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A choose-your-own-adventure style gamebook that gives the reader a choice of different quests and adventures. The book is open-ended and provides an almost unlimited number of plot lines. You can be a warrior, explorer, priest, wizard, thief or bard. The books in the series are inter-connected, allowing you to travel all across the Fabled Lands. In this volume you get to sail over the oceans, experiencing fantastic adventures to rival those of Odysseus, Jason and Sinbad.
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Format:Paperback
This is not your regular single player adventure game book. It's a unique book that allows you to play multiple quests, but also trade, own a house and (if you're lucky) even a ship. You can rob or charm the characters you meet. Yet the game is still easy to understand and play. Each book in the series describes a separate section of the game world so the more books you own the larger your play world. But since each book is self-contained you don't need to buy more if you don't want to.
The Fabled Lands series is highly recommended for anyone who likes single player role playing games and is tired of PC games.
The Fabled Lands series is highly recommended for anyone who likes single player role playing games and is tired of PC games.
Format:Paperback
Have the original releases of all of these books and they are nothing short of phenomenal. Collect all the books and you have a fantasy world of gigantic proportions and amazing depth. There are many different classes and quests as well as huge areas to explore ships to buy and many ports to trade at. Set up a stall in Aku market or join the ranks of the nobility, kill dragons and many other monsters. Use magic, charisma and a variety of other skill to achieve your goals.
The books are written in such a way that you imagination can really take over and fill in the details of the world so the adventures will be unique for everyone. I first played these books when they were first released back in the mid nineties and over the years I have gone back and played them many times over as have my siblings. The books are well worn from use and I will be purchasing them now for a second time and all going well the full series will be published this time.
I can highly recommend these book for anyone who likes RPG games, and if you've tried games books before start here with the very pinnacle of the genre.
The books are written in such a way that you imagination can really take over and fill in the details of the world so the adventures will be unique for everyone. I first played these books when they were first released back in the mid nineties and over the years I have gone back and played them many times over as have my siblings. The books are well worn from use and I will be purchasing them now for a second time and all going well the full series will be published this time.
I can highly recommend these book for anyone who likes RPG games, and if you've tried games books before start here with the very pinnacle of the genre.
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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
The best way to fill in spare time!
9 Dec 2010
Format:Paperback|Amazon Verified Purchase
I discovered Fabled Lands when I was 12, and was instantly drawn to the books' brilliant artwork and the promise of exciting and unusual adventures. Since then, I've not been disappointed, and have spent many hours exploring highly detailed lands and completing quests which can span the world and change the course of the entire game.
Over the Blood-Dark Sea is unique in that it is set entirely at sea. Navigating from one island to the next to complete quests is challenging, but this book serves as a gateway to much of the rest of the world. Adventurers are able to join a wizards' college, assassinate the king of the pirates, and dig up treasure on desert islands, as well as much more besides.
It is easy to put these books down and pick them up again later, although I can almost guarantee that you will not want to! Their combination of engaging storylines, exceptional artwork, and easy to follow rules makes the Fabled Lands books a perfect gift for friends, family and of course, yourself.
Over the Blood-Dark Sea is unique in that it is set entirely at sea. Navigating from one island to the next to complete quests is challenging, but this book serves as a gateway to much of the rest of the world. Adventurers are able to join a wizards' college, assassinate the king of the pirates, and dig up treasure on desert islands, as well as much more besides.
It is easy to put these books down and pick them up again later, although I can almost guarantee that you will not want to! Their combination of engaging storylines, exceptional artwork, and easy to follow rules makes the Fabled Lands books a perfect gift for friends, family and of course, yourself.
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
Utterly brilliant
3 Dec 2010
Format:Paperback
The fabled lands series are among the best gamebooks ever written, and it is a shame that books 7 to 12 were never published.
In a nutshell - in the fabled lands books you have true freedom to travel a fantasy world and do whatever you want, be it exploring, questing, piracy, trading etc. You can build your own castle, buy your own house, become a paladin or climb to the peaks of the world. There is no singular quest and you do everything in any order you want. The writing is quite haunting, and it is complemented well by Russ Nicolson's brilliant artwork.
However, with a new edition it now seems there is a chance the rest of the series will be completed.
Book 3 is perhaps my favourite of the fabled lands books - it is different in that most of this book takes place on the ocean, and it is somewhat of a "hub" book, allowing you to travel to different areas in the world such as Akasurai (book 6) or various islands. The ocean travel has been very well, and I enjoy the various discussions and debates among your crew.
This book 3 is great if you have at least book 1 and 2, but would really shine with a completed series. My hearty recommendation!!
In a nutshell - in the fabled lands books you have true freedom to travel a fantasy world and do whatever you want, be it exploring, questing, piracy, trading etc. You can build your own castle, buy your own house, become a paladin or climb to the peaks of the world. There is no singular quest and you do everything in any order you want. The writing is quite haunting, and it is complemented well by Russ Nicolson's brilliant artwork.
However, with a new edition it now seems there is a chance the rest of the series will be completed.
Book 3 is perhaps my favourite of the fabled lands books - it is different in that most of this book takes place on the ocean, and it is somewhat of a "hub" book, allowing you to travel to different areas in the world such as Akasurai (book 6) or various islands. The ocean travel has been very well, and I enjoy the various discussions and debates among your crew.
This book 3 is great if you have at least book 1 and 2, but would really shine with a completed series. My hearty recommendation!!
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
The most imaginative fantasy adventure book you can buy!
16 Dec 2010
Format:Paperback|Amazon Verified Purchase
This series is amazing on so many levels - the development of the world, the unique free-roaming adventure, the writing style, the thrill you get as you essentially write your own character's life story. The key to its success is that Fabled Lands goes far beyond the limited and linear nature of previous gamebooks, and instead presents an expansive world for you to explore, moving from book to book, back and forward throughout the series as you adventure the world in whichever direction you choose.
I own copies of all the original books and have played them all countless times with different characters throughout my teenage years. In a bout of nostalgia I picked up this book again and started with a new character and all those fond memories returned, and I even discovered areas I had never set foot in despite my earlier thorough adventuring days. This series has never ceased to capture my imagination and is the only series that i have literally not been able to put down, reading far into the early mornings.
I recommend this and the other books in the series to every fantasy reader, whether you have picked up a game book or not, whether you like your tabletop RPGs or your video games, I guarantee that you will be satisfied with Fabled Lands many times more than a simple review can express.
I own copies of all the original books and have played them all countless times with different characters throughout my teenage years. In a bout of nostalgia I picked up this book again and started with a new character and all those fond memories returned, and I even discovered areas I had never set foot in despite my earlier thorough adventuring days. This series has never ceased to capture my imagination and is the only series that i have literally not been able to put down, reading far into the early mornings.
I recommend this and the other books in the series to every fantasy reader, whether you have picked up a game book or not, whether you like your tabletop RPGs or your video games, I guarantee that you will be satisfied with Fabled Lands many times more than a simple review can express.
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