Lone Wolf

The Captives of Kaag

July 17, 2021

YOU become the rescuer of your old friend Banedon, who somehow got himself kidnapped and taken to the Darklands. Yeah, that’s the story. After 14 volumes of all-out war and world-threatening terrorism, it feels almost quaint, right? No wait, check that… The nazradim sorcerers will force him to teach them his magic. They’re already magicians, […]

The Prisoners of Time

February 8, 2021

YOU become a prisoner in the Magnamund version of the Phantom Zone. At the end of book 10, the last three Lorestones were suspended over a pit of infinite blackness, and as Lone Wolf reached for them, Darklord Gnaag sprang his trap. The pit was a Shadow Gate and after falling for hours or maybe […]

The Cauldron of Fear

January 7, 2020

YOU become a general in the king’s army of Sommerlund. It’s all-out war. The Darklords of Helgedad and the nation of Vassagonia (remember them from book 4 and 5?) have allied again, and their combined armies are invading the rest of Magnamund, leaving fiery wreckage in their wake. The king of Sommerlund has reached out […]

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 […]

Joe Dever’s Lone Wolf HD, the Video Game

May 16, 2019

Joe Dever’s famous Lone Wolf series of gamebooks was immensely popular. Not only did these two men make over 30 gamebooks, and later grant rights to have them freely published online, but they also created a really fun video game. It’s a really well done combination of book (lots of text and illustrations), multimedia video […]

Castle 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 […]

The 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 […]

Shadow 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 […]

Chasm 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 […]

The 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 […]

Flight 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 […]

Fire 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 […]

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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