Appointment with F.E.A.R. If i remember correctly, Curse of the Mummy and Spellbreaker were revised in the Wizard version because the original Puffin editions were pretty hard! The interior art by Russ Nicholson is similarly splendid, and that man largely defined the look of fantasy for a whole generation with illustrations for White Dwarf, Dungeons & Dragons, Lone Wolf (is there a Top 10 in that?) Forest of Doom on Amazon.co.uk. Yes, yes, OK,that kingdom was called Analand. "Fighting Fantasy co-founders pen two new books for series' 40th anniversary", Fighting Fantasy: An Illustrated Bibliography, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=List_of_Fighting_Fantasy_gamebooks&oldid=1118794926, Carl Sargent (credited to Ian Livingstone), This page was last edited on 28 October 2022, at 23:17. 199,006 ratings Beyond that, Deathtrap Dungeon became an ambassador for Fighting Fantasy inspiring a 1998 PC/PlayStation game that Kelly Brook implausibly helped promote (back before gamers were the sophisticated, worldly bunch they are now), and a more recent iPad/iPhone game and was one of the many early gamebooks to feature illustration from Iain McCaig, who as a principle designer for Star Wars: Episode I The Phantom Menace, helped design the incomparably iconic Darth Maul. 228,173 ratings This was the first time Wizard Books had reprinted works by "secondary" authors from the original range. It also introduced what would become the very familiar and almost ubiquitos Fighting Fantasy Logo to the front of the books. Covers the turbulent history of the planet Titan . So, even though some routes would be more challenging, you at least have a change to win no . It seems a bit mean-spirited to single out one particular Fighting Fantasy book for being contrived, but even at my tender age with an enthusiasm for vampires I recognised Vault Of The Vampire as a collection of generic vampire tropes, and Mortvania as the pseudo-Germanic Uberwald that it was. 2007 saw the release of the third new title in as many years, Howl of the Werewolf by Jonathan Green, alongside two of his titles from the original run (Curse of the Mummy and Spellbreaker). You get to build, and run, an army in battle. You can play as one of three characters, the titular Hamlet, his lover Ophelia, or his dad although if you pick Hamlet Senior, youll be killed off in the first couple of pages, spending the rest of the book floating around as a ghost. {"cookieName":"wBounce","isAggressive":false,"isSitewide":true,"hesitation":"","openAnimation":false,"exitAnimation":false,"timer":"","sensitivity":"","cookieExpire":"","cookieDomain":"","autoFire":"","isAnalyticsEnabled":false}, Star Wars: Episode I The Phantom Menace, Appointment with F.E.A.R. Companions, a Hunter and a Dwarf, are found along the way to help with the adventure. One of the best is Appointment with F.E.A.R, a superhero-themed gamebook that hands your character a variety of supernatural and scientifically bamboozling powers to defeat evil wherever it may rear its ugly head. Fight through a series of hilariously-named villains like The Scarlet Prankster, and Dr Macabre before finally reaching the equally hilarious Vladimir Utoshki, and thwart his plans of world domination. Both have been edited to make them more playable, with skill scores and other minor aspects changed. No spine damage.Very Good Some signs of wear and tear. 108,655 ratings If youre after a reasonably-priced new Nintendo Switch game, theres also a very respectable Switch port of Firetop Mountain you can pick up for pocket change. I compiled a table that shows for each book the number of decisions ending in death and the number of possible endings: The deadliest adventure is Siege of Sardath! A world of adventure awaits you within every Fighting Fantasy adventure gamebook. One of the few Fighting Fantasy books to be set on Earth, this finds our adventurer driving home in a horrendous storm and unable to find a Travel Inn for the night. Combining the genres typical storytelling with dice-play and combat mechanicsto form fully fledged gamebooks, they provide readers solo roleplaying adventures in paperback form, casting you into a plethora of fantasy, sci-fi, and horror worlds. Deeply unsettling from the (30-page intro) outset, Creature Of Havoc has you take on the role of a misunderstood and automatically reviled Frankensteins monster-like being, capable of smashing flimsy mortals with one blow and yet ultimately only wanting a cuddle. Crypt of the Sorcerer suffered from similar issues, especially in the final fight - I think you got instakilled if you got hit twice in a row, so that fight pretty much required cheating since Razaak had such high skill. We also use to play Fighting Fantasy in the playground/schoolyard as it was that popular (I always played a wizard). Obviously inspired by Kirk-era Star Trek, Starship Traveller was a fantastic romp across alien worlds and the deeper recesses of the galaxy as the captain of the Traveller, facing gladiatorial combat, mutinous crew, alien civilisations, and an increasingly difficult and futile plot that makes it nigh on impossible to complete. Michael is a big fan of Fighting Fantasy. In March 1983, an unconventional series of books held the top three entries of the Sunday Times bestseller list. Fighting Fantasy: Starship Traveller on the App Store Open the Mac App Store to buy and download apps. gamebooks and novels. Condition key:Mint Like new. Skip to 2018 and the series,set mainlyin the fictionalworld of Allansia, has been relaunched. 10. But you do have to eat a lot of hobbits to get to the good place. If the authors names are printed in a gold metallic foil, then the cover is referred to as Golden/Bronze Dragon, whereas if the authors names are in black ink (no metallic foil), then the cover is referred to as Black Dragon No Bronze-Foil. Want to Read. The series went proper Hammer Horror with the first of Stephen Hands FF gamebooks (although this was co-authored with Jim Bambra). The book had it all, magic, adventure, suspense, collecting treasure and artefacts and fighting monsters, great stuff. Creature of Havoc by Steve Jackson (co-founder) is considered the best Fighting Fantasy gamebook by fans. (if viewing this table on a mobile, you can scroll left and right). I remember getting super excited when I finally found the right combination. The image of a four-faced demon emerging towards you with a human skeleton pulled halfway through a mirror beside it is up there with anything from Stephen Kings imagination. Kickstarter classic:Read our guide to the Gloomhaven board game. Ah, those were from the original series, right? FIGHTING FANTASY | Worst Books in the series chosen by Fans 4,787 views Apr 18, 2019 110 Dislike Share Save YouTuber Adam J Pestridge 3.94K subscribers FIGHTING FANTASY | Worst Books in. 2,619 ratings 881,254 ratings There are scores of Holocaust novels that take a toll on the reader, but this one might just be the most harrowing of the bunch. You may be thinking, why didnt you check the photos of the auction?. 186,651 ratings Author: Ian Livingstone The birthplace for this entire, incredible range, and the beginning point for a lot of future dorks, who like myself would graduate to roleplaying, wargaming and fantasy literature, and a thrilling adventure in itself none of that is up for debate, and all of that justifies The Warlock Of Firetop Mountains place at number 2 in the list. 819,447 ratings Weve collected the very best Fighting Fantasy games into the list below to kickstart your paperback adventuring. As a result, nine further books were written through to Curse of the Mummy (Jonathan Green, 1995). Needless to say Ravenloft was my favourite Dungeons & Dragons setting, and Vault Of The Vampire placed me like a stake through the heart of my own Dracula story, one I didnt have to share with a reedy Jonathan Harker and one that wasnt written as a collection of insipid letters and journal enteries. The rhyme in (306) says "Press the numbers" but in (108) you pull the numbers. I'm too young for the older ones unfortunately! Year: 1983 I like challenges but I hate instakills. Everything a kid could ever want. Of the many second-person, branching-path book series to emerge over the last few decades, theFighting Fantasyseries has understandablyclaimed the title of the very finest. published 1987, avg rating 4.27 Anything could happen behind these walls, and absolutely anything did. I did get lucky on the last nine as the majority are in very good condition, but sadly, I got unlucky on FF58, Revenge of the Vampire; its in a state where I would class it as good condition, but due to its rarity and price, I doubt Ill ever get a near mint copy. published 2007, avg rating 4.52 Now, to the answer to my question. Other series included GrailQuest, Fabled Lands and Way of the Tiger. The majority of the Fighting Fantasy books are set in the heroic fantasy world of Titan 46 of the 59 Puffin books take place there, as does the Sorcery! Fighting Fantasy is a series of single-player fantasy roleplay gamebooks created by Steve Jackson and Ian Livingstone. The first Fighting Fantasy book, and arguably the most memorable title in the series. Some gamebooks were released as home computer games or as applications for smartphones. miniseries into the core series. I know it's hard to believe now, but back then, that was something of a fantasy no-no. It featured a miniature gamebook adventure in every issue, as well as new monsters, rules, reviews and comic strips. Manage all your favorite fandoms in one place! Chief among the genre was the Fighting Fantasy series. 2019 repeated this with more reprints and a third original title, Assassins of Allansia before a forth title in 2020, this time Crystal of Storms by Rhianna Pratchett. The paragraphs with a full page illustration were: 7, 18, 33, 45, 56, 68, 79, 90, 103, 115, 127, 139, 152, 167, 178, 189, 202, 214, 226, 239, 249, 261, 276, 286, 299, 315, 326, 339, 353, 365, 377 and 391. But weve also thrown in a few curveballs. With the launch of the latest in the series, heres a countdown of the ten best Fighting Fantasy tales told to date. By James Hoare 23-03-12 85,522 In honour of this year's 30th Anniversary Fighting Fantasy book by the almighty Ian Livingstone, here's our not entirely serious and completely subjective run-down of the ten best in the landmark game book series. Which books were those? published 2015, A Game of Thrones (A Song of Ice and Fire, #1), A Feast for Crows (A Song of Ice and Fire, #4), The Name of the Wind (The Kingkiller Chronicle, #1), Words of Radiance (The Stormlight Archive, #2), A Clash of Kings (A Song of Ice and Fire, #2), A Dance with Dragons (A Song of Ice and Fire, #5), The Wise Man's Fear (The Kingkiller Chronicle, #2), The Way of Kings (The Stormlight Archive, #1), The Fellowship of the Ring (The Lord of the Rings, #1), A Storm of Swords (A Song of Ice and Fire, #3), The Traitor Baru Cormorant (The Masquerade, #1), The Lies of Locke Lamora (Gentleman Bastard, #1), Assassin's Apprentice (Farseer Trilogy, #1), The Eye of the World (The Wheel of Time, #1), The Return of the King (The Lord of the Rings, #3), The Two Towers (The Lord of the Rings, #2), The Empress of Salt and Fortune (The Singing Hills Cycle, #1), Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them (Hogwarts Library), The Chronicles of Narnia (Chronicles of Narnia, #1-7), The Slow Regard of Silent Things (The Kingkiller Chronicle, #2.5), Gardens of the Moon (Malazan Book of the Fallen, #1), Free the Darkness (King's Dark Tidings, #1), GENERATIONAL WRITING & ACCENTS | Three Hearts and Three Lions | BFB Subgenre Reading Challenge. published 2013, avg rating 4.25 228,748 ratings With 110 potential endings, much of the story follows Shakespeares original narrative, but regularly branches off-script, with characters being killed and new ones introduced, or reaching truly bizarre scenarios, including Ophelia accidentally inventing underground heating during her scientific exploits. Book 1 in the series is Fighting Fantasy Box Set: Gamebooks 1-8 (Warlock of Firetop Mountain, Citadel of Chaos, Deathtrap Dungeon, Creature of Havoc, City of Thieves. This means that the player can only reach the end of the book by following the correct path and finding all the items (keys, gems, rings or even pieces of information) that let him or her proceed to the final confrontation. In many respects it can be argued that Fighting Fantasy fandom did not achieve any sense of self till the advent of the internet, although the existence of the Fighting Fantasy-dedicated magazine Warlock in the mid-1980s did allow for some sense of fledgling identity. Thats the idea behind UFO 54-40. An evil Shadow Demon has awoken, and threatens to cut short the life of everything he catches sight of with his monstrous army of the undead. British writers Steve Jackson (not to be confused with the US-based game designer of the same name) and Ian Livingstone, co-founders of Games Workshop, authored the first seven books in the series, after which point the writing stable was expanded. Presenting readers with fantastical worlds to explore, arrays of colourful characters to meet (and fight), and charging them with demanding dilemmas to overcome in their quests for greatness, theyve continued to earn a following for decades, with many claiming the books served as their gateway intoDungeons & Dragonsand the wider, deeper, counter-strewn world of tabletop gaming. 214,770 ratings Robot Commando Author: Steve Jackson Number: 22 Year: 1986 Robot Commando on Amazon.co.uk Discussion of solo RPG gaming, like Tunnels & Trolls, is also acceptable. 611,685 ratings And the latest book, the charmingly titled The Gates Of Death, isout on 5 April. Characters and locations pop up throughout the series, and events are referenced between books. Im currently taking on new projects for 2023 and beyond! Ian Livingstones second solo book in the series was almost a Greatest Hits collection of Fighting Fantasy dungeons, its collection of deliberately random encounters making the best out of the format, and its shocking plot twist an early example of the moral greys that would be increasingly important to the franchise. published 1995, avg rating 4.37 You dont remember them? The book in general follows the original rules set down in The Warlock of Firetop Mountain (see Game System). Apart from Firetop Mountain, Deathtrap Dungeon is probably the series most well-known book. It is possible the Crystal's powers are drained when you face the Gargantis. No? Year: 1989 3.96. These began with three standalone books, titled The Trolltooth Wars (Jackson, 1989), Demonstealer (Gascoigne, 1991) and Shadowmaster (Livingstone & Gascoigne, 1992). The Forces of Chaos are at large across Allansia and it seems that they are all pitted against YOU! The scattered and somewhat incoherent information gleaned about the world of Titan from the gamebooks is consolidated and greatly supplemented by a reader's guide titled simply Titan - The Fighting Fantasy World (Gascoigne, Jackson & Livingstone, 1986). This novel launched the Song of Ice and Fire series and upended the established tropes of 1990s-era epic fantasy. Do I have it right? The adventure ends up being the classic escape from the haunted house but the book is considered by many fans to be one of the hardest books to complete as death is more or less around every corner. 513,761 ratings The other remaining books of the series have all utilised a modern or futuristic Earth setting, but as with the space-based books there is no consistency between them. This design is known as the Dragon Cover Format. Eureka! Youre just after the blokes horde of gold. By Lafe Travis I consider The House of Hell to be one of the hardest Fighting Fantasy book to solve, probably because of the numerous twists and turns of the (Creature of Havoc is much harder.) I loved the fact that I could control the story, I could immerse myself into these fantasy worlds where I can go on an adventure, interact with various characters, go on quests, sub-quests, solve puzzles, make decisions and attack monsters etc. Manage all your favorite fandoms in one place!