Fighting Fantasy

Pestilence

Pestilence

Pestilence

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Came across this last night and just had to order at that price!

Did anyone else read/play these when they were younger? Such a great number of hours I put into these -- brilliant illustrations, and lovingly gruesome demises!
 
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Did anyone else read/play these when they were younger? Such a great number of hours I put into these -- brilliant illustrations, and lovingly gruesome demises!
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Oh yeah but I used to play them just by choosing a direction I never really bothered with the dice combat.

Forest of Doom was always my favourite.
 
Loved these books as a kid, I remeber there was a way to finish house of hell in like 5 minutes if you said the right things near the start.
 
50 odds books looking at wiki, damn .Think the last one I played as a kid was talisman of death. Video games came along and no one cared anymore.
 
Deathtrap Dungeon

Rings of Kethor

2 i vividly remember. I had about 15 in total. I think i cheated on every one.
 
used to play them all the time when young, still have loads of them in the loft.

Just recently found them on the app store, playing them on the way to work on the phone = win

Deathtrap dungeon
warlock of firetop mountain
city of theives
creature of havok

all on my phone atm :)
 
Deathtrap Dungeon uses the names of places in Thailand for character/place names. For example "Baron Sukumvit" (named after Sukumvit Road in Bangkok), and it's set in a magical place called "Chiang mai" (which is also the name of a city in the north of Thailand) .... :D

Creature of havoc was very good. It was the only one I couldn't complete. :(
 
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Ahhhh, Fighting Fantasy. I lost many days of my youth with my nose stuck in these, or the Lone Wolf books, or The Way of the Tiger... I might get these for my godsons...
 
I used to read them when I was younger and loved them, but to be honest last year I read one for old times sake (House of Horror, iirc) and I actually found it tedious and very poorly written. So whilst I still love the memories of them I think they're best left as memories. :p
 
Haha think I still have one or two of these.
The Lone Wolf books had a better story in general though if my memory (and it really is memories now lol) serves me correct, even ignoring the coherency and treating them as single books.
 
I was hooked on them but rarely played them as intended. I never bothered with the dice and just stuck my fingers in several places in case I made the wrong choice. Read them more like a novel than a game book.

Some of the stories have stuck with me 20 years on though. I still remember Rings of Kether, Space Assassin, Deathtrap Dungeon, Warlock of Firetop Mountain, etc etc.
 
Was a huge fan of these books as a kid. Quality varied massively within the fighting fantasy series. Lone wolf was generally better. Also I remember the highway holocaust series which was basically lone wolf + mad max. Anyway in case anyone want to relive some old school lone wolf check out Project Aon. They've made available a lot of the original lone wolf books for download under licence (and with permission of the original authors)
 
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