Tag: Gary Chalk
The Jungle of Horrors
December 12, 2019
YOU continue being the hero. Only a few days after the events in Castle Death, the wizards inform you that they know the location of the next Lorestone — the Danarg Swamp. Way back a bajillion years ago, the Danarg Swamp was a beautiful place. But you know, eight thousand years is a long time […]
Read moreCastle Death
October 22, 2018
YOU become yet another dungeon-diver in search of another Lorestone. In the previous book, Lone Wolf needed the fabled Lorestone to legitimize his desire to establish a new Kai Kollege ™. But guess what? A little ret-con here, the book now says that there are seven of the damn things. This one is inside a […]
Read moreThe Kingdoms of Terror
October 20, 2018
YOU want to become the founder of a whole-new order of Kai. In the last book, Lone Wolf found out about the fabled Book of Magnakai which contains the best secrets and superpowers that apparently have been lost to modern Kai. Well, one of the first things he learns from the book (aside from an […]
Read moreShadow on the Sand
December 16, 2017
YOU become an ambassador, sent to sign a peace treaty. The king of Vassagonia feels really bad about that army invading Sommerlund back in Chasm of Doom, and wants to make amends with a peace treaty. Kind of like how Battlestar Galactica started. You arrive in Vassagonia and find that the old king has died […]
Read moreChasm of Doom
October 22, 2017
YOU become a noble hunting for gold. When a shipment of gold goes missing, the king sent in the army but they never came back. What do you do then? Send Lone Wolf. You and a score of feckless redshirts head south to Ruanon, and along the way are ambushed repeatedly by bandits who seem […]
Read moreThe Caverns of Kalte
September 15, 2017
YOU become the arctic explorer sent by the King to bring Vonotar back to Sommerland for trial. You may not have heard of him in Flight From The Dark, and may not have met him in Fire on the Water, but he’s been there — the wizard who betrayed Sommerland’s guild of magicians and helped […]
Read moreFlight From The Dark
September 7, 2017
YOU become a C student and a refugee when the Kai monastery is destroyed. It’s the same general legend you’ve heard before a la Mordor. A zillion years ago, a whole nation of evil monsters, victory for the good guys thanks to a magic sword, then nobody checking on the monster kingdom for a thousand […]
Read moreFire On The Water
YOU become a courier on a mission to fetch the Sommerswerd from the neighboring kingdom to the east. After that big battle with the Darklords a zillion years ago, the kingdom of Sommerlund (which is adjacent to Mordor) gave away the evil-quenching Sommerswerd to the kingdom of Durenor to the east (located safely far away […]
Read moreLone Wolf
July 6, 2016
The Lone Wolf series was written by Joe Dever. It ran for 28 books from 1984 to 1998. Although each book could stand alone, the set formed a coherent story arc as your character developed and the world expanded. The world and its stories inspired a spinoff series and a video game, and in 2016 […]
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