The first two Vulcanverse open-world solo RPG gamebooks are now available to pre-order in advance of publication on September 3. These are the full-colour hardcovers; the black-&-white paperbacks will follow in a few weeks. Jamie and I are pretty pleased with (and exhausted by) our work on these. We've each written about 250,000 words of Vulcanverse adventures this year, with books 3 and 4 to follow in time for Christmas. That's going to be around 4500 gamebook sections -- roughly six average Fabled Lands books. Better polish those dice!
In some territories you may have trouble pre-ordering from Amazon, but just try a different bookstore. For instance, US gamebook readers can order The Houses of the Dead and The Hammer of the Sun from Barnes & Noble. You can also get them from Target here and here.
Oh, and somebody mentioned on Twitter they were pre-ordering copies for their kids. Well, forty years ago Choose Your Own Adventure and Fighting Fantasy were children's books. Since then gaming has moved on and the Vulcanverse books are not necessarily child-friendly. They have serious adult themes and language, so if you're going to unleash them on impressionable young minds you ought to blaze a trail yourself first.
And another cool solo RPG adventure that you can pick up absolutely free is the latest Dragon Warriors gamebook from Red Ruin Publishing. This one is Desolation of the God-King by Paul Partington, and it's 300 sections long in a hyperlinked PDF that does the page-riffling for you. And did I mention that it's free?
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