The Dark Eye (role-playing game)(en.wikipedia.org)

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Anyone else here remember playin that? It was called "L'Oeil Noir" in french (literally, word for word, "The Dark Eye").

https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/L%27%C5%92il_noir

First tabletop roleplaying game I ever played: a friend going to the same school and living in the street next to ours had it. I was maybe 12 or 13 years old.

Then a little bit later we discovered the real thing: Advanced Dungeons and Dragons" (oh the memories not just of playing but also melting metal in mom's kitchen, late at night when she was asleep, in the regular pan she'd use to cook [!] to mold figurines, paint them, etc.).

Once I discovered AD&D, I couldn't help but feel that The Dark Eye was a cheap knock-off, a pale imitation, of D&D / AD&D.

johncoltrane3 mesi fa

I was 11 when I started roleplaying with gamebooks. I vaguely remember L'œil Noir as a classic among "Livres dont vous êtes le héros". The same year I saw the older kids play a full D&D campaign with the adults during summer camp. In the following months Casus Belli and Jeux & Strategies, two magazines dedicated to RPGs, gradually replaced comics… and we eventually put together an "official" club at our middle school, where we played D&D for a while, and more games as we discovered them: MEGA II, Paranoia, Rêve de dragons, le JRTM, Call of Cthulu, Zone, etc.

Fond memories of Laelith ;-).

TacticalCoder3 mesi fa

> I vaguely remember L'œil Noir as a classic among "Livres dont vous êtes le héros".

Oh yup I read/played those books too! The earliest one you could find the end by going, literally, to the last page of the book. Then at some point they changed that and you couldn't cheat anymore for the end was "hidden" at some random place on the book!

Thanks for reminding me about those (Cthulu I remember too!).