Fantasy Gamebook newsdesk update!

 Just a bunch of random plugs while I'm getting my next #Everything25 entry ready.

• I'm on Bluesky! @fantasygamebook.bky.social
• I forgot to mention the Magic Companion! It's out, it's all about new magic for Advanced Fighting Fantasy 2E and I wrote 5 chapters for it!
• A History of Magic: tedious speculative wafflings on the history of different kinds of magic from the world of Titan.
• Animal Mastery (and Plant Mastery): Be the Beast Master you want to be! Command anything from a Mammoth to a Moth, from a Toad to a Tiger! Show the so-called Masters of Scorpion Swamp how it's really done, animal-wise!
  
• Illusionism: The coolest magic-users finally get a Titan-appropriate rules update. Come back Senyakhaz, all is forgiven!
  
• Psionics: This is much better than the Psionics rules in the AD&D 1E Players Handbook. It's certainly easier to understand! :-) I've adapted the Psionics rules created by Graham Bottley and Jonathan Hicks for the AFF 2E Stellar Adventures sci-fi ruleset, to a fantasy setting. Brain Slayers of the Underearth unite!
  
• Warlocks: Lothar the Warrior-Prince of Gundobad finally gets his due credit. The spell system from Andrew Chapman and Martin Allen's lone Clash of the Princes FF duology becomes a playable magic system for AFF 2E.
  

•  I did a speculative map of the major nations and areas of Irritaria the First Continent in issue #12 of The Warlock Returns! 

•  The Lindenbaum Prize hosted by the incredible Stuart Lloyd is underway! I won it last year with a crazy little fantasy gamebook adventure called Are You The Hero? I'm currently working on my entry for this year!

• Issue #15 of the esoteric and atmospheric Casket of Fays fanzine features my third part of the Marauders of the Azure Main series, originally a chapter in a proposed Dragon Warriors pirate book. In this episode, set in the Azure Coast port of Banar, our heroes Kanthos and Ekaterina find themselves in a spot of bother with the purple lotus leaf merchants...

• I'm 90% finished of a top secret AFF 2e book of which this is a taster:

• Over and out! :-)