"Sentinel Worlds 1: Future Magic" did the same. When you got to the paragraph, it gave you a decision tree, to select one of the possible actions, which referred you to another entry in the book.
For its time, what a fantastic game. I still have the 5.25 floppy disks and the 3.5 disk as well ...
42 posted on 11/09/2015 8:32:43 PM PST by BlueLancer
(Once is happenstance. Twice is circumstance. Three times is enemy action.)