Tag: Jonathan Green
The Darkness Over Arkham
July 8, 2024
YOU become caught up in a murder when you find a professor’s notebook carelessly left at a diner. When you bring it to the Miskatonic University to return it, you find the professor dead and are usually accused of the murder. A prophecy-poem and a trail of other professors missing, drives you to keep investigating. […]
Read moreMoon Knight, Age of Anubis
March 15, 2024
YOU become an Egyptologist assisting the super-hero Moon Night. Working at a museum, of course you always fantasized that a mummy would wake up and start raising trouble. Don’t we all? But then one night it happens, and it’s a lot less cool than it sounded. Fortunately, Moon Knight appears to save the day and […]
Read more‘Twas, the Krampus Night Before Christmas
December 13, 2022
YOU become nobody in particular, woken up at midnight on Christmas Eve, not to the sound of mice who aren’t even stirring, but to a crash and a thump. You rush downstairs to confront the burglars and find something far stranger. Krampus has abducted Santa and his famous sleigh, and taken off towards the mountains […]
Read moreRonin 47
YOU become the hero … Review and Opinion Tips and Hints Errors Maps Publication Written by Jonathan Green Illustrated by XXX 2023 Other Players and Links ACE Gamebooks home page
Read moreDracula: Curse of the Vampire
YOU become the hero … Review and Opinion Tips and Hints Errors Maps Publication Written by Jonathan Green Illustrated by Hauke Kock 2022 Other Players and Links ACE Gamebooks home page
Read moreBeowulf Beastslayer
YOU become the hero … Review and Opinion Tips and Hints Errors Maps Publication Written by Jonathan Green Illustrated by Russ Nicholson 2019 Other FF Players and Links Murray at Turn To 400 Seven Fourteen Seven MALthus Dire Fighting Dantasy
Read moreACE Gamebooks
June 1, 2020
The ACE Gamebooks are alternative, often dark, imaginings of classic literature. Alice’s Wonderland is a deep psychological disturbance. The Wizard of Oz is a mad scientist. Santa Claus’s evil brother is trying to take over Christmas. Neat stuff, and a lot of fun. The difficulty on them tends to be very low, skewed heavily in […]
Read moreNeverland: Here be Monsters
January 16, 2020
YOU become Peter Pan, or Wendy Darling, or Tiger Lily, or Captain Hook on the remote and primitive island of Neverland. The pirates are invading and threaten to destroy Neverland in their quest for power and treasure. Maybe that’s a good thing, if you’re commanding the pirates. But for most of you, the goal is […]
Read moreThe Wicked Wizard of Oz
YOU become Dorothy Gail, or the Tin Woodman, or the Scarecrow, or the Lion in this return to the Land of Oz. You get to pick which of the four characters you play, and though their stories interweave, they really do have their own paths and their own goals and endings. Review and Opinion […]
Read moreAlice’s Nightmare in Wonderland
YOU become Alice, and Wonderland is in trouble. In the five years since her famous Adventures, the Queen of Hearts has been festering , creating paranoia, terror, and emotional complexes. Alice has been called back into Wonderland to stop her, before Wonderland collapses into a complete psychotic break… taking Alice’s mind with it! Can an […]
Read moreTemple of the Spider God
June 10, 2016
YOU BECOME a pest-removal specialist when some clown mails a giant poisonous spider to the king. Despite your deathly fear of spiders, you’re still the king’s choice to sleuth out an assassination attempt involving mind-control spiders (maybe “because of” your deathly fear? it doesn’t say that the king likes you). Your investigation exposes a much […]
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