City of Thieves (Fighting Fantasy)

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It was now my firm opinion that Candle Street is the Arkham Asylum of Port Blacksand, so I promised never to go back there again, and instead walked in the opposite direction as fast as I could. This isn't an issue with most other encounters, and since this alley leads to one of the needed items, it's an unfair ploy. Not everyone minds about the linearity, though: it's kind of a staple of the series, and many of us enjoy the numerous blunders and failures before you find the one true path. To calculate the overall star rating and percentage breakdown by star, we don’t use a simple average.

The full-page illustrations in the book were accompanied with a caption giving a short extract from the text. This part shows up a lot of the weaknesses of the Fighting Fantasy format - you're often left with a list of options, and nothing to go on in choosing which one to take other than guesswork, and if you choose the wrong one. The paragraphs with a full page illustration were: 1, 17, 27, 31, 40, 62, 80, 88, 113, 135, 148, 171, 178, 182, 203, 224, 239, 250, 265, 271, 292, 307, 319, 329, 344, 349, 356, 370, 385 and 398. It was later republished by Wizard Books in 2002 and 2010, and again in 2017 by Scholastic Books with new illustrations by Vlado Krizan.When the book was republished by Wizard in 2002 a new cover was designed and illustrated by Martin McKenna. Aus der Güte deines Herzens heraus (und gegen entsprechende Belohnung) ziehst du aus, um im verruchten Port Blacksand Hilfe zu holen. I have played it on the Kindle - and, after easily getting through most of the story, I am getting stomped by some fights at the end of the book that just seem to require a lot of luck to get through.

Later in the book you're asked if you have an iron key, which is obviously not meaning the same one. One of the interesting things is that these books tend to be very black and white, particularly with the fantasy ones. The puzzle aspect is interesting enough to hold the interest of adults (my mother borrowed it for about a week in the 80s, until she had solved it) as well as the younger target audience. We did this book in a 2017 edition that’s part of new series of a selection of the Fighting Fantasy gamebooks by Scholastic. Furthermore, all pre-generated characters start with 6 Meals of Provisions, while a player-generated character would start with 10.You are approached by the mayor and asked to go and find a friend of his who lives in the city of Port Blacksand, the city of thieves that the title of the book derives its name. City of thieves is another great story by ian Livingstone where the reader decides the ending by picking hich page to turn to, it is a bit like a computer game i a book but much ore fun for children to read than stick withese eyes attached to a computer screen.

Unfortunately it is not necessarily the case because there are instances where an immoral government uses this concept to bring the population on side. And beyond lies the most fearsome adventure of them all - the tower stronghold of the infamous Zanbar Bone!To me it seems that the books Forest of Doom, City of Thieves, Deathtrap Dungeon, and Island of the Lizard King were, to me, the more memorable books in the series. One of the things I want to mention is the artwork of Iain McCraig, which to me is perfect for this story; it is fantastical, whimsical, and just a bit dark, with many delightful details for the attentive viewer to pick up.