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Over the Blood-Dark Sea: Volume 3 (Fabled Lands) Paperback – 1 Dec. 2010

by Dave Morris (Author), Jamie Thomson (Author)

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An epic series of interactive books with the scope of a massively multiplayer game world. Be anyone you want: explorer, merchant, priest, scholar, thief, wizard, or soldier of fortune. Buy ships, goods, and townhouses, join a temple, venture of daring quests in the wilderness, or embroil yourself in court intrigues and the sudden violence of city backstreets. Undertake missions that will earn you allies and enemies, or remain a free agent and choose your own objectives. With thousands of quests and locations to explore, the choices are all yours.

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230 pages
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English
Publication date

1 Dec. 2010
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12.7 x 1.32 x 20.32 cm
ISBN-10

0956737226
ISBN-13

978-0956737229
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About the Author

Dave Morris is a British videogame designer, comic book creator, scriptwriter and UK best-selling author. He has written more than two dozen choose-your-own style gamebooks, including the acclaimed Fabled Lands series with Jamie Thomson, with whom he co-created Dark Lord: The Early Years, and a Kirkus-star-winning interactive version of Mary Shelley's classic Frankenstein. He is the creator of the DRAGON WARRIORS roleplaying game. His acclaimed graphic novel epic Mirabilis: Year of Wonders is being serialized in both print and digital editions.

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Publisher ‏ : ‎ Fabled Lands Publishing; 2nd edition (1 Dec. 2010)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Paperback ‏ : ‎ 230 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0956737226
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0956737229
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 12.7 x 1.32 x 20.32 cm

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Lee Barklam

The Fabled Lands series of gamebooks is arguably the finest series to ever grace the genre

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 27 June 2015

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The Fabled Lands series of gamebooks is arguably the finest series to ever grace the genre. Not only is there the continuity of play you would get with other gamebook series, like Lone Wolf, but by combining this book with the other Fabled Lands books you get unparalleled freedom to explore a vast world. Couple this with the evocative prose with which Dave Morris excels, and you have a compelling and immersive adventure on your hands!

The Fabled Lands series is not just for the nostalgic shopper who remembers with fond reverence the many hours spent lost in these pages, but should be considered by anyone with a fondness for creative and immersive fantasy.

This book, and the Fabled Lands series as a whole, is impossible to recommend highly enough.

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A free roaming nautical adventure

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 28 July 2014

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‘Over the Blood Dark Sea’ is set in the vast oceanic area centrally located between the various land masses of the world of Fabled Lands. As such it is a lot more naval orientated than the rest of the series, which, more often than not, are basically land based adventures with some coastal activity. This means that the reader spends most of their time in the company of their ship’s crew and that there isn’t so much solo adventuring.

The gameplay essentially involves sailing around a three dimensional environment experiencing chance encounters and visiting various islands or the odd coastal settlement. Of course you can travel around without your own vessel by taking passage on various ships. But this method is very restrictive and not recommended if you want to enjoy and appreciate everything the adventure has to offer. The gameplay is very explorative and there is a lot of freedom in decision and movement; perhaps more than the other Fabled Lands books. This all gives it a certain originality. On the negative side though, there is the likelihood that you can be sailing around in circles for hours, especially if you’re trying to find a certain thing. It is also quite tricky at times to orientate yourself and navigate.

In comparison to the first two Fabled Lands books there isn’t really a great deal of side quests to participate in. Even the long awaited (if you did particular things in ‘The War Torn Kingdom’) clash with Amcha, the pirate king, is a bit anticlimactic.
The islands are quite few and far between and, annoyingly, some of the trickiest tasks to overcome on the islands just end up ‘teleporting’ you somewhere random if you successful. The island with perhaps the most to do is Dweomer where you can attend a wizard school and procure your own college room. Even so more could have been made of this and it could have more interaction with the rest of the book. You could have been given several missions to do for your college for example.

Most of the worthwhile encounters are to be had on the open sea. However, without repetitively sailing up and down the same stretch of water there is a good chance you could miss the most interesting of these.

‘Over the Blood Dark Sea’ is probably less standalone than its counterparts. Due to being the central area of the world map there is a certain level of frustration in frequently finding interesting areas that you cannot enter. This is made worse due to the fact that only six of the planned twelve books have ever been published, meaning that you will never get to visit some of these places you can see from your ship. This is a great shame. However, there is still a lot to be enjoyed and no other adventure gamebook offers quite so much freedom in exploring the high seas.

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Ed209

A life on the ocean waves!

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 16 January 2017

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Fabled Lands is best described as a sandbox game book, absolutely radical stuff at the time it was first published and still cutting edge. To make things even better, it's from Dave Morris and Jamie Thompson, in my opinion the greatest ever writers of the British RPG scene- and that's measured against some titanic competition. This is mythic fantasy gameplay at its best!

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Mr. James E. O'Grady

Pirate Fun in the Fabled Lands, ahar!

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 23 December 2015

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Book 3 of the Fabled Lands series... BUT YOU CAN START IN THIS ONE! And there are certain quests that you can ONLY get if you do start here. Links to the other books as well.

Welcome to the Violet Ocean, home of pirates, sorcerors, mysterious islands and in the far south the exotic port of Smogmaw! It's not a safe place so bring your Blessings and your Resurrection Deal with you as you set sail for adventure, trade and discovery. Great encounters, and the central book of all the published ones (go north to Book 1, north-west to book 2, east to book 6, south to book 7 (coming soon via KickStarter!).

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The Builder

Amazing game playing book

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 15 December 2010

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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.

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gold_penguin

A pirates life

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 15 August 2012

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The third book in the Fabled Lands series is, once again, a masterwork in interactive fiction. Sailing the seas is a deadly business, so make sure you've got your safe houses stocked, a ship in every port, and check your resurrection deal is current before setting out with a prayer to Alvir and Valmir on your lips. You know you want to buy them all.

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David Kenny

Fabled Lands is a great series

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 31 October 2017

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Probably the most adventurous of the whole series, great ideas taken from the mythology of seafaring.

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 26 November 2015

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