Series of
Adventure books by
Joe Dever. The books functioned as a single-player roleplaying game, complete with combat and skill checks. In general, they were a
choose your own adventure style book, which presented different
choices at the end of every page, with instructions to turn to a different page depending on your choice until you got to the end. Combat was resolved by randomly pointing your pencil at a page of numbers (
no peeking) and comparing that number to a chart, along with your combat advantage/disadvantage.
Well, I found out
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