Fighting Fantasy article on BBC

[N.I.B.]

Created more than 30 years ago by Games Workshop founders Steve Jackson and Ian Livingstone, Fighting Fantasy continues to remain popular.

www.bbc.com/news/magazine-28865399

[Hive Bahamut]

Page 499 I think it was in the one I had was one form of death.. I only ever had the one book and who knows where it ever went but that brings back memories.

Did you buy the bootlaces? No? Then how are you supposed to choke out that goblin Pip? (I distinctly remember that name.. Pip.). Anyone remember this?

I didn't know these connected with GW. Well then. I might just have to have an adventure.. On page 175.

[Squire]

This brings back great memories! I must have been 9 or 10 when I found The House Of Hell in a charity book shop and my jaw dropped when I opened it up and realised what it was! I loved monsters and dark, occult themed stuff from a young age. When I was 6 my teacher invited my parents to the school one day because when she'd asked everyone to draw themselves I'd drawn a monster instead, and she thought I might be disturbed and that that picture was my imagined image of myself. My parents laughed it off. Anyway, that book was right up my street. I remember the cultists with goat head masks (made with real goats' heads), the prisoner in the room who stabs you in the back if you try to escape with him, the butler- actually I won't mention that spoiler, and the apparently dead old woman in a room surrounded by flowers, who wakes up with pure white eyes, but who you can get information from by threatening to cut up all her flowers. Mordana I think she was called?

I made it my mission to collect as many of those books as possible and probably got about 30 something of them over the next three or four years. That one with the wood elf in a forest* and Creature of Havoc were my next ones, and I found Deathtrap Dungeon and City of Thieves shortly after, which were all my favourites and the ones I remember best. Deathtrap Dungeon was the only one I legitimately completed after deciding to build up a map until I made it to the end.

I got a load of the boys at my school into them too, by lending them at first then buying duplicates of ones I had and selling them the next day. It became a bit of a craze for a while, and this was in 99 or 2000 long after the green spine books were out of print.

Now you've brought it up again I'm itching to have another go at some of those, legitimately this time. If I was back home I'd probably stop by my parents' place and raid the attic, but as it is I'll have to find another way

*Phantoms of Fear

[Squire]

Right. House of Hell pdf discovered, attributes generated (I cheated by making three characters and chose the best), Resident Evil 2 music playing via Youtube playlist.

Here we go.

[N.I.B.]

I loved the Lone Wolf series when I was a kid



Gary Chalk, love his style, both in these books and the Talisman game



Even better than Lone Wolf!

[Squire]

I died on my two runs at House of Hell last night. But apart from rolling dice for three characters and choosing the best I've resisted the urge to cheat, and I'm taking notes on which rooms to go in and which to leave alone. I'm going to do this! I feel like I'm tying up loose ends from my childhood

[forteh]

I used to play/read these books aged 6-7 onwards, I recall the name pip very well! It wad only a matter of 5-6 years later that I started playing gw games with adeptus titanicus and space marine

Still got a bunch of them left, might have to find time to trawl through them again!

[alwayswanted2bnids]

Got all of the books bought them down from loft for my son to read! Great books read during school hols


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[forteh]

As if by magic