Old School "fantasy" game?

Question

Looking for the name of a game from the '80s that was a 2-player game that usedillustrated booklets to carry out a battle. Each player would pick abooklet (that came with a commands or action card), this booklet would be a troll or ninja, warrior, wizard etc. The players would exchange booklets but keep their cards.

Then they would pick actions (swing sword, dodge, cast spell) look at the card and through a complicated sounding, but simple to use matrix, determine a page number for each person to flip to, this would then show what kind of damgae was made.

It was called something like "lost worlds"

Answer 1

woah i remember that!! gr8 game

Answer 2

Great game - have several of the fantasy ones and a few of the Battletech ones lying around somewhere (assuming they haven't mildewed away to nothing...SWMBO banished a lot of my gaming stuff to the garage years ago)

Answer 3

It wasn't called something like Lost Worlds - it was Lost Worlds!

Great game - very portable, and it was a fun dueling game.  The original set by Nova had maybe around 20 books in it.  Another set of 4 was later done by Flying Buffalo, and some time later a few more by Chessex.  Many of the earlier books can be picked up inexpensively off e-bay; the later books are very hard to find (I'm still trying to pick up the last few I need for my set).

The later books tried to get into the collectible thing with 'combat cards' that came with the books, which were spells, items and moves that characters could use limited amounts of.

There's also been a few other games using the same system; there was a Battletech series, a Lost Worlds 'Dino-fight' system that was compatible (though dinosaurs would be very fierce), a handful of Warhammer 40K based books (not compatible), and Marvel Battlebooks (also not compatible, and not as good a game, though the full color comic book style game books look really nice).  There's lately been a few with photo-based covers (they look really cheesy to me), and some Japanese books - not sure what those are like.

For more info, check out the BGG entry: http://www.boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/1...