'll have to import them because were lame here in the US, no one cares about these kinds of books anymore, and therefor I must suffer. So now i'll have to pay twice what I would have payed, but Its certainly worth it to me so I guess I can't complain too much.
The point of this thread however is that along with the revisiting of these books, Ksatria Gameworks (http://www.ksatria.com/) is making a game for the Xbox 360 and PS3 based on the first novel: Flight From the Dark. They have some videos on their site. I think it looks great so far. Somewhat like Dark Messiah: HOM&M. I can't wait!!! I wanna fire up the game and start picking my Kai Skills!!!
Original US release (Left)-------------UK revised HB release (Right)http://i296.photobucket.com/albums/mm177/Archaictear8x/LoneWolfBoth.jpg
WOOO HOOO!!! Post number 400! Not a better thread to celebrate with ;)
For those of you who don't know about the Lone Wolf RP novels i'll explain. They were inspired by and in competition with Steve Jackson & Ivan Livingstone "Fighting Fantasy" Novels and were just as successful if not more so. Essentially they were a glorified "Choose Your Own Adventure".
You played the character Lone Wolf and similar to Dungeons and Dragons you would create a character sheet. You would distribute character points and select skills and items to use throughout the book. There would be times when you would fight battles and you would use the "Random Number Table" in the back of the book, coupled with your stats, to determine how much damage you inflicted.
It was just like playing an epic RPG or a game of D&D but you didn't need to have a TV and a game system or a group of friends and someone to DM. All you needed was yourself a pencil and one of the Lone Wolf books. I was never one to read to many books... but these really gave me a reason!
Here in the states they have been out of print for many years. Hell, all we got were the first 20 books. We missed out on the last 8, but not our lucky friends in the UK. The books have recently made a resurgence over there. For the past few years Author Joe Dever has gone back and revised, fine tuned, and expanded the books. They are being published by UK's Mongoose Publishing and by the looks of it I'll have to import them because were lame here in the US, no one cares about these kinds of books anymore, and therefor I must suffer. So now i'll have to pay twice what I would have payed, but Its certainly worth it to me so I guess I can't complain too much.
The point of this thread however is that along with the revisiting of these books, Ksatria Gameworks (http://www.ksatria.com/) is making a game for the Xbox 360 and PS3 based on the first novel: Flight From the Dark. They have some videos on their site. I think it looks great so far. Somewhat like Dark Messiah: HOM&M. I can't wait!!! I wanna fire up the game and start picking my Kai Skills!!!
Original US release (Left)-------------UK revised HB release (Right)http://i296.photobucket.com/albums/mm177/Archaictear8x/LoneWolfBoth.jpg
WOOO HOOO!!! Post number 400! Not a better thread to celebrate with ;)