The Renegade Wizard (2012)

From the Publisher's Website:

Deep within his subterranean lair, an evil wizard is plotting his revenge on the kingdom. Bounty Hunters, professional assassins and even the knights of the realm have proved powerless against the wizard, leaving only YOU to stand against him.

You will need skill and luck to overcome the ancient evils that lurk within the mysterious Temple of the Morrigan, facing fiendish monsters, avoiding deadly traps and solving cunning puzzles to unlock its hidden secrets. Your travels will take you through forests, caves, mountains, underground dungeons and more.

But can you succeed where all others have met their doom and defeat THE RENEGADE WIZARD?

The Renegade Wizard is a solo adventure gamebook designed to be played use pencil, paper and two dice and is the first part of the Adventure Begins Here gamebook series in which you play the role of the young adventurer, Toby. Build up Toby's wealth and power by finding treasure, collecting magic items and honing Toby's skills. Any items you collect or skills you develop carry through to book 2 in the series, Dragon's Deep.

Publisher Website Blurb

The Adventure Begins Here books are single-player roleplaying gamebooks that allow YOU to choose where the story leads, making choices that can lead to victory or failure. Along the way you will fight monsters, solve puzzles and discover hidden treasures. The game system is simple enough for a beginner to pick up and start playing immediately while sophisticated enough to provide long-term challenge. It uses dice which introduce an element of luck and ensures that no two adventures are quite the same.

Another key feature of the Adventure Begins Here books is its skills system. This allows the player to choose whether they want to focus on magic, combat or stealth, choices that can open up different paths through the adventure.

Every adventurer hopes for a glittering and heroic victory. But no-one ever said being an adventurer was easy and there are numerous ways that the hero's quest can come to a sticky end. In this case the reader will be treated to a gruesome death scene at which point there is no choice but to go back to the beginning and try again.