![]() ![]() The game does not hold your hand or even lead you in any particular direction. Higher quality items give higher boosts too, so you will always be upgrading everything you can as you play. Similarly, holding a magic wand in your character’s magic slot will boost those rolls. For example, if you acquire and slot a golden compass into your scouting item block, you can get a plus two bonus added to all scouting rolls. Most rolls are heavily modified by your character’s skills, which you can grow in the game in response to events or which are also modified based on the types of equipment you carry, with one slot available for each major skill. For the Lone Wolf books, if you didn’t have any dice handy, there was a chart of numbers in the back of the book that you could randomly pick from when prompted.įor the Fabled Lands video game, all of the dice rolls are of course handled by the computer. Gamebooks like that generally present a story to readers with options like a Choose Your Own Adventure title, only instead of just making story choices you sometimes need to roll dice or refer to your character sheet before proceeding. Although I have never read/played the Fabled Lands gamebooks, I was really into the Lone Wolf series growing up, so I understand the concept. Their books are extremely popular, and the content of several of them have come together to form the basis of the video game. The Fabled Lands video game is based on the paperback gamebook series of the same name written by Dave Morris and Jamie Thomson. The game is currently available on Steam for under $20, and the amount of content that you get for that discount price is quite a value, assuming you like the kind of gameplay that Fabled Lands offers. Whether or not you want to become a hero of the realm, a wealthy merchant, an agent of chaos or just a wandering adventurer looking for their next thrill is totally up to you. You can literally wander off in any direction and get involved in just about anything you want. As a bonus, Fabled Lands does not try and hold a player’s hand. I know it was quite a shock for me at first, although once I learned the mechanics of how the game worked, I found it to be a really interesting way to present a deeply detailed world for players to explore. With the town of Plymouth straddling both the southwest boarder of McDonough and the south-eastern edge of Hancock County.Fabled Lands is a role-playing game that is likely a bit different from most others you have probably played before. "The cities, towns and villages of McDonough County are Adair, Bardolph, Blandinsville, Bushnell, Colchester, Colmar, Fandon, Good Hope, Industry, Macomb, New Philadelphia, Prairie City, Sciota, Tennessee and Walnut Grove. All the towns that now exist are either on an existing railroad or on a proposed railroad. Almost all of the early settlements disappeared after the railroads came in during the mid-1850s. "Over the next twenty years, prior to the coming of the railroads, 24 settlements appeared. When the county was granted self-governing status in late 1830, some of the first items that the commissioners went to work on were the laying out of roads to places of importance. ![]() "In 1826 when McDonough County was founded, pioneers began settling in three distinct groupings that became three distinct settlements. ![]() The county’s first trail was to guide southern Illinois pioneers from Beard’s ferry across the Illinois River to Rock Island and into the mining region of northwestern Illinois. The heavily wooded and hilly southwest quarter of the county contained few land grants to the veterans. "Both the surveys and the pattern of lands granted show that the county was not homogenous. Most of the county was awarded to veterans of the war as land grants for their services. The first documented “Americans” in McDonough County were soldiers from the War of 1812, followed shortly thereafter by teams of surveyors in 1816 that crisscrossed the county in a grid of half mile squares. Macomb is also where the concept for the fabled Republic of Forgottonia was created and where both its fictitious capitol of Fandon and its Governor, Neal Gamm were decided upon. The county seat, Macomb, is situated at the very middle of McDonough, and the courthouse itself sits almost precisely at the county’s center. "The county has the unusual distinction of forming a perfect square by Mercator map projection. "Established in 1830, McDonough County is named for Commodore Thomas McDonough who led a successful battle against the British on Lake Champlain in the War of 1812. Location of county: Mid-central, eastern edge of state crossroads of: US-136, IL-9, IL-110 and US-67, IL-41, IL-61Ĭounty Named for Thomas McDonough, a Commodore of the United States Navy Location of courthouse: 1 Courthouse Square, Macomb ![]()
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