I was, however, familiar with the name of Dave Morris from Tékumel fandom, where he was an editor and regular contributor to the excellent fanzine, The Eye of All-Seeing Wonder in addition to having designed the Tirikélurules for playing in Professor Barker's alien world. As I said, I hadn't paid any attention to the world of gamebooks since the late '80s, so I was completely unaware of Fabled Lands when it debuted. Now, Fabled Lands is again available, with the first four books already in print and with plans for the rest to follow.
FABLED LANDS PDF SERIES
These six books were only the first half of the twelve gamebooks Morris and Thomson originally planned, but the series was canceled before the remaining volumes could be published. How wrong I was!Īs it turns out, between 19, Dave Morris and Jamie Thomson released six gamebooks as part of a series entitled Fabled Lands. Consequently, I had assumed that, like the larger roleplaying hobby out of which they sprang, gamebooks had mostly died out by the 1990s, never mind were alive and well today. I read a lot of them during the mid to late '80s, but I largely stopped paying attention to them after I graduated from high school in 1987. I've talked about gamebooks before and I even did a retrospective on one of the most famous of them. I don't think anyone involved in the hobby back in the 1980s is unfamiliar with "gamebooks," a hybrid between choose-your-own-adventure books and traditional tabletop roleplaying.
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