Gamebook

The Crypt Under the Thorn

Beneath an old thorn tree lies a crypt, and whoever climbs down the steps meets a goblin. Two chapters, two endings, played through in a few minutes. Skill, stamina and luck are rolled at the start; after that, choices and dice decide, and losing a fight ends the story. Your progress stays in the browser, so taking a break costs nothing.

Next to the game stands the book's Markdown source, read-only and always at the passage the story has reached. You can watch which lines produced the paragraph you are reading. The book is the tutorial example from the open-source project story-weaver.