Endless Quest
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 Endless Quest facts

• These books were the result of an Educational department established by TSR to develop curriculum programs for reading, math, history, and problem solving
• The first series of 36 books was released from 1982 to 1987, the second series of 13 from 1994 to 1996
• These were respectively the first and last gamebooks released by TSR
• A short spin-off series of 4 Endless Quest: Crimson Crystal Adventures books were also released during 1985
• There were also several series of similar books that did not bear the Endless Quest name
• The mechanics of these books involved simple choices in the style of Choose Your Own Adventure books, rather than the game-like randomized elements of Fighting Fantasy gamebooks
• However, the stories and characters in an Endless Quest book, while not necessarily more complex than in a Choose Your Own Adventure book, are often more fully developed because the Endless Quest books are much longer
• For example, the character referred to as "you" in the text almost always has a name, gender, and backstory
• The result is that the books in the Endless Quest series resemble miniature novels with many different endings
• The majority of the books in the series were based on Dungeons & Dragons, but some were based on other TSR games (e