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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 Fury2. Tunnels of Fear
Related Documents
Play Aid
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
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