In addition to his more than seventy published books, Morris is a leading developer of the Empire of the Petal Throne gaming system (created by MAR Barker and published by TSR), creating a playable rules system ( Tirikelu) and editing a fanzine. Working with artist Leo Hartas, Morris founded electronic publisher Mirus Entertainment and published Mirabilis for the iPad in December 2010. In 2008 his episodic comic strip Mirabilis began weekly publication in Random House's subscription-based magazine The DFC. Another horror novel, Florien, was published as an ebook in 2010. His original novels include Knightmare (a historical fantasy adventure series set in the early 13th century that ties in with the television series of that name), Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles and the contemporary horror novel Lost Souls. ![]() ![]() Morris also co-authored a number of other books, including Virtual Reality: Necklace of Skulls with Mark Smith (1993), Blood Sword: The Battlepits of Krarth with Oliver Johnson (1987), the Golden Dragon series, and a number of TV and movie novelisations. Twenty-five years after the Fabled Lands books were published, Morris and Thomson granted a license to Prime Games to develop a Fable Lands computer role-playing game. However, Eidos ran out of money before the project was completed. : 1Īs Massively multiplayer online games (MMOs) became popular in the early 2000s, Morris and Thomson hired the French firm Eidos to convert their books into an MMO. Īlthough well-received, the books were published when, as Sylvio Konkol noted, "the golden age of adventure gamebooks was actually over." Morris and Thomson originally envisioned twelve books in the series, but various publishing problems, including underpricing the expensive books and a shrinking market, meant the series was curtailed after only six volumes. : 46 It received positive reviews, including 20 years later. In 1995, Morris and Jamie Thomson wrote the first of several adventure gamebooks in the Fabled Lands series. In 1990, Morris and Jamie Thomson wrote The Keep of the Lich-Lord for the popular Fighting Fantasy series of adventure gamebooks. In 1987, Morris and Johnson created the Blood Sword series, five adventure gamebooks published by Knight Books. In 2008, the game was licensed by Morris to James Wallis of Magnum Opus Press, and Serpent King Games acquired the Dragon Warriors license afterwards. : 46 In a 1996 reader poll conducted by Arcane to determine the fifty most popular roleplaying games of all time, Dragon Warriors was ranked 48th. Dragon Warriors was an attempt at releasing a role-playing game in a series of paperback books. The following year, Morris and Oliver Johnson created the Dragon Warriors role-playing game. Morris began his writing career in 1984 by writing the fantasy adventure gamebook Crypt of the Vampire, part of the Golden Dragon series published by Grafton Books in the UK and Berkley Books in the US. ![]() Graphic novels, video games, science fiction, fantasyĭavid John Morris (born 19 March 1957) is a British author of gamebooks, novels and comics and a designer of computer games and role-playing games.ĭave Morris graduated from Magdalen College, Oxford, where he read Physics from 1976 until 1979. Along these uncharted paths lie a thousand opportunities for adventurers bold enough to seek profit, glory, knowledge or raw power.Stoke Poges, Buckinghamshire, England, United Kingdom ![]() The only limit is your imagination.* * *SET OUT ON A JOURNEY OF FABULOUS ADVENTURE IN LANDS TO STAGGER YOUR IMAGINATIONEnter THE SERPENT KING'S DOMAIN, a vast jungle forbidden to outsiders. Be whoever you choose, go anywhere you please, do anything you want. A thousand quests await you and every decision is in your hands. Undertake missions that will earn you allies and enemies, or stay a free agent and find fortune where you will. Buy a ship or a townhouse, join a temple, undertake desperate adventures in the wilderness or embroil yourself in court intrigues and the sudden violence of city backstreets. You can choose to be an explorer, merchant, priest, scholar or soldier of fortune. The Serpent King's Domain (Fabled Lands #7)īook Synopsis : FABLED LANDS is an epic series of interactive books with the scope of a massively multiplayer game world.
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