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Crapshoot: The Hobbit, the text adventure that let try to you kill Gandalf

Byadmin

Oct 24, 2021


From 2010 to 2014 Richard Cobbett wrote Crapshoot, a column about rolling the dice to bring random obscure games back into the light. This week, the adventure that brought Tolkien’s epic fantasy to life like never before—using text! Wait, hang on…

In the middle of the earth, in the land of the Shire, lives a brave little hobbit who we all admire. With his long wooden pipe, and fuzzy woolly toes, he lives in a hobbit-hole and everybody knows him. Bilbo. Bilbo Baggins. He’s only three feet tall. Yes, Bilbo, Bilbo Baggins. The bravest little hobbit of them all.

Well, would you try ordering Thorin Oakenshield to carry your hairy arse around?

An adventuring smorgasbord, and I’m not talking about a dragon in need of a new hobby.

The Hobbit is one of those ’80s classics, much beloved by everyone who ever played it, and to its credit, not a bad attempt at turning the adventure into… well, an adventure, especially by 1982 standards. 



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