ACE Gamebooks Summer Sale in aid of Darren Pearce

My colleague Darren Pearce has been dealt a terrible hand by fate of late. Only a few weeks after losing his father, his wife died unexpectedly. And then their pet cat passed away as well.

Darren is struggling financially at the moment, so I am offering the PDF of any ACE Gamebook, including Shakespeare Vs. Cthulhu: What Dreams May Come, for just £1 each until the end of the month. Simply click on the image below to access the sale on DriveThruRPG.

All funds raised by this sale will go towards the Pearce family's bereavement costs. If you have been meaning to plug some gaps in your collection, now's the time to do so.

Thank you in advance for your generosity.

Darren and I in happier times at UK Games Expo 2023.

Book Lovers Day

Today is Book Lovers Day, so as a way of saying thank you to everyone who has ever bought or read one of my books, for today only you can download any ACE Gamebook or ACE Gamebook Roleplay product at a whopping 70% off! Simply click this link.

Gamebook Friday: Christmas in July Sale

DriveThruRPG is currently running its Christmas in July Sale, which means you can get all sorts of ACE Gamebooks and RPGs at a discounted price.

Not only that, but the 'TWAS RPG supplement Christmas in July is currently 50% off!

So, what are you waiting for? Head over to ACE Gamebooks Roleplay on DriveThruRPG now!

Gamebook Friday: Valentine's Weekend sale now on!

 The ACE Gamebooks Roleplay Valentine's weekend sale is now on.

You can get any ACE Gamebook or RPG for 50% off on DriveThruRPG from now until Sunday. So, what are you waiting for?

The Box of Delights

Forty-one years ago today, at 5:00pm on 21st November 1984, the BBC dramatisation of John Masefield's The Box of Delights was first broadcast. I was one of those eager children who tuned in to watch and was hooked from the moment I heard Victor Hely-Hutchinson's orchestral arrangement of The First Nowell, taken from the third movement of his Carol Symphony, which formed the series' theme music.

40 years later, the child star of the TV show provided me with a cover quote for The Box of Delights - The Roleplaying Game.

"As a lifelong roleplayer I was genuinely interested to read an RPG based on The Box of Delights. I was pleased to find that Jon Green has done an excellent job of capturing the spirit of the piece in a tight, narrative framework that emphasizes storytelling and keeps the mechanics simple enough to be enjoyed by any age. I may run it for my own kids."

Devin Stanfield, Kay Harker in the 1984 BBC Television adaptation of The Box of Delights.

The Box of Delights – The Roleplaying Game is a rules-lite RPG for 2-6 Players, plus a Gamesmaster, inspired by John Masefield's Christmas classic.

Designed to be picked up and played with minimal preparation, it nonetheless includes a well-developed character creation system, as well as rules for combat and magic.

Illustrated throughout by Tony Hough, it is ideal for a festive gaming session with an established group, or as an alternative to the family games usually played at Christmastime.

Time and Tide and Buttered Eggs wait for no man. So, grab your dice and playing cards, and prepare for adventure, for the Wolves are Running!

Gamebook Friday: Talk Like a Pirate Day!

Yes, it's that time again - it's Talk Like a Pirate Day!

So I would just like to remind you that my Dinosaurs Vs. Pirates Vs. the End of the World ACE Gamebook NEVERLAND - Here Be Monsters! is available to buy now, either as a physical paperback or as a PDF.

Gamebook Friday: YOU ARE THE HERO available now from DriveThruRPG

YOU ARE THE HERO: An Interactive History of Fighting Fantasy Gamebooks has been out for over a year, but now you can download the hyperlinked PDF from DriveThruRPG. Click on the cover below to find out more.

Gamebook Friday: Grab an ACE Gamebook for just 99p!

It's that time of the year when I put my ACE Gamebooks on sale through DriveThruRPG for just 99p each!

So, if there's a title you've been meaning to pick up but you haven't yet, or you have a physical copy and would like a PDF for ease of reading on the move, then now is the first time to check out the Summer Sale.

And please tell all your friends! Thank you.

You can also pick up some bargain collecticles on eBay at the moment.

Hope for Skye

Throughout May, you can download any ACE Gamebook or ACE Gamebooks Roleplay core book and supplement from DriveThruRPG.com for just £5 per PDF.

All profits from sales on DriveThruRPG.com during May will go to help fund an autism assistance dog for 16-year-old Skye.

🐾 HELP SKYE GET HER AUTISM ASSISTANCE DOG 🐾 

My friends Jeremy and Rebecca really need your help. Their 16-year-old daughter Skye has recently received an autism diagnosis, and an assistance dog could transform her life - giving her independence, reducing anxiety, and helping her return to education.

They have secured her place on the Autism Assistance Dog Programme (at a cost of several thousand pounds!) but they now need to raise £10,995 for the training stage. Every share and donation brings Skye closer to her life-changing companion.

🐾 WHAT MAKES AN AUTISM ASSISTANCE DOG SO SPECIAL? 🐾

These aren't ordinary pets or even typical therapy dogs:

Specialised training - These dogs receive extensive training specifically for autistic individuals.

Legal public access rights - They can accompany Skye everywhere - into shops, colleges, cafes, and all public places.

Life-changing interventions - They're trained to recognise signs of distress and provide immediate help by performing deep pressure therapy during anxiety attacks, disrupting self-harming behaviours, creating a physical barrier in overwhelming situations, and providing stability and routine in daily life.

🐾 HOW YOU CAN HELP 🐾

Donate today through this secure JustGiving page.

Share this campaign with your networks.

Organise a fundraiser, such as a bake sale, sponsored event, etc.

Donating through JustGiving is simple, fast and totally secure. Your details are safe with JustGiving - they'll never sell them on or send unwanted emails. Once you donate, they withdraw funds directly.

If you can do nothing else, please share this blog post and the Justgiving page with all your contacts. If you were in Jeremy and Becky's position, wouldn't you do all you could to help your daughter?

Thank you for taking the time to read this and for any help you can offer.

Gamebook Friday: GM's Day Sale 2025

The GM's Day Sale is still on over on DriveThruRPG, and will be over the weekend. So, now is a good time to take advantage of the discounts on offer and grab those ACE Gamebooks and ACE Gamebooks Roleplay products you've been meaning to get hold of.

The Box of Delights - The Roleplaying Game - Just £12.00 for the PDF

A rules-lite RPG for 2-6 Players, plus a Gamesmaster, inspired by John Masefield's Christmas classic. Designed to be picked up and played with minimal preparation, it nonetheless includes a well-developed character creation system, as well as rules for combat and magic. It is ideal for a festive gaming session with an established group, or as an alternative to the family games usually played at Christmastime.

HEOROT – Roleplaying in the World of Beowulf Beastslayer - £12.40 for the PDF

A rules-lite RPG for 2-7 Players, inspired by the Anglo-Saxon epic poem Beowulf, Viking legends, Norse mythology, and the Icelandic sagas. Players take on the role of noble heroes and their brave companions, who are guided through their adventure by the Skald. There are three different ways to enjoy the game, but all involve an element of storytelling, for it is through telling tall tales of their heroic deeds that players increase their Wyrd, which in turn gives them the ability to perform heroic feats during their adventures that would otherwise be beyond the capabilities of mortal men. Designed to be picked up and played with minimal preparation, Heorot nonetheless includes a well-developed character creation system, as well as rules for combat, and a random adventure generator. It is ideal for both an established gaming group and as a way of introducing new players to the fantastical world of roleplaying games.

’TWAS – The Roleplaying Game Before Christmas - Just £3.00!

A rules-lite RPG for 2-7 Players, inspired by the legends and literature of Christmas. Designed to be picked up and played with minimal preparation, it nonetheless includes a well-developed character creation system, as well as rules for combat and magic. It is ideal for a festive gaming session with an established group, or as an alternative to the games usually played on Christmas Day.

Alice's Nightmare in Wonderland, and other ACE Gamebooks for just £4.75 each!

Have you ever wondered what would have happened if Alice hadn’t drunk from the bottle labelled ‘Drink Me’, or if she hadn’t joined the Hatter, the March Hare, and the Dormouse for tea? Well now you can find out. In Alice’s Nightmare in Wonderland, YOU decide which route Alice should take, which perils to risk, and which of Wonderland’s strange denizens to fight. But be warned – whether Alice succeeds in her quest or meets a dire end as the nightmare escalates will be down to the choices YOU make. Are you ready to go back down the rabbit-hole?

Gamebook Friday: I ♥ ACE Gamebooks

It's Valentine's Day and nothing says "I love you" like buying your sweetheart an ACE Gamebook. With that in mind, there is currently a sale running over on the ACE Gamebooks Roleplay page on DriveThruRPG this weekend.

So, if you're missing a book from your collection - such as the new The Box of Delights RPG - now would be a great time to rectify that situation.

Love you guys!

The Box of Delights - The Roleplaying Game

Physical copies of The Box of Delights RPG are now available from DriveThruRPG.

To grab your copy, follow this link. To check out the print proofs of the book, watch the video below.

ACE Gamebooks Winter Sale Now On!

The ACE Gamebooks Roleplay Winter Sale is on now, over at DriveThruRPG.

The Box of Delights - The Roleplaying Game

The Box of Delights - The Roleplaying Game is available at long last from ACE Gamebooks Roleplay via DriveThruRPG, just in time for the 40th anniversary of BBC TV's seminal dramatization of John Masefield's Christmas classic.

The book is in full colour and features Tony Hough's incredible illustrations throughout. At the moment, only the PDF is available, but print copies will be available in the New Year.

With the release of The Box of Delights - The Roleplaying Game, I now have just one Kickstarter outstanding - Shakespeare Vs. Cthulhu: What Dreams May Come - which will be released next year.

It was touch and go for a while whether I would actually be able to complete The Box of Delights RPG; it was originally going to be a supplement for the 'TWAS RPG, and when I decided it would be a self-contained RPG, I did not expect it to be as long as 'TWAS or Heorot. However, it has ended up being longer than either!

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“And now, Master Harker, of Seekings,” the old man said, “now that the Wolves are Running… perhaps you would do something to stop their Bite?” 

When Kay Harker returns home from boarding school for the Christmas holidays he meets a mysterious Punch and Judy Man, and finds himself mixed up in the battle to possess a magical Box. This curious artefact allows its owner to shrink, fly swiftly, travel into the past, and experience all the wonders that are contained within the Box itself.

Having been entrusted with the Box by the Punch and Judy Man, Kay finds himself being hunted by the wizard Abner Brown and his gang of clerics-cum-jewel thieves. But Abner does not only covet the Box – he also seeks to stop Tatchester Cathedral celebrating its 1,000th Christmas Midnight Mass.

It is up to Kay and his companions, the Jones children, along with various otherworldly allies, to thwart Abner Brown’s plans and stop him acquiring the Box of Delights and with it, power beyond imagining.

The Box of Delights - The Roleplaying Game is a rules-lite RPG for 2-6 Players, plus a Gamesmaster, inspired by John Masefield's Christmas classic, and licensed from the John Masefield Estate.

Designed to be picked up and played with minimal preparation, it nonetheless includes a well-developed character creation system, as well as rules for combat and magic. It is ideal for a festive gaming session with an established group, or as an alternative to the family games usually played at Christmastime.

But Time and Tide and Buttered Eggs wait for no man. So, grab your dice and playing cards, and prepare for adventure, for the Wolves are Running!

"As a lifelong roleplayer I was genuinely interested to read an RPG based on The Box of Delights… Jon Green has done an excellent job capturing the spirit of the piece in a tight, narrative framework that emphasizes storytelling and keeps the mechanics simple enough to be enjoyed by any age."

Devin Stanfield, Kay Harker in the 1984 BBC Television adaptation of The Box of Delights

Experience the Classics as you have never experienced them before!

Gamebook Friday: Black Friday Bargains

As it's Black Friday Week*, you can currently get hold of the 'TWAS RPG, The 'TWAS Advent-ure Calendar, and the Christmas in July supplement at a knockdown price.

Featuring phenomenal artwork by Tony Hough and containing a Santa's sack-load of Christmas content for your favourite festive RPG, why not check out the titles at ACE Gamebooks Roleplay on DriveThruRPG now?

* I think that's a thing.

 

Gamebook Friday: Spooky Season Sale Now On!

The ACE Gamebooks Spooky Season Sale is on now, over on DriveThruRPG. The PDFs of all the ACE Gamebooks and RPGs are on sale for just 99p each until the end of the month.

So, if there's a title missing from your collection, or you fancy giving the 'TWAS RPG or Heorot a go, now is the perfect time to complete your collection.

Christmas in July sale now on!

DriveThruRPG's Christmas in July sale is still on until the end of the month, and lots of ACE Gamebooks titles are included. Funnily enough, one of those is...

When the north winds blow,
Bringing with them ice and snow,
If Midsummer’s weather’s numbing,
Then know that Fimbulwinter’s coming.

Christmas in July is a self-contained adventure, set at the height of summer. As well as containing material that can be adapted for more conventional games of the ’TWAS RPG, this book also introduces new monsters to the game, and four new Player Characters.

A copy of ’TWAS – The Roleplaying Game Before Christmas is required to use the contents of this book.

Gamebook Friday: ACE, Box, Anubis, and Shakespeare

We're just two and a half weeks away from Christmas and I, for one, haven't started my Christmas shopping yet.

If you have yet to do your Christmas shopping, have you considered buying someone on your present list a digital ACE Gamebooks or ACE Gamebooks Roleplay product this year?

Right now I have a sale on over on DriveThruRPG. You can buy a complete RPG - 'TWAS, one of its supplements, or Heorot - for just £5, while my ACE Gamebooks are just £2 each.

I am also currently running a crowdfunding campaign, over on Gamefound, to pay for more of Tony Hough's amazing artwork for The Box of Delights - The Roleplaying Game. 

But if you're looking for a physical gift to pop in someone's stocking, or put under the tree, how about my new Marvel: Multiverse Missions gamebook Moon Knight: Age of Anubis?

Looking ahead to the New Year, in 2024 I will be crowdfunding the eighth ACE Gamebook, Shakespeare Vs. Cthulhu: What Dreams May Come. To sign up to be notified of developments, follow this link.

Gamebook Friday: Black Friday Week Sale

For some reason, Black Friday has gone from being one day, to a whole weekend, and now a full week. So, in anticipation that you might want to grab yourself a bargain before Christmas, the ACE Gamebooks' Black Friday Sale is on now at DriveThruRPG!