Lone Wolf, Kai Sun Lord

My weekend went to Project Aon
http://www.projectaon.org/
They have all the Lone Wolf game books and you can play them online. And it's legal. Which is nice.
I have only up to 14. They stopped being published and went out of print and stuff. It is frustrating when you've only mostly saved the world.

I just played 16, Legacy of Vashna, and found it very frustrating. It's the second book where I had to cheat.
I don't like cheating.
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But! Mostly, I rather like the Lone Wolf books. You run around killing big rats and visiting evil cities called Darke or beginning with K or Z. It's sort of uncomplicated.
If I apply my cultural studies brain it's often made of *facepalm*, but if you leave your brain having a rest it's just made of hitting things in the face. *shrugs* (*sighs*)

I like choose your own adventure books. They've got proper stories. Computer games often have a lot of stomping around hitting things and not much by way of narrative. Adventure books know you're probably going to skip the fighting anyway, if you're not in the mood to roll all those fiddly numbers, so the excitement comes from elsewhere.
And a big long series of adventures starring the same people, where you can make friends and see how their lives are doing later, that's just *awesome*.


So I am having happy gaming weekend with occasional hiccups.

Also, the random number generator isn't. I have rolled a statistically improbable number of 0s. Especially when 0 means getting hit in the face again.
... yes, the dice in teh computer are bad luck dice. I should probably go get some of my proper ones out and stop grumbling. :eyeroll: