Series - Battle Quest

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Language:	English
Publisher:	Hodder & Stoughton -- United Kingdom
Categories:	Complexity Level : Advanced (Full Game System) Format : Paperback Game System : Combat Game System : Inventory Management Game System : Magic Game System : Randomization Method : Dice Game System : Scores Genre : Fantasy Target Age Group : Older Children Writing Style : Present Tense Writing Style : Second Person
Translated Into:	Rupert il selvaggio (Italian)

These fantasy gamebooks follow the component-heavy format initiated by the Enid Blyton's Famous 5 Adventure Games. Each book comes with a variety of components used during play. These collections are fairly similar between the two volumes, with both including a pair of special dice used for combat, a treasure counter wheel, a strength rating counter wheel and a trance spell overlay used to reveal text in special parts of the book. The first book also includes an infra-red power overlay, a "book of wisdom" card containing hints, and a scroll card containing passwords; the second book instead provides a foresight power overlay, a "book of ciphers" card and a scroll card decrypting various codes. Players start the game with a strength of six and without any treasure or equipment; the various special items are brought into play as the story unfolds.

Gamebooks

1. Caves of Fury
2. Tunnels of Fear

Related Documents

Play Aid

Battle Quest #2 Gamekit

Related Links

DiceCollector.com
This site includes images of a huge variety of dice... including at least one pair of custom dice packaged with gamebooks. If you have a gamebook that's missing custom dice, this might be a good place to search for images.
http://www.dicecollector.com/ (last verified: 2012-03-25)

User Comments

The Compact Adventure Gamebook Shadows of Doom was published a year after these books, and is effectively a continuation of this series, with the same format (choosing which monster to fight and winning a treasure if successful), and even the same illustrator (Terry Oakes, who didn't illustrate any other Stephen Thraves books apart from these three).

--MJG