ABANDONED. Trying to find some adventure game books from the 80's and 90's

[David]

So adventure gamebooks were something I loved growing up, and I've managed to track down a few I did read and didn't own as a kid, but there are a couple that spring to mind that I just don't know the names of and would love to get my hands on, pretty sure someone here might be able to help.
Three were your dice playing games and Two of them I've found already, "Way of the Tiger" and "Grailquest" but the third I'm drawing a blank but was similar in structure to these two.
The only thing I can remember clearly were two situations in the book, one where your given the option to kill a fisherman for no good reason I could recall, but you do get to see a picture of the fisherman on the opposite page, but if you do attack him he turns into a demon...... as they do.
And the other had a trap door opening up beneath you, dumping you into a water filled room and you were given the choice to drop your gear to let you tread water. Not dumping your gear made you drown, dumping your gear meant you could tread water for awhile as the water filled up the room, giving you another choice, to climb out or keep treading water.

You can guess what happened if you kept trying to tread water. :)

But can anyone think what that book might have been called?

Now some people have suggested this might have been either a Lone Wolf book or part of the Fighting Fantasy series, but I have my doubts about it. From what I remember of the artwork, it was a different style to Lone Wolf's and something tells me it wasn't a Fighting Fantasy book, but I can't confirm that obviously.

Edit: The book I'm thinking of had very dark art because it used a lot of shading.

[[deleted user]]

David, Good luck on your search but I think you should edit your title/thread and move it to UNSOLVED. You are looking for a specific book not books in general.

[Trillian]

I don't remember either of those situations, but I'm just going to suggest the Fabled Lands series, a fantasy gamebook from the 90s (some dates say 2010 when they were republished with different covers).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fabled_...

https://www.goodreads.com/series/6673...

[David]

Corinne wrote: "David, Good luck on your search but I think you should edit your title/thread and move it to UNSOLVED. You are looking for a specific book not books in general."

Sorry, new here, I figured out how to move it unsolved though. Thanks :)

[David]

Trillian wrote: "I don't remember either of those situations, but I'm just going to suggest the Fabled Lands series, a fantasy gamebook from the 90s (some dates say 2010 when they were republished with different co..."

That sounds like a very good lead, I'll look in to that one right away. Thanks very much :)

[Nicola]

There was a roleplaying book i remember from years ago where you had to get a lift from a ferryman and if you attacked him I think that he turned into a werewolf. There was a picture of him as well. Could that be your fisherman?

[David]

Nicola wrote: "There was a roleplaying book i remember from years ago where you had to get a lift from a ferryman and if you attacked him I think that he turned into a werewolf. There was a picture of him as well..."

That might just be it, my memory is foggy on it and that was the most I could remember but that just might be it. :) Any idea what it was called?

[Nicola]

That one is The Warlock of Firetop Mountain

I can't remember any water pits though.

[David]

Nicola wrote: "That one is The Warlock of Firetop Mountain

I can't remember any water pits though."

I don't think it was this one to be honest, might have just been a common-ish theme to kill someone whose gave you a lift, but looking around the book details the in book artwork looks very different to what I recall. The book I'm thinking of had very dark art because it used a lot of shading. I'll edit that in, but thanks forthe effort :)

[Nicola]

Bump for you.

[David]

Nicola wrote: "Bump for you."

Cheers :)

[Lobstergirl, au gratin]

David, are you still looking for this or did you find it?

[Genesistrine]

Maybe the Sagas of the Demonspawn / Fire*Wolf series? https://www.goodreads.com/series/2071... (JH Brennan also wrote the GrailQuest series).

There's some examples of the interior artwork on this thread: https://forum.rpg.net/index.php?threa...

[Jeremy Morphis]

I believe you are talking about a Fighting Fantasy gamebook, specifically the Gates of Death by Charlie Higgson. I remember the fight with the fisherman who becomes a demon. It happens early on in the book.

[Kris]

No response, moving to Abandoned folder.

David (OP) was last active on the site in August 2017.