Choose Your OOT Adventure: Chapter One

[TheIrishThug]

have u had 3 5yr olds hanging on u trying to make it so u cant move? they do the job quite well. a few sacrifice themselves to keep u from moving, the rest go for physical harm towards u.

but yeah, we don't need to get into this. everybody focus on the decision at hand.

[WackityWhiz]

excellent idea, i'm looking forward to chapter 2

[meep_42]

BIMO

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[The Armchair]

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if we had all of oot embodied in this one "person" we could so take 27 5 yr olds.

NOTE: i am one of the one that says the # one person could take is smaller than 27.

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I don't want to start this argument again, but really man, think of what a 5 year old actually looks like. I could see your reasoning with 9 year olds, but 5 year olds don't have any muscle strength or coordination, and are extremely weak.

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I promise this will not become a "how many five year olds can you beat" story.

[The Armchair]

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You should save all of these posts and publish them afterwards.

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I am.

[lem45216]

This is awesome. Reminds me of playing rpg choose your adventure type games in primary school on old BBC computers. Though obviously at primary school it wasn't quite as menacing as this scenario. It was more helping your character solve math puzzles to defeat the dragon in the castle. Not because solving the maths puzzles killed the dragon, but because solving the maths puzzles made the dragon happy again so it didn't eat you.

But yes, i can't wait for chapter 2.

[MrTrik]

Cool post. I'll watch for the next.

[ddubois]

I had an asston of Choose Your Own Adventure books when I was a kid. I loved them. I also had collections of several series of gamebooks, that basically stole/expanded-on the CYOA concept. These usually included 1) the traditional CYOA decision tree, and 2) a very simple gameplay system involving die-rolling or coin-flipping game and keeping track of your life total.

I know I had some books from each of these series in that collection:
Wizards, Warriors & You
Swordquest
AD&D Super Endless Quest
Lone Wolf
Fighting Fantasy

I'm sure I'd find the game play stupid now, having been spoiled by years of CRPGS, but they were the nut high when I was ~11.

On a lark, I passed them out the week before Christmas to classmates in high school (after which I'm sure they were promptly thrown away, and my reputation as a geek was even further entrenched). Now that I have kids of my own, this decision seems very regrettable, and thus this thread makes me sad.

[ddubois]

Guys, you are going to think I'm retarded, but I am so excited!! I just found out I didn't give any of my gamebooks away, just my Choose Your Own Adventure books. I actually had all my books from the various series I listed, plus Endless Quests, Hero's Challenge, Sorcery, etc. in the garage, and it wasn't until my wife told me that I remembered. I have over 75 of these suckers - YAUS!

When do you think my son will be old enough to enjoy these? 8? 10?

[BoxTree]

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When do you think my son will be old enough to enjoy these? 8? 10?

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As soon as he's old enough to know that he shouldn't be passing these things around to his high school friends, he'll be old enough to enjoy them.

So...college? (You passed them out in high school??? Oy.)