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i bloody loved those books. been years since i played one. do they still publish them? /plans trip to charity shops |
fighting fantasy
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belta 306 posts
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superfurryanimal 1,023 posts
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Registered 14 years agoI have loads. from no.1 - 32.
And I live in Blaydon.
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corimi 1,310 posts
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Registered 15 years agoI was just thinking about how awesome the Steve Jackson Sorcery! series was the other day .gif)
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superfurryanimal 1,023 posts
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Registered 14 years agoSorcery was hard.
My fave was City Of Thieves and Trial Of The Champions.
I used to cheat like a bastard, holding many choice option pages open until I would drop the book and have to go back ages. Caverns Of The Snow Witch rocked as well.
I also still have the roleplaying game book, Titan, and Out Of The Pit. Lovely art work.
There was a two book set written by Steve Jackson, that was intended to be read as a simultaneous co-op. -
I'm sure I read once that Steve Jackson, author of Fighting Fantasy books and Steve Jackson, co-founder of Lionhead are one and the same (although Eidos's Ian Livingstone isn't that Ian Livingstone). -
corimi 1,310 posts
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Registered 15 years agoBoo, I thought Ian Livingstone WAS that Ian Livingstone. Right enough, there's no mention of it in this history I was just looking at.
Apparently there were two Steve Jacksons writing FF books at one point though. They should have just got better names.
EDIT:
Wikipedia says yes to both:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ian_Livingstone
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_Jackson_(UK)
Those are two of the nerdiest careers I can think of. Bet they got picked last in PE. -
angerisagift 1,947 posts
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Registered 15 years agoLone Wolf > Fighting Fantasy -
corimi 1,310 posts
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Registered 15 years agoLone Wolf was only lone because he had no friends 
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superfurryanimal 1,023 posts
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Registered 14 years ago"The Way Of The Tiger" books made me the ninja I am today. -
superfurryanimal wrote:
Sorcery was hard.
My fave was City Of Thieves and Trial Of The Champions.
I used to cheat like a bastard, holding many choice option pages open until I would drop the book and have to go back ages. Caverns Of The Snow Witch rocked as well.
I also still have the roleplaying game book, Titan, and Out Of The Pit. Lovely art work.
There was a two book set written by Steve Jackson, that was intended to be read as a simultaneous co-op.
Yes! Loved City of Thieves. Also cheated like a bast.
Apparently there was some adult one written a few years ago that was nominated for a booker or something. You had to navigate your way through childhood in the 70s to adulthood.
In one early choice at the beginning answering that Ilya Kyriakin was your favourite Man From UNCLE character instead of Napoleon Solo, would ensure you were set on a path to be a Dungeons and Dragon playing geek who would never have any luck with women.
Didnt sound as fun as City of Thieves to me. Probably because for me it would lack the fantasy element. -
Dante_Cubit 1,996 posts
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Registered 14 years agoTalisman of Death was the shit. -
Curse of the mummy and Deathtrap dungeon rocked faces
The monster guide they did was pretty cool too, still have it somewhere -
Murbs 25,151 posts
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Registered 17 years agosuperfurryanimal wrote:
"The Way Of The Tiger" books made me the ninja I am today.
Yay! Although one drove me mad as I spent the first god knows how many sections picking my council. What was that all about? Overlord! I believe it was called? -
angerisagift wrote:
Lone Wolf > Fighting Fantasy
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corimi 1,310 posts
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Registered 15 years agoAh nostalgia overload...
http://homepages.tesco.net/~parsonsp/html/fighting_fantasy.html
Don't think I read any after about 40 though. -
MisterFahrenheit 29 posts
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Registered 14 years agoHas nobody mentioned the fact that a load of Fighting Fantasy books have been reprinted by Wizard Books over the last few years and you can find the buggers in most bookshops now? With a handful of (rubbish) new ones too, including Eye of the Dragon by Ian Livingstone, who actually is that Ian Livingstone. They've incorporated the Sorcery! books into the main FF series as well, but that's just a bit weird. -
Khanivor 44,800 posts
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Registered 20 years agoWay of the Tiger - awesome books. -
angerisagift 1,947 posts
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Registered 15 years agoruggedtoast wrote:
angerisagift wrote:
Lone Wolf > Fighting Fantasy
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YES IT IS!
Although, 'Creature of Havok' was awesome. Oh and what about 'Sorcery!', FF spinoff. That was cool beans. -
angerisagift 1,947 posts
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Registered 15 years agocorimi wrote:
Lone Wolf was only lone because he had no friends
And thats what made him so cool to a 10yr old loner like me! -
Wastelander 1,848 posts
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Registered 13 years agoOkay, you guys might know this...
I had one of these books as a kid, 100% sure it was a Jackson/Livingston but I can't for the life of me remember what it was called.
Only thing I really remember were the illustrations. Pretty sure it was below a castle or a dungeon of some sort (but then again, they ALL were!) one of the illustrations was I think a blindfolded beggar with his hand out, and another was of a thin sad girl lying on the floor.
I'd love to find it again. Any ideas?
I've looked through the covers and don't think I see it there, it definitely had the dragon topper so must have been in that series. -
MrWorf 64,187 posts
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Registered 20 years agoOMFG! Other people like Fighting Fantasy too?!!?!?!? 
I have 54 of the 58 books up in my attic.) I spent my childhood reading them countless times. I re-read Freeway Fighter earlier this year, it's still my favorite book of the series. but loads of love for Starship Traveller, Creature of Havoc, Forest of Doom, Strider, House of Hell and crypts of the Sorcorer... Fuck it I love them all! Those especially though. ^_^ God! I want to read another! I might just go through them again from Number one! \o/ -
Biggy316 25,288 posts
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Registered 13 years agoFuck me I just had a huuuge nostalgia rush!!! Thanks! :-D -
MrWorf 64,187 posts
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Registered 20 years agoYeah, that's why I still keep them in the attic, looks like it's going to be a while before they're worth anything. :/ -
Grunk 4,718 posts
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Registered 17 years agoDid anyone ever actually usse the dice to determine the outcome of battles?
And how did you get to the end of creature of havoc? I never managed it.
Masks of mayhem was pretty tricky, and I was never sure if I actually did finish it properly -
MrWorf 64,187 posts
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Registered 20 years agoHahaha! I never did that. I've never played a FF book properly. I use 3 bookmarks as "save points" so I can afford to make mistakes. If I fuck up totally I give up though. But with 3 save points it rarely happens.
Creature of Havoc, I have no idea I haven't played it in a while. Sounds like a plan, I might dig that one out next. -
Edwannawonga 438 posts
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Registered 14 years agoI remember trying to play one properly and always died after 5 or so pages in. I was so damn crap with the dice :'(
I remember a fight with a cyclops in a labyrinth or something and I always chose the option to punch it in the groin but it kept going around in some loop where I kept punching him in the groin. I suppose his hit points or mine would've depleted if I'd been playing properly :\ -
Cheers for that link Corimi!
Robot Commando and Freeway fighter !!
I had forgotten about them. fantastic.
These books got me through many a lake district holiday as a young 'un.
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