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Prepare for adventure in this huge open-world gamebook series.  Legendary Kingdoms is a gamebook campaign, where you lead a party of adventurers in a world that adapts to your actions.  Venture into ancient ruins, pick a side and lead an army into battle, sail the high seas on your own warship, defeat tyrants or bring them to power.  Along the way your party will increase in skill, wealth and renown, allowing them to take on more challenging adventures.  Reach the heights of power and you may uncover a dreadful threat to the world itself and go on a mission that spans all six gamebooks in the series.

Book 1:  The Valley of Bones takes place in a desert wilderness where tyrant kings oppress the teeming masses in a land strewn with ancient artefacts and ruins.  But their grip on power is fragile … and the citizenry are ripe for revolution.  It is a land of blood and sand, where civilisation is rare and terrible beasts roam freely.

There are six titles coming in total for Legendary Kingdoms

Book 2 is Crown & Tower, followed by (3) Pirates of the Splintered Isle, (4) The Gilded Throne, (5) The Savage Lands & (6) Drakehallow.

Each book in the Legendary Kingdom series covers a different geographic area on the world map.  These region books each have a more detailed, zoomed-in version of the map.  Every location on the map can be reached, either on foot, by sea or by magical transportation (if you possess such a power).  You can go back and forth between books at will – just walk or sail off the edge of the map.   

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James M August 21, 2023 5:42 am UTC
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For fun I've used the rules for creating your own character to create legendary kingdoms versions of Katniss Everdeen from The Hunger Games and Delphini Riddle/Voldemorts Daughter, from Harry Potter and The Cursed Child. Here they are. What do you think?

Katniss Everdeen. None Spellcaster. Survival 5, Stealth 3, Fighting 3, Charisma 3 and Lore 1. Health 8

Delphini Riddle. Spellcaster. Lore 5, Charisma 3, Survival 3, Stealth 2 and Fighting 2. Health 6. Knows The Spells Animal Speak, Ice Bolt and Magic Cabinet. See below for how I justified those spells

The way I justified Delphini's Spells is that Animal Speak represents her having Parseltongue and her affinity with her pet Augery, Ice Bolt represents her Skill with offensive magic and Magic Cabinet is because someone as smart as she is is bound to have a place that only she can access where she can store illegal goods, black magic items, artefacts and books and dark magic magic items, artefacts and books
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Tidal W August 17, 2022 2:21 pm UTC
Preview, please.
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Marcus T July 24, 2022 1:03 pm UTC
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Amazing potential but horrifically disappointing. Much, much toohard - one bad roll can completely destroy all of your progress, essentially prompting a restart because you'll have lost all of your gear with no way to get it back. It feels arbitrary and overly punishing.

The concept of the characters having stories and even romances was incredible, but almost impossible to navigate on a blind playthrough. For example, the lesbian romance I was attempting gets deep-sixed simply because I had the 'wrong' character in my team and one of the participants shied off. Yeah, maybe that's 'realistic' but it's hugely unsatisfying narratively.

The author needs to tone down the arbitrary punishments and 'rocks fall everyone dies' results and lessen the necessity of having to know you need an exact combination of certain characters to complete the relationships.

I'm just so disillusioned I have no interest in trying again because I know I'll run in to other dead-ends.

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Paul B September 06, 2021 6:03 am UTC
No preview offered?
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Manuel R March 31, 2021 3:52 pm UTC
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I'm enjoying the book so far. I still have a ways to go before I finish the story. One thing that stands out that I just could not stomach any longer is the editing. The publisher needs a new editor for future books. The language usage is atrocious. Not only are there copious amounts of spelling errors, the sentence structure is just downright awful. A book such as this must rely on specificity and clarity to be successful--the editor failed in this regard. I really hope the second book (which is now on Kickstarter) turns the editing around.
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Ozzy B March 27, 2021 7:18 pm UTC
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Enjoying the story so far but quite a few of the links don't work properly, usually when the paragraph is spread over two pages, the link jumps to the second half which is not helpful.
Also, quite a number of typos (hung instead of hanged in Brash's description, wonton in paragraph 192 etc.)
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Jon L June 12, 2020 10:24 am UTC
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Here is a review from Michael Reilly at GameBook News - https://gamebooknews.com/2019/09/01/interview-legendary-kingdoms-book-one-released/
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Ozzy B March 27, 2021 7:22 pm UTC
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That's not a review, it's an interview with Oliver Hulme.
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Julien G June 08, 2020 5:18 pm UTC
Hi,
Seems interesting, but I have a couple questions:
Is this a "choose you own adventure"-style book (a la Fighting Fantasy) or a campaign setting?
Could you please set up a preview?
Thanks in advance!
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Malcolm S June 08, 2020 10:21 pm UTC
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I just bought it. It’s a choose your own adventure book with a simple game system. You play a party of characters.
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Julien G June 08, 2020 11:38 pm UTC
Thanks. I'll be awaiting a preview now.
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Julien G June 12, 2020 4:49 pm UTC
Found a preview and a lot more on the publisher's website: https://spidermindgames.co.uk/legendary-kingdoms/
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Robert A March 14, 2021 11:48 am UTC
I’ve started it and it’s pretty damn good so far. Combat is relatively simple and the story is good so far.
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