Coming out of this disappointment ( I was seeing the game as a cover illustration from the Keep of the Borderlands) let me tell you, while CRPGs and Choose your own adventure books CAN NOT HOLD A CANDLE to a good well prepared DM, however, Baldur's Gate and Planescape Torment were a GODSENT, when compared with sessions played with mediocre DMs and neurotic players doing self therapy via role playing. I also had the misfortune of playing in a juvenile group where the biggest fighters were guys with Napoleon complexes who were getting beat up in high school and who got off beating up other plyers in the game.
#PRE ACTIVE PRETTY GOOD SOLITAIRE SERIES#
Choose your own adventure was the first series and it was free at the pubic library. T&T solo adventures were too expensive by comparison.
I was too busy working my way through college to look for a gaming group, hence I read them all - Choose your own adventure books, fighting fntasy, Lone Wolf, magic series. Once I have, I'll be sure to make a post or two about the experience, since this is largely terra incognita for me and some may find my thoughts as I explore this area of gaming interesting (or at least amusing). I plan on playing them soon, since I've been meaning to do so for some time. I do own several T&T solitaires, which I recently bought as part of my researches into that venerable game. Obviously, not everyone feels this way - nor did they back in the day - but I have to admit to continued bafflement at the appeal of it all. I owned a few of the Fighting Fantasy books, of course, but they always seemed somehow "deficient" to me - a poor substitute for actually sitting around a table with my friends and roleplaying "properly." On some level, I still feel that way, which is why I've similarly been unenthused about computer roleplaying games, even when they're really well done, like Planescape: Torment or Knights of the Old Republic. You have to remember that, although I did read them, I was never a huge fan of Choose Your Own Adventure-style books. So, what was the appeal of all these solitaire adventures? Granted, I thought RQ players were weirdos too - like I said, I was young - but RuneQuest always struck me as having a fairly large following.
RuneQuest had them too and I had seen RQ players with my own eyes, so I knew they existed in large enough numbers to support campaigns, whereas I never met a T&T player in the flesh until years later. Goodness knows I was introduced to a lot of games in those days through these avenues, so why couldn't "those T&T weirdos" find some others to play with?Īs I discovered, Tunnels & Trolls wasn't the only game to have solitaire adventures. Between the pick-up games in game stores, the game days in public libraries, and RPG clubs in schools, it was amazingly easy to find other gamers who shared your particular tastes, whatever they might have been. Back then, it really was easy to find a gaming group for just about any game you wanted to play. You have to remember that, when I felt this way, I was young and it was at the height of roleplaying's never-to-be-repeated faddish popularity. As I reasoned, if lots of people did play T&T, why would there be a need for solitaire adventures? Why not just go and find a group of people to play with like "normal" gamers? I took this as evidence that very few people actually played the game. Indeed, it seemed to me back then that there were way more solitaire adventures available for T&T than there were "regular" adventures.
One of the reasons I did so, aside from the spells names, which still bug me - but I digress - were the large number of solitaire adventures available for the game. I've mentioned before that I used to have an unthinking prejudice against Tunnels & Trolls (I'm over it - more on that later).
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