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Got home from work to find these lovely things waiting for me! They look so good!

Who wants to try out an introductory RPG where tiger men burst out of giant dice?!

I met Marc at Fighting Fantasy Fest a few weeks back and have been in touch with him in the weeks following and he's agreed to do a Reddit AMA (Ask Me Anything) here on r/fightingfantasy on 13 November!

Hopefully you all know of Marc but if not . . .

>Back in the mid-80s Marc Gascoigne was just a fresh-faced young RPG designer at Games Workshop when Ian Livingstone asked for help assembling Out of the Pit. His work on that and its follow-up, Titan – the Fighting Fantasy World, expanded the setting for Fighting Fantasy, which he explored further in the three volumes of the original Advanced Fighting Fantasy RPG (Dungeoneer, Blacksand, and Allansia).

>He also wrote the gamebook Battleblade Warrior and novel Demonstealer, edited Warlock magazine for a while, and then served as commissioning editor for the FF range for its last decade at Puffin. Over a long career on the borders between fantasy fiction and gaming, he was also founder-publisher of Games Workshop's Black Library line and won the World Fantasy Award for his original SF imprint Angry Robot.

>These days he's supposed to be retired – so he's only helping out as FF's Brand Manager, is Head of Special Ops for Trench Crusade, the darkly demonic tabletop wargame, and dabbling with a bunch of personal projects.

Please note - this post is not the AMA so don't leave any questions for Marc in the comments here; the AMA should go up on Weds 11 November.

Don't know what an AMA is? Here's the definition from Reddit Help docs:

What are AMA posts?

AMAs, short for "Ask Me Anything”, are a long-held Reddit tradition. In an AMA, OP (that stands for “Original Poster”) sets the stage – anything from “I’m Barack Obama” to “I’ve been swallowed by a whale;” and allows redditors to ask them anything in the comments. AMA posts are a great way for your community to get up close and personal with people they may not normally have the chance to hear from.

AMA posts can be serious, silly, or a little bit of both. They should be a positive interactive experience for your community and the participant(s) answering questions.

Hi all - updated rules for the sub.

• New rule about official FF-endorsed promotion
• New rule about pirated scans
• New rule about AI content

As always, the rules are also available via this link.

I won't bore everyone with multiple updates of my trek through Tomb of The Golden Skull, but wanted to share my frustration with how two measly Pirates (SKILL 7 and 6) somehow caused me more damage than a SKILL 9 Lich!

Bought a copy at FF Fest on the weekend and about to start my first run through! Wish me LUCK!

Treated myself to a job lot of James Herbert paperbacks from ebay - got all these for less than £2 each, instantly replacing my long-gone childhood collection and growing it with books I'd not read.

Just in time for Fighting Fantasy Fest 6, we're heading off to the Island of the Lizard King! Come and join us!

Full details are at the official FF blog.

Myself and your other moderator, u/invalidcolour, are both going and planning to meet and say hi in real life. If anyone else wants to meet up, let us know in the comments.

I swear I wasn't looking to buy six books in the space of two days . . . it just happened, honest.

But at least I now own a copy of Daggers of Darkness which, I contend, has the nuttiest cover of all FF books!

Happy Sunday!

Launching at Fighting Fantasy Fest in September - more information at the official blog post.

Talking of FF Fest - anyone who's going interested in meeting up in person and saying hi? Myself and the other mod u/invalidcolour have mentioned it in chat, so thought I'd offer it up to the community.

One more green spine for the collection and a couple from Wizard series 1. Both the Wizard books were ex-library and had plastic covers and stickers taped to the spine but thankfully I was able to remove them without any damage to the books.

Had this edition as a kid; just bought it from ebay for a reasonable price - I think I now have most if not all of the foil lightning covers from New English Library.

Took me about a month to read both omnibuses and to be honest, I was surprised at how little Titus Crow was in this last set of books; apart from a few cameos, he's hardly there.

Still, a good horror adventure romp from Lumley.