tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2141372262111342844.post6811637651828079341..comments2024-03-29T07:35:51.362+00:00Comments on Fabled Lands: Headcases (4)Dave Morrishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14468228790874490693noreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2141372262111342844.post-44777516623743623332012-10-03T16:28:42.962+01:002012-10-03T16:28:42.962+01:00I couldn't agree more, Andy. Gamebooks have su...I couldn't agree more, Andy. Gamebooks have surely been waiting all these years for ebooks to come along.Dave Morrishttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14468228790874490693noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2141372262111342844.post-44959764039262275212012-10-03T15:40:33.149+01:002012-10-03T15:40:33.149+01:00More geeky-by-proxy, we had a brief sojourn in eac...More geeky-by-proxy, we had a brief sojourn in each of the books as they came.. But my better half found it works better in electronic versions with the bookkeeping done for you! Andy BAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2141372262111342844.post-30064249740139484352012-10-03T12:29:51.917+01:002012-10-03T12:29:51.917+01:00Not many wives would score high enough on the nerd...Not many wives would score high enough on the nerdometer to know that. Mine couldn't even list the titles of the existing six FL books :-)Dave Morrishttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14468228790874490693noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2141372262111342844.post-50776852900013506532012-10-03T12:22:32.689+01:002012-10-03T12:22:32.689+01:00Dave, I was talking about book twelve the other d...Dave, I was talking about book twelve the other day, and my wife said that you know your character isn't going to survive there! Re FF .. :-) Folklore is a goldmine I saw a book on Japanese mythology yesterday! Andy BAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2141372262111342844.post-9576321252667691962012-10-03T11:09:10.330+01:002012-10-03T11:09:10.330+01:00I think that's what the whole of Book 12 would...I think that's what the whole of Book 12 would have been, Andy. <br /><br />But wait - "spookier than Fighting Fantasy"??? Why didn't you just say "spookier than Alton Towers"?Dave Morrishttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14468228790874490693noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2141372262111342844.post-79420447430302343902012-10-02T21:16:36.609+01:002012-10-02T21:16:36.609+01:00I have to say that the combination of good writing...I have to say that the combination of good writing and freedom of choice, with a touch of the macabre is what makes Fabled Lands so much spookier than Fighting Fantasy, if you investigate barrow at dusk you know you may be biting off more than you can chew, but not more than whatever lurks there can! I have a pet theory that Fabled Lands would be a great setting for a Killer Dungeon like the Tomb of Horrors or Grimtooth's Dungeon of Doom! But it would just be there for those foolhardy enough to try their luck.. Whilst I may not espouse their design philosophy in general it would be cool if there was something as unpleasant as that for the (fool)hardiest adventurers. Andy BAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2141372262111342844.post-84795955513355645042012-10-02T09:15:02.472+01:002012-10-02T09:15:02.472+01:00Writers are going to have to start digging deeper ...Writers are going to have to start digging deeper now that the vampire trope has been so deracinated by things like Twilight and True Blood, which effectively turn them into faerie folk. Fortunately the roots of real nightmare go very, very far down, and we're sure to find something there that still has the power to give us a shudder.Dave Morrishttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14468228790874490693noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2141372262111342844.post-26704055371886966022012-10-02T06:33:17.675+01:002012-10-02T06:33:17.675+01:00All this talk of vampires and folklore makes me th...All this talk of vampires and folklore makes me think of the years that Bram Stoker spent researching eastern European vampire legends before writing 'Dracula'. As lovely as the book is, it's in a way a shame that it's become so iconic as to homogenise the vampire - now pretty much every vampire story, from Buffy to The Lost Boys to your own Heroquest book, 'The Fellowship of Four', returns to the vampire as described by Stoker.<br /><br />That said, I suppose those original legends are all still out there if we, as readers, are inclined to go looking for them. And if they've been in any way digitised, we'll have a much easier time finding them than Stoker ever did.<br />Paul Grestyhttp://pwgresty.wordpress.comnoreply@blogger.com