City of Thieves (Fighting Fantasy)

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You can't fight him (even hitting him with the silver arrow is a Luck roll), you can't outwit him, his only dialogue is a cringeworthy "Mwahaha"-type outburst - once you meet him, you simply do what you've been teed up to do. So you've trawled all the way through the book to find you have a totally random 2 in 3 chance of failing for no fault of your own. Unfortunately, when we got to the tattooist we were ONE GOLD SHORT of affording the white unicorn in a yellow sun forehead tattoo we needed to carry forward.

What follows is a series of challenges as the player must locate certain key items, escape Port Blacksand and eventually confront Bone. Port Blacksand, the titular city of thieves, is a fascinating place for exploration and skullduggery. The 103 third parties who use cookies on this service do so for their purposes of displaying and measuring personalized ads, generating audience insights, and developing and improving products.This isn't an issue with most other encounters, and since this alley leads to one of the needed items, it's an unfair ploy. In honour of Ian Livingstone’s knighthood I thought I’d go on another adventure (2022) through Port Blacksand in Sir Ian’s 1983 literary masterpiece, City of Thieves (which is also a masterpiece of art, thanks to Ian McCaig’s contribution).

You're given no clues, it's simply a case of eeny meeny miney mo, and if you choose wrong, you're dead. Unfortunately for all, Nicodemus lives in a wretched hive of scum and villainy, Port Blacksand – also known as the CITY OF THIEVES! The book is full of traps and often times there is no way to know which outcome is favorable and which - not. Right at the very end, you have to choose to make a potion out of three combinations of ingredients, and you have nothing to go on other than just attempting to pick the right one. City of Thieves is a single-player role-playing gamebook written by Ian Livingstone, illustrated by Iain McCaig and originally published in 1983 by Puffin Books.Furthermore, the only shield they might have found before this gives an Attack Strength bonus, not a skill bonus. and also (79) and (88)) The Serpent Queen's "poisonous fangs" inflict the normal 2 stamina points of injury (though at least in (79) and (88) when she bites you just before the fight she does inflict 1 skill and 4 stamina points of injury).

A few points: when asked to choose between black and white it was pretty obvious which one was which. City of Thieves is a single-player adventure gamebook written by Ian Livingstone and illustrated by Iain McCaig. I was then given the option to say ‘ahem’ to him loudly… I have no idea why I’d want to, but given that I’d already played volleyball with one semi-naked man and the only women I’d seen in this city so far had been mad old crones, I decided to take the gamble and do so. And beyond lies the most fearsome adventure of them all - the tower stronghold of the infamous Zanbar Bone!I feel future entries in the series will struggle to match City of Thieves for atmosphere, playability and excitement.

The full-page illustrations in the book were accompanied with a caption giving a short extract from the text. It's like reading a book from the Choose Your Own Adventure series, but you have to fight villains by rolling 2 regular dice and find hidden objects in the story. Totally loved the atmosphere and setting of Port Blacksand, twists and storyline were really good ones too, and this thrilling rogue-style adventure gave me hours and hours of fun, with a massive deaths count of 10-15 because I tried to finish it without cheating or using easy to find internet solutions and walkthroughs . Hired by a desperate mayor, the player must as the adventurer journey to the dangerous city-state of Port Blacksand (the titular "City of Thieves"), and find the wizard Nicodemus, who apparently knows of Bone's one weakness. Stopping in at a local clairvoyant (who, in FF books, are legitimately able to see the future, and not simply hucksters skilled in cold reading like they are in real-life), I was told that it’d be useful to look under the nearby bridge for Nicodemus.By all accounts things get pretty difficult in the second half, but unfortunately we never made it that far, failing to acquire all the needed items before we left the city. It was now my firm opinion that Candle Street is the Arkham Asylum of Port Blacksand, so I promised never to go back there again, and instead walked in the opposite direction as fast as I could. It's well-written, atmospheric, tense, and sufficiently difficult without falling into frustrating or cheating. One of the interesting things is that these books tend to be very black and white, particularly with the fantasy ones. The story is a little frustrating in places, and I noticed a few minor issues such as running out of money, but being forced to spend it in latter sections (e.