Dungeons & Dragons: Into the Jungle: An Endless Quest Book Hardcover – August 10, 2018

Endless Quest books are really nice to have around when you just want a quick little adventure without the complications of dice and paper or having no one around for a lengthy campaign of D&D.The newest Endless Quest books (2018) have awesome artwork and neat little adventures giving you the choice of four different characters (Fighter,Cleric,Rogue,Wizard) from the chosen book.I love these books and are worth the price for sure.Each book is targeted for folks about 12 years old but adults will have a blast.The writing is mature enough to be appreciated but folks of all ages.Highly recommend these books.If you're going to buy these book (as you should),the four books from the original Endless Quest series would be a nice addition.All in all,a great series that has a promising future.

Much worse than I thought it would be, given the generally positive Amazon reviews.Issues with this book include:- far too many paths leading to character death- lack of meaningful character choices and lack of connecting choice to outcome in a logical manner- artwork not matching the entry it's keyed to- bland writing- not enough entries in the book in generalInto the Jungle is a poorly crafted gamebook and a letdown, far inferior to the original Endless Quest books I read back in the 80s/90s. I won't be picking up any more of these.

For my budding D&D enthusiastic children, this was a great find. A flashback to the Choose Your Own Adventure books that I always died in. My youngest son declared he died on page 3. All I could do was laugh and tell him to try a different path. Both of my sons loved the book. They are 10 and 12. A little below their reading abilities, but that doesn't bother me if they are willing and excited to read.

My son loves these books, we have 3-4 of them. We got this one recently and he has read this before bedtime every night for a month and has died every. Single. Time. Thirty tries, thirty deaths. I mean, how can a book be too hard!?!

Home Run! This while series is basically perfect. The story is fun, art fantastic and it is a perfect first step into Dungeons and Dragons. Six Stars if I could!

I love D&D and buy many of their products. I also read a lot of Choose Your Own Adventure when I was younger. I agree that this book presented too many options to die (this bothered me the most) and recycled artwork ( which bothered me less, since you can pay less for a collection of said artwork). I also play the app Medieval Fantasy RPG, Wizards Choice, and the consequences of your choices seem more relevant to your choices in that work. In Into the Jungle, the mistake could be as easy as you chose North instead of South, when neither option had any backup narrative to provide clues. Too random and too many deaths, with no way to right the path once it starts going wrong. Not the best of this sort of fiction.

If you think it's funny to see how many different ways your character can perish in the jungle, this book will be awesome. If you like checking out EVERY possible combination in these choose your adventure books, this is a great one for you.

Its so great they brought Endless Quest back.

My 6 and 7 year olds enjoyed listening to this as their bedtime story. They liked that they got to choose what happened but weren't so impressed everytime the story came to an abrupt end. Makes a nice change from their usual bedtime stories though.

Prinzipiell ist das Buch sehr schön aufgemacht. Gute Artworks, sprachlich guter Text, nettes Setting. Was mich allerdings stört, ist dass das Buch sehr kurz ist, und daher an Handlungsalternativen recht wenig bietet. Darüber hinaus gibt es einige Optionen, die unweigerlich in den sicheren Tod führen, was ziemlich unbefriedigend ist.Spoiler: An einer Stelle gibt es z.B die Möglichkeit ein Boot zu nehmen. Folge: Monster taucht aus den Fluten, Boot kaputt, Held tot. Solche Stellen gibt es ein paar mal, was sehr endgültig ist. Hier hätte man mehr Optionen einbauen müssen. Man kann so nicht nachvollziehen, warum eine Entscheidung falsch war. Hätte man sich bei obigem Beispiel dafür entschieden gegen das elefantengroße übermächtige Monster zu kämpfen, könnte ich nachvollziehen, dass die Entscheidung eben hoffnungslos falschwar. So bleibt am Ende der Eindruck, dass man zu wenig Entscheidungsfreiheit hat, weil der linke Weg von vorne herein alternativlos der richtige und der rechte eben der falsche Weg ist.

While the old books (many of them written by Rose Estes) were not candidates to the Literature Nobel Prize, at least they were enjoyable, had nice stories and were a great introduction to the world of D&D.These new game books are completely different. They simply seem advertising material to specific D&D Campaigns and they really don't provide a good experience by themselves.Basically these new game books plots are based in several of the campaign books from D&D 5.0 edition.- The Mage book is based on the "Storm's King Thunder";- The Rogue book is based on the "Waterdeep Dragon Heist";- The Cleric book is based on the "Tomb of Annihilation";- The Fighter book is based on the "Rage of Demons";While some of them seem to follow the story of their campaign counterparts, using the same places and characters (Like the Fighter book) other are more loosely based on the setting (Like the Rogue Book).The GoodSetting of D&D 5.0Great quality of the physical book with great artwork (although mostly from the Players Handbook)Your character is given a great background story and you feel involved with him.It's like playing the respective D&D 5.0 campaigns while the good starting feeling lasts.The BadThe choices given are illogical.Some of the wiser choices lead to an unexpected sudden death (that strangely has nothing to do with choice you just made) and some of the most silly choices are the ones that lead the book forward.Usually the most selfish and suicidal options are, for reasons i don't understand, what the author decided that were the "correct choices". Also trying to help any character or doing the Lawful Good decision, usually leads to failure.All this regarding game decisions (which are the essence of a game book), seems too much random.The writing at times is lackluster and resolves a previous hard situation in a single paragraph.You are Lost in the woods? A mighty ally come out of the sky and takes you to an yet unheard powerful adviser, that puts you back on the right track. All this in two paragraphs....My opinion of the Books ranked from best to worst;- Fighter - Nothing really bad here. Quite enjoyable to whoever played Rage of Demons.- Rogue - Some of the early choices give the best endings but all feels a bit forced on the player.- Cleric - While it has a few good parts, mostly is bad and suspension of disbelief breaking material.- Mage - The plot is terrible and at outcomes for your character decisions feel completely random and arbitrary.

Extremamente sem graça, não tem mecânicas de interação (como as batalhas dos antigos livros-Jogo), é só uma sucessão de escolhas numa estória extremamente curta e onde as escolhes são somente "certo ou errado", ou seja, só há mesmo um único caminho possível, interações chatas e que na maior parte do tempo não podem ser resolvidas com lógica, são pura sorte e aleatoriedade mesmo. Perde feio pros antigos livros de Aventuras Solo da déc. de 1990 (Ian Livingstone e Steve Jackson).

He jugado D&D varios años he incluso soy dungeon master, el libro está bien y la historia es muy interesante y divertida, no me agrado personalmente el final cuando tienes éxito en la misión y que bajo cierta acción siempre te lleva a morir ( no diré cual para no generar spoilers)Aun así lo recomiendo por ca calidad de ilustraciones, paginas y el libro en general, sin duda adquiriré la colección