There are a number of excellent Fighting Fantasy websites that give chapter and verse on the history and bibliography of the Fighting Fantasy series (as well as the peoples and lands encountered in the books), so it is unnecessary to repeat them here. Chasms of Malice, the Siege of Sardath and a Return to Firetop Mountain all promise new adventures and vistas. Looking back on the list of Fighting Fantasy titles, the last one I remember is number 19, Demons of the Deep, but now over 25 years after I first set foot on Firetop Mountain and as I prepare to return to challenge the Warlock again, the other titles in the series are just as mysterious and alluring.
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They are now buried in a hidden folder somewhere, embarrassing no doubt if they were to be stumbled upon again, but at the time my imagination was full of imaginary places and people bearing names plucked haphazardly from Fighting Fantasy and Tolkien. The Warlock of Firetop Mountain, The Citadel of Chaos, The Forest of Doom and their sequels were soon familiar territory and, along with Tolkien's Middle-earth, were the fuel for many of my own stories, some written, some sketched out and others just imagined. The story continues in this way until the player's character is killed or fails in some other way, or until they fulfil their quest.Ī friend introduced me to Fighting Fantasy in 1983. Along the way the reader encounters puzzles to solve and various character and creatures to fight or make friends with. At the end of each section the reader makes a choice or rolls a die to decide what happens next and in which section the story will continue. The text is not linear, being split into a number of randomly sequenced sections (typically 400 in the earlier books), ranging in length from a few lines to a page or more. The books include a system for randomly assigning scores to three characteristics: Skill, Stamina and Luck. "įighting Fantasy gamebooks allow the reader to take control of the story's main character and to make choices that affect the course of the plot. But with experience, skill and luck, each fresh attempt should bring you nearer to your great goal. YOU will need to decide which route to follow, and which monsters to fight in the elaborate combat system given in the book. "Part story, part game, this is a book with a difference - one in which YOU become the hero!Īrmed with two dice, a pencil and an eraser, you can set off on a perilous quest to find the Warlock's treasure.
The publisher's blurb for the first volume, The Warlock of Firetop Mountain, declared: Wizard Books revived the series in 2002 when they reissued selected books from the original series along with a handful of new titles.
Puffin Books published the first book in the series in 1982, but in 1999, by which time they had published 59 volumes, they allowed the series to go out of print. Fighting Fantasy - An Illustrated Bibliographyįighting Fantasy is a series of single-player role-playing gamebooks created by Steve Jackson and Ian Livingstone.
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