I will be at Dragonmeet on Saturday 30 November 2024, where I will be joining Sir Ian Livingstone on the Fighting Fantasy stand in the Upper Trade Hall (indicated by the small blue tent under the ACE Gamebooks logo on the map below).
At the start of the month, the second Arkham Horror Investigators Gamebook - The Tides of Innsmouth - was announced. However, in truth, I had already written a second Arkham Horror gamebook, although, admittedly, it was a short one. So, you can think of it as AHIG 1.5, if you like.
Last week, Issue #3 of the Dark Horse comic Arkham Horror: The Terror at the End of Time was released. The back matter of the comic consists of the opening 10 sections of this mini gamebook, which is called The Magpie and the Bat. In it, you take on the role of dilettante Jenny Barnes, whose Investigator Profile appeared in the back of Issue #1.
So, while you're waiting for The Tides of Innsmouth to be published next spring, or if you have yet to sample what an Arkham Horror gamebook is like, why not pick up a copy of The Terror at the End of Time #3 today, and check it out?
Doctor Who was first broadcast on this day 61 years ago!
Recently, I have been playing with the Gallifreyan translator on the official Doctor Who website. Below are the names of three of my Doctor Who books - two gamebooks and one novel - in the language of the Time Lords.
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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.
Rebellion are clearly having a massive clearout of their warehouse since loads - and I mean loads - of grpahic novels and other books are heavily discounted over on their webstore.
Among the books that have been knocked down massively in price is the Scarlet Traces short story anthology, which includes a contribution from me: Wonderful Things.
Another book that is currently massively discounted is Judge Fear's Big Day Out and Other Stories, which features four of my Judge Dredd short stories - Psimple Psimon, One-Way Ticket, You'd Better be Good, for Goodness' Sake, and Miracle on 34th and Peltzer.
So head over to the 2000AD webstore now and grab yourself a bargain!
I must apologise for the lack of Gamebook Friday updates recently. I have in fact been very busy working on multiple gamebook projects, but I still can't say very much about them. However, there will hopefully be at least one announcement at Dragonmeet this year.
I will be attending Dragonmeet on Saturday 30 November 2024, where I will be joining Sir Ian Livingstone on the Fighting Fantasy stand in the Upper Trade Hall (marked in blue on the map below).
This week, Fantasy Flight Games and Aconyte Books announced the title of the second Arkham Horror Investigators Gamebook that will be published next spring.
As with the first Arkham Horror Investigators Gamebook, The Darkness Over Arkham, the book includes profiles for three new Investigators - Silas Marsh the Sailor, Kōhaku Narukami the Folklorist, and Marion Taveres the Trawler.
That means you can currently play as one of 11 unique Investigators. Not bad, eh?
You can expect a cover reveal and more information about the adventure towards the end of the month. However, as part of Arkham Nights this week, a brief snippet of me talking about the book was played into the livestream of Unfathomable - From the Abyss on Halloween. (You'll find me at 00:04:44.)
