#Choose your own adventure books

[atomic-chronoscaph]

Choose Your Own Adventure books - Bantam Books (covers from 1979 to 1985)

[lilithsaintcrow]

"The second-person voice gave these books a bracing immediacy, but their real appeal lay, of course, in the choices they offered, and even more so in the consequences: sometimes glory, sometimes death, and more often a fate unsettlingly in between."

Nowadays, I find the most interesting thing about Choose Your Own Adventure books is the structure. But as a kid, what I enjoyed were the possibilities--and being able to rewind, so to speak, in a way I already knew life didn't permit.

[hotcalc]

Its Valentines week! so I celebrated in the only way I know how: barely sticking to theme. join me in a letsplay(?) of HeartQuest 1 Ring of the Ruby Dragon. a Choose your own Adventure Romance book!

[avvrom]

[haridraws]

The Great Library: illustration for Into the Tower (x)

[bookofthegear]

Oh, because I forgot to do this earlier and people asked, your total run avoided fourteen definite deaths and one Bad Choice that, while not outright fatal, would have meant that your luck would turn sour. (That doesn’t have, like, a randomized effect, given that much of this is improv, but ropes would snap, rungs would break, just how potable IS that water, maybe the pointy people did actually see your light and are lying in wait, etc.)

(Yes, there are actually things you can do to piss off the labyrinth. I won’t go into any details, because that would be too easy, but they do tend to be fairly obviously Significant Choices.)

Overall, you made it much, much deeper into the maze than any other players have, and a couple times I had to scramble to think “Jeez, what IS in that next room, anyway?” because you’d outrun my mental map.

Good job! The cabbages are proud.

[night-market-if]

Merripen

Meet Death. The Night Market's age old friend. The one who played in the stars with them. Romance the male or female version of them and learn more about their past in the Night Market series.

Art done by @mooreaux

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[dalekowrites]

Chapter 9 is now free to read for everyone!

What's everyone up to when you're not around? And... who's sleeping with whom? 👀

Chapter 9 adds about 2,7k words, for a total of about 27k words!

Click on "Public Demo" to read it! ♥

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[thebarontheabyss]

Hey patrons! 💗

So, what did you all think of the short stories collection?

Did any of them stand out to you? What worked or didn’t? Is there else anything you’d love to see more of in the future :D

Also, exciting news: I've begun working on Chapter 5—we’re moving forward!

After the new chapter's update, I'll dedicate the following to overhauling some of the game's romance aspects, sort of a 3.0 update.

Thanks for reading. As always, your feedback means the world to me—please let me know what you think!

Catch you all soon in the Abyss!

[nepttunnee]

idk i felt like it

[oldschoolfrp]

William Stout covers for some of the Time Machine adventure books -- 2: Search for Dinosaurs (1984), 3: Sword of the Samurai (1984), 6: The Rings of Saturn (1985)

[xtrablak674]

See now y'all got me fucked up! CYOA was my jam! I have everyone listed here after painstakingly putting my collection back together after I was evicted from my grandparents home and my grandmother gave my books away. I was devastated when years later staying at my aunt's house finding my books on her bookshelf especially since I used the carefully saved money from my allowance to buy these book. They signified my new situation living in the Bronx, being separated from my brothers and my mom being dead.

When doing Rona-vations in my home during lockdown, I deliberately had a bookshelf built for paperback books because I wanted a place to display my Choose Your Own Adventure Books which to this day I still re-read from time to time.

[Photo by Brown Estate]

Choose Your Own Adventure books - Bantam Books (covers from 1979 to 1985)

[savagechickens]

Options of Tedium.

And more options.

[blueskittlesart]

guys you can try to convince me of this movie's potential merits all you want but i need you to keep in mind that you're talking to someone who has consumed literally every piece of non-game zelda media ever released. any comic or film or show you want to cite as a good adaptation they've done before i have read or watched. i made a two hour video about it. i know exactly what their past attempts at adaptation have looked like. i have seen both the best and the absolute worst nintendo has to offer. and i truly think there is no way we get a good movie out of this

[haridraws]

Things that can happen in this book:

you accidentally do some treason to impress a cool genderqueer spy you may be in love with

you come home to find your family house has been absolutely fucked up by some sort of magic and all your stuff got confiscated by very ominous ‘inquisitors’

you scam rich people into thinking you’re a servant with various gendered disguises. For stealing purposes

you get cursed by a mysterious book that REALLY wants you to find a forbidden Thing and destroy the world, which now seems like a great idea

These are just in the intros of the 4 characters you pick from at the beginning. Once you're inside there are a LOT of different choices, including eg. allowing you to be murdered by your clone, get trapped forever in the source of all magic or befriend a powerful woodlouse.

(Into the tower, out now)

[bookofthegear]

You leave the room behind and spend twenty minutes trying to get the grille more or less back in place. It doesn’t really work, but you manage to wedge it into the opening so that at least it won’t fall over on anybody. You still give it a worried glance as you leave.

The only place left to go is down the stairs, so down you go. At the bottom, you find a smallish room with an alcove, a huge iron door that someone made specifically to be intimidating, and a sloping hallway to the south. You hear frog calls echoing in the distance from the hallway.

There’s a rusty faucet in the alcove. Jimmy says, “You know what’s weird?”

You are spoiled for choice, frankly, but you humor him. “What?”

“Every time somebody turns that faucet handle, it breaks. But every time I come down here, it’s wired back into place.”

You consider this. “Magic or plumbers, do you think?”

Jimmy makes a flailing gesture with his wings. “I don’t know. Maybe this is some kind of afterlife for plumbers and the bad ones have to stay here fixing the same faucet for all eternity.”

This is an interesting theory. It doesn’t body well for your dreams of treasure, but then again, plumbers get paid way better than adventurers.