What's the Name of That Book??? discussion

This was a series of books, Choi you own adventure style (different brand and publisher than CYOA though) game books. They had a dice rolling requirement to make choices.

Fantasy based, very D&D type (although not under the D&D brand either). The protagonist was a warrior with (I think) some magic. I think his name started with a T but I’m not sure. It was an ogling story arc from oil to book, and I think there were about five or so in the series.

Lots of black on the covers, paperback. I would have read these at least 30 years ago.

The plot lines outlines the adventurer teaming up with people and creatures. One plot involved a deadly maze to get through. One involved having to deal with an insane kingdom where it turned out cannibalism had flourished.

The artwork was fairly dark. Black covers if I remember correctly. Heavy subject material.

Is it the Fighting Fantasy series? Several of them involve mazes, although I can't find one about cannibalism. They do require dice.

Dwight wrote: "This was a series of books, Choi you own adventure style (different brand and publisher than CYOA though) game books. They had a dice rolling requirement to make choices.

Fantasy based, very D&D t..."

Maybe the "Bloodsword" books (there's five of them in total):

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2...

There were the Lone Wolf books by Joe Dever too...

OK I'm probably not helping here, but I'll throw this out there.

There was a fantasy game series called The Fantasy Trip ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Fan... ) by Steve Jackson Games. There were two main component games, Melee and Wizard. These spawned a series of sort-of CYOA modular games, and that's what made me think of this in your description.

This may help too ( https://thefantasytrip.game/site/asse... )

The books Dwight is looking for are at least thirty years old.

This game was around 30 years ago when I played it in the 80s

Oh, okay.

Wow! The Fighting Fantasy series is another one I’ve read, although it’s not the one I was looking for here. Thanks for that!

Thank you for the Blood Sword suggestion, unfortunately it isn’t those. It’s a singular named character as protagonist. Some type of warrior, I cannot recall the name.

Is it the Lone Wolf series (Rob’s suggestion, looks promising) or the Fantasy Trip game (Titus’s suggestion)?

Crikey, I'd forgotten about those Lone Wolf books. I used to love those and Fighting Fantasy :)

It's probably not the Knightmare series (although that does feature the character of Treguard) https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2...

Then there's the Firewolf saga (it's usual for gamebooks to be first person "YOU are the hero", but in these you do play as the character of Firewolf. https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/4...

Here are a few others from the same period that I remember playing/reading...

Combat Heroes series https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1...

Grailquest series https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/8...

Way of the Tiger series https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1...

Golden Dragon series https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2...

For future reference, these are the first books in all the series mentioned:
The Warlock of Firetop Mountain
The Battlepits of Krarth
Flight from the Dark
Can You Beat the Challenge?
Black Baron
Castle of Darkness
Avenger!
Crypt Of The Vampire

You might also want to check this page: https://gamebooks.org/Category/46

Dwight?