The Warlock of Firetop Mountain
You encounter a BALROG (skill 6, power 9).

Do you want to fight it? If yes, turn to p356. If no, turn to p249.
(McChinaman banned, Tue 10 Jan 2012, 23:34, 9 replies)

Oh dear
did anyone actually get through one of those?
( Infidel , shit and wrong, Wed 11 Jan 2012, 1:03, closed)

I clicked like
Because this reminded me of those choose your own adventure books.

Yes, I did complete many of them, including a strange one based in that zippideedodah zippideeday Disney film setting. Damn, that was disturbing.
(MrTeapot hasn't played with himself since, Wed 11 Jan 2012, 1:41, closed)

I have no idea what you are talking about
and this will still give me nightmares.
( Infidel , shit and wrong, Wed 11 Jan 2012, 4:03, closed)

The "Choose your own adventure" books were really big in the mid 1980s
They consisted of the reader as a child following the narrative for a page then being offered a choice. My favourite was the one where you're a servant in Guy of Gisbourne's castle at the time of Robin Hood and you have to make choices about whether or not to help Robin's schemes.
(IHateSprouts is baking a huge pie shaped like an enormous pie, Wed 11 Jan 2012, 10:42, closed)

Oh, I know what they were
It's just that the whole genre was incomprehensible to me.
I remember trying one and putting it down a few pages in because a lawnmower manual caught my eye.
( Infidel , shit and wrong, Wed 11 Jan 2012, 11:28, closed)

Hell yes
The Fighting Fantasy series by Ian Livingstone and Steve Jackson - I found them good fun where I was a lad (around 2 months ago). I didn't have a lot of friends, oddly enough.
(McChinaman banned, Wed 11 Jan 2012, 10:47, closed)

Yes.
Solely by deciding I won every fight and keeping my place so I could turn back and make the other choice if I didn't like that one. I actually got to know the few we had well enough that I could play through them more or less 'perfectly', which, now that I remember, I don't want to.
(Falstaff's Spiritual Successor, Wed 11 Jan 2012, 12:08, closed)

"Power"?
Stamina, Shirley
( emvee cruor deo cruoris, Wed 11 Jan 2012, 11:18, closed)

Appointment with F.E.A.R
was my favourite - bought by accident from that book club news letter that went around school once a year in the 80's. Flippin great. Never understood how to play it properly at the time though....

p.s. It STILL goes around as my daughter wants to buy the Moshi Monsters hand book from it!!!
(TheManofScience, Wed 11 Jan 2012, 12:29, closed)