The Legends of Skyfall was a series of four adventure

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s written by David Tant and published by Armada in 1985. The books allow the reader to become a lone adventurer on a planet called Skyfall which was colonized by humans who were fugitives from a dying planet. Although the population of humans on the planet has grown over an undisclosed period of time (hinted at being a few hundred years) to the point where they now outnumber indigenous races, the planet remains largely untamed. The humans themselves are largely hemmed in to a small Kingdom known as Delta. The series' major deviation from others of the genre was a unique system for organizing combat. Whereas most gamebooks and

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involve the use of

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to create randomness, the Skyfall series adopted a system of coin tosses.

Books

#''Monsters of the Marsh'' #''The Black Pyramid'' #''Mine of Torments'' #''The Garden of Madness''

External links

Legends of Skyfall - Series review at Gamebooks.org
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