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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
This book is superb except for the fact that you need 9 lives to get to the end. There are many instant deaths which come from complete random chance rather than your lack of skill / foresight. There are also very few choices of route which actually get you to the end, and its not logic which dictates that you will take the right one, but once again a lucky choice.
The story is great,the characters are also great but...not much fun to play this one by the rules !
The story is great,the characters are also great but...not much fun to play this one by the rules !
2 of 3 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
Having read most of the books in this series, I have yet to find one more difficult than Crypt of the Sorceror. There is only one successful path through the adventure (yielding all the items needed for the final battle), and it requires beating several extremely strong foes (a SK 12 ST 24 Pit Fiend for instance - with stats equivalent to the highest a player could possibly roll) and making several lucky rolls (such as avoiding a skill penalty in the first encounter!). The book is thus effectively impossible to beat "fairly" (without "cheating" at roles, fights or stats).
This aside - finding the right path is an intriguing challenge, with a lot of different path options at various points. The detail of the fantasy scenario is also very effectively constructed; the reader is drawn into the plains, pits and dungeons of the adventure, and there are some unusual monsters along the way too. Very well written, but I'd have preferred if it were somewhat less frustrating to play.
This aside - finding the right path is an intriguing challenge, with a lot of different path options at various points. The detail of the fantasy scenario is also very effectively constructed; the reader is drawn into the plains, pits and dungeons of the adventure, and there are some unusual monsters along the way too. Very well written, but I'd have preferred if it were somewhat less frustrating to play.
1 of 2 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
This book is ridiculously hard. It's got a good story and good characters, but the final battle sums up the difficulty - you have to fight a foe of Skill 12, Stamina 20. Hard enough in itself, but if you lose two attack rounds in a row you die anyway. Whatever happened to there being "one true path" that "allows you to win with even the minimum of initial stats"? You need a skill of 12 to have any chance at all. Stupidly difficult and, in my view, it makes the book almost literally impossible to complete without cheating. Nothing wrong with challenging, but this book is just downright unreasonable.
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A fantastic fantasy yarn.
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Good cover; even better read.
This is one of those choose your own adventure books which is more of a roleplaying game than a novel. You read the passages of the book to create your own journey. Read more
Published on 17 Nov 2006 by bum
Great game book. Very entertaining!
For those you who are familiar with Ian Livingstone's writing style, your character's job in 'Crypt of the Sorcerer' is to collect an assortment of artefacts. Read more
Published on 11 Mar 2005
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