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That's a good one! Just now the one with Shatner in the plane came on! A huge classic!

You too, Anthony! We're having a low-key but nice 4th! My wife and I grilled some burgers and dogs, and now we're hanging around watching the Twilight Zone marathon until the neighbors light up the sky. 😄

@@puzzud wow thanks!! I ought to do this for every multi-game stream.

@@dangomez28 😄 I did catch myself going up two tiles but wasn’t able to move left. 😖

Oh so infuriatingly close, yet still maddeningly so far. Lol. 👍🏼

Oh yeah, I think I forgot about that! I actually have a feature on my feature list for a remake (that I may or may not actually complete) related to boat placement. You can build docks wherever you want on your island's coast, and choose at which dock a new boat will be built.

@@MarkWandRobBobPresent That's a good idea - multiple docks! I seem to also remember that you could actually move your boat onto the island. It took some tinkering, but it was a glitch where the boat became somewhat land worthy. I don't remember if you could park it on the land (probably not), and there was no real reason to do this, just for the glitches sake.

Enjoy, my man!

Hope you can find an AC at the price you deserve!

No! Maybe I'll check it out next time I'm near a B&N. Thanks for the heads-up!

I remember that! Lunatix. The maker held a contest to make the best add-on modules for it using his scripting language called LunScript. Must’ve been 1997. I made a few, and one of mine won second place. It was called Chou’s Eggroll Emporium. It was a place where you could eat eggrolls, play “three eggroll Monty” or sumo wrestle an opponent of varying levels. Kinda had random Asian-themed stuff thrown together, even if it didn’t make sense, with silly humor. It was named after a friend with the last name Chou. It was probably a bit culturally insensitive in retrospect, but I justified it because my Asian friend thought it was funny, plus South Park and its brand of humor was a fairly new thing. Also, let's face it, I was just young and dumb. :) I was slightly annoyed that the #1 prize went to a module about going to a brothel. IIRC, all you did was you picked a door, it displayed an ANSI drawing of a lady of the night, and you got stuff. That’s it. But I’m over it, hah. Another I made was called Break the Bank in which you had to guess the bank vault’s three-digit combination to win a lot of money. There were clues you could accumulate with repeated visits to narrow it down. (Such as - “the second digit is always odd” or something like that.)

Did you see how close I came to finishing Ninja Golf? I must get my revenge on those evil ninjas...

You are a wizard attempting to attack and defeat an evil necromancer. On level 1, shown here, you are planting seeds to grow your army of trees for the attack. Ogres and spiders try to destroy them. The more trees you are able to grow and protect on this level, the more you have for the subsequent levels.

It's a pretty neat game, but I'm still getting the hang of it. 😄 Rob Bob couldn't join me however.

Thanks for stopping by! It was a blast having you in the chat, Anthony!

Thank you Anthony! Hope you enjoy watching the weird and obscure games I played last night, and hope you too had a good Easter!

Glad it was helpful and thanks for watching! Definitely an interesting game. This was my first time playing, but I may revisit it.

Awesome, Anthony! Say, if life calms down a bit for be (I’ve had to skip a lot of streams) I’ll do a Neo Geo stream in honor of the thread this week.😄

I streamed it a few times before, Anthony, so maybe that’s where you remember it from. 😃 It’s a unique and quite fun game!

Glad the videos could help! Hope at least one brave warrior of yours survived good ol' Buffalo Castle. ☺

@@MarkWandRobBobPresent I rolled up a dwarf warrior who was an “assassin candy maker” with low luck. I got stuck behind a swinging pendulum that badly damaged my CON, so I took my treasure and ran for the exit. Now my dwarf is a rich coward. But he’s alive. I’m guessing this means I cannot use him again for the Buffalo Castle adventure?

@@gleemonexrx I say - send him in again if that’s what you want to do. I don’t see any reason why that would be game breaking. 😁

@@MarkWandRobBobPresentmy coward dwarf ran off. I’m going to store him away since he was my first tnt character. I rolled up many more characters trying to get past that troll near the entrance. 25% survived. Perhaps more would have been survived had they remembered their training about the additional hit dice for their warrior perk. I wish the deluxe rulebook had a condensed version of the rules without the filler. Sort of like how Old School Essentials restated basic dnd.

@@gleemonexrx yeah that’s why I wrote those notes on my homemade character sheet - it’s hard to remember every tidbit. But you know what - that’s a great idea to make something like a one-pager that contains all that key information!

Yeah perhaps I should've considered Berserk for this stream's character (his name is eluding me right now, heh). I actually assumed he was too smart, but I just looked up the IQ threshold for going Berserk and it's 16. Could've sworn it was lower. Oh well! For González though, he had much greater adds (50-something) and fewer dice, so berserk very likely would've been a loss for him. Sid's options sound promising. I'll have to check them out! I do own several Tavernmaster solos, and most recently I ordered The Skyship of Lord Orink. I agree that one of those would be a great candidate for a stream. Those guys seem to be true fans. :) Thanks for watching the video, Steve, and glad you enjoyed it!

@@MarkWandRobBobPresent I would recommend ‘The Legends of Ogul-Duhr - Halls of the Gorgon’ by Andy Holmes as a good starting point. It is atmospheric, highly mappable (if that is a word), and is survivable by a good level 1 or 2 character. From memory, there is only a couple of ‘instant deaths’ and even those are quite fun - not just ‘bad move, you are dead’ but leave you thinking that it was your fault for making a dumb choice.

@@steveallen239 cool! Looks like I have the PDF of that one.

@@MarkWandRobBobPresent going back to stunts for your Speedy González, I was thinking along the lines of him having 4 available stunts available to him, one for each level:- 1) Double Strike - can only be used against 2 or more simultaneous opponents. A successful L2SR on SPD means that he gets 2 rounds of attack (double the dice but adds only count once). Failure means he takes Spite damage of the amount by which he misses his saving roll. Fumble means he takes the Spite hits, and also loses his combat adds for that round. 2) Triple Strike - same as double strike, but can only be used against 3 or more simultaneous opponents, requires a L4SR on SPD. Allows him to roll 3 lots of dice, but adds only count once. 3) Quadruple Strike - as double and triple against 4 or more opponents and requires L8SR on SPD. Gives 4 attacks and 1 adds, but failure means a lot of Spite damage if he fails the roll! 4) Strong Block - requires L2SR on STR and adds 2D6 to armour plus the amount by which the SR exceeds the target (25 in this case). Failure means armour loses its effect by the amount by which the SR was missed. Fumble means armour is totally ineffective this round. These are all based on Sid’s article, but I picked them for Speedy, because I figured that they would be fun, in character stunts that give him a vague chance of surviving disagreements with Orcs and Ogres.

@@steveallen239 Hmm neat rules. :) One of my half-baked ideas somewhat resembles Strong Block, but my idea was it would require having a shield equipped, to encourage shield use at least a bit.

Is Yum-Yum a restaurant? Or do you just mean the food was yummy. 😄 In any case, thanks for watching as always, my man!

Nice. Do you remember which one it might've been? I played a lot of Illuminati as a kid. 😄

You did a great job on the coloring! Thanks for the comment, Steve, and thanks for all the great and hard work you've done on T&T over the years. 😃

You're welcome! Mike Stackpole & I recently both wrote something for the new Grimtooth's Old School Traps book for Goodman Games. Ken St Andre and I are continuing to create new rpg solos for the Monsters! Monsters! Rpg, so all these years later, we are still creating solos and adventures!

Enjoy the stream and that Pepsi, Anthony! Hey, the Neo Geo thread anniversary is coming up, right? I'll have to do a special stream for that!

Hi @gleemonexrx - thanks for watching and glad you enjoyed! We have two regular live streams: 1) Mark W Plays Old Games on a Thursday (aka the Old GOAT): Me playing retro video games. I'll often play a smorgasbord of games, one console or computer per stream. Sometimes I focus on a single game for a while - currently I am playing through Ultima IV for Sega Master System. Thursdays @8:30pm Eastern Time 2) Saturday Night Gaming with Mark and Rob Bob - my son and I playing anything we feel like without constraints. It could be a T&T solo or Fighting Fantasy gamebook, or a newer video game, or pretty much anything. Saturdays @9:15pm Eastern Time Here is a link to my homemade Deluxe character sheet: drive.google.com/file/d/1gOOtcJYDpiQvpTmrjYveCoYwn3YLjBPn/view Have fun!

@@MarkWandRobBobPresent Thanks Mark, this is going to come in handy. I recently read through the old tnt 5e book, but haven’t played any of the solo adventures yet. Do you recommend any one in particular to start with? In your video, I found it funny that tnt creators were somewhat laughing and having fun killing the players in city of terrors, so I thought I’d ask to get your opinion on which solo adventure to start with, something kinder and gentler perhaps? I’ll drop by your live stream next week. I played ultima 7 waaaaay back when it came out on the CD version and I loved it, but I didn’t realize how deep the adventure was and became utterly lost. I only recently saw a TH-camr “voidbrand” post overview videos for each of the individual “ultima 7” games, and after seeing how large the plot was, I feel like I would have needed a guide to make it through the game. So it’s nice to hear that you are playing your way through ultima 4. Thanks again for posting your custom character sheets, I’ll be putting them to good use.

@@gleemonexrx well, there aren't actually too many gentle solos, but as a general rule, as I mentioned in the video, the most nefarious player killers (and I mean that endearingly, guys!) tend to be the authors Mike Stackpole and Ken St. Andre. That said, Buffalo Castle may be worth a try. It is gentle when compared to City of Terrors, at least, but you can still easily die. 😄It may be in fact the first gamebook ever published, even predating the first Choose Your Own Adventure book! (At least in terms of publication date; the first CYOA was perhaps written earlier.) Given the time it was written, it may seem basic and "fun-housey" - all part of its charm, IMO. Alice in Weirdworld is another, by Joel Marler, that I personally helped review and playtest just a few years ago. I made over 200 suggestions and corrections to the draft, many of them with difficulty and balance in mind (some just spelling corrections, etc.), and I even wrote a computerized T&T combat simulator to help tweak the opponents' Monster Ratings for better balance against the premade characters the book includes. There's a customer review on the Japanese version of Amazon that even praised the solo for its balance, which almost never happens (that I've seen!) so I'm pretty proud of that, even though I'm not the author and the Japanese publishers removed my credit. (I still haven't played the final release though! lol) But yeah, in that solo, you play as a premade low-level character such as Alice herself, encountering creatures and situations from the original Lewis Caroll story. It's designed for the Deluxe T&T edition but it does have "mini rules" in the solo book itself, so you shouldn't need to buy anything extra. You can also create a homemade character if you want, although the other characters will speak to you as if you're a child. 🙂(Note: you still can die, it's just not TOO difficult, or at least I hope, because again, I haven't played the final version myself - hah!) Keep in mind with the current state of T&T being sort of in limbo due to two recent acquisitions, I can't vouch for how easy it is to actually find any of these books at this time. I know most of the third-party publishers unfortunately had to take their content offline. It was always a cool thing how Flying Buffalo allowed anyone to publish T&T content. But those days may be over. That said, Buffalo Castle and Alice in Weirdworld are NOT third-party solos so you may be good to go in acquiring those. On an Ultima note - after I complete Ultima IV I may play through the others. We'll see. I never played beyond IV, and I know V has a lot of fans! But yeah I will likely continue my play of Ultima IV tonight on the "Old GOAT" (Old Games on a Thursday) stream. 😄 Last minute edit: I found some reviews for Alice here on drivethrurpg, and saw one at the bottom by Thessaly (a mainstay in the T&T community) also praising it for its balance! preview.drivethrurpg.com/en/product/307818/Alice-in-Weirdworld-TT-solo-w-mini-rules Good luck!

@gleemonexrx - just wanted to let you know that tonight's (Sat. Feb 24) stream will likely be postponed to next week, due to life stuff. Thought you would like to know! If anything changes, I'll reply again here.

@@MarkWandRobBobPresent thanks for the update, I appreciate it. I saw that you have several buffalo castle playthroughs which I want to watch since you recommended it as a good starter adventure. Thanks for posting all of these solo playthroughs, it’s helpful to see how the game is played by someone who really understands it. I think on TH-cam there are many many people who talk ABOUT playing these games, but don’t actually show the process. And for your CoT playthrough, it was fun hearing your thoughts on the game design and “fairness”, such as when you followed the two troublemakers through the streets to a random building and and were confronted with a small army of villains. lol.

I only tried it briefly on a live stream a few years ago in which I was jumping quickly between various SMS games. I'll have to give it a solid try sometime! Seems kind of Zelda-like but in the Golden Axe universe. Love the idea of that.

@@MarkWandRobBobPresent Yep, that's exactly what it is. I think I might actually like it more than the first Zelda...Except for the music. The soundtrack is good, just not legendary Zelda soundtrack good

Nice, I'll have to give it a try sometime. If I do so on a live stream, I'll try to remember to reply here so you can watch it ive if you want.