History Literature / WizardsWarriorsAndYou

* InventoryManagementPuzzle: The Warrior usually has the option of carrying three additional weapons with him along with his Sword of the Golden Lion. The trick is that in some titles, you need the correct weapons in order to advance or even win. [[spoiler: For example, in the Imposter King, if you're not carrying the Cutlass of Cornwall when the ghost of the Warrior's father visits you, he locks you in a room where you're eventually found and killed.]] And there no indication of which weapons are the right ones until you've died for not having them.

* ArtifactOfDeath: The Warrior has two of these in his arsenal. The Sabre of Cornwall is a flying sword that fights on its own, but always have a chance to turn on its owner. The other is the Rejuvenating Battlesword, which is a magical two-handed sword that will regenerate its blade whenever broken. However each regeneration has a chance of the sword impaling its owner. The Warrior however has used these properties to his advantage, including tricking an enemy to use the Rejuvenating Battlesword and then breaking it on purpose.

* ArtifactOfDeath: The Knight has two of these in his arsenal. The Sabre of Cornwall is a flying sword that fights on its own, but always have a chance to turn on its owner. The other is the Rejuvenating Battlesword, which is a magical two-handed sword that will regenerate its blade whenever broken. However each regeneration has a chance of the sword impaling its owner. The Knight however has used these properties to his advantage, including tricking an enemy to use the Rejuvenating Battlesword and then breaking it on purpose.

* WhereDoesHeGetAllThoseWonderfulToys: The Knight has an arsenal of excellent mundane weapons, and then there's the truly exotic or magical items in his collection. He got a few of those as a BattleTrophy and then the Wizard made the rest (though the Warrior made the Triple Flail after being inspired by the Wizard inventing the Triple Crossbow).

* DeusExitMachina: Whichever character the reader wasn't controlling tended to get knocked out or trapped somehow as soon as danger appeared to explain why they couldn't help, in spit of how much the books made of [[TrueCompanions how loyal the pair were to each other]].

* DeusExitMachina: Whichever character the reader wasn't controlling tended to get knocked out or trapped somehow as soon as danger appeared to explain why it was all up to the player's character.

* ClothesMakeTheSuperman: Lots of books describe the Wizard as gathering his cloak around him as he casts a spell; in one book it gets burnt and it even says the Wizard can't work his magic without it.
* DeusExitMachina: Whichever character the reader wasn't controlling tended to get knocked out or trapped somehow as soon as danger appeared to explain why the duo would die if the player's efforts failed.

* LoopholeAbuse: The Wizard's most directly offensive spell, Merlin's Fire, can't be cast on living things. In one book (during the Warrior's path) he gets around this by first using another spell on his opponent to turn them into a flammable object, ''then'' using Merlin's fire on them.

The success of spells or battles were determined by such methods as flipping a coin, what time of day the book was being read, or picking a random number. While this lent a somewhat bizarre feeling to the books at times, ''Wizards, Warriors and You'' lasted for 18 books.

* InventoryManagementPuzzle: The Warrior usually has the option of carrying three additional weapons with him along with his Sword of the Golden Lion. The trick is that in some titles, you need the correct weapons in order to advance or even win. [[spoiler: For example, in the Imposter King, if you're not carrying the Cutlass of Cornwall when the ghost of the Warrior's father visits you, he locks you in a room where you're eventually found and killed.]]

* LoopholeAbuse: The Wizard's most directly offensive spell, Merlin's Fire, can't be cast on living things. In one book he gets around this by first using another spell on his opponent to turn them into a flammable object, ''then'' using Merlin's fire on them.

* DistressedDamsel: Three books were about saving Princess Saralinda from danger, though for what it's worth she does appear a few times in a non-distressed role too. At least, no more distressed than the rest of the kingdom.

* OurZombiesAreDifferent: They're intellegient and can't be destroyed. But they can be incapacitated, or fooled.

''Wizards, Warriors and You'' was one of many ChooseYourOwnAdventure-style book series released in the 1980's. Basically the Wizard and the Warrior are the champions of the kingdom of Silvergate. There's a prologue in every book where they're presented with some daunting quest, and the reader decides whether to take it on as the Wizard or the Warrior.

!!''Wizards, Warriors and You'' provides examples of:

* DistressedDamsel: Three books were about saving Princess Saralinda from danger, though for what it's worth she does appear a few times in a non-distressed role too.

* DidNotDoTheResearch: The last book in the series mentions the characters' battle with "the dreaded Falcon Knight." The problem is the only Falcon Knight in the series was a friend of theirs (which admittedly is kind of hard to tell from the title "Revenge of the Falcon Knight").