YMMV / Into the Jaws of Doom

• Scrappy Mechanic: Some readers felt this way about the use of dice in this book mainly because it was a luck-based gimmick that wasn't balanced by character stats or something of a similar nature. The result was that it was very easy to get a bad ending simply because you got a bad roll, and there was nothing you could do about it (other than cheat).
• Tough Act to Follow: Even though its gameplay was unforgiving at times, and even though there were other good books in the series, none of them could match the complexity of Into the Jaws of Doom. Its "gamebook" design was unparalleled to the rest of the series, and made the other ones feel simplistic in comparison.

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