1-on-1 Adventure Gamebooks poll

[Beroli]

This gamebook series was published in the 1980s. Each boxed set includes two books, similar to the Duelmaster series. If any of them has 2 or more votes then I'll host one of them, but please only vote that you'll participate if you mean it; it would be anticlimactic if I started one of them and then it stopped because one side stopped posting. Because there has been something of an uptick in participation, I'm revisiting this. It will work if there are two people on each (of two) team(s), or two people on one and one person on the other, or one person on each team, or even three or more people on one team and one person on the other. It only won't work if one of the teams is empty. The poll will be active for two weeks, in case some people are away for Thanksgiving. If none of them gets two votes then I'll mothball this idea once again.

Any of them will require some changes for this format, which I have plans for.

Like Duelmaster, there is absolutely no guarantee of balance here.

Choose as many options as you would play in.

Feel free to ask any questions.

In Battle for the Ancient Robot, two star-faring civilizations send their flagships to retrieve components of the mysterious and powerful Ancient Robot which they hope will give them an advantage in an inevitable war. One team will play Mikael Renshaw, the heroic human captain. The other will play the murderous robot E-Ben.

Revenge of the Red Dragon is a fantasy game where both sides have a case for being the story's protagonist. The Black Knight, Raven Quickblade, has robbed the lair of his ancestral enemy, Flametongue the Red Dragon; Flametongue wants to catch and kill him before he reaches his castle.

In Challenge of Druid's Grove, the druid Renwood and the wizard Ar-Kane separately venture into a forest which was once protected by the Archdruid Lath, but has been taken over by a mysterious evil. Both wish to cleanse the forest of that evil, but they are rivals and enemies.

In Dragonsword of Lankhmar, Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser are searching for the eponymous sword. The Thieves' Guild has had it with their independent activities in Lankhmar and is fielding a team of assassins to kill them. One team will play Fafhrd, the other will play the leader of the assassins.

In Warlords, Daimyo Kenshin claimed the position of Daimyo of Tsuke following the mysterious death of his brother, and sent his brother's son, Prince Matabei, away "for his own protection." Now a legal adult, Prince Matabei has returned and wishes to claim his throne and to see his uncle punished for fratricide. Lord Kenshin intends to cooperate with neither.

In The Doomsday Device, Doctor Doom announces that in eight weeks he will unleash a doomsday device on New York. The Fantastic Four wishes to stop him.

In The King Takes a Dare, the superhero Daredevil resolves to take down Wilson Fisk, the Kingpin of Crime. At the same time, Kingpin decides that Daredevil has caused him too much trouble and needs to die.

In Dragonwand of Krynn, an aspiring Dragon Highlord and a Knight of Solamnia arrive simultaneously in a hostile city in search of a powerful magic item.

[Dogopolis]

Never heard of them, but I would play any of them and stick it out to the end.

[JourneymanN00b]

How long are the adventure books? What numbers are involved here? How does combat work?

Those are the questions that come to my mind.

[deaddmwalking]

I'd play any/all, but I'd prefer that we go one at a time in case you were thinking of running 2+ simultaneously. With the asynchronous nature of play-by-post, I'm finding that more than 2 gets my wires crossed if I'm not careful.

[Beroli]

Each individual book has 160 pages (so 320 pages in a set).

A turn is either one page long (most of the fantasy books), one in-game day long (Warlords), or one in-game week long (the two superhero book sets).

Each character does an individual fixed amount of damage with a physical attack, and may have other options (for example, a wizard character has a list of spells which they can cast once each in lieu of attacking physically in one round). In combat, one side goes first (nearly always the side that has a player on it, if it's one player fighting NPCs). To attack physically (or successfully cast a spell), I generate a random number from 1 to 20. On a 1 to 9, the character misses or the spell doesn't take effect. On a 10 to 17, the character hits or the spell does take effect. On an 18 or 19, a special event, which may be good or bad, takes place if the character I'm rolling for is a protagonist; any NPC instead simply misses unless they have special rules (for example, a cockatrice may have a beak attack that does trivial damage and also a note that on a "special" result one of their opponents turns to stone). On a 20, the character hits for double damage. Each character on that side takes an action (usually a physical attack), then each character on the other side does, until one is dead.

And I am only planning to run one set at a time.