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!
It reminded me which ones were harder than the rest of favourites that I wanted to read / play again. Those are in a far worse condition. Ridling Reaver for example I remember never really appealing to me, it looks brand new.
The Lone Wolf books are also pristine - never clicked with me.
The most battered ones are warlock of fire top mountain and the sorcery! Series
Hi all, wanted to share my latest progress on Trinoxis, my ongoing project on trying to find the line between game book style gameplay and a CRPG dungeon crawler.
For those that have commented previously, I've iterated upon the physical book representation (i.e. left and right pages) and come up with this "DnD GM Screen" style look. From a game perspective, I think it frames the action a bit better but I'd love to get some feedback on it.
Just got this through the post from Intercept Studios, this image invokes so much memories from my childhood, my dad passed on a few of his books to me when I was about 9 year old, Deathtrap dungeon was the first book I played THIS Orc champion was the first creature I fought. I'm so happy to have this I'll go out & grab a frame for it today & put it in mind office.
Have a great day guys.
Updated office with Iain McCaig artwork in a frame.
May your stamina never fail you all 💪🏻
So a thing that my family and I did when playing the books, and still do to this day now that I play with my kids, is use separate pieces of paper for our character sheets. We never wrote directly in the books, never!! Is it just us, or did other people do the same? Just felt like it was sullying the book!
Prepping to run my weekly RPG group since we'll be down one player. I ran across this in the Deluxe rulebook (p. A-59, emphasis mine) which threw me off a little bit:
"Secondly, LUCK can also be used to increase the damage caused by a successful attack. This option may not be chosen if LUCK was used to win the combat round. If this option is used, the Hero must test for LUCK before making a damage roll. If successful, the Hero will use the damage from column 7 of their damage table. This will thus inflict the maximum damage for that weapon type, on that attack only."
As far as I can tell, there is no way to use LUCK to win the combat round. For clarity's sake, the "first option" for LUCK in this case was to use it to mitigate the damage when the Hero loses the combat round.
Did this sentence just survive the editor's eyes? What do people who've run or played AFF 2nd Edition think?
Finally picked up a copy of Blacksand off eBay that wasn't falling apart I didn't expect to win & ended up winning for just under £12 which I thought was ok..looks in great condition, no real damage to spine & pages the slight annoyance it looks like it's faded on the back I'm presuming sun damage although I couldn't be certain.
Thought I’d share here 😊
Wanted to share a short clip from the FF audio adaptation we're working on. Lewis Davies (Oldhammer Fiction Podcast) is narrating, GNOLL did the score, and there's 360 Surround audio built in, worth having headphones on if you can.
Pre-launch page is up on BackerKit if anyone wants to follow before the campaign goes live at Fighting Fantasy Fest VI: https://www.backerkit.com/c/projects/sound-realms/fighting-fantasy-the-audio-odyssey/pre-launch
Used to read FF a lot as a young one, but haven't read one for 35+ years (this cool book find means that will soon change) but I couldn't help but pick this up when I saw it; as you don't find many second hand copies out and about these days. Good condition copy too, only mark is one page near the start where a previous owner must have written down some of the objects they discovered along their journey in pencil.
I hope those treasures helped you complete your adventure brave warrior!!
I recently noticed that some of my books were a mixture of green zigzag and dragon banners. Five were dragons so I splurged and replaced them so now that they all match up to Creature of Havoc #24, after which the format was discontinued in favour of the dragon.
Yes, I know books 1 to 7 are absent but i have those in Star format and didn’t want duplicates for the sake of completion.
Fun fact: Seas of Blood #16 has the banner text in black instead of white, and omits the Gamebook that prefixes the number.
Fun fact: Robot Commando #22 has the banner text in black too, instead of white.
Well Star Rider’s got the Adventure Gamebook zigzag banner like the early Fighting Fantasy books. Is this some sort of sequel or prequel to Star Strider #27?
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.
Hello! I got the first box set of reprints from Steve Jackson Games a while back. I finally actually jumped in and finished The Warlock of Firetop Mountain and that was a great time!
I’m wondering which of this box set I should try next? Any tips or just in order?
My newest Fighting Fantasy: Return to Firetop Mountain map is slowly taking shape. I’ve already sketched the returning monsters, and now I’m putting the map itself together. If everything goes well, I’ll bring a few printed copies to FFF6. 🔥🗺️
How do you record your data such as gold, spells, maps, notes?
I guess a map can be quite large so an A4 pad seems right.
What do you do?