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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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Heroes 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 
Book thirty one: Battleblade warrior
This is one of my favourite books in the series. It clips along at a good pace and opens with our hero breaking out of a siege. The city if Vymorna has been besieged for 6 years by lizard men. As the son of the Queen only you (of course) can go in search of a magic sword that can save your people. I like the work of the author Marc Gascoigne such as the work he did in advanced fighting fantasy. The interior art by Alan Langford is a nice nod to island of the lizard King so he stamped his mark on lizard men who have a different look to the stuff we get now for fantasy lizard folk
We get a nice map of the landscape as we leave the city in search of the ruins where the sword is hidden and details the southern areas of Allansia 
At the start of the adventure we get to choose how to escape the besieged city. Fight our way out which is a waste of lives but fun. Sneak through the lines or take a boat. This gives us options to replay this book to see how these options play out
Ding dong
A bushtucker trial
Book thirty: chasms of malice
Written by Luke Sharp this book seems to have a lot going for it. Cover by Les Edwards and interior art by Russ Nicholson two of the greats. Unfortunately I found the book rather dull and a little confusing and when I hit a maze section I rapidly lost interest. I hate mazes. We head off underground to stop the bady Orghuz from rising up with his hordes. Of course your the only one who can stop him as the only living descendant of a legendary hero. At the start of the book you work in the kitchen as third assistant rabbit skinner. Obviously you have the combat skills to fight through a chasm and win the day
Always good to have a map but you spend all your time underground 
Some additions to the adventure sheet. We have a cat that lives in our hood that helps us out. We also have sidekicks to the villain that can be found and killed 
I love the detail of Nicholsons art and his warty orcs ang goblins are my favourite dort of gobo. I couldn't complete this adventure and I have to admit to giving as it didn't grab me despite the art.
Book twenty nine: Midnight Rogue
I have fond memories of Midnight Rogue from childhood. I was drawn to the idea of playing a Rogue character who is a thief going through an initiation to join the thieves guild. It was also great to revisit port blacksand one of the best locations in Allansia. Written by Graeme Davis who worked on warhammer fantasy role play and I get that feel playing this game. We have to choose sone thief skills and limited by how much we can stash in our swag bag.Artist John sibbick does the cover and interior art and captures the atmosphere very well. We slso get to see our hero on the cover
We are sent on a mission to find the eye of the Basilisk a rare gem owned by a merchant named brass who pops up in the book Blacksand. I guess this book hasn't been reprinted in recent years because we don't want kids aspiring to be burglars like I wanted to be
We get to explore the city and we get a map to search for clues to discover the gems location 
Jib jib a living alarm. There is a mini available of this which I need
Not the old snake in the lick trick. I love seeing your own hands on lots of images trying to steal things. Sneaking around people's houses is a great change from hacking your way round a dungeon 
We still get a bit of a dungeon crawl to reach the gem. 
No cheating in this game....not that I was...honestBook twenty eight: Phantoms of Fear
In my opinion the best of Robin Waterfields books helped by the brilliant art of Ian Miller. We play an elf Prince who sets off into the woods defeat Ishra the demon Prince. I remember the cover freaking me out as a child and it put me off playing the book. The game has some interesting features such as entering your own dreams and at the end of the adventure you can flip from the real to the dream world. Millers art perfectly captures that dream state although it makes it hard to distinguish the real world from the dream when it's all so weird 
Israel has the appearance of a medieval demon which is interesting and he's poisoning the forest. Despite this we set off on our quest without provisions thinkingvwe can live off the land. Silly elf ends up starving. We get a choice of how to tackle the main villain, either in the real world or the dream world giving us interesting options 