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[Pickle123]

cheers rach, i knew it was somthing like that

had a big catacombite on the front cover :o

[Purgatory]

Isn't about time these were re-released? been out of print for years...
What are theses books ment to be about anyway?

[GrimaldineGrimwold]

I'm not quite sure what your last question refers to. If you haven't already seen it, there's some information about them here:

http://knightmare.v21hosting.co.uk/revi ... /index.htm

[Illusion]

Good condition second hand Knightmare books still seem to be widely available on sites such as www.ebay.co.uk or www.amazon.co.uk.

[Shepps]

I've got a Knightmare book somewhere, can't find it though.


From what I remember, I think half or it's a story, then the other half is a quest.  You get choices and then go to differet pages depending on what choice you made.

Eg:
On the table you find Gold, a Potion and a Glove.  If you take:
Gold & Potion - Turn to page 37
Potion & Glove - Turn to page 65
Glove & Gold  - Turn to page 24


And it goes on until you either win, or die  :-/

[Purgatory]

oh Game books, i always thought they were storys or something.

I used to love them game books used to collect the ones by Joe someone.. lol intresting stuff.

[Pickle123]

half was a game and half (the first in the one i read) a story. this one starred treguard ??

[PhoenixFlame]

 The first four all starred Treguard in the story part, and as far as I know the last three had children as the main characters, with Treguard being more of a guest star.

A wonderful morning to everybody!

[Crispin]

Yes.  In the one I read Treguard set out on a real quest with fighting and horses etc.

[Steve]

oh Game books, i always thought they were storys or something.

I used to love them game books used to collect the ones by Joe someone.. lol intresting stuff.

Ah yes Joe dever and his "Lone Wolf" collection how i loved those books. he's still writing the new order series i think.

[Purgatory]

i thought he had started writien 'real' books about Lone wolf than continue with the Game books.  i tryed looking some info up on the net and didn't find anything of intrest.

[Willowherb]

I was really happy to find that I've still got all my old KM novels . It's interesting to see how the first four are actually quite teen-adult orientated - what with all the snatches of gritty mediaeval history mixed in with some of the darker aspects of the Arthurian legends. Treguard's boyhood tragedy is actually quite like the story of Hereward the Wake; a Saxon lord whose family was killed and lands confiscated by the Normans. Of course, the later KM books are a lot more child-focused and the adventures seem a lot easier.
What do people think of the novels in general and what are your favourites? I know one or two people who've said they actually got quite interested in history by reading the early ones. I just wish there were more of them!

Something like this might have been talked about before, but this gives the knewbies a chance to talk about it.

[Drassil]

I tended to give the gamebook sections far more attention than the novels. The one novel section that I like to reread is the riddle contest between Treguard and Arawn in the second book.

[andrewbuckley]

Oh, I still have all mine too, which is a miracle after all these years. i used to love the books, especially the first 4, and the stories were excellent. The first 2 were combined favourites, I loved the Gruagatch or whatever he was called in the first one, a really great evil baddie. I always liked to imagine Treguard off having all those adventures, I have to say. Though the last books were a little too childish for me, the stories were still quite good, I liked the spookiness of the Road to Babylon or whatever it was in Book 5, the name of which now escapes me. The last book, Lord Fear's Domain, was nowhere near as good though. I prefered the gamebook and novel combo, this was more like a (bad) Usbourne Puzzle Adventure...

[Wolfshead]

I liked "Labaryinthe of Fear" best becaue of the elf lore, i liked the bit when Treguard was attacked by undead soldiers.

"Can you beat the challenge was also good, I thought it was cool that the Gruagach turned out to be the devil.