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Sorcery! is a series of four single-player role-playing gamebooks written by Steve Jackson and illustrated by John Blanche, published initially by Penguin Books and then its children's imprint Puffin Books between 1983 and 1985 as an adjunct to the Fighting Fantasy series. The Sorcery! gamebooks departed from the standard Fighting Fantasy line in a number of ways, most notably their comparative length and complexity. In addition to allowing players to "carry over" a character from one book to the next, Sorcery! also features the most verbose writing style of any entry in the Fighting Fantasy canon. Since these deviations were accompanied by an advertising campaign asking "Why should kids have all the fun?", it seems that the intention was to appeal to a more adult age range than the teenag

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  • Sorcery! is a series of four single-player role-playing gamebooks written by Steve Jackson and illustrated by John Blanche, published initially by Penguin Books and then its children's imprint Puffin Books between 1983 and 1985 as an adjunct to the Fighting Fantasy series. The Sorcery! gamebooks departed from the standard Fighting Fantasy line in a number of ways, most notably their comparative length and complexity. In addition to allowing players to "carry over" a character from one book to the next, Sorcery! also features the most verbose writing style of any entry in the Fighting Fantasy canon. Since these deviations were accompanied by an advertising campaign asking "Why should kids have all the fun?", it seems that the intention was to appeal to a more adult age range than the teenag
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  • Sorcery! is a series of four single-player role-playing gamebooks written by Steve Jackson and illustrated by John Blanche, published initially by Penguin Books and then its children's imprint Puffin Books between 1983 and 1985 as an adjunct to the Fighting Fantasy series. The Sorcery! gamebooks departed from the standard Fighting Fantasy line in a number of ways, most notably their comparative length and complexity. In addition to allowing players to "carry over" a character from one book to the next, Sorcery! also features the most verbose writing style of any entry in the Fighting Fantasy canon. Since these deviations were accompanied by an advertising campaign asking "Why should kids have all the fun?", it seems that the intention was to appeal to a more adult age range than the teenage market targeted by the main Fighting Fantasy series. Publication ceased when Puffin ended the Fighting Fantasy range in 1995. The Sorcery! series has since been reprinted in 2003 by Wizard Books, as part of a series of selected Fighting Fantasy gamebook reprints and new titles.
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