The Tragic Reason This Fantasy Series Took 40 Years

Am I the only one who wants Austin to do a play through of the books?

I had every book and read them several times over. One of my greatest regrets was throwing away my much loved series because I thought I was too old to hold on to this beloved nostalgia.

Yeah, Lone Wolf actually made me a worse student. I was so obsessed that I secretly started playing right during class in the 80's. I regret my lack of self control, but I'll never regret my journeys in that game world. I thought I was the only one who remembered these books. Thanks for this video, Austin. This hit me in a really emotional way. Nostalgia is one heck of a drug.

Austin you can't just make a twelve minute video that convinces me to buy like 30 fucking books I don't have that much money god dammit.

The Lone Wolf RPG was my first experience with the books. Lone Wolf, Fighting Fantasy, and Tunnels and Trolls make up a sort of missing link to today's tabletop roleplaying game scene.

The real story here is about a son and a father. The son says his father wasn't there, yet his working partner says it was unbelievable how available and caring he was. Sad, really.

I still have the first 20 or so books in a box, somewhere. I never would have guessed they would become collectibles. I guess I should pull them out so my kid can check them out. She's getting into d&d.

I've been craving something like this for a while. My D&D group is kinda shutting down, at least right now. I just bought the first book of the definitive set. Thank you for the recommendation! e: arrived today. here we go!

My sister adores this series. We've played the tabletop adaptation as a family. Joe Dever is her favorite author and a big inspiration for her. So lucky we got to meet him at Gen Con before he passed. He was very down to earth and I'm sure got a kick out of my sister introducing all of her family members to him. 😅

And i thought ive been waiting a long time for a song of ice and fire to finish

This is like a core memory unlocked… I used to look for these books online like 10 or so years ago and found most of them on one website in pdf format and it was the most fun I’ve had in a while. Very reminiscent of solo D&D

My dad owned a couple of those books. I have to say watching this video was a lot more of an emotional roller coaster than I was expecting it was going to be.

I remember having choose your own adventure books in school library, such good memories

I remember coming across a DS rom someone made that transferred the first two books into a digital thing. Probably not the best way to experience them, but if you like novelties, then it's a cool thing.

"Yeah, I think my 27 part saga is pretty ambitious." *sees this. ... "I am but a man among gods."

"I really like this book, how did your dad die?" Truely the grace of a legless cow.

Hey man, Your videos remind me of the phrase "beauty in the small things". I must've read so many books as a kid growing up but never bothered with them as an adult. You find beauty in small things you did as a child and with your amazing story telling skills, make great content. Hope it goes well for you in the future too.

Lone Wolf is SORELY underrated in the modern world of D&D. As a player just now getting his feet wet of TTRPGs of 5 years of the same setting of 5e, a lover of all kinds of video games & not finding any suitable games to play for my particular time schedule, Lone Wolf is THE gamebook series that I found out through the Video game (set in between books 3 & 4) that I had to check out the rest of the series as a whole through Project Aon. Now to see a video making me realize the books are coming out in a modern re-print? My wallet can’t get anymore empty, but the video has been amazing as well as many others. This channel deserves your sub, along with Lone Wolf as well. ❤️💙

Well damn, that took a turn I didn't expect. This story in and of itself is an epic adventure.

There was another one in this series that I remember playing through back in the day called Grey Star the Wizard. I think there were only 4 books in that one at least at the time but I enjoyed it.