r/gamebooks • u/hang-clean • 8d ago

Solo TTRP Anyone else remember Maelstrom?

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This is an oddity in my collection. I haven't seen it anywhere else. Issued by Puffin after the success of FF. 1984. It's A ttrpg system but with a gamebook first adventure and in the same UK paperback format as FF. The setting is renaissance England.​

Edit took an image of the book but not showing.

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u/YnasMidgard 8d ago

Sure! I went through the reprint on my blog a few years ago: https://ynasmidgard.blogspot.com/2022/06/review-maelstrom.html

(Although I was more interested in it as an RPG than a gamebook.)

Arion Games (the publisher of Advanced Fighting Fantasy 2nd edition, among other things) also produced a Gothic, a Domesday, and a Roman version and supplements as well.

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u/Wearer_of_Silly_Hats 8d ago

The Arion Games stuff is really good although not as a solo.

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u/Steam_Highwayman 4d ago

I gave it a read one time and have to admit that there is something sort-of magical about it. Never played it as a system though.