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Choose Your Own Adventure type gamebook about a knight vs a demon
Sounds like the American edition of "The Lord of Shadow Keep" (Golden Dragon Fantasy Gamebooks #3). The British edition, and some newer releases, had different cover art.
I believe the book ...
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Book where a boy and girl are transported into a fantasy video game
I believe that it is Demons Don't Dream, the 16th novel in the Xanth series. The protagonists, Dug and Kim, from "Mundania" (aka our world), start playing the Companions of Xanth game, which starts ...
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Looking for a SciFi RPG I played in my childhood about a girl who is a hologram who fights aliens
This sounds like Xenosaga Episode I: Der Wille zur Macht. (Each episode is named after a work by Nietsche, and there are many more allusions to religion and philosophy.) It was released for the ...
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Book where RPG characters are portrayed as real
Gamearth by Kevin J.Anderson. It is a trilogy and there is a (brief) Wikipedia article describing the series here.
The scratching off a river hexagon is when they players are trying to remove it from ...
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Looking for a SciFi RPG I played in my childhood about a girl who is a hologram who fights aliens
This was likely Xenosaga Episode I, which came out on the Playstation 2 in 2002.
The opening of the game features an alien attack on a spaceship. The aliens are called the Gnosis, and are completely ...
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Trying to find a UK Fantasy single player RPG Magazine from around 1992/3
I think this may be The Ancestral Trail.
I didn't remember it having any RPG elements, but Wikipedia states:
"Within the inside flap back cover of each issue, as well as aerial fragments of a ...
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Dark, cynical video game taking place in the medieval ages
This sounds like Darkest Dungeon.
I saw this video game years ago (less than 10 but it may have been older than that)
Released in 2016, so the timeline fits.
The animation was in the style of paper ...
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Shareware fantasy RPG from around 1993
Maybe part of the shareware series Dark Designs? This was published by Softdisk and utilised a very early 3D graphics engine made by John Carmack.
According to this list, games 1 and 2 came out in ...
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Shareware fantasy RPG from around 1993
Might this be Challenge of the Five Realms: Spellbound in the World of Nhagardia?
Challenge of the Five Realms is a plot-heavy axonometric title set on the flat world of Nhagardia. A prince must race ...
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Is Joss Whedon's Firefly based on the Traveller RPG he played?
Yesterday I leafed through my old FASA modules, and just look, what I found in "Trail of the Skyraiders".
The ships name "Serendipity" in itself is a massive hint, but the crew, especially their ...
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Steampunk tabletop RPG set in a Victorian society on fragments of planets
Thanks to Zab Zonk's comment and list of RPGs, I found it. It is Opus Anima, published in 2008 and little activity afterwards. A shame, given the effort put into the book and graphics. (Download ...
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Shareware fantasy RPG from around 1993
Despite having posted two incorrect answers so far, I am now pretty sure that this is a game called The Search for Freedom (released in 1995 according to that link, or 1996 according to Mobygames, or ...
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Video game RPG, fast travel via fairy flatulence
This is apparently Vay (found via TvTropes by search on Fartillery), which was an RPG on the Sega CD system published by Working Designs.
Working Designs was well known for inserting humor into their ...
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Trying to find a UK Fantasy single player RPG Magazine from around 1992/3
This could be Warlock Magazine (wiki) / web archive as a complement to the existing Fighting Fantasy books
1992/3
A little older as it was 1984-1986.
A story each issue
Each issue contained a ...
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Book about trope RPG characters with an Orc whose relatives are portrayed as very intelligent
Totentrickser by Jan Oldenburg
This book is only available in German.
The following english excerpts are rough translations by myself to the best of my abilities. I will start with the German texts ...
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Looking for the name of a sci-fi/fantasy video game?
This sounds like it could be Custom Robo.
It was likely on the PS2 or that generation of consoles...
Released in 2004 on the Gamecube, so it fits the described timeframe.
I think it was an RPG ...
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Shareware fantasy RPG from around 1993
I think this is the first of a series of unofficial Ultima III mods called "Ultimore". This particular mod was called: "Ultimore Adventure #1: A World Divided".
As far as I can ...
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Shareware fantasy RPG from around 1993
Realms of Arkania: Blade of Destiny
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Published in 1992/1993
has a time limit of 1013 days
as you walked around, the setting was shown in (first-person) perspective view
has an overhead ...
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RPG where one of the party members has his powers enabled by making dolls
I'm not 100%, but casting through my memory of the time, I remembered reading a review of one of the Shadow Hearts games, and thinking I wanted to check it out some day. Searching for Shadow Hearts ...
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