BEHOLD THE DOOM!!

**Just a note for anyone wondering what NGD is, I'm part of a few music groups on social media and people always post NGD! -New Guitar Day to show off their lovely purchases. Well I'm stealing that as its now become NEW GAMEBOOK DAY - NGD!





Last night, after spending ages in traffic (and scuffing my wheel!!) I came home to find 3 parcels by the door, and boy was I in for a treat!





(The candles are fake! as if i'd put my Gamebooks at risk!)





3 Gamebook Adventures by the wonderful Stephen Thraves, all of which have a terribly dark & doomy feel about them. I remember Stephen Thraves from my school days as he had a series of Gamebooks that were converted from the old Famous Five stories.





Bet the famous five wouldn't risk going into the Shadows of doom!

(Timmy would, that dog had balls!)





Just look at these awesome titles!

We have the complete "Battle Quest" collection (yep, that's right, there's only 2 of them)

"Caves of Fury" & "Tunnels of Fear."





Followed up by another series of miniature gamebooks called the

"Compact Adventure Game Books!"

For whatever reason "Shadows of Doom" was the only high fantasy/dunegons & dragons style gamebook released in this series which is a shame because these mini books are freakin' awesome!





These 3 books came from Amazon, all listed as Very Good (semi-debatable but Im not one to moan) and all were listed at £0.01 each. yes a penny!! of course they all had about £2 of postage on top but that's like £6 for 3 awesome gamebooks. You literally cant beat that value.





Also, to top things off, I love dice. Pretty lame I know, but there's something really nice about having some special dice to roll when playing fantasy games & gamebooks.





Picture this: My adventurer is in an epic battle against an ice dragon, and I'm using the same dice the family use to play monopoly to work out his fate...... He deserves better than that.





I'd been looking for a set of d6's to replace the boring set I had been using for my Fighting Fantasy endeavors, so here they are! All the way from sunny Shropshire, a great seller on eBay had these bad boys up for less than the price of a Starbucks latte!

One Die to rule them all. The other 9 are just spares.

These are just too cool! Red d6 dice with the 1 being replaced by the "Eye of Sauron", as if rolling a 1 wasn't already bad enough, now you have to peer into the eye of the dark lord himself. Think of the shame.





Now from what I've read online, they have come from an expansion pack to some Lord of the Rings Miniatures Hex-Wargame from years ago. It actually didn't look like a bad game and I do love my Tolkien stuff. But anyway these will be used for my Fighting Fantasy and probably all of my gamebooks that require d6's to play.





And that's all for now folks! I have a load of stuff in transit at the moment which i will share with you in due course. I shall also give these books a play and let you know what I think of them (I actually had a really quick look at Shadows of Doom last night and its tough as balls man!)



