Lone wolf adventure game

The components are gorgeous, with 3 sturdy perfect bound books, a color map of the Sommerlund area of the world of Magnamund, and 6 introductory character sheets. This set is essentially a "Beginners Guide" to not only the world and ideals of Magnamund the world the "Lone Wolf" stores are told in , but to role-playing in general.

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What do you do next? In The Lone Wolf Adventure Game you are Kai Lords — brave and noble warrior-monks sworn to protect the realm of Sommerlund from the evil of the Darklords — adventuring across the world of Magnamund. You and your friends will face terrifying enemies and uncover fiendish plots, working together to overcome the wicked plans of the Darklords and emerge victorious!

The game is playable right out of the box — you can be setting off on your first adventure within minutes of opening the box. The game is easy to learn too, the first adventure teaching you how to play. As you grow in experience, additional features can be added in to give the game additional depth. There are a bunch of these included in the boxed set, and more will be included in forthcoming supplements.

Experienced gamers can dive right in with all the options included, while new gamers can tailor the learning curve to their group. I think a more straight-forward approach that emphasized the world of Lone Wolf instead of the mechanics of its adventure books might have been more interesting, and more useful, in the long run.

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Notify of. Oldest Newest Most Voted. The series began publishing in July and became one of the most popular game books ever published, selling more than 11 million copies worldwide. The story focuses on the fictional world of Magnamund , where the forces of good and evil fight for control of this planet in a final showdown. The protagonist is Lone Wolf , last of his caste of warrior monks known as Kai lords.

The book series is written in the second person and recounts Lone Wolf's adventures as if the reader is the main character. As Lone Wolf, you make choices at regular intervals throughout the story which then change the course, and the final outcome, of the book. Each book has a unique player's objective, but the plot carries on chronologically where the previous book ends. Although the series ceased publication between and , a dedicated fan base established Project Aon in and have subsequently converted many of the books to HTML format.

Joe Dever gave his permission for free distribution of the books online via the internet. Subsequently, there has been a strong revival of interest in Lone Wolf, particularly in Italy, Spain, and France where the books were republished between Several adaptations now exist of the Lone Wolf series, including a Dstyle Role-Playing Game published by Mongoose Publishing Ltd UK, the company which also plans to republish the original Lone Wolf series, beginning in the summer of A computer game and a mobile phone game are currently in production for release in early Lone Wolf was notable as a gamebook series because it was the first one of its type other than the notable Grailquest gamebooks where the reader played a single character who grew more and more advanced over the course of the series.

It was the first role-playing mega-campaign, and it has had a hugely influential effect upon the design of first-person fantasy computer games and MMO's Massively Multi-player Online games of recent years. In the north-east of Magnamund's northern continent lies the realm of Sommerlund. Its people, the Sommlending, are devoted followers of Kai. There are those among them, known as Kai Lords or simply 'the Kai', who possess extraordinary innate abilities.

Naar's champions upon Magnamund are the Darklords , who dwell in the scorched wastes of the Darklands, west of Sommerlund. This realm, inhospitable to most life, enables the Darklords to survive on Magnamund - though powerful, they are greatly weakened by the natural atmosphere of their world.

Forced to enact their will at a distance, the Darklords wage war with armies of Drakkarim humans devoted to Naar , Giaks goblin-like creatures spawned in vast numbers , and other creatures, and are served by agents such as Vordaks undead with psychic powers and Helghasts shapechanging undead.

At the Kai Monastery is a young initiate, given the name Silent Wolf. On the feastday of Fehmarn, when all the Kai Lords gather at the monastery, Silent Wolf is sent to cut wood from the surrounding forest as a punishment for his inattention in class. While he is gone, a surprise attack is launched from the Darklands at several places across Sommerlund. The Monastery is assaulted and the gathered Kai Lords massacred. Rushing back from the woods, Silent Wolf is knocked out by a low-lying tree branch in the Legends of Lone Wolf novelizations based on the books, it's implied that the branch was placed there by a being called Alyss so Silent Wolf would be spared the attack.

When he awakes, he finds himself the only survivor. The last of the Kai, he renames himself Lone Wolf and sets out for the capital to inform the King of the loss of the Kai.

The Kai series follows Lone Wolf as he rallies the armies of Sommerlund and her ally, Durenor, to repel the invasion, pursues and captures the traitor who brought about the invasion, and survives plots to complete the destruction of the Kai. At the end of the series, Lone Wolf recovers the Book of the Magnakai, the ancient text which contained the higher lore of the Kai Lords.

With the massacre of the Kai, and Lone Wolf only an initiate, these teachings were thought to be lost. The Book, however, is ancient and incomplete.