Midnight Rogue
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| Fighting Fantasy Gamebooks | |
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 The cover of Midnight Rogue illustrated by John Sibbick |
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| Outline | |
| Location: | Port Blacksand, Allansia, Titan |
| References: | 400 |
| Publication details | |
| Author(s): | Graeme Davis |
| Illustrator: | John Sibbick |
| Puffin | |
| Cover illustrator: | John Sibbick |
| First published: | 1987 |
| Number | 29 |
| ISBN: | ISBN 0-14-032378-3 |
| Wizard | |
| Cover illustrator: | N/A |
| First published: | N/A |
| Number | N/A |
| ISBN: | N/A |
| List of Fighting Fantasy Gamebooks | |
Midnight Rogue is a single-player roleplaying gamebook written by Graeme Davis, illustrated by John Sibbick and originally published in 1987 by Puffin Books. It forms part of Steve Jackson and Ian Livingstone's Fighting Fantasy series. It is the 29th in the series in the original Puffin series (ISBN 0-14-032378-3). There are currently no announced plans to republish this book as part of the modern Wizard series.
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[edit] Story
YOU are an apprentice in the Thieves' Guild of Port Blacksand. Tonight is the testing time, the climax of your training. Your mission is to find and steal a priceless gem, the Eye of the Basilisk, and the special skills you have learned will be tested to the limit!
Many terrors lie in wait in the darkness of this evil city's backstreets and alleys. Will you be able to accomplish your dangerous task? You have until morning to prove yourself.
Midnight Rogue is set in Port Blacksand from City of Thieves, and casts the player as a somewhat unheroic character — an apprentice thief undergoing the test for Guild membership. The task is to steal a valuable gem, the "Eye of the Basilisk", from a merchant named Brass. The adventure involves burgling a variety of locations in the city to gain clues as its whereabouts: once found, the protections put in place to guard the gem turn out to be an even greater test.
[edit] Rules
The book allows the player a choice of various special skills taught by the Thieves' Guild: some of these may also be acquired later in the adventure by the collection of useful items. A further unusual mechanic is the restriction on the number of "backpack items" that can be carried, fitting in with the character of the player.
[edit] Later references
The story introduces various characters who appeared in later Fighting Fantasy books. The merchant Brass, the clairvoyant Madame Star and the Thieves' Guild leader Rannik all appear in the sample adventure from the Advanced Fighting Fantasy book Blacksand!, in which a player character from Midnight Rogue may take part as a player character.
