A Fighting Fantasy Journey
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About the Project
The Fighting fantasy series had to be my first step into gaming as a child. Growing up in a computer free 80s household the books gave me an escape from the norm before little men came along. After years of neglect I went back to my original collection and went on a mission to complete it. In this project I will be looking at each book and seeing if they were as good as I remember. I have also picked up some of the official Fighting Fantasy minis from Atlantis Miniatures and painting them up to go with my book collection.
Related Game: Fighting Fantasy
Related Genre: Fantasy
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Zanbar Bone
Blue giant miniatures are making their fighting fantasy collection available as stls. This should allow me to complete the collection. Zanbar bone from city of thieves has been released as a free model to print
Book thirty five-Daggers of Darkness
At first I was left confused by the Les Edwards cover. Is that a guy riding two tigers? Yep it is. Equally bad ass and ridiculous. This book is set in Khul where the land of Kazan has a vacant throne. An evil vizier is going to steal the throne unless can find some medallions beat the assassin's sent out to kill me and win the day.
For some reason the spine of this book is missing its number
Love a map of where we are
After a fight at the start of the book you get poisoned. As the game goes on you use the adventure sheet to mark the poisons spread. I like to think of all the poison starting in my foot.
The art of martin McKenna is one of my favourites. His illustrations often jump out the paga at you, like arrows from orc bows. Theadventure well as a begin my journey searching for medallions and we start with a corpse
I get to the capital only to find it's the old citadel miniatures logo.
Author Luke Sharp throws a couple of mini games into the usual rules. I had to enter a maze but instead of it being the horrors of back and forth page turning getting lost there is a more fun system. He also makes it possible to succeed without finding all the necessary items. Random dice rolls to see if you die under a falling rock and so on.This book speeds along at a quick pace. Every time I met someone you end up losing them in some way. Fighting alongside a clan that gets attacked you get separated. Finding a blind warrior you get captured into slavery. You meet someone who gives you a lift on a cart and a giant bird picks me up and drags me away. Lots of brutal fighting znd I’m sure this is one story that could be completed differently if played again. I found none of the required medallions but still did well. I had more fun than I anticipated I would with this one.
Book thirty four Stealer of Souls
The Dave Gallagher cover drew me in when I was younger with a baddy and illusions. This is Mordraneth who is one of those evil types who wants to unleash a magically army. These bloody wizards. He's even kidnapped a nice wizard who we have go rescue. Written by Keith Martin this was an ok rescue mission elevated by the art of Russ Nicholson.
I do like a good map in my books. Somewhere on the lovely isle of despair is the iron chasam where we rescue Alsander the wizard. I did enjoy the change of scenery from above ground searching to dungeon crawl.
Going to bed in chainmail can't be comfortable 
Oops this looks like how many times I died playing thus one.
You go to the effort of rescuing Alsander and he just teleports away leaving you to fight the baddy alone in the empire of illusion. I don't know how many more of these evil wizards I have to kill. They should be monitored or something.Book Thirty Three sky Lord
The last science fiction book in the series. I do wonder if this one killed the Sci fi adventures as they never seem to be that popular. Les Edwards did the cover to this one but the contents are lacking. I didn't know what was going on through most of this story. We are hunting down a villain who is creating mutants and got the funding by laying off the catering staff at the goodies palace and pocketing the funds. There are some odd attempts at humour in this one
Buzzing from one planet to another felt rushed in some places as you don't get enough time in places as the Sci fi books try and cram too much in the planet hopping
We get to see ourselves in this book as a four armed hero
I'm getting ABC warriors vibes
There are some silly looking villains in this one. I one point your on a space station being hunted down by killer blobs snd you get the option to have a break in the station gym snd play pool. Just what anyone would do surrounded by killer aliens 
This book got on my whickHeroes of the mountain
I decided to bite the bullet and paint these old minis
Game night at work led to four heros entering the warlocks mountain slaying all before them before reslising they didnt have the eye of zagor so couldn't kill him or didn't have the keys for the chest. This led go the heroes killing each other in an attempt to get what they needed. The game changed tone at this point as players tried to avoid those that wrnt on a killing spree. The warlock of Firetop Mountain board game
I recently acquired a copy of the board game version of warlock from back in GWs past. Designed by Steve Jackson this was my gateway game into GW because I knew the rules.
I will be painting the minis. Some people might say don't do it but I can't help myself Book thirty two: Slave's of the Abyss
I was confused in more ways than one with this book. As a kid I thought it was a Sci fi book thanks to the cosmic cover by Terry Oakes. Instead we end up in weird dimensions and astral planes. It took me too attempts to recently replay this adventure. Not because I died bit because I was bored. We get hired to help save a kingdom from an invasion of evil nasties. To defeat them we end up in a weird dimension and this is were I lost interest.
Bob Harvey has popped up again with the interior illustrations but his subject mater is a bit dull. A few images of people standing about and not much going on. Even a recreation of the cover during one of the odd endings you can end up 
One of the many images of men....standing about
This image had me mistrusting this girl from the start Freeway Fighter mini find
I spotted this mini for sale at salute being sold by tangent miniatures although it may not be one of their sculpts. I recognised it immediately 
