Escape the Underdark

Posted on 18 December 2018 by Matt Forbeck

Welcome to the Forgotten Realms Endless Quest books, where you don t just read a fantastic tale You become the hero and choose your own fate.You awaken in an underground cell, stripped of your armor and your sword Your fellow prisoners inform you that you re trapped in the Underdark, soon to be taken to the great drowcity of Menzoberranzan and sold off as a slave But word is that demons are stirring in the underworld s depth Perhaps you can use that to break free, fighter. New Read Escape the Underdark [ Author ] Matt Forbeck [ Kindle ePUB or eBook ] – kino-fada.fr 1 Do you like adventure Are you a treasure hunter trapped in an average Jane or Joe s body Go to 3 If not, go to 6 2 Are you ready to encounter drows, gnomes, orcs, dwarfs, goblins, and huge hairy spiders Yes Continue to 5 If this is getting too scary for you, go to 6 3 Did you grow up on Choose Your Own Adventure books Did you ever play Dungeons and Dragons Do you like fantasy books games movies If you answered yes to any of these questions, go to 2 If you re actually like 1 Do you like adventure Are you a treasure hunter trapped in an average Jane or Joe s body Go to 3 If not, go to 6 2 Are you ready to encounter drows, gnomes, orcs, dwarfs, goblins, and huge hairy spiders Yes Continue to 5 If this is getting too scary for you, go to 6 3 Did you grow up on Choose Your Own Adventure books Did you ever play Dungeons and Dragons Do you like fantasy books games movies If you answered yes to any of these questions, go to 2 If you re actually like, kinda sorta boring, go to 6 4 You re stuck in a dungeon, deep underground Bound by chains and surrounded by a scary bunch of inmates, you need to decide what to do Will you try to escape Will you fight for your freedo...The Choose Your Own Adventure books sold millions of copies in the 1980s and as a child of the 80s, I devoured them I can fondly recall the proverbial five fingered bookmark as you grip the book in multiple sections, thus enabling a back step, should your ill fated choice prove fatal.Regrettably, this was a short lived genre that was soon supplanted by video games, but The Lone Wolf series by Joe Dever as well the incomparable Fighting Fantasy series by Ian Livingstone and Steve Jackson bri The Choose Your Own Adventure books sold millions of copies in the 1980s and as a child of the 80s, I devoured them I can fondly recall the proverbial five fingered bookmark as you grip the book in multiple sections, thus enabling a back step, should your ill fated choice prove fatal.Regrettably, this was a short lived genre that was soon supplanted by video games, but The Lone Wolf series by Joe Dever as well the incomparable Fighting Fantasy series by Ian Livingstone and Steve Jackson brings back fond memories My daughter is now following my footsteps by playing Dungeons and Dragons, so I was rather excited to share Escape the Underdark with her Ala...Escape the Underdark by Matt Forbeck, 122 pages Candlewick Entertainment, 2018 8.99Language G 0 swears, 0 f Mature Content G Violence PGBUYING ADVISORY EL ADVISABLEAUDIENCE APPEAL AVERAGEYou are the main character of this story, and you have a lot of difficult decisions to make as you try to find your way back home from the Underdark While it may not be easy, your adventure will never be boring as you find the right creatures to ally with and the right creatures to slay before t Escape the Underdark by Matt Forbeck, 122 pages Candlewick Entertainment, 2018 8.99Language G 0 swears, 0 f Mature Content G Violence PGBUYING ADVISORY EL ADVISABLEAUDIENCE APPEAL AVERAGEYou are the main character of this story, and you have a lot of difficult decisions to make as you try to find your way back home from the Underdark While it may not be easy, your adventure will never be boring as you find the right creatures to ally with ...I love choose your own adventure booksbut I am really bad at them I thought I would have made it through this one pretty easily, considering that I DM the Out of the Abyss campaign, which is the same basic storyline as this book, but nope I believe I ended up making wr...Partly a nostalgia read, I have fond memories of the choose your own adventure books of my youth, and partly read to test the age suitability of the writing As a DD player the writing and flavour did not disappoint Suitable for confident readers, moderate dd violenceOriginally reviewed for YA Books Central in second person present tense, this fantasy is styled after the beloved choose your own adventure books of yore It also features a vast array of renowned DD art, with works ranging from sepia to full color.As the story opens, readers know two things that you are a human fighter, and that you ve been captured and imprisoned by the Drow in the subterranean world of the Underdark Slavery is in your near Originally reviewed for YA Books Central in second person present tense, this fantasy is styled after the beloved choose your own adventure books of yore It also features a vast array of renowned DD art, with works ranging from sepia to full color.As the story opens, readers know two things that you are a human fighter, and that you ve been captured and imprisoned by the Drow in the subterranean world of the Underdark Slavery is in your near future, so escaping is a no brainer But how you go about that is your call Do you resist immediately Plot with the other captives Feign being a model prisoner until a good opportunity arises The larger print, abundant imagery, ...In the 1980s, Edward Packard s CYOA series flew off the shelves with its gimmick about choosing which page to turn to, based on how you d like to direct the action The DD chain cashed in with its Endless Quest series, a limited version of the idea that stuck with the fantasy, dungeon crawling theme but still successfully ran to nearly fifty books This was later overshadowed by competitors like Fighting Fantasy that wereelaborate and introduced character generation, a combat system, In the 1980s, Edward Packard s CYOA series flew off the shelves with its gimmick about choosing which page to turn to, based on how you d like to direct the action The DD chain cashed in with its Endless Quest series, a limited version of the idea that stuck with the fantasy, dungeon crawling theme but still successfully ran to nearly fifty books This was later overshadowed by competitors like Fighting Fantasy that wereelaborate and introduced character generation, a combat system, etc Eventually all of these ran their course as improved video games cornered the self directed adventuring market.My impression is that Matt Forbeck sold a resurrection idea for the Endless Quest series on spec, and now it s being relaunched as four volumes all written by him to see if it still has any legs I ve not encountered Mr For...Being a fan and having read almost all of the old gamebooks Fighting Fantasy,Lone Wolf, Way of the Tiger man that was a good series back in my teens, I was eagerly awaiting this book My plan was to read this with my almost 5 year old boy and that s what I did But I admit I was let down after doing so.First, it takes about 30 minutes to read through one of the paths given to you in the book Yeah, that means that you get alot of different paths to finish it, but they are so short that it s n Being a fan and having read almost all of the old gamebooks Fighting Fantasy,Lone Wolf, Way of the Tiger man that was a good series back in my teens, I was eagerly awaiting this book My plan was to read this with my almost 5 year old boy and that s what I did But I admit I was let down after doing so.First, it takes about 30 minutes to read through one of the paths given to you in the book Yeah, that means that you get alot of different paths to finish it, but they are so short that it s not really fun.Second, there is absolutely no fighting system You read right, an ADD book without any fighting system Even my son asked ...Drow, Duergar, and Demogorgon, Oh my You are the fighter but your adventure, though it started in a tavern, really begins deep underground as a captive of the dreaded dark elves known as the Drow Along with an assortment of other prisoners each decision you make brings you closer to the surface and freedom or to fate best left for the unfortunate Along the way you will see many things in the Underdark many of which are dangerous and a few which are very strange like a sentient gelatinous cube Drow, Duergar, and Demogorgon, Oh my You are the fighter but your adventure, though it started in a tavern, really begins deep underground as a captive of the dreaded dark elves known as the Drow Along with an assortment of other prisoners each decision you make brings you closer to the surface and freedom or to fate best left for the unfortunate Along the way you will see many things in the Underdark many of which are dangerous and a few which are very strange like a sentient gelatinous cube which is probably Glabbagool which I hear is from the Out of the Abyss adventure One thing is for sureAs a fighter you are a...Language G 0 swears, 0 f Mature Content G Violence PGYou are the main character of this story, and you have a lot of difficult decisions to make as you try to find your way back home from the Underdark While it may not be easy, your adventure will never be boring as you find the right creatures to ally with and the right creatures to slay before they eat you Choose your own adventure books are the video games of literature This story is compelling as you make escape plans and figure o Language G 0 swears, 0 f Mature Content G Violence PGYou are the main character of this story, and you have a lot of difficult decisions to make as you try to find your way back home from the Underdark While it may not be easy, your adventure will never be boring as you find the right creatures to ally with and the right creatures to slay before th...I received a copy of this book for a fair and honest review I am not good at those chose your own adventures since did not matter how many times I tried to go through the book I died, but that is just how it happens I am going to keep trying to see if I can...I love the idea and the concept, but the execution feels like the notes a dungeon master of a DD game would have It s the bare minimum of story with not a whole lot of development or exposition I had a fun time going back and taking the other options and rea...Sample quote It doesn t take long for you to get lost in the caves again When you stop and listen, your hear a group of people chanting You can t make out everything they say, but the choruses of their chants all seem to center on the word Demogorgon, which you recognize as the name of the ...

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18 December 2018

Matt Forbeck