What Lies Beneath adventure book review | Review copy provided

[@OneStopCoopShop]

COMPONENTS - It's a book... a very nice book, but yeah, just a book. You'll need to supply your own dice and print the character sheet. Order the book here - www.amazon.com/What-Lies-Beneath-Tales-Teg/dp/B0CNZG2K1B 0:00 - Introduction 0:35 - Stats and Leveling 1:22 - Items and Tags 2:04 - Efficient Narrative 2:50 - Branching Choices 3:48 - Varied Dice Systems 4:39 - Final Thoughts

[@healthytouch101]

I love seeing this review. I love gamebooks and Jason Glover's art in his Grey Gnome games on GameCrafter. Have this on my radar because of this review. Thanks for exploring this. There are a lot of modern gamebooks in other kinds of settings; I hope you can explore some more!

[@OneStopCoopShop]

Feel free to send me the name of a few! :)

[@healthytouch101]

@@OneStopCoopShop You might like JD Mitchell's Citadel of Bureaucracy (2023) which is different that traditional fantasy gamebooks. Samuel Isaacson has Escape from Portsrood Forest which is a knight trying to find their way after a rather rough night and I have still not found all the endings, but many ways to die. He also has a sci-fi trilogy I would love to hear a review of. I'd also like to hear more about the Click Your Poison series in a review, too!

[@jotaf98]

Sounds really nice, and creative use of the dice! Another good one of this kind, with a comic book format and a great time system (so you can't explore forever) is Captive.

[@OneStopCoopShop]

Haven’t heard of that. Sounds cool!

[@jotaf98]

@@OneStopCoopShop if you take one look at one comic book page from it, you'll be hooked :)

[@crushingit5128]

Love this new review approach of anime, PnP, books, etc. Probably wont be your MOST watched videos, but I hope it catches on. And more importantly I hope you like it. I tried about 12 different PnP games (4AD, Ker Nathalas, 2D6, etc) but nothing really connected with me unfortunately.

[@OneStopCoopShop]

I have another anime review coming next week. I don’t plan to do more than 1 every 2-3 weeks. Gotta keep the channel focused on board games. But glad you are enjoying it!

[@chrisscaffidi]

Mike, what a punchy and enjoyable video! Thanks for covering the game.

[@OneStopCoopShop]

Great job designing this one!

[@marielaporte4668]

Oh! There's also a PnP on PnP Arcade :) thx for the review!

[@OneStopCoopShop]

Oh nice, that’s a good option

[@healthytouch101]

That seems a reasonable cost, too.

[@hunterjorgensen1145]

Aside from Spires End (which maybe doesn't count), I haven't played any choose your own adventure in a long time. Would you recommend this one or another one more?

[@OneStopCoopShop]

This is the only new one I’ve played. All my other experience is from games that are 20-30 years old or more 😅😅😅

[@dontgivetwothwips3615]

Looks interesting!

[@erikpeters7072]

Have you played the legendary kingdoms books? They are the best gamebooks I have read. Would love to see a 5 in 5 for them

[@OneStopCoopShop]

Haven’t heard of these. I looked it up and it looks like the last Kickstarter is having issues delivering. Is that right?

[@erikpeters7072]

@@OneStopCoopShop yeah they just got bought by another company and finally book 3 should deliver. Now they are planning for the last 3 books. But book 1 and 2 are readily available although maybe things are different now that there's a new company taking over

[@FPchie]

You are right, may as well just jump into Lone Wolf series or other many existing gamebooks for the full narrative experience. No reason to pick this one up really.

[@OneStopCoopShop]

Well that’s overly harsh. I love that there are new game books coming out. You’d rather people play existing books and never write another one? 😅😅😅