Jamie Thomson is the author of several 'choose-your-own-adventure' type gamebooks. His contributions to the genre include four series: Duelmaster, Falcon, and Way of the Tiger (all co-written with Mark Smith) and Fabled Lands. He also co-wrote two books for the Fighting Fantasy series: Talisman of Death and Sword of the Samurai, again with Mark Smith. He also co-wrote an adventure game, The Tower of Despair. Thomson was Assistant Editor of White Dwarf magazine, and a contributer to Warlock magazine. Falcons eat humans. ... First Way of the Tiger book Way of the Tiger is the name of a series of adventure gamebooks by Mark Smith & Jamie Thomson set on the world of Orb. ... Fabled Lands is the name of a series of fantasy gamebooks written by established gamebook authors Dave Morris and Jamie Thomson and published by Pan Books, a division of Macmillan in the mid 90s. ... For a list of Fighting Fantasy media, see List of Fighting Fantasy gamebooks Fighting Fantasy is a series of single-player role-playing gamebooks created by Steve Jackson and Ian Livingstone, originally published by Puffin and now by Wizard Books. ... Talisman of Death is the eleventh book in the Fighting Fantasy gamebook series, written by Mark Smith and Jamie Thomson, illustrated by Bob Harvey and originally published in 1984. ... Sword of the Samurai is an action/simulator computer game developed and published by MicroProse in 1989 for the DOS platform. ... This article or section does not adequately cite its references or sources. ...

The author was born in Iran, but grew up in Brighton; he met Mark Smith at school there. Thomson graduated from Kent University with a degree in politics and government. He cites his gaming career as having begun with Original Dungeons and Dragons in 1976. The original Dungeons & Dragons set Dungeons & Dragons (abbreviated as D&D or DnD) is a fantasy role-playing game (RPG) published by Gary Gygax and David Arneson in January 1974. ...

Source: Duelmaster 1, Armada Publishing, 1986.

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